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Director: Tom Ford 15 | 1h 57min | Drama, Thriller | 4 November 2016 (UK) Playing London Film Festival2016 RATING: ★★★★☆ This revenge thriller hails from the director of A Single Man: fashion mogul and filmmaker Tom Ford. As you’d expect from an artist famed for his tasteful visual style, Nocturnal Animals – his adaptation […]
Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa 2h 10min | Thriller | 25 November 2016 (UK) Playing London Film Festival 2016 RATING: ★★★☆☆ Japanese director Kiyoshi Kurosawa, who directed the hit film Pulse, eschews the supernatural thriller genre for something more grounded but which still hints at mysterious, dark forces at work. The danger in his new film, Creepy, […]
Director: Kelly Reichardt R | 1h 47min | Drama | 14 October 2016 (USA) Playing London Film Festival 2016 RATING: ★★★★☆ Kelly Reichardt films don’t come around too often, but when they do, the Smoke Screen regards them like precious stones, to be treasured. Her new three-part drama, Certain Women, adapted from Montana-native Maile Meloy’s short […]
Director: Werner Herzog 12 | 1h 38min | Documentary | 28 October 2016 (UK) Playing London Film Festival 2016 RATING: ★★★★☆ It felt inevitable that the mercurial Teuton, legendary filmmaker Werner Herzog, would tackle the internet at some point, given his fascination with vanishing cultures, lost prophets, and scientific endeavours promising either great advancement for […]
Alice Lowe in Prevenge, which she wrote, directed and acted in while pregnant In her debut film Prevenge, writer-director Alice Lowe takes a blowtorch to the picture postcard image of pregnancy. In this deliciously twisted serial killer black comedy, she plays the 30-something, very pregnant, Ruth. If things weren’t hard enough for Ruth, trying to […]
Director: John Nguyen 1h 30min | Documentary | March 2017 (USA) Playing London Film Festival 2016 RATING: ★★★★☆ Lynch fans are being well-served at this year’s London Film Festival, with director John Nguyen’s David Lynch: The Art Life being one of two documentaries about the mercurial director playing here. This will be catnip for the […]
Director: Mike Birbiglia R | 1h 32min | Comedy, Drama | 22 July 2016 (USA) Playing London Film Festival 2016 RATING: ★★★★☆ This delightfully warm, yet also poignant comedy hails from the mind of writer/director and comedian Mike Birbiglia, who impressed the Smoke Screen with his debut film Sleepwalk with Me. Drawing on elements from […]
Director: Alice Lowe 1h 28min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy | 13 October 2016 (UK) Playing London Film Festival 2016 RATING: ★★★★☆ In her debut film Prevenge, writer-director Alice Lowe takes a blowtorch to the picture postcard image of pregnancy. In this deliciously twisted serial killer black comedy, she plays the 30-something and very pregnant, Ruth, […]
Director: Kenneth Lonergan R | 2h 15min | Drama | 13 January 2017 (UK) Playing London Film Festival 2016 RATING: ★★★★☆ Though its plot – about a haunted man’s painful hometown return to take on the task of becoming his nephew’s guardian – might sound on paper a one-way ticket to either redemptive melodrama or […]
Director: Jim Jarmusch R | 1h 53min | Comedy, Drama | 25 November 2016 (UK) Playing London Film Festival 2016 RATING: ★★★★★ Adam Driver swaps the robes and lightsabre of the Star Wars universe for a more low-key, ruminative role in Jim Jarmusch’s endearing, richly textured new drama, Paterson. Dialled-back even by Jarmusch’s usual, laconic […]