The self-obsession he finds so enthralling is simply irritating, his delivery rarely varies from a monotone drawl, and he lacks any shred of what might be called charisma.
Film-maker Alan Berliner explores his own insomnia.
The beauty of the look of the film is matched by the intensity and nuance between Juliette Binoche and Daniel Auteuil, playing together for the first time.
Repressed passions flare in French island off Nova Scotia in mid 19th century.
Wiener-Dog is a Solondz film through and through – there's still no-one daring to be quite so acerbic and inhumane towards his characters while keeping them grounded in a sense of relatable experience.
If what you're looking for in a movie is a collection of chase sequences and some grisly violence, Wilderness does deliver, but there are plenty of films out there which do it better
A group of young offenders find themselves being hunted on a remote island.
It may be derivative, it may contain one too many clichés but nevertheless, the film is dynamic, energetic, amusing and clever.
A spoilt LA rich kid is packed off to a traditional English girls’ school. At first she is determined to escape, but then she begins making friends – and catching the eye of the headmistress’ handsome young son...
Wild Hogs reflects Hollywood's attitude towards entertainment, without understanding that star names and a sound-bit scenario requires writers who know about comedy to make the thing fly.
A road trip for middle-aged, middle-class, middle-minded bikers.
Vulnerable before a reality that can suddenly be modified and become unpredictable, the characters of Wild Tales cross the thin line that divides civilization from brutality.
Wild Target doesn't romanticise its heroes' careers or try to justify what they do, but it does present them as human beings who are remarkably easy to like.
Two hitmen inadvertently end up protecting the woman they were hired to kill.
It is a tough watch but, like everything of value. remains with you longer and deeper.
On a Provençal farm, a protective and devoted mother raises her seven illegitimate children... under the uncaring eye of the farmer, who is the father of her kids.
With a lot of characters to deal with, The Windmill Massacre wastes no time on setting up. The basic logic of the situation is quickly established and there’s never much of a pause between deaths.
When their bus breaks down, tourists are forced to seek shelter in a disused barn beside a sinister windmill where, legend has it, a Devil-worshipping miller once ground the bones of locals instead of grain.
You could talk your way round the houses and still come up with very good reasons for believing that when Loach goes political, he makes Karl Marx look benign.
The budding years of the IRA as country boys oppose the brutal suppression of the Black & Tans
With alternatively beautifully and wisely low key cinematography, Friedenberg turns a landscape many will associate with holidays into something primal and filled with unknown threats.
Friends returned from war run into trouble on a hunting trip in their local swamp. Have they fallen foul of an ancient curse?
This gentle, observational film drinks in the landscape like most wine documentaries but spends an unusual amount of time looking at the wine-making process itself, which makes it considerably more interesting than many.
A documentary about a lesbian couple and their successful vineyard in the south of France.
