pages from a cold island: BRIGHT FUTURE?
Neil YoungAbove: Clio Bernard's The Arbor. An entirely subjective rundown of the 20+ most-anticipated British films scheduled to have their first public screenings between April 20th and December 31st 2010.1
Above: Clio Bernard's The Arbor. An entirely subjective rundown of the 20+ most-anticipated British films scheduled to have their first public screenings between April 20th and December 31st 2010.1
Few films in recent years have yielded such widely differing reactions—among critics and paying punters alike—than Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island. On the very same day that the psychological thriller
Four and a half years of watching films several times a week ... I can hardly believe in that life of the distant thirties now, a way of life which I adopted quite voluntarily from a sense of fun
Above: Henner Winckler's School Trip. Compiling a top ten European films of the decade is a tricky business—what do we mean by "European", by "film", or even by "decade"? My personal run-down of the
See I was born and I will die here And the seasons never change Scatter my ashes in the water The gods have smiled, all hail the new queen The south will rise againThe Auteurs, The
{In memoriam Nika Bohinc and Alexis Tioseco, a couple who loved both Manny Farber and Manny Pacquiao} "My life story is now on film," Jake Lamotta said. He had little eyes that scanned the rest of the
"At the flicker of a switchWe can count the stars"The Auteurs, Lights Out (1999)Fin aout, debut septembre...And that's on balance good news, because it means the countdown to the next Viennale
Above: Laetitia Guerard and Leora Barbara in Sylvie Verheyde's Stella (Verheyde, France). "It's never too soon // To tread the boardsI was in vaudeville // At age fiveMy career took // Its first nosedive
You may be wary of fallen starsThey're always poking around in the darkThe aerial view of a dying manScreaming out "Can you help me, invisible man?"—The Auteurs, Fear of Flying (1996)"[As] long
Above: Eilif Bremer Landsend's Last Stop. (for Robert Schuman) Satin ribbons, velvet cushions, plastic roses, hand-painted landscapes, fresh stuffed sausage, knotholes, grapefruit, pimples, hair, slugs
Bruises from your head to your toeThere are marks all over you There's no place for you to hideSince they painted you black and blueThe Auteurs: 'Life Classes / Life Model' (1994)Francis Bacon's engagement
Nonso Anozie - in Mike Leigh's Happy-Go-Lucky (2008) - has only a single scene as Ezra, the charismatic, gently-spoken chiropractor who sorts out the heroine's dodgy back. But in the same way as Ezra near