For anyone interested in foreign film and expanding their film palette, Abbas Kiarostami is a director to constantly keep your eye out for. Through the Olive Trees marks the director at his best creating a faux-documentary inside a faux-documentary that ends with one of the iconic shots of cinema.
Quentin Tarantino’s genre-ridden film manages to defy expectations and its own imposed genre-references to demonstrate the workings of a clever film-maker. Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz and Melanie Laurent all play incidental cat-and-mouse putting in some stellar performances along the way.
Terrence Malick returns with a sumptuously filmed study on family, life and everything in-between. Brad Pitt and Jessica Chastain star as the couple whose role in bringing up their children is compared to life thereafter. A breathtaking film of almost infinite proportions.
Andrei Tarkovsky, a name not immediately recognisable for most people, was a film director, scriptwriter and film editor. He is regarded as one of Russia’s most influential directors, with all seven of his feature films considered masterpieces in their own right.
Are internet users ever entitled to verbally abuse and harass critics online? Simple answer: no.
Television is constantly in a state of flux. One moment it’s being hailed as a bringer of innovation and creativity, the next it’s brutally being reprimanded for its inability to rise up from stagnation and reproduction. Nevertheless, despite its peaks and troughs, this medium will always present situations which will continue to astound a viewer…
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