Gdynia Film Festival 2015: ’11 Minutes’
A warning, a wake-up call and one helluva wild ride, Jerzy Skolimowski’s sensational city symphony is the masterpiece of this year’s Gdynia Film Festival.
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Gdynia Film Festival 2015: ‘New World’ + ‘Strange Heaven’ + ‘The Here After’
In the context of the current crisis, new movies about migrations into and out of Poland gain extra resonance at the Gdynia Film Festival.
New Urbanism Film Festival 2014: American Makeover + Power to the Pedals + Trainsforming America
The New Urbanism Film Festival looks at how America might become more modern – by turning back to the better aspects of its past.
Gdynia Film Festival 2015: ‘Into the Spirale’ + ‘Baby Bump’
A warring couple, an Ayahuasca-bearing Shaman, and a teenage boy with serious body obsessions were among the "Visions Apart" selections at Gdynia.
Gdynia Film Festival 2015: ‘Damaged’ + ‘These Daughters of Mine’
Two female-focused family portraits prove to be entrancing gems in this year's Main Competition at Gdynia.
Gdynia Film Festival 2015: ‘Body/Ciało’ + ‘Life Must Go On’
Fraught father/daughter relationships come under the spotlight in two Main Competition films, the brilliant, uncanny Body/Ciało and the modest mainstream drama Life Must Go On.
The Best and Worst of Summer Film 2015
From the same old superhero entries to a singular visionary epic, more mediocre Adam Sandler to some surprising new comedic voices, the Summer of 2015 was a rollercoaster of excellence and awfulness. Here are our choices for the best and worst of the popcorn movie season.
Gdynia Film Festival 2015: New Polish Cinema Overview + ‘Karbala’
The 40th Gdynia Film Festival, the most prestigious film event in Poland, has the fortune to be taking place in a hugely significant and successful year for Polish cinema.
Double Take: Hitchcock’s ‘The Lady Vanishes’ (1938)
Now you see her; now you don’t: Double Take #21 admits to seeing The Lady Vanishes and tries to find its political undercurrent.
Venice Film Festival 2015: And the Award Goes to…
Closing out the 2015 Venice Film Festival, it's clear that we can't all be winners, but we can all be judges -- and then there's the judges who have the final say.
Venice Film Festival 2015: ‘Go With Me’ + ‘For Your Love’
Go With Me carefully avoided offence, For Your Love proved infuriatingly bad.
Venice Film Festival 2015: ‘Remember’ + ‘From Afar’
Remembering why we like Atom Egoyan.