Tag: Rose Garnett
Aisha | Review
No Safe Havens: Letitia Wright’s Breathtaking Refugee Turn
Frank Berry’s Aisha is the superbly moving record of a Nigerian refugee’s quiet fight for dignity in...
God’s Creatures | Review
Come On, Aileen: Holmer & Davis Craft Old-Fashioned, Straightforward Thriller
Parents lying to protect their children’s potentially heinous crimes is a popular motif in arthouse...
Benediction | Review
Words of War: Davies Recuperates Another Poet in Impressionistic Biopic
Following the critical success of his masterful portrait of Emily Dickinson in A Quiet Passion...
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Frank Berry’s Aisha
Moving from a tragi-docudrama I Used to Live Here (2014) to what appears to be a very raw prison system film in Michael Inside...
Interview: Joanna Hogg & Honor Swinton Byrne – The Souvenir Part II
After premiering in the Directors' Fortnight and landing at the New York Film Festival, The Souvenir Part II - filmmaker Joanna Hogg’s highly-anticipated follow...
Monsoon [Video Review]
Weathering Heights: Khaou Searches for Solace in Stodgy Travelogue
The adage born from Thomas Wolfe’s sentiment notwithstanding, the act of revisiting one’s origins through a...
Ammonite | Review
The Shell Seekers: Lee Recuperates a Scientist’s Legacy in Languid Love Story
As its title suggests, Ammonite, the sophomore feature from burgeoning director Francis Lee,...
Misbehavior | Review
Through Beauty, Equality: Lowthorpe Examines Intersections Through Provocative Period Nexus
Sporting material speckled with enough players and perspectives to justify a much longer format, Philippa...
Blue Story | Review
Enemies, a Love Story: Rapman Rides the Waves of a Street War in Familiar Fashion
Although it’s not quite West Side Story (1961), either in...
Never Rarely Sometimes Always | Review
The Story of Women: Hittman Hits Home Run with Stellar, Topical Abortion Drama
How often have you seen an abortion drama, in any language, which...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #42. The Nest – Sean Durkin
The Nest
Eight years after the success of his 2011 debut Martha Marcy May Marlene, Sean Durkin resurfaces with sophomore feature The Nest, a Canadian-U.K....
Video Interview: Peter Strickland – In Fabric
We sat with filmmaker Peter Strickland following the premiere of his latest film In Fabric at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival. Strickland shares...
In Fabric | Review
Dress to Kill: Strickland Strikes Again in Luscious Homage to 70s Cinema
“Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the...
2020 Sundance Film Festival: Miranda July, Julie Taymor, Dee Rees & Sean Durkin in the Premieres Section
The most acquisitions and distributor launch-pad friendly section of the festival, the Premieres category had some big ticket items in Nisha Ganatra's Late Night,...
2020 Sundance Film Festival: Janicza Bravo’s Zola, Josephine Decker’s Shirley & Eliza Hittman’s Never Rarely Sometimes Always in U.S. Dramatic Comp
Among the sixteen narrative feature films announced today all vying for Grand Jury Prize Award we have highly anticipated items from Janicza Bravo (Zola),...
Autumn in New York: Hittman’s Never Rarely Sometimes Always Includes Théodore Pellerin & Sharon Van Etten
True to her previous pair of films and casting process, Eliza Hittman has once again unearthed first time acting talents for her third feature, Never...
Joanna Hogg’s The Souvenir | 2019 Sundance Film Festival
A punishing yet patiently drawn out drama on how a young woman is weighed down and then circumvents the fragile male ego, Joanna Hogg's...
