Glasgow Film Festival · 2016
11 films · 8 reviews
Gyllenhaal puts in such a brilliant performance that it’s hard not to get swept away.
(Country: US; Year: 2015; Director: Jean-Marc Vallée; Writer: Bryan Sipe; Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Naomi Watts, Chris Cooper, Judah Lewis, Heather Lind)
(Country: France, Belgium; Year: 2015; Director: Alice Winocour; Stars: Matthias Schoenaerts, Diane Kruger, Percy Kemp)
Less psychological and more formulaic than his previous feature, this is still relentlessly entertaining.
(Country: US; Year: 2015; Director: Jeremy Saulnier; Writer: Jeremy Saulnier; Stars: Imogen Poots, Alia Shawkat, Anton Yelchin, Patrick Stewart, Mark Webber, Joe Cole)
The Coens' obvious fun in concocting scenes of mid-century paranoia is infectious.
(Country: US; Year: 2016; Director: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen; Writer: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen; Stars: Josh Brolin, George Clooney, Scarlett Johansson, Tilda Swinton, Channing Tatum, Ralph Fiennes. Alden Ehrenreich, Heather Goldenhersh, Jonah Hill, Frances McDormand, Christopher Lambert, Michael Gambon)
In the literal act of performance there is room to talk about self as performance, and that is where High-Rise is strongest.
(Country: UK; Year: 2015; Director: Ben Wheatley; Writer: Amy Jump, based on the novel by JG Ballard; Stars: Tom Hiddleston, Jeremy Irons, Sienna Miller, Luke Evans, Elisabeth Moss, James Purefoy, Keeley Hawes, Dan Renton Skinner, Sienna Guillory, Enzo Cilenti, Peter Ferdinando, Reece Shearsmith, Augustus Prew, Stacy Martin, Leila Mimmack) , Trailer
Trier has difficulty holding it all together as he examines themes of grief, parenting, family, and coming of age.
(Country: Norway, France, Denmark, US; Year: 2015; Director: Joachim Trier; Writer: Joachim Trier, Eskil Vogt; Stars: Rachel Brosnahan, Jesse Eisenberg, Amy Ryan, Gabriel Byrne, Ruby Jerins, Isabelle Huppert)
Whitman respects and relishes in Austen's creation but is no slave to it, inventing additional characters to help the story flow.
(Country: US, Ireland; Year: 2016; Director: Whit Stillman; Writer: Whit Stillman, from the novella by Jane Austen; Stars: Kate Beckinsale, Chloë Sevigny, Xavier Samuel, Stephen Fry, Emma Greenwell, James Fleet, Jemma Redgrave, Jenn Murray, Lochlann O'Mearáin, Morfydd Clark, Tom Bennett, Justin Edwards, Kelly Campbell, Conor MacNeill, Ross Mac Mahon)
Cheadle attempts to give us the feel of the man rather than the real essence.
(Country: US; Year: 2015; Director: Don Cheadle; Writer: Steven Baigelman, Don Cheadle; Stars: Ewan McGregor, Keith Stanfield, Don Cheadle, Michael Stuhlbarg, Emayatzy Corinealdi)
Gere, despite his image both off and on screen, gives a flawless performance.
(Country: US; Year: 2014; Director: Oren Moverman; Writer: Jeffrey Caine, Oren Moverman; Stars: Jena Malone, Richard Gere, Danielle Brooks, Abigail Savage, Geraldine Hughes, Yul Vazquez, Brian d'Arcy James, Ben Vereen, Jeremy Strong, Tonye Patano, Colman Domingo, Dominic Colon, Lisa Datz, Victor Pagan, Faye Yvette McQueen)
(Country: US; Year: 2015; Director: James Vanderbilt; Writer: Mary Mapes, James Vanderbilt; Stars: Cate Blanchett, Robert Redford, Elisabeth Moss, Topher Grace, Dennis Quaid, Bruce Greenwood, David Lyons, Toni French, John Benjamin Hickey, Lee Anne Ford, Rachael Blake, Andrew McFarlane, Martin Sacks, Natalie Saleeba, Nicholas Hope)
(Country: UK; Year: 2015; Director: Michael Caton-Jone; Stars: Shirley Henderson, Letitia Wright, Isabella Laughland)
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