ArtHouse Reviews: A Most Wanted Man
Anton Corbijn’s A Most Wanted Man, based on a John le Carré spy novel, is set in a grey and watery post 9/11 Hamburg, the city from which the attack on the Twin Towers was planned. The German and international intelligence services are paranoid about missing another Islamist plot and their suspicions fall on a […]
Arthouse Reviews: Pride
Pride is an absolute joy from the beginning with the preparations for the anti-Thatcher protest, through the dodgy Welsh accents and Dominic West‘s disco dancing to the stirring climax of the 1985 Gay Pride March. You couldn’t imagine two more different groups of people than the London-based lesbian and gay campaign and the National Union […]
ArtHouse Reviews: Before I Go To Sleep
While S.J. Watson’s best selling novel Before I go to Sleep was set in Crouch End, it’s said that the director Rowan Joffe thought it wasn’t a cinematic enough location for the film version. This surely must have been before ArtHouse came on the scene. Instead the film is set in an anonymous […]
ArtHouse Reviews: The Keeper of Lost Causes
The Keeper of Lost Causes takes the successful Nordic noir formula to the big screen where the wide sweeping grey skies and vast bare landscapes set the scene for another gripping crime thriller. As fans of Danish cinema and TV crime series would expect (and director Mikkel Norgaard also directed Borgen), the plot is […]
