London Film Festival · 2013
16 films · 8 reviews
Immensely satisfying and riveting.
(Country: France, Belgium; Year: 2013; Director: Philippe Godeau; Writer: Philippe Godeau, Agnès de Sacy, based on the book by Alice Géraud-Arfi; Stars: François Cluzet, Bouli Lanners, Corinne Masiero)
Crowder’s film is clearly a labour of love and offers a more multi-angled approach than anything I can recall that’s gone before.
(Country: US; Year: 2013; Director: Paul Crowder; Writer: Mark Monroe; Stars: Narrator: Michael Fassbender. With Jackie Stewart, Emerson Fitipaldi, Jacky Ickx, Bernie Ecclestone, Max Mosley)
It's a courageous performance in more ways than one.
(Country: US; Year: 2013; Director: J C Chandor; Writer: J C Chandor; Stars: Robert Redford)
(Country: US; Year: 1930; Director: Archie Mayo; Writer: Rowland Brown, George Rosener; Stars: Lew Ayres, Charles Judels, Dorothy Mathews, Leon Janney, Robert Elliott, James Cagney, Kenneth Thomson, Jerry Mandy, Noel Madison, Edwin Argus, Eddie Kane, Tom Wilson, Dwight Frye, Fred Argus, Marie Astaire)
This could have been a simple story about heroism in the face of a soul-destroying system. It's a credit to all involved that it manages to be something more.
(Country: US; Year: 2013; Director: Rick Rosenthal; Writer: Matt Witten; Stars: Amir Khalighi, Matt O'Leary, Whip Hubley, William Russ, Eloise Mumford, Nishi Munshi, Vivan Dugré, Treasure Mallory, Drea Garcia, Don Abernathy)
(Country: South Africa; Year: 2013; Director: Andrew Worsdale; Writer: Andrew Worsdale; Stars: Brandon Auret, Gys de Villiers, Danny Keogh, Frank Opperman, Cara Roberts, Marcel van Heerden, Drikus Volschenk)
(Country: Greece; Year: 2013; Director: Yorgos Tsemperopoulos; Writer: Giannis Tsiros; Stars: Manolis Mavromatakis, Maria Zorba, Giorgos Gallos, Antonis Karistinos, Thanasis Papageorgiou, Ariadni Kavalierou, Ilias Moulas, Vesela Kazakova, Tudor Chirila)
(Country: UK; Year: 1940; Director: Thorold Dickinson; Writer: Patrick Hamilton, A.R. Rawlinson, Bridget Boland; Stars: Anton Walbrook, Diana Wynyard, Frank Pettingell, Cathleen Cordell, Robert Newton, Minnie Rayner, Jimmy Hanley, Marie Wright, Aubrey Dexter, Mary Hinton, Angus Morrison, Jack Barty, Ballet The Darmora, Alfred Atkins, Edwin Ellis)
(Year: 2013; Director: Amat Escalante; Writer: Amat Escalante, Gabriel Reyes)
Although there are no truly outstanding performances, neither are there any weak ones in what is essentially an ensemble piece.
(Country: UK, Norway, Denmark, Germany, Sweden; Year: 2012; Director: Joachim Rønning, Espen Sandberg; Writer: Petter Skavlan, Allan Scott; Stars: Pål Sverre Hagen, Anders Baasmo Christiansen, Tobias Santelmann, Gustaf Skarsgård, Odd Magnus Williamson, Jakob Oftebro, Agnes Kittelsen, Peter Wight, Amund Hellum Noraker, Eilif Hellum Noraker, Elisabeth Matheson, Kasper Ameberg Johnsen, Edward Kling, Jo Adrian Haavind, Jonas Heier Straumsheim)
(Country: US; Year: 1947; Director: Orson Welles; Writer: Sherwood King, Orson Welles, William Castle, Charles Lederer, Fletcher Markle; Stars: Rita Hayworth, Orson Welles, Everett Sloane, Glenn Anders, Ted de Corsia, Erskine Sanford, Gus Schilling, Carl Frank, Louis Merrill, Evelyn Ellis, Harry Shannon, William Alland, Jessie Arnold, Wong Artarne, Jack Baxley)
Sen has crafted a tense thrill ride without ever forgetting his roots.
(Country: Australia; Year: 2013; Director: Ivan Sen; Writer: Ivan Sen; Stars: Aaron Pederson, Hugo Weaving, Jack Thompson, Ryan Kwanten, Tony Barry, David Field, Damian Walshe-Howling, Tasma Walton, Zoe Carides, Robert Mammone, Samara Weaving, Daniel Roberts, Bruce Spence)
Achieving a delicate balance between the intersecting worlds of police, criminals and corporations, New World is a breath of fresh air.
(Country: South Korea; Year: 2013; Director: Park Hoon-jung; Writer: Park Hoon-jung; Stars: Choi Il-hwa, Choi Min-sik, Hwang Jeong-min)
(Year: 2013; Director: Hany Abu-Assad; Stars: Waleed Zuaiter, Adam Bakri, Samer Bisharat, Eyad Hourani, Leem Lubany)
(Country: Norway; Year: 2013; Director: Erik Skjoldbjærg; Writer: Nikolaj Frobenius, Hans Gunnarsson, Cathinka Nicolaysen, Erik Skjoldbjærg, Kathrine Valen; Stars: Wes Bentley, Stephen Lang, Jonathan LaPaglia, Stephanie Sigman, Aksel Hennie, Jørgen Langhelle, Ane Dahl Torp, André Eriksen, David A. Jørgensen, Jerker Fahlström, Arne Lindtner Næss, Endre Hellestveit, Janne Heltberg, Eirik Stubø, Laurents Rørvik)
This film shows better than any documentary on the development of safety gear for drivers, cars and roads could ever do why the changes in the sport were necessary.
(Year: 2013; Director: Frank Simon; Stars: Roman Polanksi, Jackie Stewart)
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