Bill Cunningham is one of fashion’s most prolific photographers. Surprisingly, he’s unpretentious, doesn’t dress in high fashion and lives in a small room full of filing cabinets. Weren’t expecting that were you?
War, Pestilence, Famine and Death – the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are coming and we’re all going to die, unless you watch this film.
R-Pattz’ post-Twilight breakout role is as a talentless schmoozer who drags himself up the ranks of fin de siècle Parisian society on a ladder made from other men’s wives. Visually dazzling but with no real substance, this new adaptation of an 1885 novel is as charmingly insubstantial as its lusty yet anodyne antihero. Bel ami, médiocre film.
It’s a sniper showdown! Except that the characters are so one-dimensional that they may as well be shooting cardboard cut-outs at a shooting range.
Pablo Trapero’s film examines the fate of an ambulance-chasing lawyer and a drug-addicted paramedic in the Buenos Aires underworld. It excels where it explores the banality of violence and suffering in this place, but lets itself down in the second half by departing from nuanced storytelling in favour of Hollywood gloss.
Morality is wicked, but is it always important and when should it be overlooked, if at all? If Not Us, Who? is full of big questions: if you’re into thinking and interested in German Anarchism, give it a shot.
Agnieszka Holland is at the helm for yet another Polish film about how hard things were in the Nazi-occupied years. I would say ‘Get over it,’ but that’d undermine the fact that it’s actually a pretty good film.
A warm and insightful documentary about the career of one of Hollywood’s most overlooked movers and shakers, Roger Corman. Never heard of him? Bow your head in shame, then raise it again to watch this film.
Interesting more as a window onto 60’s Paris and the spectacle that was Brigitte Bardot than as a piece of film, Love on a Pillow is unlikely to appeal to many who are just hoping for a decent movie.
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