Hen
György Pálfi works with a plucky cast of real animals on ‘Hen’, a scrappy but technically impressive comic thriller about a rebellious bird on the run from the chicken-industrial complex.
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Posted by Stephen Dalton | Sep 21, 2025 | Featured, Festivals, San Sebastian 2025 |
György Pálfi works with a plucky cast of real animals on ‘Hen’, a scrappy but technically impressive comic thriller about a rebellious bird on the run from the chicken-industrial complex.
Read MorePosted by Stephen Dalton | Sep 20, 2025 | Featured, Festivals, San Sebastian 2025 |
Writer director John Skoog casts Denis Lavant as a real-life backwoods eccentric from Swedish history in his dramatically thin but compellingly bizarre Cold War drama ‘Redoubt’.
Read MorePosted by Stephen Dalton | Sep 19, 2025 | Festivals, Featured, San Sebastian, San Sebastian 2025, VENICE 2025 |
François Ozon gives much-loved Albert Camus novel ‘L’Étranger’ a chic retro-modernist polish in this sumptuously shot adaptation of a French literary classic.
Read MorePosted by Stephen Dalton | Sep 6, 2025 | Festivals, VENICE 2025 |
Loaded with previously unseen archive footage, Robert Gordon’s engaging documentary ‘Newport & the Great Folk Dream’ looks beyond star names like Bob Dylan and Joan Baez to explore the musical, social and political roots of Newport Folk Festival.
Read MorePosted by Stephen Dalton | Sep 2, 2025 | Festivals, VENICE 2025 |
Filmed in Kenya, Damien Hauser’s wildly inventive retro-futuristic fairy tale ‘Memory of Princess Mumbi’ combines dazzling AI visuals with bittersweet meditations on love and loss, cinematic fantasy and human reality.
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