Director David O. Russell has a knack for making films about socially dysfunctional families. His cynical, sardonic but perversely hilarious directorial debut Spanking the Monkey (1994) seized on the loneliness, disillusionment, alienation and incest of suburban life in small town
Some gifts have the power of stirring our deepest, most dormant memories by simultaneously conjuring the ghostly legacies of others. In writer/director Giuseppe Tornatore’s Cinema Paradiso (1989), Salvatore ‘Toto’ de Vita, a prominent Rome-based filmmaker, returns to his Sicilian hometown
In 2001 he burst onto the big screen as a boorish, uncouth, faux-pas prone gangster rapper from Staines in Ali G Indahouse. In 2006 he toured America as the sexist, homophobic and anti-Semitic Kazakhstani journalist Borat Sagdiyev in Borat: Cultural
When Danish Writer/Director Lars von Trier releases a new film, it is often marred by controversy – both for what transpires on the screen and off it. When Anti-Christ premiered at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival, it divided critics and audiences
‘To me, a detective is the most magical type of character, because mysteries are to me the greatest thing. Puzzles and things like this are thrilling, clues, things like finding money. Everything is a mystery and we’re all detectives.