The Mirror and the Scene

Richard Linklater's new film, Boyhood (2014), continues his fascination with the passage of time as explored initially in Slacker (1991), and then in the trilogy of films Before Sunrise (1995) Before Sunset (2004) and Before Midnight (2013). This time Linklater compacts 12

  Jesse and Celine, it's good to be back.  Before Midnight is the third instalment in Richard Linklater's exceptional and unique series of films which trace the ongoing relationship between Jesse (Ethan Hawke) and Celine (Julie Delpy) from the streets of Vienna and Paris to southern

Afternoon slips into evening, the sky is the same white veil colour as the film I'm watching, it's so close and at any moment it might rain. A film that captures white shadows. Every frame numbing. Every word poetry, every movement breathes a new angle on existence, a new perception. Ingmar Bergman

Bergman is one of my favourite film makers and like all those who reach certain artistic heights, they have inspiring things to say about the genesis of their art and how they continue to express themselves. This is a lengthy piece by Bergman, but I feel it deserves to be read. EACH FILM

How Green Was My Valley is a beautiful and heart-wrenching film. It's both idealistic and sentimental, yet it's depiction of the disintegration of a culture and way of life, set against the changing social mores of the time using the trials and tribulations of the Morgan family as metaphor, is handled

Duncan Jones' 'Moon' is a classy homage to Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey' and a tasteful and subtle love letter to science fiction. You could say that with 'Moon', Jones boldly wears his influences on his sleeves but I think this embrace of cliché is one of the film's strengths. We know the

Considered as the first of the Ealing Comedies, Hue and Cry (1947) is a socio-realist thriller for children set amongst the rubble of post-war London. Scene after scene show swathes of a crumbling city. The ruins serve as a playground for the children and in an odd way a nurturing ground. Hue

It's a Barnum and Bailey world Just as phony as it can be But it wouldn't be make-believe If you believed in me 'It's Only A Paper Moon' - Harold Arlen (1933 Utilising black and white much as with The Last Picture Show (1971), Peter Bogdanovich goes vintage again and captures the

1. Another Woman (1988)      "I wondered if a memory is something you have or something you've lost"  'Another Woman' is an example of life as deception, that to go on living we must deceive ourselves on more than one level and that some of us have a larger capacity