An Evening Illuminated

KEVIN CHENAULT | 2016 | ★★★ Kevin Chenault's fourth film, after two promising features and a sublime short, proves entertaining if not quite up to the standards set by his previous ...

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CLIO BARNARD | 2013 | ★★★½ Excluded from school, fast friends Arbor and Swifty (Conner Chapman & Shaun Thomas) take to scavenging for scrap for a decidedly dodgy local dealer (Sean G...

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FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA | 1974 | ★★★★½ Tasked with recording the clandestine conversations of a pair of presumably adulterous lovers (Cindy Williams & Frederic Forrest), a renowned pri...

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JAMES WHITNEY | 1966 | ★★★★½ Set to Ravi Shankar and Alla Rakha's particularly entrancing sitar and tabla piece Raga Jogiya, Whitney’s remarkable, geometrically precise piece of ...

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ROBERT ALTMAN | 2001 | ★★★★½ Gently evolving from an exquisite, beautifully observed comedy of manners to a blackly farcical murder mystery, underpinned by a subtext of gradually r...

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DECLAN LOWNEY | 2013 | ★★★ Following several memorable appearances on the small screen over the past 20 years, Steve Coogan’s best known creation (in the UK, at least) makes his big...

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PAT COLLINS | 2012 | ★★★★½ A Berlin-based sound recordist (Eoghan Mac Giolla Bhride) returns to his native Ireland, tasked with capturing the sound of an environment free from manm...

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JAMIE THRAVES | 2014 | ★★★½ With a haunting score from Stars of the Lid, Thraves presents a sensuous, lyrical portrait of his son Thomas, exploring his adventurous, imaginative young ...

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LEO MCCAREY | 1936 | ★★★½ Harold Lloyd stars in this charming, unpredictable, and oft hilarious pugilistic comedy as a barely competent milkman who is conned in to becoming a boxer b...

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HERBERT ROSS | 1972 | ★★★★ Excellent comic performances, wittily incisive writing, and skilfully restrained direction combine to hugely entertaining effect, in this prototypical Wo...

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SAM HOARE | 2013 | ★★★ After nine years together, a mild-mannered recovering alcoholic (Andrew Buchan) finally manages to pluck up the courage to propose to his beautiful doctor girlf...

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JOHN ALEXANDER | 2014 | ★★½ Two vaguely unhappy daily rail users (David Morrissey & Sheridan Smith, both top-notch) meet on the morning commute and quickly (after an inauspicious star...

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EDGAR WRIGHT | 2013 |  ★★★ Having fallen three pubs short twenty-odd-years earlier, five friends – four adults (Nick Frost, Paddy Considine, Martin Freeman, & Eddie Marsan) and an et...

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KEVIN CHENAULT | 2013 | ★★★★ Tod (Zach Zint), a flat-broke, directionless musician, and Lydia (Isabella DeVoy), his pregnant ex-girlfriend, embark on a zig-zaggy road trip from Sout...

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Associés contre le crime... "L'œuf d'Ambroise" PASCAL THOMAS | 2012 | ★★ Upset at the attention her husband (André Dussollier) is receiving over his just published memoirs, and bor...

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JULIAN JARROLD & JAMES STRONG | 2013 | ★★½ Marking the 50th anniversary of the titular mail train robbery, this handsomely crafted if somewhat uneven BBC drama is presented in two neat...

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The Magic of Belle Isle ROB REINER | 2012 | ★½ Whilst spending the summer dog-sitting in an idyllic small town, a booze-sodden, wheelchair-bound former writer (Morgan Freeman) forms an...

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DAVID GORDON GREEN | 2013 | ★★★½ Painting lines on a barely used road way out in the wilderness, two disparate souls – one middle-aged, quiet, and thoughtful (Paul Rudd), the other...

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ANDREW KÖTTING | 1983 | ★★★ A Bolex Standard 8 camera restlessly explores a graffiti-daubed wall in Mottingham, south London, taking particular interest in a rusted wreck of a car that...

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JOEL & ETHAN COEN | 1987 | ★★½ When he marries a local law-enforcement officer, a career criminal determines to go straight. However, when it becomes apparent that he and his new bride...

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JOEL & ETHAN COEN | 1990 | ★★★★ When his mobster boss starts a gang war over his ill-advised protection of his girlfriend’s no-good brother, a canny consigliere with ever-increasin...

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JOEL & ETHAN COEN | 1991 | ★★★★★ The toast of Broadway after the success of his first play, Barton Fink (John Turturro), the self-proclaimed voice of the average working stiff, he...

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JOEL & ETHAN COEN | 1994 | ★★★★½ Following the untimely suicide of Hudsucker Industries’ head honcho, a hopelessly naïve small town business school graduate is promoted from the...

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JOEL & ETHAN COEN | 1998 | ★★★★★ When a pornographer’s hired thugs leave him with a urine-stained rug after mistaking him for his millionaire namesake, Jeff “The Dude” Lebow...

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MAX FLEISCHER | 1919 | ★★★½ Drawing a picture of KoKo the Clown, Max Fleischer (and, subsequently, KoKo himself) becomes disturbed by an errant fly. Though aided by a fly swat, neith...

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