Boatwright has done an effective job of taking a group of people often perceived as anti-social and revealing the social bonds that underlie their activity and creativity.
A documentary portrait of the backyard punk scene in Los Angeles.
An intimate venue coupled with incredibly energetic and heart-felt performances from Reed, the Brooklyn Youth Chorus and a string and brass section to die for make for a moving experience.
Concert film of Lou Reed's live rendition of his song cycle album.
A joyous genre mash-up of John Hughes-style adolescent anxieties and drill-bit depravities (call it 'torture prom'), all married in McLeavy's wonderfully unhinged turn as a pretty-in-pink princess of perversion.
The father of teenager Lola will go to any lengths to get her the boy of her dreams... including kidnap and torture. Plus read our exclusive interview with Robin McLeavy.
Vicente Aranda blatantly plays up the virgin/whore dichotomy between the two female characters but the women give nuanced performances that suggest. undercurrents of complexity
After finishing his military service, a young man intends to settle down with his fiancée but begins a dangerous affair with his landlady.
Lovewrecked is a simple, unambitious and largely predictable romantic comedy, but it tells its story well.
Marooned on a beach with her rock star idol, a starstruck teenager neglects to tell him that they're actually still on the same island as their holiday resort.
Interesting ideas lurk, tantalisingly, underneath the romcom formula and yet every brave move Zwick and his co-writers make is countered by something weak and formulaic, as if in apology.
Romance blossoms between a commitment-phobic drug salesman and a feisty Parkinson's sufferer.
Cinematographer David Cailley, the director's brother, offers stark beauty and wicked humor.
Between his friends and the family business, Arnaud’s summer looks set to be a peaceful one. Peaceful until he runs into Madeleine, as beautiful as she is brusque.
ETCETERA covers a multitude of emotions - pain, anger, jealousy, sadness. The loneliness of the long distant lover and the isolation of the cuckolded husband. Relationships? Who wants them?|Everyone believes...
As a project, Love Film Festival is impressive - four directors, four countries, polylingual, starting in 2009 and finishing (by my arithmetic) in 2016. As a film, maybe less so.
A love affair set against the backdrop of the short film festival circuit.
Myers may be wearing strange clothes, he may have a comedy beard, and he may make jokes about flatulence and groinal injury at every opportunity, but that's about the limit of his range.
An Indian guru travels to North America to try and save an ice hockey player's marriage.
Arcand has created a work of profound understanding about a generation embracing freedom as godhead, only to discover that everything finds its own level.
Interwoven stories of sex, love and promiscuity in early Nineties Montreal, with serial killer lurking.
