Mother’s Day – the day that many of us use to celebrate the women in our lives who have taken on the immense responsibility of motherhood, and to remind them of exactly what they mean to us. However, three individuals feel very differently of the purpose of this specific day – mild-mannered but overbearing Gillian…

“Making a film is like a stagecoach ride in the old west. When you start, you are hoping for a pleasant trip. By the halfway point, you just hope to survive” These words are spoken by the character of Ferrand, the central character of François Truffaut’s gorgeous film, Day for Night (French: La Nuit américaine)….

Mory (Magaye Niang) is a young man living in rural Senegal, where he is known widely throughout the village for a few key qualities: his motorcycle adorned with a cow skull, his casual disregard for authority and his ambitions to get out of Senegal and make a life for himself elsewhere, leaving behind a relatively…

We get it – Quentin Tarantino loves movies. There aren’t many film directors who make it known how much cinema has influenced them as him – and it has been both an endearing quirk in the career of a filmmaker who has built a relatively iconic reputation from the work of others (this isn’t a…

Somewhere in a modern Russian metropolis stands a large apartment building, just like any other. Inside there are two occupants that we are very interested in, and who form the core of the story. The first is Aleksandr ‘Shurik’ Timofeev (Aleksandr Demyanenko), a meek but brilliant inventor who works on a variety of scientific projects,…

Léonard (Vincent Macaigne) is a writer who is amassing a small but dedicated group of supporters due to his unconventional “fictional autobiographies”, which chronicle the life and times of a man also named Léonard who just so happens to be a writer himself. His latest book, Final Point, is one that is stirring quite a…

Like many people, I was always aware of Quentin Crisp – he was, in his own words “one of the great stately homos of England”, and whether be his position as one of British culture’s most beloved writers and raconteurs, or his brief forays into acting from time to time (I’ll always remember his performance…

Only bad things seem to happen to Ugo Fantozzi (Paolo Villaggio), who may just be the most unlucky man in existence. A long-suffering accountant who has worked for the enormous ItalPetrolCementThermoTextilPharmMetalChemical for over twenty years, he has hardly anything to show for it – his wife (Liù Bosisio) is far from the woman of his…

“Modernity must not make us lose our Africanity” Senegal in the 1970s. The nation has just declared independence from the French, and have chosen to create their own government to rule over the people in the African way, establishing a fiercely proud politician as the President, and employing a range of businessmen and influential thinkers…

Before he was the cinematic stalwart he is seen as today, the creator of such inventive and brilliant visual odysseys such as Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and The Life of Pi, Ang Lee was just another young Taiwanese filmmaker crafting intimate dramas that portrayed his home country and its rapidly changing social and cultural situations…