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Glass interviews Hong Khaou about his new film Monsoon

October 10, 2019

LONDON-BASED filmmaker Hong Khaou won critical acclaim for his 2014 debut feature, Lilting, a touching low-budget drama which examined the emotional turmoil following the death of a young Chinese-Cambodian-Brit...

Glass speaks to director Peter Mackie Burns about his new feature Rialto

Jackson Caines

October 8, 2019

Feature, Film

PETER Mackie Burns’s 2017 debut feature Daphne won plaudits for its portrayal of a complex female protagonist in crisis. He spoke to Jackson Caines about his new film Rialto, a Dublin-set drama which puts mascu...

In the fast lane with O-T Fagbenle

Gabriella Crewe-Read

June 24, 2015

Don't Miss: Film, Don't Miss: Theatre, Feature

O-T Fagbenle is a man on the move. Currently performing in the BBC One crime drama The Interceptor where he plays Special Agent Marcus “Ash” Ashton, a customs officer recruited into a secret bran...

Review: Anime Nere (Black Souls)

Arjun Sajip

October 28, 2014

Culture, Don't Miss: Film, News

Francesco Munzi’s sombre Calabrian gangster film Here is a film that takes an abrupt left-turn in its last 75 seconds, with three brutal yet perversely compassionate slayings – an odd phrase, yet one that enca...

The London Film Festival 2014: The Man in the Orange Jacket

Arjun Sajip

October 28, 2014

Culture, Don't Miss: Film, News

Maxim Lazarev plays the eponymous high-vis-jacket-clad murderer The denouements of horror films are usually their downfall. The genre derives its scares from three sources: the supernatural, the superhuman, ...

The London Film Festival 2014: Catch Me Daddy

Arjun Sajip

October 28, 2014

Culture, Don't Miss: Film, News

Sameena Jabeen Ahmed won the Best Actress award at this year’s London Film Festival The Wolfe brothers’ début is a startling, troubling and fairly nasty film. Refreshingly nasty, in fact: it’s fantastically ta...

The London Film Festival 2014: Whiplash

Arjun Sajip

October 28, 2014

Culture, Don't Miss: Film, News

JK Simmons channels R Lee Ermey as drill-sargeant-cum-orchestra-conductor Terence Fletcher The two central theses of this breathless film are so old-school they’re radical. Great art is often born of abuse. An...

The London Film Festival 2014: White Bird in a Blizzard

Arjun Sajip

October 24, 2014

Culture, Don't Miss: Film, News

Like the protagonist's room, this film is pockmarked with pop culture references more stylistic than substantial Another London Film Festival movie, another final-reel twist – and it has begun to feel like t...

London Film Festival: the global preview

Ben Olsen

October 4, 2012

Culture, Feature

The Glass Guide to London Film Festival: the global preview Amour Where Set in Paris, France Who Directed by Michael Haneke What After wowing all at Cannes, this tale of an octogenarian couple struggl...

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