Little White Lies recommends...
- BIFF (March 18-28) The 16th Bradford International Film Festival opens with the UK premiere of Perrier’s Bounty and a special guest appearance from satirist and Four Lions director Chris Morris.
Follow @MEDIAMUSEUM for updates. - Green Zone (On General Release) Paul Greengrass and Matt Damon reunite to track down WMDs in the Middle East. Bourne 4 it isn’t, but that’s hardly a bad thing: this is political conflict cinema at its edgiest and most cut throat.
- LAFF @ Barbican (March 18-28) A 10-day celebration of cinema Down Under kicks off with an opening night gala screening of Warwick Thornton’s beautiful aboriginal drama Samson & Delilah, with a director Q&A proceeding the film.
Follow @BarbicanCentre for updates. - Rebell Yell (From March 15 This month across the UK Future Shorts will put on a unique edition of their short film festival, showcasing a fortnight of cinematic rebellion across five host cities.
Follow @futureshorts for updates. - Want to see your event here? Just tweet us @LWLies with the info and a link.
How Will You Remember Robert?
Cathy Reay: With the final nail in the Twilight coffin being driven in next year, we look at how the career of its leading man is likely to be looked back on.
Trailer Talk – Tron Legacy
Dan Stewart: One of the year's most anticipated releases promises to take audiences back to the future, but does it look any good?
Hitting Out At Hit Girl
Cathy Reay: The tabloids are criticising Kick-Ass for featuring a foulmouthed 11 year old, but is it really as inappropriate as they are making out?
Tuning Out The Static
Tom Seymour: In the face of global warming, so many films call for change. But what kind of change do we need?
Reviews
The Ape
Mar 11 2010: The Ape pulls no punches on its fresh approach on how to deal and live with the consequences of our action, writes Ailsa Caine
Green Zone
Mar 11 2010: With United 93, Paul Greengrass created an American myth. Here he strikes at the dark heart of the Iraqi occupation, writes Tom Seymour
The Kreutzer Sonata
Mar 11 2010: While Huston has a burgeoning career as the sort of character actor Hollywood currently trades in, he makes hard work of this, writes Jonas Milk
Under Great White Northern Lights
Mar 11 2010: The film is stronger for the fact that director Emmett Malloy barely succeeds in revealing anything, writes Tom Seymour
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
Mar 11 2010: Niels Arden Oplev’s mundane staging lacks the scope or imagination to fill the larger dimensions of the cinema screen, writes Matt Bochenski
Chloe
Mar 05 2010: Chloe is a mature, composed crisis piece that perhaps doesn’t push its audience as far as its characters, writes Adam Woodward
Alice in Wonderland
Mar 05 2010: Burton has always been a visual storyteller and his Alice is a source of visual wonder, writes Anton Bitel
Legion
Mar 05 2010: Angels with machine guns? It was probably great fun to make; just don’t expect to have quite as good a time watching it, writes Dan Brightmore
Interviews
Emmett Malloy
The Under Great White Northern Lights director talks about the universal appeal of The White Stripes.
Ludovic Houplain
One of the filmmakers behind Oscar winning animated short Logorama speaks about the work of his co-fronted creative collective H5.
Mia Hansen-Løve
The former Cahiers critic turned filmmaker talks about her second feature, The Father of My Children.
