Review

By Bryan Nixon. Oliver Stone, the 80’s and 90’s king of aggressively provocative and political American filmmaking (Platoon, Natural Born Killers, JFK), has been directing lackluster films with monstrous ambition over the last decade (Alexander, Wall Street 2, W.). The problem is that he has become regrettably soft in his […]

By Daniel Lindvall. Without the help of a time machine, watching the The Dark Knight Rises on a big screen will probably remain the closest I’ll ever get to what experiencing a Wagnerian propaganda spectacle in 1930’s Berlin must have felt like. It is not just the celebration of the […]

By Steven Harrison Gibbs. As far back as I can remember of my childhood, I have always been a Spider-Man fan. Whether it was watching his animated antics on Fox every Saturday morning, chipping the paint off of action figures via epic battles, bagging and boarding a comic collection that […]

By Bryan Nixon. Wes Anderson has been working toward Moonrise Kingdom throughout his career. Having perfected his craft with The Royal Tenenbaums, Anderson dove head first into that quirky and colorful cinematic world he had established by exploring the seven seas in The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou and India […]

By Jacob Mertens. Several years ago now, I watched the trailer for Satoshi Kon’s brilliant Paprika (2006) with rabid anticipation. I still remember the featured quote that set me over the edge, written by Manohla Dargis at The New York Times, stating that the film was “evidence that Japanese animators […]

DVD Review by Marlon Wallace. “Sometimes in a man’s life, stuff happens that makes everyone go quiet,” so says the opening narration of this Oscar-nominated film, “so quiet that no one even dares to talk about it… Not in their head and not out loud.” When that stuff does happen, […]

Book Review by Leo Collis. When the subject of French film arises, instant connotations of art cinema, avant-garde productions and typically French subject matter emerge. As argued by Tim Palmer, French cinema is constantly evolving, incredibly varied and often paradoxical, making it one of the most ambitious and culturally important […]

By Celluloid Liberation Front. They already called it the “Greek New Wave”, “Greek Weird Wave” or even “Greek Absurdism”; it more realistically is a bunch of movies coming from the Hellenic peninsula sharing certain thematic traits. It is not the intent of this article to dispute whether Ektoras Lygizos’ film […]

By Sebastian Clare. Frank has had enough. Divorced and living alone, he fantasises about killing his incessantly loud and obnoxious next-door neighbours and observes, through his television set, the increasing decadence of American culture. In the space of no time, he is fired from his job on a trumped-up harassment […]

By Celluloid Liberation Front. As part of its ‘Out of the Past’ sidebar section, the 47th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival has presented a digitally restored copy of Nová Vlna milestone The Firemen’s Ball by Milos Forman. Restored classics often come with an intimidating dose of self-importance and grandeur; Milos […]