The Idiot
With THE IDIOT, Rainer Sarnet has created an adaptation of Dostoyevsky’s novel that is brillant and inventive: a film stalked by death and the cruelty of nature, writes Steve Williams.
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Salvatore Giuliano
Black marketeer, bandit, separatist hero and murderer of innocents – the story of SALVATORE GIULIANO kicks off the Francesco Rosi season today at the Arts Picturehouse.
All Divided Selves
RD Laing is a radical, a leading figure of the counter-culture of the 60s. A guru to some – cruel alcoholic to others. Steve Williams looks at the troubled subject of Luke Fowler’s ALL DIVIDED SELVES.
Francesco Rosi: Poet of Civic Courage
Subject of a strand at this year’s Cambridge Film Festival, Steve Williams looks at Francesco Rosi – poet of civic courage, conscience of Italian cinema.
Tabu
Miguel Gomes borrows not only the title of Murnau’s 1931 film, but elements of the silent film aesthetic for TABU, the critics’ darling of this year’s Berlinale.
Unfair World (Adikos Kosmos)
Fillipos Tsitos’ UNFAIR WORLD reflects a world of relationships where trust has broken down. Steve Williams reviews at the Edinburgh International Film Festival.
The Ambassador
With THE AMBASSADOR, Mads Bruegger spoils us with a shocking, eye-opening, mischievous and hilarious film. Steve Williams reviews.
Isn't Anyone Alive? (Ikiterumono wa inainoka)
The characters of ISN’T ANYONE ALIVE represent a sort of Japanese version of “The Only Way Is Essex”. But whereas TOWIE merely heralds the approaching Armageddon, here the apocalypse actually arrives.
Midnight Sun/Insomnia
The Midnight Sun reception which preceded the screening of Erik Skjoldbjærg’s INSOMNIA(1997) drew connections between Nordic and Tartan Noir crime fiction, via contributions from crime writer Lin Anderson.
Edinburgh International Film Festival 2012
Steve Williams reports back from the 66th Edinburgh film festival, which opened with a wipe-the-floor-with-’em red-carpet opening gala for William Friedkin’s new film KILLER JOE and its assembled firmament of stars.