London Film Festival · 2012
15 films · 9 reviews
As a first feature, it may not be totally surprising or very subtle, but it does have some impact, particularly visually.
(Country: Canada, US; Year: 2012; Director: Brandon Cronenberg; Writer: Brandon Cronenberg; Stars: Caleb Landry Jones, Sarah Gadon, Malcolm McDowell)
Although much of the action is played for dark comedy, Berger undercuts his pastiche with unexpected poignancy at key moments.
(Country: Spain, Belgium, France; Year: 2012; Director: Pablo Berger; Writer: Pablo Berger; Stars: Maribel Verdú, Ángela Molina, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Inma Cuesta, Macarena García, Josep Maria Pou, Pere Ponce, Ramón Barea, Ignacio Mateos, Emilio Gavira, Carmen Belloch, Sofía Oria, Pere Vall, Sergio Dorado)
It is violent and visceral, of course, but also a metaphor for the irreversibility of time.
(Country: US; Year: 2012; Director: Katie Aselton; Writer: Mark Duplass; Stars: Katie Aselton, Lake Bell, Kate Bosworth, Will Bouvier, Jay Paulson, Anslem Richardson )
(Country: Spain; Year: 2012; Director: Oriol Paulo; Writer: Oriol Paulo, Lara Sendim; Stars: Jose Coronado, Hugo Silva, Belén Rueda)
Anchored by a sincerely anguished turn from talented young Welsh star Aneurin Barnard.
(Country: Ireland, UK; Year: 2012; Director: Ciarán Foy; Writer: Ciarán Foy; Stars: Aneurin Barnard, James Cosmo, Wunmi Mosaku, Jake Wilson, Amy Shiels)
Doomsday Book sandwiches Kim's serious and savoury speculative fiction between Yim's two altogether more absurdist slices of Armageddon.
(Country: South Korea; Year: 2012; Director: Kim Jee-woon, Yim Pil-sung; Writer: Kim Jee-woon, Yim Pil-sung; Stars: Ryoo Seung-bum, Kim Kang-woo, Song Sae-byeok)
(Country: Japan; Year: 2012; Director: Takashi Miike; Writer: Takayuki Takuma; Stars: Satoshi Tsumabuki, Emi Takei, Sakura Ando)
(Country: US; Year: 2012; Director: Austin Chick; Writer: Austin Chick; Stars: Danielle Panabaker, Nicole LaLiberte, Liam Aiken)
(Country: US; Year: 2012; Director: Chris James Thompson; Writer: Chris James Thompson, Andrew Swant, Joe Riepenhoff; Stars: Andrew Swant)
It may sound like a spurious stream-of-consciousness from someone who’s taken too many drugs in their life, but it’s not.
(Country: US; Year: 2012; Director: Don Coscarelli; Writer: Don Coscarelli, based on the novel by David Wong; Stars: Chase Williamson, Rob Mayes, Paul Giamatti, Clancy Brown, Glynn Turman, Doug Jones, Daniel Roebuck, Fabianne Therese, Jonny Weston, Jimmy Wong, Tai Bennett, Allison Weissman, Angus Scrimm, Riley Rose Critchlow, Jerry Droz)
(Country: US; Year: 2011; Director: Xan Cassavetes; Writer: Xan Cassavetes; Stars: Josephine de la Baume, Roxane Mesquida, Milo Ventimiglia)
(Country: UK; Year: 2012; Director: Bill Jones, Jeff Simpson, Ben Timlett; Writer: Graham Chapman, David Sherlock, Douglas Addams, David Yallop, Alex Martin; Stars: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Jones)
This documentary offers a uniquely personal account of events in the house from an eyewitness who has never really been heard before.
(Country: US; Year: 2012; Director: Eric Walter; Stars: Daniel Lutz)
There is a great story in here somewhere.. but the combination of the two narratives - presented as tonally and visually distinct from one another - does not entirely work.
(Country: France, Spain, Portugal; Year: 2012; Director: Juan Carlos Medina; Writer: Juan Carlos Medina, Luiso Berdejo; Stars: Tómas Lemarquis, Alex Brendemühl, Derek De Lint)
Some fans have become, as one admits, literally lost in the maze of the Overlook Hotel.
(Country: US; Year: 2012; Director: Rodney Ascher)
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