REVIEW by Orla Smith
In Spencer, Pablo Larraín (Neruda, Jackie, Ema) imagines three days in the life of the beloved Princess Diana (Kristen Stewart) — it’s “a fable from a true tragedy,” as the opening title card puts it. We follow Diana over the Christmas holidays at Sandringham Palace, as she contemplates whether or not to leave her husband, Charles (Jack Farthing) (spoiler alert: she did). Our screens are not lacking portrayals of Princess Diana, especially in recent years, in…
REVIEW by Alex Heeney
With Young Plato, Neasa Ní Chianáin continues her cinematic exploration — which began with In Loco Parentis (School Life) — of exceptional Irish teachers and the children whose lives they change. In School Life, which she co-directed with David Rane (who serves as a producer, though not a director, on Young Plato), Ní Chianáin followed two teachers at an Irish boarding school, married couple Amanda Leyden and John Leyden, to show how these teachers took care…
AN INTERVIEW WITH DIRECTOR ELIANE RAHEB by Orla Smith
I realised that Miguel’s War was going to be a boundary-pushing documentary as soon as the film’s subject, Miguel Alonso, responded to a probing question from director Eliane Raheb by laughing and exclaiming, “What a horrible bitch!” Raheb tells the story of Miguel, from his childhood in Lebanon, to his participation in the Lebanese Civil War, to his life in Spain, where he lives today, as an out gay man. But…
To celebrate the 10th anniversary of Oslo, August 31st, our favourite film of the 2010s, we posted an article a day on the film.
Read our five essays, podcasts, and interviews on the film.
In addition, we announced that we're writing an ebook on Joachim Trier! It will be published in early 2022, but we'll be running some fun events in the meantime.
