Produced & Directed by Ulrich Seidl
Written by Seidl & Veronika Franz
Released by Strand Releasing
German with English subtitles
Austria/Germany/France. 120 min. Not rated
With Margarethe Tiesel, Peter Kazungu, Inge Maux, Dunja Sowinetz, Helen Brugat, Gabriel Mwarua, Josphat Hamisi & Carlos Mkutano
After a successful career making documentaries, Austrian director Ulrich Seidl interwove six stories set over a weekend […]
Directed by Ken Loach
Produced by Rebecca O’Brien
Written by Paul Laverty
Released by Sundance Selects
UK. 101 min. Not rated
With Paul Brannigan, John Henshaw, Roger Allam, Gary Maitland, Jasmin Riggins, William Ruane & Siobhan Reilly
The Angel’s Share reunites Ken Loach with his longtime collaborator, Scottish screenwriter Paul Laverty, for their 10th film, a comedy drama about a […]
Written & Directed by Eran Creevy
Produced by Rory Aitken & Ben Pugh
Released by IFC Films
UK. 99 min. Not rated
With James McAvoy, Mark Strong, Andrea Riseborough, Peter Mullan, David Morrissey, Jason Flemyng & Ruth Sheen
Welcome to the Punch is British director Eran Creevy’s follow up to his award-winning debut Shifty (2008), about the rivalry between London crack […]
Directed by Sally El Hosaini
Produced by Gayle Griffiths, Julia Godzinskaya & Michael Sackler
Written by El Hosaini & Aymen Hamdouchi
Released by Paladin
UK. 111 min. Not Rated
With James Floyd, Fady Elsayed & Saïd Taghmaoui
At the 2012 BFI London Film Festival, My Brother the Devil scooped Best British Newcomer Award for Welsh-Egyptian director/screenwriter Sally El Hosaini. The film […]
Directed & Written by Sam Neave
Produced by D.L. Glickman & Michaela McKee
Released by Argot Pictures
USA. 80 min. Not rated
With Alex Karpovsky, Marjan Neshat, Gary Wilmes, Alan Cumming, Adam Rapp, Katherine Waterston, Elizabeth Kapplow, Christy Pusz, Michael Warner, Leslie Lewis Sword, Montgomery Maguire, Mizuo Peck, Darrill Rosen & Gretchen Hall
In his third independent feature film, Sam […]
Directed by Dustin Hoffman
Produced by Finola Dwyer & Stewart Mackinnon
Written by Ronald Harwood, based on his play
Released by the Weinstein Company
UK. 98 min. Rated PG-13
With Maggie Smith, Tom Courtenay, Michael Gambon, Billy Connolly, Gwyneth Jones, Sheridan Smith & Pauline Collins
Quartet follows on the recent success of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. While I’m not in […]
Directed by Jacques Audiard
Written by Audiard & Thomas Bidegain, based on the short-story collection Rust and Bone by Craig Davidson
Released by Sony Pictures Classics
French with English subtitles.
France. 120 min. Rated R
With Marion Cotillard, Matthias Schoenaerts, Armand Verdure, Céline Sallette, Corinne Masiero, Bouli Lanners & Jean-Michel Correia
On first sight, the eccentric and melodramatic premise of […]
The British Film Institute’s 56th London Film Festival has just closed with its new director, Australian Clare Stewart, shaking it up with some of the strategies she introduced in her five-year tenure at the Sydney Film Festival. Based on her first LFF, Stewart’s committed to increasing accessibility, expanding the audience, and enhancing the festival’s national […]
