Be Young, Be Dope, Be Proud: The 58th BFI London Film Festival Richard Martin December 2014 Festival Reports Debut films are often about youth, and about living on the edge. From The 400 Blows to Breathless, from Badlands to Kids, first features repeatedly channel the freedoms and frustrations of being young, via an a...
More Rapture! The Big Screen: The Story of the Movies and What They Did To Us by David Thomson Richard Martin September 2013 Book Reviews When I was halfway through reading David Thomson’s new book, I saw Vincente Minnelli’s musical The Band Wagon (1953) in Potsdamer Platz, Berlin. It felt like a perfect David Thomson moment. The Band Wagon immer...
The Uses of Guilt: The Cinema of Michael Haneke: Europe Utopia edited by Ben McCann and David Sorfa Richard Martin November 2012 Book Reviews There’s a scene in Michael Haneke’s Code Unknown (2000) that epitomises both the brilliance and the frustrations that mark his entire body of work. It takes place on the Parisian Métro, where a woman named Anne...
Designs for Life: David Lynch by Justus Nieland Richard Martin September 2012 Book Reviews If Inland Empire, released in 2006, has proved one of the strangest films of the last decade, David Lynch’s activities since then have only increased the mystery surrounding its director. In recent years, Lynch...
