Brad Brevet at Rope of Silicon lists the six creepiest/spookiest movies he’s ever seen. It’s a fine seelction of genuinely squirm-inducing cinema. Brad stops at six titles — demanding that they stand up to multiple viewings and citing the highly subjective nature of horror for keeping his list short: Them (Ils) – 2006 The Orphanage (El Orfanato)...
Monthly Archives: October 2008
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9VBofFZPsM[/youtube] Reader Nadeem tips us to this one-minute clip that’s surfaced on youtube from the closing night gala at the London Film Festival. It’s hard not to be reminded of City of God, but easy to see it has a frisky vitality all its own. Nadeem writes: I felt it gave a better idea of the mood and feel and...
With more than 10,000 12,000 votes in less than 24 hours, yesterday’s poll ranking the Best Supporting Actress and Actor contenders has been a huge success. So we’ll continue today with the lead acting categories, and cover Best Picture and Best Director tomorrow. That way we’ll have a complete set of October results we can look back on with much embarrassment...
Nick Plowman at Fataculture writes: “Were The World Mine” is a rare film in that it starts off awkwardly with all its flaws fully exposed as it struggles to bring forth the ingenuity of its risk taking demeanour, as opposed to starting off with composure and fading away as the gimmicks wear thin. Once it grabs hold of the challenges it faces, all inhibition...
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zmQSv7T8wc[/youtube] The House Next Door: Reichardt’s artistry outweighs (or at least sufficiently counterbalances) her ambition to Say Something About Amerika. Reichardt’s style clears the mind: dialogue is minimal‚Äînot artificially, just leaving Williams on her own‚Äîframings elegant and magisterial. I didn’t...
Il y’a longtemps que je t’aime, opening in limited release this weekend, is a powerful film about loss and renewal( see capsule review in Festival Diary, Sept. 11 2008). In Philippe Claudel’s directorial debut, Kristin Scott Thomas gives a staggering performance of a woman who has been imprisoned for 15 years for a horrific murder and is reunited with...