New on Video: ‘Inside Llewyn Davis’
Joel and Ethan Coen, supported by an extraordinarily complex performance from Oscar Isaac in the title role, craft a moving, thoughtful, and, in a peculiar way, stimulating film.
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‘Suffragette’ a passionately written, soundly acted, incomplete journey
Suffragette Directed by Sarah Gavron Written by Abi Morgan United Kingdom, 2015 Sarah Gavron (Brick Lane) directs the story of the British suffragette movement from the ground up. Maud Watts (Carey Mulligan) is a poor, working-class woman…
BFI London Film Festival 2015: ‘Suffragette’ impactfully chronicles a long, hard…
Suffragette Written by Abi Morgan Directed by Sarah Gavron UK, 2015 As the high-profile spearhead of UK film culture, the London Film Festival thrives on promoting the heritage films that its indigenous industry clings to so dearly: the…
BFI 59th London Film Festival – Top Picks for 2015
Next month sees the return of one of the UK's most prolific film festival, The London Film Festival (LFF). Taking place between 7 and 18 October, the festival will show over 230 films in more than 16 venues over the capital.
BFI London Film Festival 2015 Line-Up announced with Gala screenings of Steve Jobs, High-Rise,…
THE 59TH BFI LONDON FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES FULL 2015 PROGRAMME You can peruse the programme at your leisure here. The programme for the 59th BFI London Film Festival in partnership launched today, with Festival Director Clare Stewart…
BFI London Film Festival unveils full line-up with ‘Steve Jobs’ closing
The festival circuit is gearing up to start and London has added a handful of other prominent awards players for the year. Among the new additions to the festival are Danny Boyle's Steve Jobs, starring Michael Fassbender in the lead role…
Carey Mulligan and Meryl Streep lead a women’s rights movement in first trailer for…
Who wouldn't join a movement led by Meryl Streep? Streep is joined by Carey Mulligan and Helena Bonham Carter in the first trailer for Suffragette. The film is directed by Sarah Gavron from script by Abi Morgan and also stars Ben Whishaw…
Week in Review: Study reveals growing gender gap in film industry
This week, Variety reported on a study that was released confirming what many already know about the film industry, or at the very least anecdotally: Women are having an increasingly hard time breaking in. The study showed that there's a…
Carey Mulligan has multiple suitors in ‘Far From the Madding Crowd’ trailer
It must be tough being Carey Mulligan and fighting off the pursuits of multiple handsome men while she amasses a small fortune. A new trailer for Far from the Madding Crowd debuted on Wednesday and the film looks to show off beautiful…
Teaser for Thomas Vinterberg’s ‘Far from the Madding Crowd’, with Carey Mulligan…
Thomas Vinterberg adapts Thomas Hardy with Far from the Madding Crowd, and a teaser trailer for the May 2015 release has now been released. Carey Mulligan stars as independent-minded Bathsheba Everdene, who finds herself attracting three…
The Mythology and Symbolism of ‘Drive’
It is always a little special when a film that on the surface bears no signs of ulterior motive becomes the subject of mass deconstruction by a plethora of critics, casuals and the insane. Case in point would be Sound on Sight’s film of…
‘Inside Llewyn Davis’ is yet another master class of cinema from Joel and Ethan Coen
Inside Llewyn Davis Written and directed by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen USA, 2013 It takes only a few minutes of Inside Llewyn Davis for its title character to comfortably enter the pantheon of iconic characters created by Joel and Ethan Coen.…
NYFF 2013: ‘Inside Llewyn Davis’ a melodic cinematic pleasure that engages despite its acerbic…
The Coen Brothers return with Inside Llewyn Davis, a caustic yet affectionate glimpse into a struggling artist’s life during the folk music scene of the early ‘60s. Llewyn Davis (Oscar Isaac of Drive) is a temperamental musician in…
‘Only God Forgives’ a bizarre, excessively gory reunion for Refn and Gosling
Style oozes from every frame of Only God Forgives, tinged in red, like the blood that so frequently sprays across the screen and lands in artfully designed splatters. Writer-director Nicolas Winding Refn and star Ryan Gosling, reuniting…
It’s Hard to Make the Audience Hate Your Characters but Love Your Film
It was only after half of Lurhmann’s Gatsby that I finally understood just how hard it is to make a film adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel. Fitzgerald had such a disdain for his time that there isn't a single character in The Great…
New portraits of The Great Gatsby cast emerge
Baz Luhrmann's upcoming take on the classic American novel "The Great Gatsby" is quite possibly one of the most anticipated films of 2013. The film features an impressive soundtrack with a number of big names including Lana Del Rey and…
‘Inside Llewyn Davis’, the newest feature from the Coen Brothers, releases its first…
The Coen Brothers are acknowledged as two of the best working filmmakers by many. With a wide variety of well-regarded movies under their belt, from comedies such as The Big Lebowski to dramas such as No Country For Old Men, many…
‘The Great Gatsby’, Baz Luhrmann’s adaptation of the classic novel, gets a new…
F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby has been widely acclaimed as one of the quintessential classic novels of American literature. As such, there have been numerous movie adaptations, the latest of which came in 1974, with a cast that…
BAFTAs 2012 – Who’s going to win? Part 2
Acting and directing categories during awards seasons are always the hardest to determine. Who to choose and what for film is a constant battle, not to mention who deserves to be nominated. Between the veteran nominees (Clooney, Streep,…
Trailer: Carey Mulligan sings to you in the second spot for ‘Shame’
It's not often you get to see the MPAA's NC-17 designation, especially on a green-band trailer, so take in the sight. Trailer #2 for Steve McQueen's sophomore feature, the Michael Fassbender-assisted Shame prominently features Carey…
