cinematography

Film Review: La La Land

February 19, 2017 // 0 Comments

Directed by Damien Chazelle (GUY AND MADELINE ON A PARK BENCH, WHIPLASH), LA LA LAND is a love letter to Hollywood that has magically danced its way through viewers’ hearts. Starring Hollywood darlings Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone, La La Land could do no wrong in our eyes. With many [...]

[DVD] Film Review: Tale of Tales

December 7, 2016 // 0 Comments

Starring Salma Hayek, Vincent Cassel, and Toby Jones, TALE OF TALES (2015) is an exquisite gothic masterpiece that pans out like a dramatic theatrical play. Directed by Matteo Garrone, Tale of Tales is exactly what it promises. A tale of three intertwined Baroque-inspired fairytales, it features [...]

[DVD] Film Review: Phoenix (2014)

September 27, 2016 // 0 Comments

From the director of Jerichow (2008) and Barbara (2012), Christian Petzold’s PHOENIX is a hauntingly exquisite film that sees a former prisoner of Auschwitz concentration camp revived from the dead. With a penchant for psychodramas, Petzold’s Phoenix deals with his favourite [...]

[DVD] Film Review: The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet

May 28, 2015 // 0 Comments

From the director of Jean-Pierre Jeunet (AMELIE) comes this bittersweet coming-of-age story about a ten-year-old prodigy, T.S Spivet, who has a passion for cartography and scientific inventions. Based on The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet (written by Reif Larsen), THE YOUNG AND PRODIGIOUS T.S. [...]

[DVD] Film Review: Why Don’t You Play in Hell?

February 28, 2015 // 0 Comments

Meet The Fuck Bombers — a bunch of amateur wannabe filmmakers. Led by the fantasist Hirata, The Fuck Bombers are on a quest to make the greatest film of all time, even if it cost their own lives. Enter the Kitagawa yakuza. Ten years ago, the Kitagawa clan attacked the Muto yakuza clan, [...]