Film Noir 14 October 2016 Fritz Lang, USA, 1945 An appropriately pitch-dark film noir directed by the great Fritz Lang, who also directed such classics as…
Andro & Eve Andro & Eve / One More Time With Feeling 10 September 2016 Despite having hosted a hugely successful screening of But I'm A Cheerleader (Jamie Babbit, 1999), and this month showing the charming,…
Greg Sestero / Barry Lyndon / Film Listings 10 August 2016 Perhaps the most popular and enduring film of the 'so bad it's good' phenomenon is Tommy Wiseau's disasterpiece, The Room. On Friday 30…
Migration Matters: Positives & Negatives 16 July 2016 Doc/Fest showcased many films as well as VR installations about refugees, while Sheffield’s Migration Matters Festival included films as…
Doc/Fest and Listings 14 June 2016 It’s unsurprising that SEED: The Untold Story (Siegel & Betz, 2016) received the Environmental Award at this year’s Doc/Fest. A…
A Cacophony Of Documentaries / Listings 16 May 2016 Year on year, Sheffield Doc/Fest offers a huge array of filmic choice and other audio-visual experiences that constitute ‘documentary’.…
Dheepan: Fear Eats the Soul / Listings 16 April 2016 Dheepan (Jacques Audiard, 2016) tells the mesmerising story of a Tamil Tiger who flees Sri Lanka after losing his unit and his family in…
High-Rise and Full Bins / Listings 16 March 2016 Rowing Against the Current in Austerity Britain With echoes not just of Crash (Cronenberg’s J G Ballard adaptation), but of Videodrome,…
RoboCop Wives: Remakes 11 February 2016 The Showroom screened the 1975 version of Stepford Wives last month as part of its Robosapiens season, which asks ‘Will homosapiens give…
Adventures in Amateur Filmmaking: Mistakes and Missed Takes 15 January 2016 The lighting is perfect, the camera is rolling, the actors are nailing their lines - and a train roars past. Cut! Stupid train. My…
