‘You and me are one…’ (Mother, Bong Joon-ho, South Korea, 2009, 128mins) Mother is disjointed, confusing and a muddle. But that’s what makes it an excellent film. The South Korean director, Bong Joon ho, breaks up the narrative in order to produce certain psychological effects. He makes the viewer work hard to piece together the [...]
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(Gainsbourg, Joann Sfar, France & USA, 2010, 122 minutes) ‘I’m the man with the cabbage head. Half vegetable, half man.’ The weird and wonderful Gainsbourg is Joann Sfar’s feature debut. By adapting his graphic novel the story becomes a highly enjoyable and witty moving picture. Joann Sfar paints a portrait of the French musician Serge [...]
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‘The dream is real’ (Inception, Christopher Nolan, USA/UK, 2010, 148 minutes) Ten years ago Christopher Nolan’s Memento perplexed audiences with its disordered style of storytelling. Inception makes the idea of memory and perception even more complicated. The film explores the multiple questions of life; what is real and how do we know it isn’t all [...]
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“Judy was the big money-maker at the time, a big success, but she was the ugly duckling…I think it had a very damaging effect on her emotionally for a long time. I think it lasted forever really” Taking a retrospective look at Judy Garland’s performances in ‘The Wizard of Oz’ (1939) and ‘A Star is [...]
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(Whatever Works, Woody Allen, USA, 2010, 92 minutes) “I’m the only one that sees the whole picture. That’s what they mean by genius.” Larry David, known for his hilarious improvisation sketches on the television series Curb Your Enthusiasm, plays the main character Boris Yellnikoff in Woody Allen’s new comedy Whatever Works: and David’s role as [...]
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(Rain Man, Barry Levinson, USA, 1988, 133 minutes) Doctor: ‘Are you autistic Ray?’ Raymond Babbitt: ‘I don’t think so. Definitely not’ The performances of Tom Cruise and Dustin Hoffman mark ‘Rain Man’ as a captivating, thought provoking, engaging classic. The film won Oscars for Best Director, Best Actor, Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay; awards [...]
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Ivan Shrank: ‘Youth is wasted on the young.’ Roger Greenberg: ‘I’d go further. I’d go; life is wasted on people.’ (Greenberg, Noah Baumbach, USA, 107 minutes) Some might naively criticise Noah Baumbach’s new release for having no plot, but the film makes no attempt to establish one, it allows its main character to take a [...]
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