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Review: The Deep Blue Sea
Terence Davies brings Terence Rattigan’s play from 1952 to the big screen in his first fictional film for eleven years. I am not familiar with the play so as far as successful adaptation goes I can’t comment. Set against a post-war London landscape (“around 1950” according to the opening titles) that is authentic and atmospheric. It is a vista Davies is comfortable with and re-creates perfectly.
Review: Last Screening
Last Screening is the story of a dying cinema, with a manager that’s just a little too Norman Bates for his own good.
Review: A Dangerous Method
Director, David Cronenberg explores the birth of Psychoanalysis and the relationship between Carl Jung (Michael Fassbender) and Sigmund Freud (Viggo Mortensen).
Review: The Awakening
Rebecca Hall stars as a ghost hunter with a past in this spooky drama. Hall is as ever a pleasure to watch on screen and shines in this leading role. She is an educated woman who does not suffer fools gladly and who isn’t afraid to rock some awesome frocks and suits. After coming to the conclusion that ghosts do not exist she is tempted by one more case at a boarding school that could undo her theories.
Review: Amador
The film opens with a beautiful shot of a flower on a hill, with only the sky in the background. A simple camera move, and a town is revealed behind the hill.
Amador is very much like this shot. At once seeming a simple story about one lone character, but also a film about culture, politics and - above all else - life and death.
Review: The Descendants
Director Alexander Payne delivers again in this tragicomedy tale of a man coming to terms with his life after his wife slips into a coma after a boating accident. Human connection is key in many of Payne’s films (Sideways and About Schmidt) and it is this element that prevails in a film that looks at the universal theme of family. A successful adaptation of Kaui Hart Hemmings novel of the same title.
Review: Carnage
Roman Polanski directs his interpretation of the play, God of Carnage, with precision.The focus is on the performances, and with Kate Winslet, Christophe Waltz, Jodie Foster and John C. Reilly cast as the feuding couples you are in for a treat.
Review: We Need to Talk About Kevin
Tilda Swinton is simply phenomenal in her role as a mother coming to terms with a heinous crime her son has committed. A successful adaptation of the bestselling novel by Lionel Shriver, who won the Orange Prize for fiction in 2005. Director, Lynne Ramsay manages to convey an overwhelming, intense and claustrophobic portrayal of a mother’s frustration and guilt.
Video: Dreams of a Life - Showing today at BFI London Film Festival
Review: Dreams of a Life
The subject matter speaks for itself in this documentary; Joyce Carol Vincent died alone in her bedsit in Wood Green and wasn’t found until three years after her death. She was 38 years old when she passed away.
This is the trailer for Shame, Steve McQueen’s second feature film.
It had its UK premiere last night at BFI London Film Festival and will be on general release in the UK from 13th January 2012.
You can read our review here: http://www.cinetalk.tv/post/11472505812/review-shame
Review: Shame
“We’re not bad people; we just come from a bad place.”
A portrait of a man obsessed with sex; his life is full of encounters with random women, a string of prostitutes on tap and internet, VHS and print porn galore. He detaches himself from any emotional connection and hides behind a wall of meaningless sex, so when his sister unexpectedly turns up to crash at his New York apartment she interrupts and forces him to re-evaluate his lifestyle. Director, Steve McQueen has created an exquisite looking character study of a man suffering from sex addiction. Powerful performances and graceful camera work ensure images that are both shocking and pleasing to the eye will transport you into the life of one man’s anguish.
Review: 50/50
Adam (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is happily going about life when a diagnosis of spinal cancer unexpectedly turns his world upside down. He has to learn how to deal with the reality of his situation whilst breaking the news to his nearest and dearest. Director, Jonathan Levine’s attempt at comedy when dealing with such a serious subject could have gone horribly wrong, but he manages to balance the right amount of comedy and drama to achieve a heart-warming, funny and emotionally mature film.
Review: Like Crazy
Anna (Felicity Jones), a British woman studying in LA, falls in love with American student, Jacob (Anton Yelchin), only to be separated from him when she’s banned from the U.S. after overstaying her visa. As the amount of distance between the two lovers takes its toll they both turn to other partners in a bid to be close to another human being.
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