As a purveyor of art-house cinema, films with long poetic titles become something to be wary of. Generally these are examples of films that are either overwhelmingly didactic or gratingly obsessed with the (self-assessed) brilliance of their style or ideas. The Sky Trembles… teeters at the edge of the cliff of pretension, but manages for Read More
Peter Greenaway was one of the great European arthouse directors, lighting up the British film scene of the 1980s. His talents then faded, creating disjointed films more interested in using formalistic gimmicks than telling a good old-fashioned story. Or so the story goes. The general British critical scene has little time for Greenaway these days; Read More
The Forbidden Room is not your average film, even for the arthouse cinema scene. It is essentially a series of vignettes, which, rather than occurring linearly one after another, interweave. In one segment a character will have a dream which itself becomes a completely different film. Some of these vignettes appear for five or ten Read More