Arthouse

Bonkers Cannes crowd-pleaser Holy Motors marks return of filmmaker Leos Carax

Blackly comic, deranged and compelling offering from the rebel French director

French filmmaker Leos Carax is an acquired taste. Critically acclaimed but marginalised by any kind of real international success his trajectory through the 1980s and 1990s was marked by a poetic desire to depict love in all its torture, lust and…

Berwick Upon Tweed Film & Media Festival 2012 features work by Mark Cousins and the late Chris Marker

Celebration explores relationship between the moving and still image and showcase artists who work a

RIP the mighty photographer, filmmaker, essayist and multimedia artist Chris Marker who died in July this year. His 1962 masterwork La Jetée is the powerhouse of photomontage, conceptual filmmaking, the film that all other invocations of apocalyptic…

Tabu

Two beautifully shot films rolled into one directorial triumph for Miguel Gomes

Portuguese director Miguel Gomes’ distinct follow up to Our Beloved Month of August is in fact two films rolled into one - both of completely different genres. The first is a contemporary-set story of Pilar, a kind-hearted woman living in Lisbon who…

Amazing Baby - Captain’s Rest, Glasgow, Tue 1 Sep 2009

Much hype has been touted about Brooklyn boys Amazing Baby being the next MGMT – they graduated from the same school, supported them on their last tour, apparently sound the same. This gig might have been the chance to see the Next Big Thing.

Belle de Jour

(18) 99min

The very great Spanish filmmaker and surrealist Luis Buñuel wrote in his fantastic autobiography My Last Breath that Belle de Jour was ‘my biggest commercial success, which I attribute more to the marvellous whores than to my direction.…