One of Luc Besson’s earliest cinematic accomplishments, Nikita went on to spawn
an American and a Hong Kong remake, as well as various television shows in
different forms, the most recent featuring Maggie Q as the tit…Read More...
Claude Chabrol’s New Wave drama Les Cousins re-visits the age old stereotypes
of the bad boy versus the nice guy. The world cinema film was made about a year
after Chabrol’s debut, Le Beau Serge, winning the Golden Bea…Read More...
Before her 2007 directorial debut, Julie Delpy was better known for her acting
abilities. Early in her career, Delpy was cast in films directed by two masters
of cinema: in 1985, her first role in a feature film was a cam…Read More...
Following the critical and commercial success of his first feature film, À Bout
De Soufflé (Breathless, 1960), Jean-Luc Godard quickly began work on his next
cinematic endeavour, with the eyes of the world fixed upon him…Read More...
Special Forces is an action-war film about a band of French soldiers who are
dropped behind enemy lines during a routine rescue mission in Pakistan. It
isn’t long before everything goes wrong, but should we care?…Read More...
For decades now, Iran has featured on news screens on an almost daily basis and
Western viewers have become familiar with the protest and oppression that seem to
dominate the country. Women Without Men aims to tell the story…Read More...
This obscure 1986 film from Ken Loach sees a DVD release as the director’s
latest film, The Spirit Of ’45, hits cinemas. With a mix of German and English
dialogue and starring a German musician in his first and only…Read More...
The Gatekeepers is a documentary with a remarkable claim: it contains the first
public testimonies of six of the leaders of one of Israel’s most secretive and
deadly security forces, the internal secret service Shin Bet.…Read More...
In a change of pace for art house heavyweight Susanne Biers, this light-hearted
family wedding comedy transplants its characters from their everyday humdrum
lives in Copenhagen to the lush prettiness of the Amalfi coast…Read More...
Tokyo! brings together short works from three creative, stylish directors in a
surreal triptych centred on the city of its title. Each piece of the film paints
its own imaginative and bizarre picture reflecting the city an…Read More...
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