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GFF 2014 – 20 feet from Stardom (Morgan Grenville 2013)
Rarely does a documentary let you be both in awe of and feel pity for its protagonists. In 20 Feet from Stardom, director Morgan Neville does just that. While at some points these men...
GFF 2014: Starred Up (David Mackenzie, 2013)
I woke up this morning still to find myself in the confined space of Starred Up. Isolating, dangerous and cut-throat, it’s a realistic outing into the prison genre after years of being near destroyed...
GFF 2014: Night Moves (Kelly Reichardt, 2013)
Night Moves is an example of a film that works so tremendously well using very little. Set in an isolated American town, it uses a sparse landscape and accomplished cast in presenting a film...
GFF 2014: The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (Felix Herngren,...
For the most part, we’ve left mainstream comedy films to the Yanks. Veering towards grandiose affairs of humourless slapstick, or a smartly written, well acted features, they rarely meet anywhere in the middle. The...
GFF 2014 – Nymphomaniac: Volumes I & II (Lars von Trier, 2014)
Lars von Trier is an undeniable master of character study. In Nymphomaniac, when all the provocative material is stripped away, both promotionally and cinematically, what is left is the undeniably profound study of a...
GFF 2014: Stranger by the Lake (Alain Guiraudie, 2013)
As the sun sets over the water in Stranger by the Lake, you are reminded how cinema can greatly embody multiple genres. Presenting itself as an erotic story of lust and danger, the film...
GFF 2014: The Grand Budapest Hotel (Wes Anderson, 2014)
From the off, Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel resembles a stunningly crafted watercolour postcard, plucked lovingly from the depths of your grandmother's relic box. Its numerous characters fit almost like paper dolls on...
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