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Filmucopia Part IV: Old Love

17 October 2014 London My London Film Festival marathon closes with two very different New York-based love stories: the wonderful … More

Gay marriage, London Film Festival, Love Is Strange, The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby

Filmucopia Part III: National Gallery

12 October 2014 London Frederick Wiseman’s wonderful documentary National Gallery pays tribute to and quietly critiques one of the UK’s cultural … More

Frederick Wiseman, London Film Festival, National Gallery

Filmucopia Part II: Super Saturday

11 October 2014 London In Part Two of my London Film Festival marathon, I review Mike Leigh’s magnificent Mr Turner, the … More

Abel Ferrara, London Film Festival, Mike Leigh, Pasolini, The Turning, Tim Winton, Timothy Spall, Turner, Willem Dafoe

Filmucopia Part I: No Place Like Home

10 October 2014 London It’s London Film Festival time. I review Rolf de Heer’s stirring film Charlie’s Country, and the fun … More

Biophilia, Bjork, Charlie's Country, David Gulipul, London Film Festival, Rolf de Heer

Rhapsody in Blue

7 April 2014 London Passionate, heart-breaking and occasionally ridiculous, Abdellatif Kechiche’s wonderful film Blue Is the Warmest Colour explodes onto … More

Abdellatif Kechiche, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Blue is the Warmest Colour, Cannes, coming out, homophobia, La Vie d'Adele, Léa Seydoux, Lesbians, London Film Festival, Sex

Suffer the Little Children

20 October 2013 London Two wonderful new films – Daniel Borgman’s The Weight of Elephants and Clio Barnard’s The Selfish … More

Childhood, Clio Barnard, Daniel Borgman, London Film Festival, The Selfish Giant, The Weight of Elephants

Shame and First Love

16 October 2011 London One day, two great London Film Festival films: Steve McQueen’s brilliant, punishing Shame, and Andrew Haigh’s … More

Andrew Haigh, coming out, London Film Festival, Michael Fassbender, Shame, Steve McQueen, Weekend
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