Biopic, mock-doc, juke box musical, exhibition? Mike Pinnington considers director Alex Ross Perry’s documentary, Pavements… Ambivalent, ironic, alienating. There is a prolonged moment at the beginning of director Alex Ross Perry’s documentary, Pavements, where...
Andres Veiel’s Riefenstahl reveals the actor and director was only too pleased to pour her not inconsiderable talents into the Nazi cause… There are moments during Riefenstahl in which you wonder about the...
“It remains a masterpiece of epic proportions.” Mike Pinnington does a deep-dive into Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, which is back in cinemas this weekend – 60 years after the director had wondered...
“Urban landscape and architecture are integral.” Anthony Ellis on how film can fix in our minds and memory a sense of place… General views are one of the more unusual aspects of filmmaking....
A reminder of Jean-Luc Godard’s mercurial brilliance and antipathy to Hollywood, Le Mépris – his study of a poisoned marriage and poisonous film industry both – celebrates its 60th anniversary with a 4K...
“Fears of a ‘great awakening’ in which robots become self-aware and decide that humankind itself is the greatest threat to the planet are not new.” Nik Glover on the AI debate currently raging...
Trickster or sage? A film about father of video art Nam June Paik looks to bring his enduring genius to new audiences… It’s impossible to overstate the influence and importance of Korean artist...
How could seeing an exhibition at the cinema compare to the real thing? Mike Pinnington on why the two needn’t be mutually exclusive experiences… Something strange has been happening at cinemas of late....
“They burned with brilliant intensity; an intensity that couldn’t be sustained.” Mike Pinnington on The Velvet Underground, and how a new Criterion Collection release captures their story alongside the hyperbole… In his expansive...