I suppose it’s something we take for granted, that cinema is presented in widescreen. Over its history, film production practice has stretched ratios wider and wider with the intention of better immersing the viewer; quite […]
Film | Leeds International Film Festival is packed with Oscar contenders
Image: Flickr One of the highlights of the city’s culture calendar, Leeds International Film Festival returns for its 28th year with a programme packed full of new releases, cult classics, underground breakthroughs and spectacular documentaries. […]
Film | The Rocket touches down
Photo: Eureka Entertainment During the Laotian Civil War more than 2 million tons of bombs were dropped on Laos, by both US and Laotian air forces, 30 percent of which failed to explode immediately. […]
LIFF | Stranger by the Lake – An erotic thriller that's neither erotic nor thrilling
video: Les Films du Worso Stranger by the Lake has been leaving its mark on the festival circuit. Half thriller, half gay love story, it won the Cannes Best Director Award for Alain Guiraudi and […]
Film | Review – Our Vinyl Weighs a Ton – A solid documentary on influential hip hop label Stones Throw
video: Jeff Broadway 4/5 In taking on the history of LA hip hop label Stones Throw and its owner, Peanut Butter Wolf, director Jeff Broadway takes a largely chronological approach. Broadway traces the personal history […]
Leeds International Film Festival | Highlights Roundup
photo: Cold Eyes, Zip Cinema Cold Eyes (2013) An adaptation of Nai-Hoi Yau’s Hong Kong crime thriller Eye in the Sky, South Korean directors Ui-seok Jo and Byung-seo Kim portray the chaos and collusions of […]
Leeds International Film Festival | Editors' Highlights
image: Mifune Prodocutions Co. Ltd. Joanna’s Highlight Faythe Levine and Sam Macon’s documentary about sign painting may sound a little dull, but it is a testament to both their skill as documentary-makers and the […]
LIFF | Mistaken for Strangers – The National go on tour
photo: Tom Berninger ‘Do you ever get sleepy on stage?’. This question is met with a mildly disgruntled expression from The National’s crumpled lead singer Matt Berninger. The guy behind the camera is in fact […]
LIFF | Gravity – stars that don't shine
photo: Warner Bros. 2/5 Stars It’s been sending critics into a frenzy, hailed as the best film set in space since the iconic 2001: A Space Odyssey and featuring two Academy Award winning actors as […]
Film | Jeanne Dielman: A portrait of a very lonely woman diligently peeling potatoes in near silence
Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles shows the audience three days in the crushingly empty life of the titular character, a widowed single mother in 1970s Brussels who supports her son through sex work. […]
LIFF | Wakolda leaves us thrilled and chilled
4 stars Set in 1960 Patagonia, at the start of Israel’s manhunt of Nazi war criminals, this is a powerful film based on true events. An Argentinian family meets a mysterious German doctor on their […]
Film | The Leeds International Film Festival So Far
The opening gala has faded into oblivion and we’re now four days into the 27th Leeds International Film Festival. We’ve seen some cracking films so far but here are three that really caught our eyes: […]