Scribbles and Ramblings

Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011, USA, Sean Durkin) Sean Durkin’s remarkable debut feature manages to mix beauty with a disturbing and haun...

Recent Greek Cinema by way of Lanthimos & Tsangari Three different Greek films by Giorgos Lanthimos & Athina Rachel Tsangari but l...

The Ides of March (2011, USA, George Clooney) "The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to...

The following words stand out from Anthony Lane's article for the New Yorker : There’s only one problem with home cinema: it doesn’t e...

End of the World with a cough and a handshake Contagion (2011, USA/UAE, Steven Soderbergh) Day 2: A woman coughs on one side of the wo...

Calgary International Film Festival 2011 Every year I joyfully look forward to the 10 day cinematic adventure that is the Calgary Internat...

A spotlight on Claire Denis featuring the following 5 films: Nénette et Boni (1996) Beau Travail (1999) Friday Night (2002) L’Intrus...

Michelangelo Frammartino’s remarkable debut film uses an unnamed town in Calabria as an observatory to examine the metaphysical circle of l...

I decided to catch up with Terrence Malick’s first two films and revisit his third and fourth features while waiting for the eventual relea...

Every year for a few weeks I set aside films and books and instead focus exclusively on reading graphic novels. The experience is always enr...