Gerard Elson
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Blog post — 9 Jul 2013
What I Loved: House of Pleasures by Bertrand Bonello
When it screened at last year’s Alliance Française French Film Festival, Bertrand Bonello’s lavish, lugubrious fin de siècle bore the superior title House of Tolerance. The term was a…
Blog post — 23 Oct 2012
Five Scary Films To Watch This Halloween
Our film specialist, Gerard Elson, picks out five great DVDs to watch this Halloween.
Scripted by geek doyen Joss Whedon, this is a gleeful subversion of…
Review — 30 Sep 2012
Once Upon A Time In Anatolia
Although I’m loath to reduce this masterful sixth feature from Turkey’s Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Three Monkeys) to a trite ‘it’s X meets Y’ comparison, in this instance, I’ll…
Review — 30 Sep 2012
The Woman In Black
His Hogwarts days now behind him, Daniel Radcliffe here joins the ranks of another noble British institution: the newly revived Hammer Film Productions, who from the mid-1950s to the late…
Review — 22 Aug 2012
Boardwalk Empire: Season 2
Nucky’ Thompson (Steve Buscemi) is back, along with everyone left standing at the conclusion of the first season of this Prohibition-era gangster drama from HBO.
Bootlegging, malfeasance, poetic violence and…
Blog post — 19 Aug 2012
Q&A with Terence Davies, director of The Deep Blue Sea
Our film specialist Gerard Elson chats with iconic director, Terence Davies.
Terence Davies’s The Deep Blue Sea – just his seventh feature film in 27 years – is an adaptation…
Review — 29 Jul 2012
Le Quattro Volte by Michelangelo Frammartino
The list of films prompted by the writings of Pythagoras must surely be brief. Indeed, were it comprised of nothing but this remarkable debut from Milanese filmmaker Michelangelo Frammartino, it…
Review — 2 Jul 2012
The Artist by Michel Hazanavicius
[[artist_dvd_2]]Silence was golden at this year’s Oscars, with this charming throwback to Hollywood’s black-and-white heyday soft-shoeing away with statuettes for Best Picture, Best Director (Michel Hazanavicius) and Best Actor (Jean…
Review — 12 Jun 2012
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
David Fincher’s (Zodiac, Fight Club) take on the first of Stieg Larson’s Lisbeth Salander novels fascinates most for its utter lack of extraneous content. No moment is…
Review — 12 Jun 2012
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
When the Chauvet Cave was discovered in southern France in 1994, it was rightly realised as perhaps the most significant site of prehistoric art the modern world has ever seen…