That Gorgio Perlasca was essentially unknown to the world – besides those
who owe their lives to him – until a TV interview in 1990 is surely reflective
of our ever obscurer understanding of modern history. This TV…Read More...
Shame (Skammen), starring Max von Sydow and Liv Ullmann, is one of a crop of
Ingmar Bergman films, including Through A Glass Darkly (Såsom I En Spegel,
1961), Persona (Persona, 1966) and The Passion Of Anna (En Pas…Read More...
While the very first examples of moving pictures were content with capturing
trains moving and foodstuffs degrading, the art form quickly developed into a
vehicle for a whole new world of entertainment possibilities.…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...
Over ten years in the making, Rebellion has been a labour of love for director,
lead actor and co-writer Matthieu Kassovitz, displaying the same anger at
political and social injustice as the blistering La Haine whic…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...
Joseph Kessel and Jean-Pierre Melville were both members of the French resistance
during the Nazi occupation of France. It shaped the men they became, and sure
enough when Kessel released his novel L’Armée Des Ombre…Read More...
Oscar-winning Polish film director and screenwriter, Jerzy Hoffman, most
celebrated for his 1974 film The Deluge and his 1999 film With Fire And Sword,
here tackles an often-unvisited subject of European history, t…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...
Holocaust has been released as a double set with Wallenberg: A Hero’s Story. An
American television series in four parts, Holocaust: The Story Of The Family
Weiss is a controversial production that won eight Emmy Awards…Read More...
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