By David Pountain Directed by Federico Fellini In the opening minutes of the sombre yet nostalgic I Vitelloni, five layabouts find their night out interrupted by a violent downpour. Amidst the circus frenzy provoked by […]
Author: David Pountain
By David Pountain Directed by Federico Fellini Widely touted as one of the all-time great works of cinema, Federico Fellini’s 8½ is an elusive film about even more elusive things. It’s a meaningfully chaotic picture […]
By David Pountain Directed by Jia Zhangke Of all the politically-minded directors of the last two decades, few have had their filmmaking style so innately ingrained in their ideology as the respected Jia Zhangke. I’d […]
By David Pountain Directed by Lucky Kuswandi As the title would suggest, In the Absence of the Sun, the humorous and poignant new drama from Indonesian writer-director Lucky Kuswandi, takes place mostly at night (one single […]
By David Pountain Directed by Koji Fukada Any discussion of Koji Fukada’s affecting new drama, Au revoir l’été, will inevitably involve a comparison to the late great Eric Rohmer. Shadows of the French director’s 1983 […]
By David Pountain Dir: Bradley King Time Lapse, the multiple award-winning directorial feature-length debut of Bradley King, is a film that flat-out gets time travel. That is to say, the film understands the various facets […]