Film Editorial
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People For Film
Starting 3rd June The Star and Shadow will be re-opening its cinema with a blast - People For Film: a festival of films and cinematic delights chosen by local film goers.
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Some Kind Of Heaven
The opening of Lance Oppenheim’s accomplished debut, a documentary about retirement community The Villages, with its shots of synchronised golf buggy
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Apples
The Greek weird wave a la Yorgos Lanthimos continues with this droll and spookily prescient first feature from director Christos Nikou.
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Charlatan
Like her previous picture ‘Mr Jones’, which profiled the Welsh journalist who unearthed the truth about the Stalin regime, Polish director Holland’s latest
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Nomadland
Inspired by journalist Jessica Bruder’s 2017 book ‘Nomadland: Surviving America in the 21st Century’, Chloé Zhao’s third picture, a soulful and insightful study
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Truman & Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation
Originally envisioned as a documentary exclusively about Capote, but revised in the event of ‘The Capote Tapes’, Vreeland’s film is a fascinating account of the forty-year-old...
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Black Bear
Actor-writer turned director Levine’s third picture is a boldly experimental meta-tale with dashes of pitch black comedy and Lynchian dread.
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Spring Blossom
Despite the potentially heady subject matter, twenty-year-old writer-director-star Lindon’s portrait of a sixteen-year-old and her relationship with a man twice her age, is a ...
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True Mothers
Japanese writer-director Kawase’s adaptation of mystery writer Mizuki Tsujimura’s novel is a unwieldly family drama and study of motherhood with thriller and social realist el...
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Sequin In A Blue Room
Shades of Gregg Araki’s neon-lit strangeness in this accomplished debut from Australian writer-director Samuel Van Grinsven, a coming-of-age tale with thriller
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Undine
German writer-director Petzold reunites with the stars of his haunting existential thriller, 'Transit' for this oblique but nicely-played romantic drama, inspired by the titul...
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Stray
Following the charming cats in Istanbul documentary ‘Kedi’, the latest addition to the Turkish vérité quadruped-verse is a melancholy but tentatively hopeful study of three st...
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Ammonite
British director’s Lee’s follow-up to his feature debut ‘God’s Own County’ is another unvarnished but affecting love story, loosely inspired the life of 19th century palaeonto...
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