Nicolas Philibert’s award-winning documentary is a lovely portrait of a rural community school run single-handedly by devoted educator Georges Lopez and attended by some real characters. More…
Directed by Mark Kidel, Set The Piano Stool On Fire follows 80-year old classical pianist Alfred Brendel as he passes the torch on to his young prodigy Kit Armstrong before retirement. More…
Aurora Meneghello’s short documentary serves to educate people that two thirds of students who graduate college in America do so with crippling debt. Meet a few of them. More…
Maintaining his trademark wit and verve, director Spike Jonze takes Maurice Sendak’s classic children’s book and expands it into a wonderful, moving treatise on the nature of childhood. More…
Spielberg’s 1997 film is based on the true story of the mutiny aboard the slave ship, Amistad, and the subsequent courtroom drama as the American lawyers fought for the slave’s freedom and return home. More…
Focusing on the shape of global terror of the past decade, Kenji Kamiyama’s 009 Re: Cyborg is an incredibly ambitious post 9/11 anime riddled with religious allusions. More…
Sacha Gervasi’s bloodless and trifling biopic about the Master of Suspense is as dull, uninformative and humourless for cinephiles as it is for the casual viewer. More…
Yves Montmayeur, having worked on DVD extras on an array of Haneke’s films, directs this fascinating documentary on the filmmaker which also includes some great behind-the-scenes footage. More…
Just when when things are starting to unravel for Dexter, he finds himself in a new relationship, but with a new villain and Debra to deal with, it could still all come undone. More…
Austrian film director Michael Haneke gives us Hidden, a film that asks us what we are willing to take collective responsibility for and how much. More…
Otto Preminger directs this controversial 1959 film which sees James Stewart as a small town lawyer defending Ben Gazzara, who admits to having killed the man who allegedly raped his wife. More…
Paul Costello brings us a closer look at the final part in the Back To The Future trilogy as he discusses its production, plot, score and why it was much better received than its predecessor. More…
This 1923 silent comedy features one of the most iconic images in film history – Harold Lloyd hanging from the hands of a large clock as he dangles from the outside of a skyscraper! More…
Kenji Mizoguchi’s beautiful black and white epic Sansho The Bailiff is a tale of grief and hopelessness in a world where most “had not yet awakened as human beings”. More…
Mychael Danna’s score is magnificent, soothing and inspirational and can be enjoyed in addition to Lee’s film and Martel’s novel or as a stand-alone collection of songs. More…
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