Duke of York's Picturehouse, Brighton

The Adventures of Prince Achmed

Inspired by The Arabian Nights, Reiniger's charming silhouette animation was perhaps the first ever feature cartoon. Released in Germany in 1926 to a lukewarm reception, it...

The Apartment

Diamond-sharp satire with a brilliant performance from Lemmon as the insurance clerk who forges ahead in the rat race by lending his apartment out to philandering senior executives, only to...

Autumn Ball

Bicycle Thieves

A working class Italian, out of work for some time, has the bicycle stolen which he needs for a new job; he and his son wander round Rome looking for it. Often hailed as an all-time classic,...

Cabinets of Curiosity: Quays In Conversation

Citizen Havel

It's hard to imagine a more intimate portrait of a sitting international leader than 'Citizen Havel'. Granted full access to President Václav Havel from his accession as first leader of the newly...

Delta

Extremely beautiful to look at, with the long, spare, meticulously composed takes of Romania’s Danube delta attaining a mesmeric luminosity, Mundruczó’s third feature takes the form of a fable...

Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson

For a journalist, Hunter S. Thompson sure had a lot of guns: 22 of them by his ex-wife’s recollection in Alex GibneyJerry RothwellPat Boone gives this colourful, exciting story its few nauseating moments (as when he sings 'My Heart's in the Highlands')....

Kung Fu Panda

Kicks, punches, pratfalls, head smacks, tumbles and free falls galore: A parade of pain dominates Kung Fu Panda, which forgoes the rigors of character development for...

Lake Tahoe

Man of Iron

Wajda's remarkable sequel to Man of Marble welds newsreel footage of the Solidarity strike to fiction in a strong investigative drama. A disillusioned, vodka-sodden radio...

Met. Opera: La Damnation de Faust

Moscow Belgium

Out Late

Paris

Attempting to summarise the life of an entire city in a single film is not easy, particularly when that same place and its diverse citizens have been repeatedly sanctified, vilified and scrutinised...

Quiet Chaos

*** (Three stars)
This Italian effort examines the grieving process of Pietro, a middle-aged man who has just lost his wife. Driving the plot forward are Pietro's guilt that he...

Sallis Benney - New Romanian Shorts

See You Tomorrow (Do Widzenia Do Jutra)

Squaring The Circle

Straight 8 On Tour (2008)

Three Miles North Of Molkom

The Tin Drum

Sumptuously shot and designed, Schlöndorff's respectful film of Günter Grass's epic novel is nevertheless inevitably inferior to the original. The problem perhaps is that it is all too literal an...

Vogulfrei

Wallace & Gromit - The Curse of the Were-Rabbit

The quality of the animation in Steve Box and Nick Park’s...

Waltz With Bashir

‘Memory is dynamic… It’s alive.’ This animated documentary, for which Israeli filmmaker Ari Folman’s wizard colleague,...

Wendy and Lucy

Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell

“He had to be the funkiest white boy I’ve ever met,” praises Lola Love, a former dancer and singer with James Brown, of the slight, acne-scarred, little-known musical genius from...

Withnail & I

That rare thing: an intelligent, beautifully acted, and gloriously funny British comedy. At the butt-end of the '60s, two 'resting' young thesps - Withnail (Grant, a revelation), a cadaverous upper...