Riverside Studios Cinema

Babette's Feast

Why, in the 1870s, would a Parisienne (Audran), an acclaimed chef, be working for a pittance for two elderly sisters supervising a remote religious community on Denmark's windswept Jutland coast?...

Caramel

Take sugar, water and lemon juice, mix it up and you’ve got Beirut’s favourite depilatory product, a sticky goo which removes feminine hair, though not without a certain struggle. Such is the...

Climates

‘Climates’ presents the break-up of a metropolitan couple, university lecturer Isa and television art director Bahar (played by Ceylan and his wife Ebru), whom we first meet on a Turkish beach...

Le Désert des Tartares

Something nasty is lurking on the steppes outside the fort, while inside the years pass and the occupying garrison sits around brooding. Is it the dread Tartars, the vengeance of God, or simply a...

Eat Drink Man Woman

Comedy drama about a widower and his three unmarried daughters. Mr Chu, a retired Taipei chef, would like his girls to leave home, but is too repressed and stubborn to communicate frankly with...

I've Loved You So Long

This is a jailbreak movie, if not in the usual sense: Juliette (Kristin Scott Thomas, displaying her fluent French) has...

The Kite Runner

‘The Kite Runner’ is the film of the international bestselling book which tells the story of Amir, a well-to-do boy from the Wazir Akbar Khan district of Kabul, who is haunted by the guilt of...

Kundun

Scorsese's early life of the 14th Dalai Lama is the simplest and strangest movie he has yet made. An act of self-imposed exile, it's a Hollywood film only in the production credits and language....

Linha de Passe

Walter Salles’ first film since ‘The Motorcycle Diaries’ was shot in São Paulo and is about four brothers from a poor...

A Matter of Life and Death

One of Powell and Pressburger's finest films. Made at the instigation of the Ministry of Information, who wanted propaganda stressing the need for goodwill between Britain and America, it emerges...

Mongol: The Rise to Power of Genghis Khan

This is Genghis: The Early Years, as young tribal warrior Temudgin – the boy who would be Khan – grows to manhood on the remote plains of Central Asia. He fends off enemies, avenges his...

The Navigator

Gag for gag, one of the funniest of all Keaton's features as he copes with the snags involved in running a deserted ocean liner single-handed, philosophically accepting the fact that machinery has...

Persepolis

The original French version of this adaptation of Marjane Satrapi’s sensitive and sharp autobiographical graphic novel...

The Red Shoes

In outline, a rather over-determined melodrama set in the ballet world: impresario (Walbrook) 'discovers' dancer (Shearer), and makes her a slave to her art, until young composer (Goring) turns up...

Step Brothers

It is a point of fact that Will Ferrell is 41. Assessing his emotional age from comedy to comedy is also fairly easy:...

Tell No One

French actor-turned-director Guillaume Canet had a big hit in France with this widescreen, big-budget adaptation of US writer...

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Le Scaphandre et le Papillon was a literary sensation when it was published in 1997, just days after the death of its author, Jean-Dominique Bauby (Almaric), the former editor of French Elle...

The Fall

Must we take Tarsem seriously? Apparently so: The monomonikered visualist (director seems somehow wrong)...

Pineapple Express

The most acclaimed filmmaker to join the Apatow stable, David Gordon Green has a keen eye for landscapes and a...

The Professor (La Prima Notte di Quiete)

Times and Winds

Hovering in a world-cinema no-man’s-land located between regional neorealism and poetic ruralism, Reha Erdem’s...

La Vie En Rose

The greatest obstacle in mounting a successful biopic—a genre in dire need of a shot of adrenaline—is for the lead performer to overcome ventriloquism. Although