Writer and lecturer Louis Bayman picks his favourite films of the year for Screenwords. 1-Lady MacBeth (Dir: William Oldroyd) 2-T2 Trainspotting (Dir: Danny Boyle) 3-Mudbound (Dir: Dee Rees)
Read MoreInterview: Screenwords meets Daniel Rezende
Interview by Rachael Kaines You may not have heard of Daniel Rezende, but there’s a good chance that you’ve seen his work. He was nominated for an Oscar, and won a BAFTA for editing 2002’s City of God, he edited other Brazilian gems such as The Motorcycle Diaries, Elite Squad and it’s sequel, City of Men (City of God’s sequel), and Terrence Malick’s Tree of Life.
Read MoreBest Films of 2017 by Rachael Kaines
Screenword’s own Rachael Kaines selects her favourite films of 2017. 1 – Call Me By Your Name (Luca Guadagnino) Could you imagine anything better than spending a summer somewhere in Northern Italy, reading, swimming, and falling in love? Me either.
Read MoreBest Films Of 2017 By Robert Chandler
Continuing our end of the year series, writer and producer Robert Chandler picks his favourite films of 2017 for Screenwords. 1-LAST FLAG FLYING It won me over. I was cautious. A somewhat sequel to The Last Detail, one of the great American films of the early 1970s, a film that dealt with life and the inevitability of death, through the journey of three young soldiers: two of them, Jack Nicholson…
Read MoreBest Films Of 2017 By Lee Hill
1-Twin Peaks: The Return (David Lynch) More than just a revival of a cult TV show, this was an 18-hour feature as mysterious, surreal and heartbreaking as Mulholland Drive and perhaps the closest a filmmaker has come to the novelistic reach of Gravity’s Rainbow or John Updike’s Rabbit books since RW Fassbinder’s Berlin Alexanderplatz.
Read MoreFilm Review: Walk of Fame review
Some films are trashy, but fun. You know the ones I mean, your friend would put them on and they would be about stupid people doing stupid things and eventually fall for one another and so on. We all know that plenty of those movies are great, not just a guilty pleasure, but an actual pleasure. I can absolutely assure you that Walk of Fame is not one of those…
Read MoreFilm Review: Marjorie Prime
Adapted by Michael Almereyda from Jordan Harrison’s 2014 play, Marjorie Prime is a gently haunting and deeply affecting tale which deals with themes relating to what separates human beings from artificial intelligence and whether holding on to someone’s memories, even after their death, is an essential part of who we are. Set in a near-future, the film offers a thought-provoking look at humanity’s acceptance of AI despite all the obvious…
Read MoreTop Five Horror Films of the Last Five Years
There has been something of a resurgence of horror in recent years. As a genre that for decades has been riddled with cliche and repetition of the same archetypal characters and cookie-cutter plot lines, it’s just in time. These modern horror movies are characterised by the fact they are uncategorisable — they defy the conventions of the genre within which they reside and bring each bring something new to the…
Read MoreGuest Post: David Mcalmont’s Horror Picks
Favourite ten horror movies of the last ten years? Ah, the good old days: younger, more afraid, less jaded; staying up to participate in the pleasure mum took in those vintage horror classics once purveyed by Hammer and RKO pictures. Knowing who Bela, Boris, Christopher, Lon, Peter and Vincent were, by the age of ten. Often disappointed with how un-scary some films turned out to be; wanting to be spooked…
Read MoreLFF 2017: Call Me By Your Name
Attempting to identify what makes certain films into instant classics is never easy, and no matter how hard one tries, it is near impossible to second-guess how people would react to a movie, especially in these days of instant social media gratification and throwaway commentary. In the case of Call Me By Your Name, it is frankly hard to see how anyone could possibly find fault with this genuinely stunning production.…
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