London Film Festival · 2012
18 films · 13 reviews
Haneke goes far beyond pushing emotional buttons into territory where our most visceral fears lurk.
(Country: France, Germany, Austria; Year: 2012; Director: Michael Haneke; Writer: Michael Haneke; Stars: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Emmanuelle Riva, Isabelle Huppert)
Affleck knows how to keep a tight grip on a story, gets better at ratcheting tension with every film, and displays a fearlessness when it comes to mixing genre.
(Country: US, Turkey; Year: 2012; Director: Ben Affleck; Writer: Joshuah Bearman, Chris Terrio; Stars: Ben Affleck, Bryan Cranston, Alan Arkin, John Goodman, Victor Garber, Tate Donovan, Clea DuVall, Scoot McNairy, Rory Cochrane, Christopher Denham, Kerry Bishé, Kyle Chandler, Chris Messina, Zeljko Ivanek, Titus Welliver)
If the way Alina cries and hugs her friend hello, in between train tracks, does not trigger your empathy, you are possibly already dead.
(Country: Romania, France, Belgium; Year: 2012; Director: Cristian Mungiu; Writer: Cristian Mungiu, Tatiana Niculescu Bran; Stars: Cosmina Stratan, Cristina Flutur, Valeriu Andriuta, Dana Tapalaga, Catalina Harabagiu, Gina Tandura, Vica Agache, Nora Covali, Dionisie Vitcu, Ionut Ghinea, Liliana Mocanu, Doru Ana, Costache Babii, Luminita Gheorghiu, Alina Berzunteanu)
(Country: India; Year: 2012; Director: Prakash Jha; Writer: Prakash Jha, Sagar Pandya, Anjum Rajabali; Stars: Abhay Deol, Arjun Rampal, Manoj Bajpayee, Anjali Patil)
(Country: US; Year: 2012; Director: Brett Morgen; Stars: Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts, Ronnie Wood, Bill Wyman, Mick Taylor)
Small-town prejudice and the fear of otherness are roundly exposed for their absurdity, but the sensitivity of the artistic disposition and even the importance of good dental care are also sensibly celebrated.
(Country: France, Belgium, Luxembourg; Year: 2012; Director: Benjamin Renner, Vincent Patar, Stéphane Aubier; Writer: Daniel Pennac; Stars: Lambert Wilson, Pauline Brunner)
While drawing on influences from the Golden Age of Universal horror movies such as Wolfman and Frankenstein, this is a animal entirely borne of Burton - and it's all the better for it.
(Country: UK; Year: 2012; Director: Tim Burton; Writer: John August; Stars: Martin Landau, Winona Ryder, Catherine O'Hara, Martin Short)
Mike Newell’s take does not disappoint, with sumptuous cinematography and an impressive British cast.
(Country: UK; Year: 2012; Director: Mike Newell; Writer: David Nicholls, based on the book by Charles Dickens.; Stars: Ralph Fiennes, Helena Bonham Carter, Jeremy Irvine, Sally Hawkins, Helena Barlow, Robbie Coltrane)
Are Bill Murray's fabulous presidential brogues what is worth remembering most, or are some of the statements about gender still valid commentary?
(Country: UK; Year: 2012; Director: Roger Michell; Writer: Richard Nelson; Stars: Bill Murray, Laura Linney, Olivia Williams, Olivia Colman, Elizabeth Marvel, Blake Ritson, Samuel West, Elizabeth Wilson, Eleanor Bron.)
(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)
(Country: UK; Year: 1929; Director: Alfred Hitchcock; Writer: Eliot Stannard; Stars: Carl Brisson, Anny Ondra, Malcolm Keen)
From Coca Cola as the perfect commodity, full of metaphysical reality ("The real thing!"), to the Kinder Surprise chocolate eggs with the toy inside... Fiennes and Zizek do their best to make theoretical concepts understandable.
(Country: UK, Ireland; Year: 2012; Director: Sophie Fiennes; Stars: Slavoj Žižek)
Dustin Hoffman's condescending direction turns old people into horrible giggling puppets.
(Country: UK; Year: 2012; Director: Dustin Hoffman; Writer: Ronald Harwood; Stars: Maggie Smith, Tom Courtenay, Billy Connolly, Pauline Collins, Michael Gambon)
Through heartfelt and very conventional storytelling Nair simplifies, pleads, and misses the chances to shift the very current problematics into a new light.
(Country: US, India, Pakistan; Year: 2012; Director: Mira Nair; Writer: William Wheeler, Mohsin Hamid, Ami Boghani; Stars: Riz Ahmed, Kate Hudson, Kiefer Sutherland)
(Country: Australia; Year: 2012; Director: Wayne Blair; Writer: Tony Briggs, Keith Thompson; Stars: Chris O'Dowd, Deborah Mailman, Jessica Mauboy)
Truth be told, I wept buckets.
(Country: UK; Year: 2012; Director: Paul Andrew Williams; Writer: Paul Andrew Williams; Stars: Gemma Arterton, Vanessa Redgrave, Terence Stamp, Christopher Eccleston)
It takes messy and unresolved dynamics and finds their poetry. Can’t say sexier than that.
(Country: US; Year: 2012; Director: Ben Lewin; Writer: Ben Lewin; Stars: John Hawkes, Helen Hunt, William H Macy, Moon Bloodgood, Annika Marks, Adam Arkin)
If Malick's lands were bad, then Wheatley's are sad, as small injustices, petty jealousies and perceived slights lead to cold blooded murder and childish revenge.
(Country: UK; Year: 2012; Director: Ben Wheatley; Writer: Alice Lowe, Steve Oram, Alice Jump; Stars: Alice Lowe, Steve Oram, Eileen Davies, Richard Glover)
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