The perils of adaptation are endless. Ashvin Devasundaram explores what does and doesn’t make a successful leap from page to screen.
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Jonathan Glazer’s low budget Sci-Fi, with the allure of Scarlett Johansson and pudgy Glaswegians, is an incredibly daring and unusual film.
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A film from a director that needs little introduction, Wes Anderson returns with “his eighth and best film yet”.
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Jim Jarmusch returns with another all-star cast, this time to explore the enduring love of two vampires
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A gay cruising spot by a lake in southern France becomes the scene for a murder and sexual desire. Alain Guiraudie sensually explores love and lust under a cruel sun.
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Spike Jonze returns with a fascinating vision of our future, not far from our own, where because of the advancement of technology ‘real’ relationships have all but disappeared
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What was so unnerving about Charles Loughton’s 1950s thriller that it has taken over fifty years for it to be recognised as one of the great American Classics?
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Ralph Fiennes directs and casts himself as Charles Dickens in this period drama about the woman behind the literary master
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Challenging and groundbreaking for its time this late 50s film noir is a piece of cinematic mythology. Directed by Louis Malle, it gets a rerelease in cinemas this week.
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A revealing documentary about the life of sociologist and cultural theorist, Stuart Hall, some of the major incidents of the second half of the twentieth century, and his impressions of ...
Eric Steel’s documentary explores the enigmatic life of Megan Boyd, who before she died was a creator of fishing flies – A documentary without absolutes, she remains as enigmatic even ...
A tender tale of artistic failure dressed up as endeavour – The Coen Brothers return with a story about a man adrift in the Greenwich Village folk scene in 1960s ...
Easily the best film of the London Film Festival, Steve McQueen, one of the most exciting talents of British cinema, continues his rapid directorial rise with a film about a ...
A powerful reconciliation story based on the memoirs of WWII Veteran Eric Lomax, a POW in Thailand, who returns to confront the Japanese officer who tortured him.
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Graham Buchan takes a look back at Roman Polanski’s 1966 thriller set on Holy Island off the coast of Northumberland
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Alexander Payne returns with another sensitive portrayal of fractured family life
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While other artistic disciplines experiment with their form through technology and participation, cinema risks being left in antiquity. Adam Ley-Lange explores its options.
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A review of The Small World of Sammy Lee by Bea Moyes.
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The third of Roberto Minervini’s Texas Trilogy, Stop the Pounding Heart is a subtle, fragmented piece about rural Christian America
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Calin Peter Netzer talks about his award-winning drama, Child’s Pose, which arrives in cinemas November 1
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