Tag: LFF 2014

Reorienting the themes of Hitchcock's binary women-in-peril pictures, Vertigo (1958) and Marnie (1964), Christian Petzold's Phoenix is a fraught, horror-tinged ...

The classic Chinese novel Baifa Monü Zhuan may not be familiar to Western audiences, but its author Li Yusheng was ...

When it comes to Chinese silent films, it is a rare combination with modern filmgoers as some tend to be ...

Following Camille Claudel 1915, his gruelling, etiolated study of the sculptor's institutionalisation at Montdevergues asylum, French (provoc)auteur Bruno Dumont has ...

When it comes to martial arts films, they tend to fall in one of two categories: either relentless action or ...

Asian actor Orion Lee took a gamble when he left the world of finance to become an actor.  Now, a ...

Artists on film have always been fascinating subjects. Whether we watch them to gain insight into their works or personalities, ...

In 2004 Benoit Delepine and Gustave Kervern, two Belgian stand-up comedians, starred in and directed a film called Aaltra. It ...

The latest film by Mike Leigh premiered in this year’s Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Best Cinematography award ...

Our third roundup of short films at this year's BFI London Film Festival is a bit of a mixed bag. ...