Director: Alexander Kott Watch Test on FilmDoo Alexander Kott’s wordless Test may technically be a period film – inspired by the Soviet Union’s nuclear bomb testing in the Kazakh region of Semipalatinsk in 1949 – but its […]
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Director: Vladimir Beck Watch Little Bird on FilmDoo The sometimes blurry line between the barely-teens and almost-adults of Little Bird, the mesmerising new feature from Vladimir Beck, is established in the film’s first two minutes via two […]
Watch Distance on FilmDoo Spanning nations and eras to create a melancholic picture of our current times, Asian anthology film Distance casts Taiwanese actor Chen Bolin as three different men whose lonely stories (one in China, one […]
Watch Before the Fall on FilmDoo From MGM’s Oscar-winning 1940 adaptation to last year’s Lily James-led zombie-fest, Jane Austen’s canonised 1813 novel Pride and Prejudice has long proven malleable source material for an expansive range of big- and small-screen interpretations of […]
Director: Eiji Uchida Watch Lowlife Love on FilmDoo Like Hitchcock’s Vertigo and Michael Powell’s Peeping Tom, Eiji Uchida’s Lowlife Love thrives on the psychosexual and metacinematic underpinnings of what some academic types might refer to as ‘the […]
Director: Dome Karukoski East End Film Festival 2017 review Watch Tom of Finland on FilmDoo Dome Karukoski’s decades-spanning biopic, Tom of Finland, is a gradual emergence from the darkness for a man, a way of life and an […]