 | Europa Europa - become an actor and you'll survive. 1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
This is Polish cinema at its very best. The situation is World War Two, the central figure a young Jewish boy whose family flee Germany for safety in Poland - where of course the Nazis soon arrive. Separated fr... read full review |
 | Bad Education - all boys together? 1 out of 2 people found this review helpful
This is not a warm Almodovar film, or a cute Almodovar film - it's dark and complex and twisting, but never less than brilliant. The first time you watch it, you're getting your bearings, figuring out... read full review |
 | How to make a great play into something a bit silly 1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Brian Friel is arguably a world leader among contemporary dramatists - but you'd hardly guess it from this film version of one of his most popular plays. Instead of Friel's subtle mood shifts, it... read full review |
 | acting so good it'll make your hair curl! 1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
This is an old play from the 1960s, the play that launched Brian Friel as an international figure. What you get here is unpretentious, a filmed version of a stage production. And what you see straight away is h... read full review |
 | fascinating plots, outstanding performances 1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
This is a boxful of good entertainment. Writing as Barbara Vine, Ruth Rendell dispenses with detectives and instead she has you witnessing how crimes unfold, with a lot of sympathy for the perpetrators. Even if... read full review |
 | Writer-director cinema at its utter best 1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
This is a gem. A highly original and at every turn an intelligently shaped gem. And it's better each time you watch it. The setting is amazing, the score is haunting, the jokes are bolder and funnier and m... read full review |
 | Total Eclipse - Agnieszka Holland This film features a harrowing - and award-winning - performance from the great David Thewlis, as the nineteenth-century poet Verlaine, leaving his wife to run off with Rimbaud, a pretty boy played by Leonardo ... read full review |
 | Angelopoulos - The Weeping Meadow Angelopoulos is peerless here, almost as wonderful as in The Travelling Players. It's slow, and haunting, and brings alive the troubled past of modern Greece. Until UK cinemas and tv stations become more E... read full review |
 | BRAT TWO This is a sequel, and it's not had a good press. BRAT ONE (the first of his Brother films) was a big popular hit for this Russian art-house director. I bought it out of curiosity, and was very pleased and ... read full review |
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