He’s Not Here
David Bowie never endorsed Velvet Goldmine but it has become the ideal tribute film.
Philip Matthews
Do You Believe In Second Chances?
The Sundance TV series Rectify takes the difficulties of faith, forgiveness and family seriously
Lawyers Don’t Surf
Point Break : Is there any point to a reboot of one of the greatest action movies of the 1990s?
War At Ground Level
Stanley Kubrick’s Paths of Glory is still the greatest World War I film.
Finding Love in Hell
How does David Lynch’s Wild at Heart look, 25 years later?
The Year In Film
It felt like a remarkably good year for cinema. And that was without getting Godard in 3D.
Gone Girl : The Trouble With Amy
In Gone Girl, David Fincher’s cold perfectionism makes black humour out of tabloid shocks- and may even complete a media-age revenge trilogy
Watch The Seas
Gareth Edwards reboots Godzilla – the monster that’s all metaphor.
Lonely, In Love
Why Spike Jonze’s Her could be the most romantic film of the year.
The Ten Best Films Of 2013
The year the movies got small, and the small screen got big
Old Blighty Goes Down For The Count
Patrick Keiller’s films about his faux intellectual, Robinson. Also : Aki Kaurismaki’s Le Havre
Nature’s Boy
The films of Terrence Malick, from Badlands to Tree of Life
Life As A Death Sentence
The understated horror of Never Let Me Go
Touching the Void
In Melancholia Lars von Trier hives off serenely into the cosmos
Why The Long Face ?
Bela Tarr’s The Turin Horse, and the controversy about slow cinema