Blackbird, 2019.Directed by Roger Michell Starring Susan Sarandon, Sam Neill, Kate Winslett, Rainn Wilson, Mia Wasikowska, Lindsay Duncan, Bex Taylor-Klaus, and Anson Boon.SYNOPSIS:When a terminally ill mother (Susan Sarandon) brings her nearest-and-dearest together for one last time before she dies, it stirs up deep seated emotions within the fractured family.From the off, it’s very clear […]
Pick of the London Film Festival Special #4 with Katie Smith-Wong and Sarah Miles | The Pick of the Flicks Podcast
During the course of the BFI London Film Festival 2019, The Pick of the Flicks Podcast is devoting itself to looking at the best of the fest. This time around, it’s two guests for the price of one as we discuss Rian Johnson’s murder-mystery Knives Out and Noah Baumbach’s drama Marriage Story…On this week’s episode […]
2019 BFI London Film Festival Review – The Whistlers
The Whistlers, 2019.Directed by Corneliu Porumboiu. Starring Vlad Ivanov, Catrinel Marlon, Antonio Buíl, Rodica Lazar and Agustí Villaronga.SYNOPSIS:A bent cop becomes embroiled in a crime syndicate he was originally investigating and soon learns their secret language of coded whistles.The whistled language of ‘El Silbo’ dates back hundreds of years, way back to the indigenous Guanche […]
2019 BFI London Film Festival Review – The El Duce Tapes
The El Duce Tapes, 2019.Directed by Rodney Ascher, David Lawrence, and Ryan Sexton. Starring Eldon Hoke and Steve Broy.SYNOPSIS:A posthumous examination of the life and times of controversial shock rocker Eldon Hoke, better known as El Duce, the lead singer of Seattle-based “rape-rock” band The Mentors.To many – this critic included – shock rocker El […]
2019 BFI London Film Festival Review – Lara
Lara, 2019.Directed by Jan Ole Gerster. Starring Corinna Harfouch, Tom Schilling, Volkmar Kleinert, Rainer Bock, Gudrun Ritter and André Jung.SYNOPSIS:On her 60th birthday, a woman prepares to attend a piano concert being given by her virtuoso son.At the beginning of Jan Ole Gerster’s patient character study Lara, the title character stands next to a wide […]
2019 BFI London Film Festival Review – Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound
Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound, 2019.Directed by Midge Costin. Starring Walter Murch, Ben Burtt, Steven Spielberg, David Lynch, Sofia Coppola, and Ryan Coogler.SYNOPSIS:An exploration of the history, artistry, and emotional power of cinema sound, as revealed by legendary sound designers and visionary directors, via interviews, clips from movies, and a look at their […]
2019 BFI London Film Festival Review – Rewind
Rewind, 2019.Directed by Sasha Joseph Neulinger. Starring Sasha Joseph Neulinger.SYNOPSIS:Digging through the vast collection of his father’s home videos, a young man reconstructs the unthinkable story of his boyhood and exposes vile abuse passed through generations.Is there a more noble use of filmmaking, especially the documentary form, than to lay one’s own suffering bare in […]
2019 BFI London Film Festival Review – A White, White Day
A White, White Day, 2019.Written and directed by Hlynur Pálmason. Starring Ingvar E Sigurðsson and Ída Mekkín Hlynsdóttir.SYNOPSIS:In a remote Icelandic town, an off duty police chief begins to suspect a local man for having had an affair with his wife, who recently died in a car accident. Gradually his obsession for finding out the […]
2019 BFI London Film Festival Review – Honey Boy
Honey Boy, 2019.Directed by Alma Har’el. Starring Shia LaBeouf, Lucas Hedges, and Noah Jupe.SYNOPSIS:A young actor’s stormy childhood and early adult years as he struggles to reconcile with his father and deal with his mental health.Braced somewhere between film-as-therapy and surreal performance-art project, Honey Boy is a Shia LaBeouf-penned collaboration with Alma Har’el (Bombay Beach), not-so-loosely […]
Movie Review – The King (2019)
The King, 2019.Directed by David Michôd. Starring Timothée Chalamet,Robert Pattinson, Joel Edgerton, Ben Mendelsohn, Sean Harris, Dean-Charles Chapman, Lily Rose-Depp, Andrew Havill, Edward Ashley, and Thomasin McKenzie.SYNOPSIS:Hal (Timothée Chalamet) is a reluctant prince, one who drinks and womanises his way around the Kingdom, as those in power look on with disdain, concerned about where the […]
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