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When the Camera Stopped Rolling

4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury The long list of credits for this intimate, handsomely crafted documentary looks like a who’s who for the local film industry….

Ithaka

  M, 111 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury   Since Wikileaks, the organization he founded, sensationally uploaded hundreds of thousands of files of classified information…

Happening

R 18+, 99 minutes 4 Stars   Review by © Jane Freebury It doesn’t quite capture its original French title, L’Evenement meaning the event, but if the name…

Memoria

PG, 136 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury The new film from Apichatpong Weerasthakul, is a big step for the celebrated indie director. Filmed in the…

The Duke

M, 95 minutes 5 Stars   Review by © Jane Freebury When a portrait by a Spanish master went missing in 1961 from the National Gallery in London,…

Nowhere Special

M, 95 minutes 3 Stars   Review by © Jane Freebury The relationship between fathers and sons is closely observed in this low-key family drama set in Northern…

Loveland

M, 102 minutes 3 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury Who could have foreseen that the talented Ivan Sen would set his heart on making a science fiction…

Friends and Strangers

MA 15+, 82 minutes 4 Stars   Review by © Jane Freebury It’s going to be a challenge for the rest of us when a filmmaker says he…

Bergman Island

M, 113 minutes 4 Stars   Review by © Jane Freebury   Ask any writer. Who wouldn’t love to spend weeks on end at work at a writer’s…

Wash My Soul in the River’s Flow

PG, 89 minutes 4 Stars           Review by © Jane Freebury  As the mighty Murray carves a channel through limestone cliffs and winds across…

Miss Marx

  M, 107 minutes 3 Stars         Review by © Jane Freebury Details of the family life of a titan of modern philosophy may hold…

Hive

M, 84 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury This simple and effectively titled film is drawn from events in a small village in rural eastern Europe….

C’mon C’mon

M, 110 minutes 4 Stars           Review by © Jane Freebury   The modest but impressive oeuvre of American filmmaker Mike Mills often handles…

Drive My Car

    MA 15+, 179 minutes 5 Stars   Review by © Jane Freebury Not without good reason, they say the short story is a perfect foundation for…

Benedetta

    R 18+, 131 minutes 3 Stars   Review by © Jane Freebury The story of a lesbian affair inside a 17th century convent told by the…

India Sweets and Spices

M, 101 minutes 2 Stars     Review by © Jane Freebury   Whether or not there’s such a spirited critique to make of the wealthy and highly…

Parallel Mothers

    M, 123 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury There is a moment in the latest richly textured melodrama from writer-director, Pedro Almodovar, when its…

Munich – The Edge of War

It’s fascinating to see how countries that were enemies during world wars last century, countries like the US and Japan, Britain and Germany, were closely linked on certain levels beforehand. It makes you think

Gold

  M, 97 minutes 3 Stars           Review by © Jane Freebury Two nameless men, a pack of wild dogs and a scorpion make…

Limbo

  M, 104 minutes 5 Stars   Review by © Jane Freebury Every now and then, a film comes along that lands its points perfectly, in one fell…