Screen Rats

T he 17th London Korean Film Festival did not get off to the happiest start, not owing to anything with the event itself, but because of what had happened over 5000 mi…

I t’s a hundred-million-dollar project, reserved for the releasing studio’s late-in-the-year awards slot and featuring two of today’s biggest-named talents in the lead…

I talian chronicler of desire Luca Guadagnino takes a road trip across Ronald Reagan’s America in Bones and All , adapted from a young adult novel about a pair of cann…

A t the end of Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are, when Max must return home, the wild things cry out “Oh please don’t go – we’ll eat you up – we love you so!”…

I n separate corners of a fantasy-tinged 1930s Italy, two famous stories play out concurrently. Guillermo del Toro’s take on Pinocchio sees a puppet come to life in a …

W hat comes first: the story or the metaphor? Should a writer invent characters and scenario, then allow viewers to extract wider meanings and secret subtexts from th…

O ne of the many benefits filmmaking offers is the opportunity to preserve the memory or idea of a loved one and their life, immortalizing them through images which th…

W ith Christmas in our sights, it’s worth noting that Lars von Trier is offering us his own spiky bauble to hang atop the tree with a new TV series. It’s a very belat…

O nce upon a time, there was a beautiful land called Andalasia, a less beautiful land called New York City, and a happily ever after that never needed a sequel. Isn’t …

“M y homeland has many palm trees and the thrush-song fills its air; no bird here can sing as well as the birds sing over there” Brazilian poet Antônio Gonçalves Dias …

S panning four decades as actor, director, and screenwriter, the smirking face of Ugo Tognazzi was a near-constant presence in Italian pop culture. Most associated wit…