London Film Festival · 2013
20 films · 9 reviews
Soloway has crafted a well-observed script, too coarse and cruel to be dismissed as frothy romcom.
(Country: US; Year: 2013; Director: Jill Soloway; Writer: Jill Soloway; Stars: Kathryn Hahn, Juno Temple, Josh Radnor, Jane Lynch, Jessica St Clair)
The director's uncompromising approach and rigour pulls us along at least until the half way point when the pace begins to falter and its lack of obvious intentions starts to grate.
(Country: Netherlands; Year: 2013; Director: Alex van Warmerdam; Writer: Alex van Warmerdam; Stars: Jan Bijvoet, Hadewych Minis, Jeroen Perceval)
(Country: US; Year: 2013; Director: Bryan Poyser; Writer: Bryan Poyser, David DeGrow Shotwell, Steven Walters; Stars: Ashley Bell, Zach Cregger, Sara Paxton, Michael Stahl-David, Addison Timlin, Marshall Allman, Justin Arnold, Samantha Baugnon, Gopal Bidari, Kelli Bland, Angelique Chappell, Christina Childress, Lana Dieterich, Sam Douglas, Laurel Goetz-Warren)
It's the boxy Apple Mac precursors that are the real stars in many ways. It's hard not to feel a warm glow of affection for them, assuming you are a viewer of a certain age.
(Country: US; Year: 2013; Director: Andrew Bujalski; Writer: Andrew Bujalski; Stars: Patrick Riester, Myles Paige, James Curry, Robin Schwartz, Gerald Peary, Wiley Wiggins)
(Country: France; Year: 2013; Director: Cédric Klapisch; Writer: Cédric Klapisch; Stars: Kelly Reilly, Audrey Tautou, Cécile De France, Sandrine Holt, Romain Duris, Cassandra Starr, Kevin Bishop, Amanda M. Rodriguez, Adrian Martinez, Toshiko Onizawa, Alex Ziwak, Ashley Lambert, Shuya Chang, Li Jun Li, Celia Au)
(Country: US; Year: 2013; Director: Azazel Jacobs; Writer: Azazel Jacobs, Emily Mortimer, Dolly Wells; Stars: Emily Mortimer, Dolly Wells, Jonathan Cake, Aaron Himelstein, Pamela Dunlap, Vicki Lewis, Ari Zagaris)
Despite the seemingly grim subject matter, Gordon-Levitt goes the upbeat route with his debut feature.
(Country: US; Year: 2013; Director: Joseph Gordon-Levitt; Writer: Joseph Gordon-Levitt; Stars: Scarlett Johansson, Julianne Moore, Tony Danza, Glenne Headly, Rob Brown)
What might in lesser hands have been an aimless, stilted disaster here becomes, thanks to these capable, funny capable actors, a finely observed naturalist comedy of manners.
(Country: US; Year: 2013; Director: Joe Swanberg; Writer: Joe Swanberg; Stars: Olivia Wilde, Jake Johnson, Anna Kendrick, Ron Livingston, Ti West )
Karasawa's film is at its strongest when Stritch is allowed to open up her life to us in all its intimate detail.
(Country: US; Year: 2013; Director: Chiemi Karasawa; Stars: Cherry Jones, Elaine Stritch)
Refreshing and breezy - but also forgotten almost as soon as it has wafted by.
(Country: US; Year: 2013; Director: Nicole Holofcener; Writer: Nicole Holofcener; Stars: Toni Collette, James Gandolfini, Catherine Keener, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Ben Falcone, Amy Landecker, Michaela Watkins, Kathleen Rose Perkins, Toby Huss, Eve Hewson, Christopher Nicholas Smith, Anjelah Johnson-Reyes, Tracey Fairaway, Phillip Brock, Tavi Gevinson)
(Country: Lebanon; Year: 2013; Director: Amin Dora; Writer: Georges Khabbaz; Stars: Georges Khabbaz)
(Country: Germany; Year: 1936; Director: Paul Martin; Writer: Curt Goetz, Brian Marlow, Paul Martin, Robert A. Stemmle, Thyra Samter Winslow; Stars: Lilian Harvey, Willy Fritsch, Paul Kemp, Oskar Sima, Fred Goebel, Erich Kestin, Otto Stoeckel, Paul Bildt, Albert Florath, Thomas Cziruchin, Peter Lau, Jac Diehl, Arno Ebert, Max Hiller, Fred Köster)
(Country: UK; Year: 2013; Director: Destiny Ekaragha; Writer: Bola Agbaje; Stars: Adelayo Adedayo, Shanika Warren-Markland, Bhasker Patel, Kulvinder Ghir, Pooja Shah, Eddie Ruben, Ashley Chin, O.C. Ukeje, Wai Wong, Malachi Kirby, Michael Maris, Eddie Kadi, Liz Sutherland, Tosin Cole, Garry Marriott)
Matsuda is excellent in the demanding central role.
(Country: Japan; Year: 2013; Director: Yûya Ishii; Writer: Kensaku Watanabe based on the novel by Shiwon Miura; Stars: Ryûhei Matsuda, Kumiko Asô, Chizuru Ikewaki, Hiroko Isayama, Kaoru Kobayashi, Haru Kuroki, Naoki Matayoshi, Aoi Miyazaki, Ryû Morioka, Kazuki Namioka, Jô Odagiri, Yoshiki Saitô, Shingo Tsurumi, Shôhei Uno, Misako Watanabe)
(Country: UK; Year: 2013; Director: Justin Hardy; Stars: Tim Plester, Royce Pierreson, Georgia Maguire, Christopher Leveaux, Joseph Olivennes, Charlotte Gallagher, Anneli Page, Sarah Jayne Butler, Bennett Warden, Sarah Barratt)
It’s a crowd-pleaser and only the most stern of hearts and minds could fail to be seduced by its charm and the incredible persona of Gallienne.
(Country: France, Belgium; Year: 2013; Director: Guillaume Gallienne; Writer: Guillaume Gallienne; Stars: Françoise Fabian, Guillaume Gallienne, Yves Jacques, André Marcon, Nanou Garcia, Yvon Back)
(Country: South Korea; Year: 2013; Director: Hong Sang-soo; Writer: Hong Sang-soo; Stars: Jae-yeong Jeong, Yu-mi Jeong, Seon-gyun Lee, Ji-won Ye)
(Country: Argentina; Year: 2013; Director: Alejo Moguillansky; Writer: Alejo Moguillansky; Stars: Luciana Acuña, Luis Biasotto, Mario Gallizzi, Walter Jakob, Rodrigo Sánchez Mariño)
(Country: US; Year: 2013; Director: Drew Tobia; Writer: Drew Tobia; Stars: Eleanore Pienta, Dana Eskelson, Molly Plunk, Keisha Zollar, Taylor Dior, Beverly Bonner, Melodie Sisk, Ann Carr, Ingrid Jungermann, Levi Wilson, Michele Ann Suttile, Maria Wilson, Stephan Goldbach, Michele Meises)
(Country: Italy, Switzerland, France; Year: 2013; Director: Emma Dante; Writer: Emma Dante, Giorgio Vasta; Stars: Emma Dante, Alba Rohrwacher, Elena Cotta, Renato Malfatti, Dario Casarolo)
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