Released in 2000, Hungarian film maker Béla Tarr’s Werckmeister Harmonies is a singular film that asks a lot more questions than it answers. A challenging and visionary experiment, the film chronicles the arrival of a circus featuring a stuffed whale … [Read more...] about Mihály Víg: Werckmeister Harmonies
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Arcade Fire & Owen Pallett: Her
A lonely professional letter writer going through a difficult divorce process, Theodore (Joachim Phoenix) falls in love with “Samantha”, an artificially intelligent Operating System (OS1) voiced by Scarlett Johansson. Written and directed by American … [Read more...] about Arcade Fire & Owen Pallett: Her
Mica Levi: Under the Skin
A solitary female alien (Scarlett Johansson) drives around suburban Glasgow and the Scottish Highlands, befriends isolated men, lures them into her white van and brings them to derelict houses where they disappear. A mysterious biker follows her … [Read more...] about Mica Levi: Under the Skin
Dustin O’Halloran: Swings
Love stories, infidelity and midlife crises are conventional and recurrent themes in cinema, but indie film maker Drake Doremus manages to offer a fresh take on the genre with his new film Breathe In (2013). By using hand-held cameras and letting his … [Read more...] about Dustin O’Halloran: Swings
Clint Mansell: In full bloom
Part-Gothic drama and part-Hitchcockian thriller, Stoker (2013) is a stylish and beautifully choreographed film scripted by Wentworth Miller and directed by South Korean director Park Chan-Wook. After his acclaimed Vengeance trilogy - Sympathy for Mr … [Read more...] about Clint Mansell: In full bloom
Hanan Townshend: Lacrimosa
Although the French composer is credited as the main songwriter on the official soundtrack for Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life (2011), Alexandre Desplat's music only accounts for a fraction of the total number of tracks which actually made it … [Read more...] about Hanan Townshend: Lacrimosa
