![]() "I made one great mistake in my life," he says in the trailer. The film mixes archive footage with dramatisations, in which Einstein is played by Aidan McArdle, and the dialogue is taken directly from things the scientist said or wrote. Directed by Anthony Philipson, Einstein and the Bomb explores his horror at the rise of Nazism in Germany, his emigration to the United States in 1933, the letter he co-signed to the US president, recommending that they begin research into nuclear weaponry, and the aftermath of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Now a Netflix documentary delves further into Einstein's feelings about the Manhattan Project. ![]() Some of the key scenes in Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer involve Albert Einstein (Tom Conti), including the one that brings the film to its blood-freezing conclusion. Released on 9 February in the US, 14 February in the UK and 16 February in Ireland Yet "the focus… is the food: what it means, what it sounds like, what it feels like, how it sizzles, how the taste can prompt emotions so profound in the taster that it can't be put into words." "An instant candidate for one of the greatest culinary films of all time, The Taste of Things is a romance at its heart," says Alissa Wilkinson at Vox. ![]() The pair have been happily in love for years, but Dodin may have to take his gastronomie to new heights if he is ever to persuade Eugénie to marry him. He spends his days preparing gourmet feasts for his friends, with the invaluable help of a loyal cook, Eugénie (Juliette Binoche). Tran Anh Hung's warm-hearted French drama is set in 1885 in the idyllic rural kitchen of Dodin Bouffant (Benoit Magimel), the so-called "Napoleon of the culinary arts". Released on 7 February in the US, 9 February in Ireland and 23 February in the UKĪnyone with an appetite for "foodie films" should tuck into this most lavish of cinematic banquets. It's also disarming in its absence of cynicism, unmistakably the work of a mature filmmaker thinking long and hard about the things that make life meaningful." "The director has crafted a film of deceptive simplicity," says David Rooney at the Hollywood Reporter, "observing the tiny details of a routine existence with such clarity, soulfulness and empathy that they build a cumulative emotional power almost without you noticing. It has been nominated for best international feature at the Oscars, and its star, Koji Yakusho, won the best actor prize at the Cannes Film Festival last year. Released on 2 February in the US & 16 February in the UK, Ireland and SwedenĪ quiet character study of a middle-aged man who cleans Tokyo's public toilets, and who spends his spare time tending plants and reading paperbacks? It may not sound like a must-see, but Perfect Days is a delightful return to form by Wim Wenders, the 78-year-old director of Paris, Texas and The Buena Vista Social Club. It should stand the test of time almost as well as its rugged hero." Arcel has "crafted a kind of Danish The Last of the Mohicans that's full of passion and political conviction. ![]() "The Promised Land makes for a gripping man-versus-wilderness survival story with unmistakable political undertones, but it's also nimble enough to allow romance to blossom under its slate-grey skies," says Phil de Semleyn in Time Out. But if the heath itself weren't hostile enough, he also has to contend with a spiteful local aristocrat (Simon Bennebjerg) who doesn't want this scruffy soldier encroaching on his territory. His plan is to cultivate a tract of supposedly unfarmable scrubland in honour of King Frederik V. The always-brilliant Mads Mikkelsen stars as a retired army captain who dreams of being seen as a nobleman. The Promised Land didn't get any Oscar nominations, but if Nicolaj Arcel's sweeping, gritty-yet-accessible 18th-Century epic had been in English rather than Danish, it would have won awards aplenty. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |