Set Fire to the Stars
We are used to seeing Elijah Wood as a Hobbit or a hooligan, but a professor of poetry is quite something else, writes Jack Toye at the Edinburgh Film Fest.
We are used to seeing Elijah Wood as a Hobbit or a hooligan, but a professor of poetry is quite something else, writes Jack Toye at the Edinburgh Film Fest.
Two greats of contemporary world cinema collide in the epistolary LIFE MAY BE, which premiered at Edinburgh International Film Festival. Jack Toye reviews.
Squirm-inducing body horror, the field recording expeditions of a pig farmer, meditations on free will, and a vague romance. Paul Milne reviews Shane Carruth’s latest.
You’d be correct in expecting gore from this film. An enjoyable, if guilty spectacle, writes Paul Milne at the Edinburgh Film Festival.
Steve Williams reviews Toomas Hussar’s directorial debut MUSHROOMING, a satire on the conflict between social decency and people’s true and hidden natures.
Low-key absurdity, atmospheric isolation and melancholic anti-thrills. Paul Milne reviews Vahid Vakilifar’s TABOOR at the Edinburgh International Film Festival.
Guy Pearce steals the show in Drake Doremus’ BREATHE IN, the opening night film at the 67th edition of the Edinburgh International Film Festival.
Rich pickings at this year’s Underwire Film Festival at the Ritzy in Brixton included panel discussions, one-to-one support events for filmmakers and a generous helping of short film screenings. Jo Shaw reviews.
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.
Fillipos Tsitos’ UNFAIR WORLD reflects a world of relationships where trust has broken down. Steve Williams reviews at the Edinburgh International Film Festival.