The llama, the fish and the magistrate: Lucrecia Martel’s absurdist film Zama puts its audience in a trance
Martel’s adaptation of the Argentine novel is David Lynch meets Samuel Beckett.
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2001: A Space Odyssey is even better when you watch the 50-year-old version
The movie is now on release in an “unrestored” 70mm Cinerama roadshow version.
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2001: A Space Odyssey is even better in its unvarnished original state
The movie is now on release in an “unrestored” 70mm Cinerama roadshow version.
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Messing up McEwan: why the film of On Chesil Beach falls flat
Filmmakers love Ian McEwan for his dramatic set-pieces – but ungainly flashbacks and ageing make-up ruin this adaptation.
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Bohemian Rhapsody: What 8 other biopics would be like with all the queerness removed
A trailer for the Freddie Mercury biopic has caused a stir by avoiding references to the Queen singer’s bisexuality -…
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Solo: A Star Wars Story is yet more evidence of the curse of the prequel
In the world of breakneck blockbuster cinema, plot logic and characterisation falls through the cracks of emergency rewrites.
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Taking the God out of Godard: Michel Hazanavicius’s Redoubtable is an irreverent portrait of the French filmmaker
With its promiscuous distribution of gold stars, the modern movie poster has come to resemble the uniform of a distinguished…
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The Young Karl Marx is a sparky retelling of the build up to The Communist Manifesto
One may conclude Raoul Peck’s biopic is so absorbing because Marx’s ideas remain so full of fire and so alive.
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