Offside is inspired by a true event that happened to the director’s daughter
and won the Silver Bear at the 2006 Berlin Film Festival. However, perhaps more
importantly, it is also the last feature film made by the dire…Read More...
The Story Of The Last Chrysanthemums is released as part of the box set entitled,
simply, Mizoguchi. Kenji Mizoguchi’s The Story Of The Last Chrysanthemums is
often considered one of the director’s best pre-war films. W…Read More...
Looking back over the career of idiosyncratic Japanese filmmaker Takeshi Kitano,
one could easily make a case for split personality disorder. This is a man
perhaps best known for helming violent crime sagas such as his…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...
Peter Strickland’s debut is a dark drama about sexual violence, revenge and
ambiguous morality, set in the breathtakingly beautiful Transylvania region. It
won Strickland the prize for Best Newcomer at the European Fil…Read More...
Set during the 1982 Lebanon War, Zaytoun (meaning ‘olive’ in Arabic) is a
road movie featuring the unlikely combination of a Palestinian schoolboy and an
Israeli pilot. This being the tenth feature by Eran Riklis, it…Read More...
Greek auteur Theo Angelopoulos died in January 2012. Sadly, this meant that the
filmmaker never got the opportunity to complete his latest film trilogy.
Following opener The Weeping Meadow, The Dust Of Time is the s…Read More...
Alexander The Great is included as part of The Theo Angelopoulos Collection:
Volume II box set by Artificial Eye. A sprawling period drama, Alexander The
Great (O Megalexandros, 1980) explores themes that resonate st…Read More...
Michael Haneke has always been a highly intelligent and critical filmmaker, often
saving especial opprobrium for his audience and their expectations. Whether it be
his ‘trick’ film Funny Games in which audiences expecting…Read More...
When the Nazi parents of five children are arrested by Allied Forces in 1945,
eldest daughter Lore (Saskia Rosendahl) must relinquish her childhood as she
negotiates almost 1,000 miles of travelling across Germany wit…Read More...
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