I am currently a History student at the University of Cambridge. I like everything really (except musicals!) but my particular interests include animation and south-east Asian films as well as European arthouse cinema. My dirty shame is enjoying Adam Sandler films.
Favourite Directors: The old cliches (Bergman, Fellini, Kurosawa, Kubrick etc) as well as contemporary film makers such as Takeshi Kitano, Fernando Mereilles and the Coen Brothers.
The slow-burning Arkansas vista is beautiful and harrowing at the same time, a panorama interrupted only by tractors dotting the horizon, but one where a car parked in the wrong place can attract a mob of pitch fork bearing men.
Stands out in the Bergman canon for the beautiful cinematography by Bergman's long time DoP, Sven Nykvist. The haunting contrasts suit the wild isolation of Faro down to a tee.
A recently released mental hospital patient goes back to her home on a secluded island with her family, resulting in emotional and spiritual crisis.
Somewhere in this trauma of a stage adaptation are some valid points about Fifties US conservatism.
Film adaptation of a stage play about a pair who have a one-night stand, despite being married to other people, and who make a pact to meet on the same night each year.
Just a couple of weeks to go until the release of The Simpsons Movie, we drop in on a Q&A session with Matt Groening and Al Jean and take a sneak peek at some snippets from the movie.
