Movies..

There are not many poets left in the cinema. Perhaps the poet is always something of a throwback, a reminder of former glories. “Now, I fe...

A commercial and critical success in its native Argentina, this is the true mid-19th-century story of (ironically-named) Felicitas Guerrer...

For almost a century, there’s been debate over the best way to watch silent films. Henri Langlois of the Cinémathèque française insisted o...

One of the most enjoyable branches of François Ozon’s film-making is his fondness for theatrical farce and borderline hysterical camp. I...

As with Johnson’s walking dog, the surprise of Cargo , Switzerland’s first science-fiction film, is that it was done at all. An immensely...

not written by me, but worth reading (since Sight & Sound have not made it available online unless one is a subscriber) - an interestin...

The programme is made up of 13 of Warhol’s 500+ screen tests (shot between 1964 and 1966, with subjects ranging from random passers-by to...

About ten years ago, there were exciting things going on in the cinema of Argentina . The international resurgence around the turn of the ...

  A few years ago, when I was attending festivals a more often, I would go through phases of really making an effort with contemporary Ame...

Jesús and his younger friend Fausto (estimable first-timers Jesus Moises Rodriguez and Rubén Sosa) are Mexican day labourers in LA. They...

Satyajit Ray feared that this would be his last film, following the box office squib of Aparijito ( The Unvanquished, 1956). Perhaps as a...

What with Luca Guadagnino's new Suspiria , homage, and last month’s Argento retrospective at Metrograph, ‘giallo’ would seem to be the...

Improbable: Edward Pressman, producer of Abel Ferrara’s original Bad Lieutenant , owned the rights to the title and decided the time was r...

Twenty-something East London: we’re introduced first to footloose Axl (Fernando Tielve), looking like a younger, sweeter Jack White unde...

One of the pleasures of the smaller regional festivals (in this case, Santa Barbara 2010) is that the programme can throw up films that s...

Sometimes referred to as his masterpiece, winner of the FIPRESCI prize at Cannes in 1961, Leopoldo Torre Nilsson’s La mano en la trampa (...

The fact that Argentinean director Leopoldo Torre Nilsson is barely spoken of these days is cause for outcry. Happily, the LA Film Festi...

  There is a stirring quote from LBJ that recurred in the preshow slides at last year’s AFI Festival: “We will create an American Film In...