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GFF 2013: Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines (Kristy...
Though its namesake is derived from perhaps the most famous of super-powered fiction females, Wonder Women goes beyond just looking at the development of comic book heroines, examining female role...
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GFF 2013: The Thieves (Choi Dong-Hoon, 2012)
This South Korean blockbuster incorporates stars and locations from across Asia, though is most strongly influenced by the American Ocean’s and Mission: Impossible franchises. A team of bickering...
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GFF 2013: The Sex of the Angels (Xavier Villaverde, 2012)
One commendation to throw the film’s way is that in its depiction of the complicated situation, it never reproaches bisexuality or depicts it in a sleazy manner as many filmmakers with this material...
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GFF 2013: A Late Quartet (Yaron Zilberman, 2012)
Approaching their 25th anniversary concert, a world-renowned string quartet find their world disrupted by the news that cellist Peter (Walken) has been diagnosed with the early stages of Parkinson’s...
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GFF 2013: Vito (Jeffrey Schwarz, 2011)
The life of the late Vito Russo, an activist for both LBGT rights and AIDS awareness, has particular resonance for cinephiles, being that he was also a film historian and the author of The Celluloid...
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GFF 2013: The History of Future Folk (John Mitchell/Jeremy Kipp Walker, 2012)
Arriving on our planet to evaluate it for invasion and resettlement, General Trius (d’Aulaire), later called Bill, is seduced by the sounds of music, a concept previously unknown to him. Smitten, he...
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GFF 2013: Byzantium (Neil Jordan, 2012)
Two female vampires holed up in a seaside town hotel; for certain savvy viewers, this distilled description of Byzantium’s premise may bring to mind Harry Kümel’s strange and sensual film Daughters of...
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Interview: ‘Lore’ producer Paul Welsh
I spoke to one of the producers of the British/Australian/German co-production Lore, Paul Welsh, ahead of the film’s UK release. He discussed what drew him to Rachel Seiffert’s source novel, the...
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GFF 2013: Much Ado About Nothing (Joss Whedon, 2012)
Shot at the director’s home over twelve days amidst post-production for The Avengers, Joss Whedon’s version of Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing was rehearsed and honed during various afternoon...
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The CineSkinny 2013
It occurred to me that I should probably have made a post chronicling the issues of The CineSkinny that I helped edit two months back. So this is that post. The CineSkinny is an offshoot of The Skinny...
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GFF 2014: The Grand Budapest Hotel (Wes Anderson, 2014)
More than perhaps any other director, the work of Ernst Lubitsch has been the most noticeable influence on Wes Anderson’s style. Though the great German-American writer-director, most prolific in the...
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Wes Cravin': The Grand Budapest and its Cinematic Influences
Wes Anderson’s latest opus draws from a wide array of cinematic ancestors, including some featured elsewhere in Glasgow Film Festival’s 10th edition line-up… Click for the full feature for The...
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GFF 2014: The Dance of Reality (Alejandro Jodorowsky, 2013)
For a man with a huge cult following and clear influence on many filmmakers, the Chilean-French director Alejandro Jodorowsky has actually made very few films since his 1968 feature-length debut Fando...
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GFF 2014: Night Moves (Kelly Reichardt, 2013)
In her follow-up to Meek’s Cutoff, Kelly Reichardt’s trademark languid, stripped-back style is maintained for her most narrative-driven film to date. The seductively shot Night Moves sees three...
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GFF 2014: Ilo Ilo (Anthony Chen, 2013)
Exasperation drives the actions of the key players in Ilo Ilo, a film that is both a vivid portrait of recession-struck Singapore in 1997 and a subdued, bittersweet affair that retains a natural feel....
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GFF 2014: Love Is Not What It Used to Be (Gabriel Ochoa, 2013)
In one Spanish city, three couples of varying ages undergo differing experiences of modern love: elderly former lovers meet again after years apart, a middle-aged pair struggle with their diminishing...
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GFF 2014: The Zero Theorem (Terry Gilliam, 2013)
Though writer Pat Rushin scripted and conceived the story of The Zero Theorem, one can be forgiven for assuming Terry Gilliam came up with the narrative himself, being that it comes across as the work...
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GFF 2014: Sorcerer (William Friedkin, 1977)
A financial flop lost in the Star Wars summer of 1977, William Friedkin’s Sorcerer, long plagued by legal problems regarding distribution in its complete form, has now undergone a stunning restoration...
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Seen Your Video #34: Fucking Funny as Fuck
On the latest episode of Seen Your Video, Chris Ward and I discuss many notable UK releases from the beginning of 2014, including Inside Llewyn Davis, The Wolf of Wall Street, 12 Years a Slave, Only...
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GFF 2015: White Bird in a Blizzard (Gregg Araki, 2014)
Closer in spirit to his Mysterious Skin than The Doom Generation,White Bird in a Blizzard sees director Gregg Araki adapting a Laura Kasischke novel and applying his trademark gifts for depicting both...
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