Chuko Esiri and Arie Esiri: “The more I discovered my roots the more I fell in love once more with the place of my birth”
George Lewis talks to Chuko Esiri and Arie Esiri about heritage, shooting on 16mm, London Film Festival and the duos latest film Eyimofe (This Is My Desire)
LFF 2020: A Common Crime
A Common Crime is, rather unwittingly, too passive for its own good
LFF 2020: Bad Tales
Even if Bad Tales doesn’t fulfil its potential, the atmosphere created is alluring throughout
LFF 2020: One Man and His Shoes
Akin to a game of basketball, One Man and His Shoes is frantic and enjoyable
LFF 2020: Sound For The Future
Sound for the Future couldn’t have been anything other than a barebones documentary
LFF 2020: Never Gonna Snow Again
Operates like the hypnotic massages that punctuate the narrative, it is entrancing and captivating in all the best ways
LFF 2020: Farewell Amor
Msangi doesn’t quite pinpoint the personal exchanges in American society, she does capture New York’s vibrancy and energy
LFF 2020: Eyimofe (This Is My Desire)
Delicate furnishings in an empathetic, meditative tale of longing and despair
LFF 2020: Shadow Country
Hindsight is the thread that runs through Shadow Country
Schemers
Schemers, the directorial debut from Dave McLean, wears its influences on its sleeves
LFF 2020: Undine
Undine is a product that is simultaneously overstuffed yet underdeveloped
LFF 2020: The Disciple
Both in subject matter and aesthetic, The Disciple is an arduous watch
LFF 2020: Herself
Herself, whilst possessing the solid foundations, lacks some of the furnishings
LFF 2020: The Painter and the Thief
After a really promising start, one can’t help but feel like they’ve been robbed of something special
The Eight Hundred
The Eight Hundred, an extravagant Chinese war-drama from Guan Hu, has quietly become the highest-grossing film of the year
Savage
Amidst all the blood, brawn and profanity, there’s an undercurrent of warmth in Savage, a feature-debut by New Zealand director Sam Kelly
Enola Holmes
Suffice to say the Enola Holmes franchise is, in all likelihood, not afoot
Away
Away might not be the resonate wholly in the present, but it could set a sturdy template for the future
Inception - 10th Anniversary
Inception is still the pinnacle for high-concept blockbuster filmmaking
SHEFFIELD DOC FEST 2020: The Secret of Doctor Grinberg
The Secret of Doctor Grinberg is a well-crafted, mysterious tale that makes a mark in an oversaturated market