I blame whoever let me watch Titanic when I was 12 for the association I make between classical music and impending doom. A memory of the cheerful quartet who provide a soundtrack to the sinking …

From its sentimental title to its emotional director, Precious Life carries its sensibility on the surface from the start. Given that its about a baby in a war zone, how could it not?
Israeli director Shlomi …

Ruaridh Arrow’s documentary, How to Start a Revolution is a fascinating introduction to the ideas of Gene Sharp; the man behind the strategies that many claim were key in bringing down dictatorships from Serbia to …

Layered in contrasts and steeped in romance, Days of Heaven (1978) is one of Terrence Mallick’s most stylistic films. It carries all his trademarks: shot almost entirely outdoors, heavily narrated and celebratory of nature, it …

by Kate Anderson

Having spawned You’ve Got Mail, the ‘90s Meg Ryan atrocity, The Shop Around the Corner comes with a somewhat blighted resume.  However my humble expectations were soon thrown over as it revealed itself …

From the title, you’d be forgiven for thinking of black people in chains on plantations run by fat white men hundreds of years ago. But contrary to our general perceptions of slavery, Gabriel Range’s film …

Thank you 1969. Thank you for the fake moon landing, for Woodstock, for  Sesame Street, and thank you very much for My Night With Maud (and thank you BFI and Curzon cinemas for re-releasing it). …

Tetro, Italian for ‘gloomy’ is the name promising writer turned semi-recluse Angelo Tetrocini, insists on being called.  The son of astoundingly talented, classical composer Carlos Tetrocini, Tetro (Vincent Gallo) has left his family and his …

Skeletons has the kind of premise I wish I’d come up with. It follows emotional exorcists Davis and Bennett who are paid to rid their clients of the baggage hindering their lives without their clients …

Currently playing at Curzon Cinemas and Panton Street Odeon,  The Girl on the Train from director Andre Techine follows the young, pretty Jeanne as she meets charming wayward Franck (Nicolas Duvauchelle) and finds herself concocting …

It seems as though there’s been quite a brouhaha over the upcoming release of the second Sex and the City film. First came Monday’s deftly handled attack on the movie franchise from previous TV series devotee Hadley Freeman, …

The UK’s premiere independent documentary festival the LIDF, provides a platform for radical and ground-breaking documentary film from around the world.
Until May 8th, documentary fans will be able to catch an array of moving and …

To coincide with Andrew Lloyd Webber’s serach for a new Dorothy, The Brickhouse cocktail bar and supper-club is currently hosting its own Wizard of Oz themed night with a four course menu and a show …

As it often does, Curzon Mayfair is hosting a Q& A with a veteran filmmaker. This time it’s Frederick Wiseman and a screening of his documentary La Danse. What’s most remarkable about Wiseman’s unsentimental report …