Occupied City
’12 Years a Slave’ director Steve McQueen exhaustively chronicles the Nazi occupation of his adopted hometown Amsterdam in his formally adventurous but lumbering. disjointed documentary ‘Occupied City’.
Read MorePosted by Stephen Dalton | May 17, 2023 | Cannes, Cannes 2023, Festivals, Spotlight |
’12 Years a Slave’ director Steve McQueen exhaustively chronicles the Nazi occupation of his adopted hometown Amsterdam in his formally adventurous but lumbering. disjointed documentary ‘Occupied City’.
Read MorePosted by Stephen Dalton | Mar 23, 2023 | Berlin 2023, Festivals, Spotlight |
Ruggedly beautiful landscapes and elegant monochrome visuals help make up for a thin plot in Australian director Ivan Sen’s politically charged neo-western crime thriller ‘Limbo’.
Read MorePosted by Stephen Dalton | Mar 14, 2023 | Berlin 2023, Featured, Festivals |
Love is only slightly warmer than death in German director Christoph Hochhäusler’s genre-blending, gender-bending, hit-and-miss crime thriller ‘Till the End of the Night’.
Read MorePosted by Stephen Dalton | Mar 13, 2023 | 2023 Oscars, Oscar shortlist, Spotlight |
Michelle Yeoh plays a kick-ass Chinese-American matriarch fighting the forces of darkness across multiple universes in ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’, a wildly inventive, prize-winning philosophical action comedy from writer-director duo Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert. The winner of 7 Oscars, including Best Picture.
Read MorePosted by Stephen Dalton | Mar 2, 2023 | Featured, Festivals, Hot Docs, New images from Ukraine, Sundance |
Director Daniel Roher’s gripping documentary about the poison plot against Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny gains extra urgency in the light of Vladimir Putin’s brutal invasion of Ukraine.
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