Martin's Favourites
I have held some films very close to my heart. Here is a selection.
Listen Up Philip (2014)
6.3/10
Director: Alex Ross Perry
Starring: Jason Schwartzman, Elisabeth Moss, Jonathan Pryce, Krysten Ritter, Josephine de...
Anger rages in Philip (Jason Schwartzman, The Grand Budapest Hotel) as he awaits the publication of his sure-to-succeed second novel. He feels pushed... Read more
Loves of a Blonde ( A Blonde In Love ) (1965)
7.7/10
Director: Milos Forman
Starring: Hanna Brejchova, Vladimir Pucholt, Vladimir Mensik
Milos Forman's great comedy is an acute satire of Czech daily life. The film focuses on the relationship of a factory girl and a touring piano player.... Read more
Moonrise Kingdom ( Blu-ray ) (2012)
7.8/10
Director: Wes Anderson
Starring: Bill Murray, Bob Balaban, Bruce Willis, Edward Norton, Frances McDormand, Jason...
Director/co-writer Wes Anderson's charming comedy/drama is set on an island off the coast of New England in the summer of 1965 and tells the story of... Read more
Mother and Son (1998)
7.6/10
Director: Alexander Sokurov
Starring: Gudren Geyer, Alexei Ananishnov
This emotionally and visually stunning offering from Russian director Alexander Sokurov awakens the senses to the world of nature, human relationships... Read more
Nights of Cabiria (1957)
8.1/10
Director: Federico Fellini
Starring: Giulietta Masina, Francois Perier, Franca Marzi
The third of Fellini's trilogy of solitude. 'Nights of Cabiria' features Giulietta Masina as an impoverished prostitute living on the outskirts of Rom... Read more
Over the Garden Wall (2014)
8.9/10
Director: Nate Cash, Patrick McHale
Starring: Elijah Wood, Collin Dean, Melanie Lynskey, Christopher Lloyd, John Cleese, Shirl...
This brilliant and highly acclaimed animated television miniseries centers around two half-brothers who travel across a strange forest in order to fin... Read more
Taste Of Cherry (1997)
7.7/10
Director: Abbas Kiarostami
Starring: Homayoun Ershadi, Adolhossein Bagheri
One of the great works of recent international cinema and the apex of contemporary Iranian film, Abbas Kiarostami's brilliant and deceptively simple f... Read more
The Ascent (1976)
8.3/10
Director: Larissa Shepitko
Starring: Boris Plotnikov, Vladimir Gostyukhin
The winter of 1942 in Belorussia seems a grim game of cat and mouse between Soviet Partisans and Russians working for German invaders.Two captured Par... Read more
The Sacrifice (1986)
8.1/10
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky
Starring: Erland Josephson, Susan Fleetwood, Valerie Mairesse
Andrei Tarkovsky's epitaph, a dark and complex film about redemption and nuclear holocaust, filmed inexile from his native Russia in Sweden, and starr... Read more
The Turin Horse (2011)
7.8/10
Director: Bela Tarr
Starring: Janos Derzsi, Erika Bok, Mihaly Kormos, Ricsi
A film of long takes and few words, "The Turin Horse" is a mesmerising distillation of Tarr's cinema. It takes its cue from Nietzsche's famous encount... Read more