Screen Rats

“O nly by doing something mad can I hope to stay sane” are words ascribed to Charlotte Salomon, the German-Jewish painter who followed in the steps of the German Expre…

A pologies in advance — while everyone’s still occupied with the end-of-year mad dash to catch up with the movies they’ve missed over the past twelve months, whether f…

T he European Film Academy is a body that provides tools for the promotion of and education about European filmmaking across 52 countries throughout the continent. Mos…

B ecoming a real boy isn’t something that crosses the mind of Pinocchio, in Guillermo del Toro’s new adaptation of Carlo Collodi’s books. This Pinocchio is only concer…

A t this point, it’s hard to get through the festive period without seeing The Muppet Christmas Carol at least once. Thanks to its cosy vibes, heartwarming songs and n…

T his year, two films have renegotiated the terms between observers and observed in noir-tinged narratives, exploring the fight for female agency. Chloe Okuno’s Watche…

D on Cheadle’s career has all the unpredictability and idiosyncrasy that befits his foundation in jazz. In his 40 years as a performer, he’s done everything from award…

I n 2009, writer Glenn Kurtz discovered a degraded 16mm film in the attic of his parents’ home. It belonged to his grandfather, David Kurtz, an amateur filmmaker who w…

J ean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne have spent their career telling stories about characters living on the margins of Belgian society, and their 10th feature Tori and Lokita…

I t’s often the silence in the absence of vocalized emotion or explanation that speaks loudest in the works of Tsai-Ming Liang. The silence of the final loyal patrons …

C hristmas time in the late 1990s: a family and friends sit around the kitchen of a council flat somewhere in south London. Val, played by the great Kathy Burke , is t…