Category: Films
Private Footage review – found-footage study of apartheid takes the split-screen route
Janaína Nagata’s documentary debut resembles a detective investigation. In 2018, the Brazilian film-maker chanced upon an old 16mm reel of what looked like a typical [more…]
All the Mountains Give review – gripping portrait of smugglers on the Iran-Iraq border
In an immersive and sweeping debut feature, Kurdish film-maker Arash Rakhsha portrays the plight of his people with sheer cinematic poetry. Shot over six years, [more…]
Disney’s Snow White had higher carbon emissions than the latest Fast & Furious film
At a screening of the new Snow White movie in London last month, influencers walked through an artificial fairytale forest, complete with a full-size thatched [more…]
Film-maker Paul Schrader accused of sexually assaulting personal assistant
Paul Schrader, the writer of Taxi Driver and director of American Gigolo, has been accused in a lawsuit of sexually assaulting his former personal assistant, [more…]
Streaming: Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy and the best older women age-gap movies
At this admittedly early stage of 2025, with all the noisy blockbusters of summer still ahead of us, the UK’s box-office report tells a nostalgic [more…]
‘An intellectual stuck in a Batman suit’: readers remember the genius of Val Kilmer
‘Unexpected kindness I have never forgotten’ I worked as a dialogue coach on Oliver Stone’s Alexander in 2003. Val was playing Alexander’s father, Philip II [more…]
The film fans who remade Jurassic Park: how an Australian town got behind a $3,000 ‘mockbuster’
This morning’s location: a field outside Castlemaine, Victoria. The air is thick with flies, attracted to the cow dung but ignoring the nearby dinosaur poo, [more…]
Raspberry scented weirdness: will Elio be Pixar’s wildest ride to date?
Pixar’s film-makers are famously asked to pitch three unique ideas when proposing new projects. In terms of Elio, unique is very much the operative word. [more…]
Peter Jewell obituary
The life of Peter Jewell, who has died aged 90, was indelibly entwined with that of the Scottish film director Bill Douglas. They were friends [more…]
Did John and Yoko split because of Richard Nixon? The making of revelatory music film One to One
People are usually at their most interesting when they are in flux – uncertain of the way forward, of what life they ought to build. [more…]
