Complied by Rachael Kaines Christmas is a time of joy, and in honour of that so is this list. Filled with the films that you will quite happily watch for the ninth time (even though you insist it’s crap) after a cheese course large enough to down an elephant, whilst sipping slow gin and fluctuating between contentedness and intense nausea. These movies as much a part of Christmas as turkey…
Read MoreBest Films Of 2017 By Sigridur Petursdottir
Icelandic film journalist and screenwriter Sigridur Petursdottir picks her favourite films of 2017. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri – Martin McDonagh Frances McDormand has been one of my favourite actresses for a long time. In this movie, she gives it her all. Mildred is funny, tragic, dangerous, sensitive, clever, hurt, but also crazy. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri is a brilliant film. It’s well written, it makes you laugh, and it…
Read MoreBest Films of 2017 By Louis Bayman
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 MoreFilm Review: Bingo: The King of Mornings
Reviewed by Lee Hill “My makeup is dry and it cracks round my chin / I’m drowning my sorrows in whiskey and gin,” The Kinks sang on their 1967 hit single, The Death of a Clown, and that in many ways sums up the theme of Bingo: The King of Mornings. Audiences love a tale of the clown that cries on the inside. Bingo is the slickly executed directorial debut…
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 MoreFilm Review: Mountains May Depart
Reviewed by Rachael Kaines Mountains May Depart is the latest film from Chinese writer and director Jia Zhang-ke. The film offers an insightful and measured look at the effects of globalisation, as well as a meditation on the current and future state of diaspora and the dissolving of culture. Mountains May Depart is a movie split into three parts: the nostalgic and hopeful past of 1999, the unpleasant present of…
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 MoreFilm Review: Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle
Reviewed by Freda Cooper The word Jumanji immediately conjures up misty eyed memories of the 1995 family comedy starring Robin Williams and a young Kirsten Dunst. With a magical board game at its heart, it boasted some special effects that weren’t just impressive for their day, they also stand up surprisingly well now. 22 years later, we have an updated version for today’s generation, in theory a standalone, but who…
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.
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