A slow, melodramatic promise.
French filmmaker Patrice Leconte, now 66, burst on the international scene 25 years ago with the psychological thriller, Monsieur Hire. A remake of the 1947 film, Panique, Monsieur Hire is based on a ...
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Gerard Depardieu stars in a dramatic yet obscure Welcome To New York
Following is the synopsis from the production notes of Abel Ferrara’s controversial film, Welcome to New York: “Mr Devereaux is a powerful man who controls billions of dollars every day. A man who con ...
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The producers of the superb documentary Senna, and the interesting Banksy exposé, Exit Through the Gift Shop, bring us this interesting, if slightly more familiar, story of two young athletes who blew ...
An emotionally straining performance in Lilting
A publicly-funded initiative of Film London, Lilting, written and directed by Hong Khau, brings British actor Ben Whishaw (Bright Star, Perfume) back from the heights of Skyfall (the last James Bond f ...