Little White Lies

Released 19 MARCH It’s obvious but important to note that Lee Isaac Chung’s Minari is as American a film as it gets. Set in the 1980s, on the cusp of Ronald Reagan’s presidency, it is the autobiographical story of a Korean-American family adjusting t

We kick things off on a tender note, with one of the most romantic films ever made: Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s Ali: Fear Eats the Soul from 1974. It sees the industrious German director channel his love of classic-era melodrama maestro Douglas Sirk i

In a pivotal scene from Elia Kazan’s 1955 John Steinbeck adaptation, East of Eden, wayward son Cal Trask (James Dean) presents his father Adam (Raymond Massey) with a wad of money, earned from his wartime bean-growing business. The intention of his g

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When Flower Drum Song came out in 1961, not much hoopla was made about it being the first studio-produced film centring on Asian-Americans with a predominantly Asian cast. Unlike the 2018 hit Crazy Rich Asians, whose publicity relied on the uniquenes

As the author’s avatar in Lee Isaac Chung’s semiautobiographical coming-of-age film Minari, Alan S Kim does a lot of heavy lifting in spite of his slight, seven-year-old frame. A good chunk of the runtime follows his hardworking father and long-suffe

LaKeith Stanfield is a rare kind of movie star, as unique and enigmatic a presence off the screen as on. He possesses a striking authenticity that radiates through each one of wildly varied roles, from lackadaisical philosopher-poet Darius in TV seri

If I picture a movie star in a baseball cap, here’s what I think of: Mark Wahlberg in the strident machismo of his work with director Peter Berg on 2016’s Deepwater Horizon, playing a roughneck on an oil rig; Bradley Cooper in Clint Eastwood’s hotly-

Released 26 FEBRUARY 4 ANTICIPATION. The first trailer looked incredible but director Shaka King remains an unknown quantity. 5 ENJOYMENT. I can’t breathe. 5 IN RETROSPECT. Electrifying, urgent, lifechanging cinema. Fred Hampton was 21 when the FBI m

Released 10 JULY 3 ANTICIPATION. A hodgepodge cast tackles an out-there premise under a so-so director. 3 ENJOYMENT. Pfeiffer carries this transatlantic trifle. 3 IN RETROSPECT. Jacobs achieves a handful of indelible moments within an uneven whole. M

Released 5 MARCH 4 ANTICIPATION. Rosi’s track record shows an exceptional facility for finding within observational locality a wider thematic resonance. 4 ENJOYMENT. Painful realities juxtapose with painterly expressiveness to disconcerting effect. 4

Released 26 MARCH 3 ANTICIPATION. Dogwoof distributing a dogumentary. 4 ENJOYMENT. An engrossing and unvarnished document of living on the margins. 4 IN RETROSPECT. A simple but effective sensory voyage that’s hard to shake. Acelebrated director of d

Released 2 APRIL 3 ANTICIPATION. Faith-based films haven’t had a great run recently (ever?). 2 ENJOYMENT. Difficult to remain engaged, despite a talented cast. 2 IN RETROSPECT. This isn’t a bad film. Just an overly sincere one with questionable tonal

Released APRIL TBC 4 ANTICIPATION. Exciting indie stars in a threehanded psychosexual thriller? Yes. Please. 4 ENJOYMENT. A brilliantly acted puzzle box brimming with ambition, ideas and wit. 3 IN RETROSPECT. The whole doesn’t quite equal the sum of

Darius Marder’s grandmother Dorothy loved movies, and when she developed hearing loss and eventually became deaf she was devastated. Dorothy became a tireless campaigner for the inclusion of open captions, which would make a world of television and c

Released 7 MAY 2 ANTICIPATION. This looks like the type of British film that comes out every month. 4 ENJOYMENT. It’s not that film. It is instead a self-styled “anti-rom-com” that is more clever and insightful than that descriptor would suggest. 4 I

Released 2 APRIL 3 ANTICIPATION. The latest in the evergrowing repressed-lesbian-perioddrama canon. 4 ENJOYMENT. It’s hard not to fall under Waterston and Kirby’s spell. 3 IN RETROSPECT. A poetic film about love and loss let down by its reliance on v

Released 5 MARCH 4 ANTICIPATION. Fogel’s Icarus showed his promise, and an exposé on the murder of Jamal Khashoggi could be fascinating. 2 ENJOYMENT. Lengthy and formulaic, the film cares more about being a Hollywood thriller than a thought-provoking

At the time of writing, Katherine Waterston is locked down in London, on hiatus from shooting the third instalment in Warner Bros’ Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them franchise. Being in isolation these past months has given the British-born Amer

Released 5 MARCH 3 ANTICIPATION. Norton impressed in 2019’s Mr Jones. 3 ENJOYMENT. I’ve got something in my eye. 3 IN RETROSPECT. Uplifting in its own understated way. John (James Norton) spends his life looking through windows. He washes them for a

Released 16 APRIL 3 ANTICIPATION. Heard great things but always approach films depicting autism with trepidation. 4 ENJOYMENT. Viscerally compelling and stunningly accurate in its design. 4 IN RETROSPECT. Effective at conveying the sensory experience

Released 26 MARCH 3 ANTICIPATION. Not sure if this film will bring anything new to the table. 4 ENJOYMENT. The way the film moves builds a level of intrigue. So many meticulous moments catch the eye. 4 IN RETROSPECT. There’s something so “complete” a

Released 2 APRIL 4 ANTICIPATION. One of Europe’s most exciting filmmakers returns – with the first of a new trilogy no less. 4 ENJOYMENT. Simultaneously baffling and completely lucid. A head scratcher and a soul shaker. 4 IN RETROSPECT. It takes a wh

The German filmmaker Christian Petzold came to the fore on the back of a string of collaborations with the actor Nina Hoss. Their collaboration peaked with 2014’s harrowing Vertigo-riff, Phoenix, and Petzold then surprised his followers by making a f

Released 9 APRIL In recent years there has been a raft of films about people living offgrid, from Debra Granik’s Leave No Trace to Matt Ross’ Captain Fantastic. But what’s behind this trend? Is it simply a desire to get back to nature? It certainly s

Released 26 MARCH To encounter Cristi Puiu’s 200 minute, pointedly phlegmatic philosophical conversation piece, Malmkrog, is to embark on a voyage of dizzying intellectual discovery. Five pompous asses, each of varying ideological persuasions, hole u

Released 26 FEBRUARY The problem with making films based on real-life dramas is that, nine times out of 10, we already know how they end. That hasn’t prevented Kevin Macdonald from making a film about an inmate of Guantanamo Bay – incarcerated on sus

A longside her writing and directing copilot Jérémy Trouilh, Fanny Liatard has made a film in which crumbling tower blocks in the Parisian suburbs are reframed as spaceships. The pair’s film, Gagarine, tells of lone dreamer Youri (Alséni Bathily) and

Released 19 MARCH We’re yet to reach the peak of pandemic cinema, which is surely headed our way in the next few years, but at least Greek filmmaker Christos Nikou’s directorial debut offers something a little different from the usual fare about coug

1947-48 Released 29 MARCH Blu-ray Prior to his Hollywood blacklisting and subsequent relocation to France, American writer, director, actor and producer Jules Dassin became known for a number of effectively-made film noirs. Among these were 1947’s Th

1977 Released 15 FEBRUARY Blu-ray Filmmakers love to brag about how brutal their last shoot was – think of Coppola and crew ‘losing their minds’ on Apocalypse Now, or poor Leonardo DiCaprio facing ‘possible hypothermia’ on the set of The Revenant. Ru

1967 Released 15 MARCH Blu-ray “Acossack doesn’t fear anything in this world”, says Khoma, the hapless protagonist of Georgiy Kropachyov and Konstantin Ershov’s Viy, barely even convincing himself. Faced with something from the underworld though, thi

1977 OUT NOW Blu-ray Yes, you read that title right, a succession of words that seem to make less sense the more you read them through. This howlin’ mad Czech comedy from 1977 is by the director Jindřich Polák who, in 1963, gifted the world with the

In 2019, Mania Akbari and Rouzbeh Akhbari were two artists unknown to each other. Akbari, a filmmaker in exile from Iran, was connecting with younger filmmakers via social media who were keen to share their experiences with her. When she came across

Released 16 APRIL 3 ANTICIPATION. Was set to play at the cancelled 2020 Cannes Film Festival. 4 ENJOYMENT. This story of an urban spaceman wrongfoots you at every turn. 3 IN RETROSPECT. A tad saccharine at times, but Liatard and Trouilh definitely ha

1985 Released 29 MARCH Blu-ray To UK audiences, the everyman actor Albert Brooks is perhaps best known as the unmistakable voice of sunny supervillain Hank Scorpio in The Simpsons. Yet aside from plying his trade as a top-tier comic character actor s

1934 Released 22 MARCH Blu-ray Beloved actician Nicolas Cage has in his recent years become a beacon for a style of screen performance that is variously described as “batshit,” “whackadoo,” and, “like his whole body is packed full of cocaine”. Watchi

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