It's more an assortment of clips showing Reagan doing what Reagan did best, which was to project a sort of all-pervasive bonhomie through the camera lens.
A documentary constructed entirely from clips of archive footage, exploring Ronald Reagan's media persona.
To say that Realive is an ablist film would be a colossal understatement.
70 years after being diagnosed with terminal cancer, Marc becomes the first resuscitated cryogenic body. But readjusting to life as a human lab rat proves difficult.
By juxtaposing their conversations and a wealth of observational footage capturing them in day to day life, Haas illustrates how much mother and son really have in common.
A documentary about a young man preparing for surgery as his mother comes to terms with the fact that he's transgender.
Anna Politkovskaya...emerges as a truly heroic figure and the rage Nekrasov feels at anyone who could consider taking her life to be a justifiable ‘means to an end’ is palpable.
Documentary charting the exile of Alexander Litvinenko, who was poisoned by polonium in 2006.
This is no talking heads documentary. Cameras take us into the displacement camps of Uganda, where local survivors talk of their babies beaten to death.
A battle of monumental proportions unfolds as International Criminal Court Prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo faces down warlords, genocidal dictators and world superpowers in bringing perpetrators of crimes against humanity to justice.
Unlike most of the films about Iraq, Redacted portrays a military that’s a catchall for the uneducated and unsocialised; and while many may find this offensive, it’s perfectly in line with the draft-deferring lowering of recruitment standards.
Controversial story, asking where, in the censored war in Iraq, do we find the truth? Plus read what Brian De Palma said about the film - and the redaction of it, here.
Hazanavicius directs with flair for the style and mood of the Sixties.
Paris 1967. Jean-Luc Godard, the leading filmmaker of his generation, is shooting La Chinoise with the woman he loves, Anne Wiazemsky, 20 years his junior. They are happy, attractive, in love, they marry. But the film’s reception unleashes a profound self-examination in Jean-Luc.
The over-zealous earnestness of proceedings renders the film a rather cheesy affair, and some of the exchanges between characters – while supposed to be tender and honest – come across as cornball and drippy.
The arrival of a struggling writer sparks change for a gay man stuck in a passion-free relationship.
The family setting gives this a lot more depth, allowing for complex relationships that make the interaction of the terrorised characters much more interesting than that of the usual screaming teenagers.
A mysterious stranger with extreme religious views turns a seasonal family gathering upside down.
Billed increasingly as a horror movie, the shifting sands of its tone means it sits uneasily in any category, as Smith flirts with comedy, action and horror without carrying off any of them particularly convincingly.
A group of teens encounter extreme fundamentalism in Middle America.
Niles and White capture the fear in the faces of the band members - but also their energetic fortitude and willingness to move on from their past suffering.
A documentary about a band formed by refugees from the conflict in Sierra Leone.
