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Kaufman’s Puppet Show: Alienation in Anomalisa
Spoiler warning: Our In Focus series continues with Charlie Kaufman’s Anomalisa (2015) IT can be a daunting prospect to sit down and watch a Charlie Kaufman film. They are difficult to grasp – even after repeat viewing – unapologetically demanding and disobedient to mainstream expectation. At times, this means his films are more accessible to…
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Cinematic Poetry: An In-Depth Reading of Jim Jarmusch’s Film Paterson (2016)
Spoiler Warning: As part of our In Focus series, we delve deep into Paterson (2016). AS a litany of superhero movies, Disney remakes and furious cars reign supreme, it is easy to get swept away by the triviality of modern American cinema. Then a film like Jim Jarmusch’s Paterson comes along. Far from the loud bustling…
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James recommends: The Shallows (Film Review)
It has been 42 years since Steven Spielberg’s killer shark blockbuster Jaws splashed onto the big-screen, scaring audiences off the beaches and changing the movie industry forever. Inspired by the immense cultural – and financial – success of Jaws, many filmmakers were more than willing to jump in the water and try to emulate the…
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Rules Don’t Apply Q&A with Warren Beatty
Rules Don’t Apply, out in cinemas this Friday (April 21), sees Hollywood legend Warren Beatty play the role of eccentric billionaire Howard Hughes. Those present at a sell-out Picturehouse Central screening of the film in London may be forgiven for believing Beatty, who also wrote and directed the film, had forgotten to slip out of…
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Director Mark Craig talks about the last man on the moon
EUGENE Cernan, the last man on the moon, passed away in January. The death of this American hero, Commander of the Apollo 17 mission, came as sad news to anyone aware of his incredible achievements, especially those with a passion for space history. So it is no wonder an audience packed into The British Interplanetary Society…
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Q&A with Raw director Julia Ducournau
AFTER watching Raw (out in cinemas on Friday, 7th April) you cannot help but wonder what brilliant – but slightly twisted – mind dreamt up such a story? Fortunately, I and those in attendance at a Curzon Bloomsbury screening got an opportunity to pick the brain of the film’s auteur Julia Ducournau. Raw tells the…
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All This Panic (Film Review)
ADOLESCENCE is tough. There is no rulebook to follow, no escape and no redo. Just panic. Panic over parties, relationships, drugs, grades, sexuality, parents and – of course – the daunting transition into adulthood. Documentary All This Panic richly explores this time in the lives of a group of teenage girls growing up in Brooklyn, New…
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Kristen Stewart: Back from the Twilight
I HAVE a dark confession to make. Although I proclaim to be a cinephile, I have never seen a movie from the immensely popular Twilight series. As a sports crazed teen I was never tempted to sink my teeth into the romance-driven vampire saga. Despite this, I was aware of the intense fervour that the…
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Arrival (Film Review)
Arrival is now available on Blu Ray, DVD and Curzon Home Cinema From the moment the soul-piercingly brilliant sounds of Max Richter’s ‘On the Nature of Daylight’ play at the beginning of Arrival you know that this is no ordinary alien invasion film. Director Denis Villeneuve stunned and mesmerised audiences last year with an artful betrayal…
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Beauty and the Beast (Film Review)
DISNEY’S stellar run continues with their finest live action remake to date. Emma Watson takes the lead role as Belle, a beautiful and dignified bookworm who finds herself branded ‘funny’ by the village locals. One day Belle’s father, Maurice (Kevin Kline), goes missing and the hunt to find him leads her to a mysterious and…
