Glasgow Film Festival · 2014
11 films · 9 reviews
This is great stuff - a fantastic musical documentary.
(Country: US; Year: 2013; Director: Morgan Neville; Stars: Darlene Love, Merry Clayton, Lisa Fischer, Carole Childs, Mick Jagger, Claudia Linnear, Mable John, Bruce Springsteen, Bette Midler, Judith Hill)
(Country: France, Luxembourg; Year: 2013; Director: Philippe Claudel; Writer: Philippe Claudel; Stars: Daniel Auteuil, Kristin Scott Thomas, Leïla Bekhti)
The children, including Nico Liersch as Leisel's friend Rudy, are genuinely good, but they are strong performances in service of a film that doesn't quite work.
(Country: US, Germany; Year: 2013; Director: Brian Percival; Writer: Michael Petroni, based on the book by Markus Zusak; Stars: Sophie Nélisse, Geoffrey Rush, Emily Watson, Ben Schnetzer, Nico Liersch, Barbara Auer, voice of Roger Allam)
Although displaying much of the barbed wit of his first film, this is a more measured and moving work.
(Country: Ireland, UK; Year: 2014; Director: John Michael McDonagh; Writer: John Michael McDonagh; Stars: Brendan Gleeson, Chris O'Dowd, Kelly Reilly, Aidan Gillen, Dylan Moran, M Emmet Walsh, Isaach De Bankolé, Marie-Josee Croze, Domhnall Gleeson, David Wilmot)
(Country: Canada; Year: 2013; Director: Jason Priestley; Stars: Tatiana Maslany, Richard Dreyfuss, Jayne Eastwood)
I wished for Billy Wilder's spirit from The Apartment to take over the tone just a little bit.
(Country: UK; Year: 2013; Director: Richard Ayoade; Writer: Richard Ayoade, Avi Korine; Stars: Jesse Eisenberg, Mia Wasikowska, Wallace Shawn, Rade Serbedzija, Cathy Moriarty, Gemma Chan, Noah Taylor, James Fox, Yasmin Paige, Nathalie Cox, Phyllis Somerville, Tony Rohr, Joanna Finata, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Jon Korkes) , Official site , Trailer
An emotionally engaging tale that sucks you in with its gentle humour and melancholy.
(Country: US, Germany; Year: 2014; Director: Wes Anderson; Writer: Wes Anderson; Stars: Ralph Fiennes, Tony Revolori, F. Murray Abraham, Mathieu Amalric, Tilda Swinton, Adrien Brody, Willem Dafoe, Jeff Goldblum, Harvey Keitel, Jude Law, Tom Wilkinson, Bill Murray, Edward Norton, Saoirse Ronan, Jason Schwartzman, Owen Wilson, Léa Seydoux)
Saleh Bakri is superb in the central role, at first chilling, then lurching between brutality and incongruous tenderness.
(Country: Italy, France; Year: 2013; Director: Fabio Grassadonia, Antonio Piazza; Writer: Fabio Grassadonia, Antonio Piazza; Stars: Saleh Bakri, Sara Serraiocco, Luigi Lo Cascio, Redouane Behache)
Mackenzie shows everyone, inmates and guards alike, to be trapped in a corrupted, corrupting system that resists all change.
(Country: UK; Year: 2013; Director: David Mackenzie; Writer: Jonathan Asser; Stars: Jack O'Connell, Ben Mendelsohn, Rupert Friend, Anthony Welsh, David Ajala, Ian Beattie, Sam Spruell, Tommy McDonnell, Darren Hart, Peter Ferdinando, Gershwyn Eustache Jr)
A film that seeks to challenge and alienate its audience from the get-go, knowing full well that it won't win all of them back.
(Country: UK; Year: 2013; Director: Jonathan Glazer; Writer: Walter Campbell, Jonathan Glazer based on the novel by Michel Faber; Stars: Scarlett Johansson, Paul Brannigan, Krystof Hádek, Jessica Mance, Scott Dymond, Joe Szula, Michael Moreland, Lee Fanning, Ben Mills, Lynsey Taylor Mackay, Jeremy McWilliams, Gerry Goodfellow, Adam Pearson, Oscar Mills, Stephen Horn)
The Zero Theorem is a messy mélange of broad pratfalls, challenged idealism, dark satire, and expansive, indeed cosmic allegory - but it also .cannot escape being seen as a kind of Brazil vers. 2.0.
(Country: UK, Romania; Year: 2013; Director: Terry Gilliam; Writer: Pat Rushin; Stars: Christoph Waltz, Matt Damon, Mélanie Thierry, David Thewlis, Lucas Hedges, Ben Whishaw, Tilda Swinton, Peter Stormare, Dana Rogoz, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Emil Hostina, Naomi Everson, Tudor Istodor, George Remes, Olivia Nita)
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