It Happened One Night

Unmade Beds by Nicholas Barker is the sort of picture I would normally hate: a kind of heightened documentary that is not really, as it purports to be, straightforward interviews with four single adults in New York but rather staged interviews in which each of the subjects has been given a chance to work up…

Peter Mullan finds yet another scandal in the Catholic church, presenting us with movie nuns who are nothing like the ones in The Bells of St. Mary’s

Another weird but weirdly captivating film from the Austrian director, Michael Haneke. Is this guy for real?

Class struggle in the French cinema of today

Pink Flamingos by John Waters (1972), now re-released, is not a film which it is really possible to review. It contains sex scenes, both homo and heterosexual, weird perversions, bestiality, coprophagy, incest, madness, murder, torture, mutilation, rape, kidnapping, cannibalism, and the sale of human babies — and to all of this it invites and (in…

Another example of old-fashioned, plot-driven movie-making for grown-ups from the director of A Separation