A breed of director has had success to such a profound degree that their name has become an adjective through which other films are qualified or compared. Spielbergian, Malickian, Lynchian, Coen Brothers-like, you get the idea, but the point remains that such qualifiers favour neither party. This leads me to […]
The Coen Brothers
Curling: grips in ways a standard Hollywood thriller can’t manage (Review)
So do Second Run have some kind of insider knowledge, or…? Their first all-new release of 2020 (after a welcome Blu-Ray upgrade for Valerie and Her Week of Wonders) is Denis Côté’s Curling, a spare, paranoid film about self-isolation, home-schooling and precarious minimum-wage jobs. A rare chance for British audiences […]