Big Boys Gone Bananas!
It sounds like something rented from a store with no windows (if you know what we mean) but Fredrik Gertten’s documentary is an illuminating film, dealing with issues of free speech and a free press.
Category Archives: Reviews
Yossi
TAKE ONE recommends the minimal but moving performance from Ohad Knoller as YOSSI, in Eytan Fox’s story of bittersweet romance in the grotesque resort of Eilat in Israel.
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.
The Raw And The Cooked
Anyone used to Keith Floyd and his successors may have to adjust their napkins to cope with this cookery documentary seasoned with subtle hints of Clement Freud, Michael Palin and Werner Herzog.
Anna Karenina
Martin McGuigan reviews ANNA KARENINA, where the excellent Tom Stoppard script and spot-on direction of Joe Wright allow the story to shine.
Happy Roald Dahl Day!
Roald Dahl Day takes place on 13th September every year, on what would have been the writer’s birthday. CFF2012 celebrates 30 years of the BFG with a screening of Cosgrove Hall’s classic 80s animation on 16th September.
To Rome With Love
The latest feature from Woody Allen, featuring four separate stories in the Italian capital, will screen on the opening night of the 32nd Cambridge Film Festival. Elizabeth Rogers reviews.
Lawless
The bleak, barefoot poverty of LAWLESS may seem familiar, but John Hillcoat pairs it with an unexpected chaser of grim, blood-spattered humor writes Ann Linden
The 39 Steps
Screening in Sawston on day 1 of CFF: Robert Donat stars as “wrong man” Hannay in this, the most popular of all adaptations of Buchan’s novel, which found favour with the author himself despite its many liberties.
Berberian Sound Studio
Peter Strickland’s followup to KATALIN VARGA invokes seventies European horror films and breaks down the very barriers of cinema, akin to PERFORMANCE or MULHOLLAND DRIVE, writes Euan Andrews.