Reviews
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Open City Doc Festival – BROADWAY, BLACK SEA (2002) – Review ****
Vitaly Mansky came to international prominence with his 2015 documentary Under the Sun, about a family under the North Korean regime, but his portraits of...
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UNTITLED – Review ****
Beginning with an extraordinary scene of starling murmuration across a green and purple landscape, editor Monika Willi creates a sense of liberty and wild unpredictability...
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Open City Documentary Festival – THE LURE – Review ****
Many have read the stories of pirate treasure chests hidden away, accessible only to the lucky few who could read the X that marks the...
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EAT LOCALS – Review ***
Think of British comedy/horror films and people tend to think of quality. From the comedic yet touching Shaun Of The Dead to the dark musings...
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MINDHORN – Review ***
The 80s are definitely hip again. Either that, or there’s some kind of underground cult that forces filmmakers to do something on the decade before...
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METAMORPHOSES – Review ****
Christophe Honoré is considered by many as the true heir of the French New Wave – maybe because he started as a film critic at...
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DARK NIGHT – Review **
If the title didn’t give it away for you, Tim Sutton’s Dark Night is loosely based on the cinema shooting at Aurora, Colorado, in 2012,...
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Forever Pure – Review *****
Brutal, eye opening and provocative. These are phrases very rarely associated with a football documentary but Forever Pure is no ordinary piece of film. Following the...
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Don’t Take Me Home – Review ***
There are a special set of emotions that are shared by sport fans. At a base level it can invoke the highest of highs and lowest...
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Sofia Coppola’s La Traviata – Review ***
Everyone who ever watched Marie Antoinette wondered how well would Sofia Coppola do with a bit of extravagant and over the top good old time...