Joanna Hogg - US Politics

It was the year British film came of age. With hopes riding high for Kate winslet and Slumdog Millionaire at the Oscars, the Evening Standard British Film awards this week celebrated home-grown cinematic talent in all its forms. How to choose between ...

The film must be a feature-length fiction (documentaries don't count), have been given an official UK cinema release between October 1 2007 and September 30 2008 (if it's just had film festival screenings it won't qualify), and the director ...

All of a sudden, British film has a new master. The Evening Standard's Derek Malcolm stopped just short of proclaiming its director an "auteur" and claimed it reaches the parts "where other British movies don't go", while the Guardian's ...

The key male figures are Oakley (Tom Hiddleston), a handsome, arrogant young dude who has a needling relationship with his father, George (David Rintoul), a blustering, vigorous, prosperous type, bald in a high-testosterone sort of way.Into this situation steps fortysomething Anna ...

The excellent Kathryn Worth stars as Anna, a fortysomething childless woman in the throes of an awkward and deteriorating marriage. Anna arrives late and is welcomed with the merest hint of suspicion - and though she tries hard to fit in, taking a ...

But there is currently an unmistakable groundswell in British cinema, heralded by a clutch of directors who are chafing against the boundaries of narrative filmmaking, and in some cases dismantling them altogether.What Steve McQueen does in Hunger, his movie about the ...

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