System Crasher, 2019.Directed by Nora Fingscheidt. Starring Helena Zengel, Albrecht Schuch, and Gabriela Maria Schmeide.SYNOPSIS:On her wild quest for love, 9-year-old Benni’s untamed energy drives everyone around her to despair.The feature debut of writer-director Nora Fingscheidt dares to tackle a shockingly under-explored issue in cinema centered around troubled youths; uncontrollable anger, and the means through […]
2019 BFI London Film Festival Review – The Lighthouse
The Lighthouse, 2019.Directed by Robert Eggers. Starring Robert Pattinson, Willem Dafoe, and Valeriia Karaman.SYNOPSIS:The hypnotic and hallucinatory tale of two lighthouse keepers on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s.The Lighthouse is about as boldly entrancing a second feature as one could imagine from any filmmaker, let alone Robert Eggers, who came swinging […]
2019 BFI London Film Festival Review – Sid & Judy
Sid & Judy, 2019.Directed by Stephen Kijak. Starring Jon Hamm and Jennifer Jason Leigh.SYNOPSIS:A revealing new look at Judy Garland fifty years after her tragic, untimely death, fusing the unpublished recollections of producer, manager and third husband, Sid Luft, with film clips, rare concert footage and Judy’s own inimitable words.Between this documentary and the just-released Renée […]
2019 BFI London Film Festival Review – The Last Black Man in San Francisco
The Last Black Man in San Francisco, 2019.Directed by Joe Talbot. Starring Jimmie Fails, Jonathan Majors, Rob Morgan, Tichina Arnold, Danny Glover, Mike Epps, Mari Kearney, Tonya Glanz, Thora Birch, and Finn Wittrock.SYNOPSIS:A young man searches for home in the changing city that seems to have left him behind.The prospect of a white young filmmaker […]
2019 BFI London Film Festival Review – Cold Case Hammarskjöld
Cold Case Hammarskjöld, 2019.Directed by Mads Brügger. Starring Mads Brügger and Göran Björkdahl.SYNOPSIS:Danish director Mads Brügger and Swedish private investigator Göran Björkdahl are trying to solve the mysterious death of Dag Hammarskjöld. As their investigation closes in, they discover a crime far worse than killing the Secretary-General of the United Nations.Documentary filmmakers en masse have […]
2019 BFI London Film Festival Review – Nocturnal
Nocturnal, 2019.Directed by Nathalie Biancheri. Starring Cosmo Jarvis, Lauren Coe, and Sadie Frost.SYNOPSIS:Laurie, a cynical schoolgirl, builds and nurtures a secret friendship with Pete, an older man who’s apparently obsessed with her.Nathalie Biancheri makes a bold and distinctive narrative feature debut with a tricky relationship drama which holds viewers in a state of perplexed anxiety […]
2019 BFI London Film Festival Review – The Peanut Butter Falcon
The Peanut Butter Falcon, 2019.Directed by Tyler Nilson and Mike Schwartz. Starring Zack Gottsagen, Shia LaBeouf, Dakota Johnson, Bruce Dern, John Hawkes, Jon Bernthal, Thomas Haden Church, Yelawolf, Jake Roberts, and Mick Foley.SYNOPSIS:A man with Down syndrome and a passion for wrestling escapes from a nursing home and joins a man on the run to […]
2019 BFI London Film Festival Review – The Personal History of David Copperfield
The Personal History of David Copperfield, 2019.Directed by Armando Iannucci. Starring Dev Patel, Ben Whishaw, Hugh Laurie, Nikki Amuka-Bird, Peter Capaldi, Rosalind Eleazar, and Tilda Swinton.SYNOPSIS:A haunting semi-autobiographical tale of a boy who is sent away by his stepfather after his mother dies but manages to triumph over incredible adversities. Set in the 1840s, chronicling […]
2019 BFI London Film Festival Review – Öndög
Öndög, 2019.Directed by Wang Quan’an. Starring Dulamjav Enkhtaivan, Aorigeletu, Norovsambuu Batmunkh, and Gangtemuer Arild.SYNOPSIS:A murder case in the Mongolian steppe. A herder is asked to guard the crime scene – a woman who resolutely scares off both wolves and her neighbor. She has her own plans for the future, which are closely linked to the […]
Movie Review – Joker (2019)
Joker, 2019.Directed by Todd Phillips. Starring Joaquin Phoenix, Zazie Beetz, Frances Conroy, Robert De Niro, Marc Maron, and Brett Cullen.SYNOPSIS:Forever alone in a crowd, failed comedian Arthur Fleck seeks connection as he walks the streets of Gotham City. Isolated, bullied and disregarded by society, Fleck begins a slow descent into madness as he transforms into […]
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