Tag Archives: Tilda Swinton

DVD review | We Need To Talk About Kevin

Posted on 27 February 2012 by Jason Best

Unaccountably overlooked by the Oscars this year, Tilda Swinton delivers one of the finest performances of her career as an American woman grappling with grief and guilt in the aftermath of a terrible crime committed by her teenage son in We … Continue reading →

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The Oscars 2012 – Who will win? Who should win? Who’s missing?

Posted on 24 February 2012 by Jason Best

Who’s going to make the biggest noise at this year’s Oscars? Will silence prove golden for hot favourite The Artist? Will The Help clean up?  Or will The Descendants inherit all the glory? With the clock ticking down to Sunday … Continue reading →

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Film review | We Need To Talk About Kevin – Bad seed or bad mom? Tilda’s Eva is left in agony

Posted on 22 October 2011 by Jason Best

Tilda Swinton delivers one of the finest performances of her career as an American woman grappling with grief and guilt in the aftermath of a terrible crime committed by her teenage son in We Need To Talk About Kevin, director … Continue reading →

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I Am Love – Grand passions: Forbidden love amid Italy’s upper class

Posted on 14 September 2010 by Jason Best

A lush romantic melodrama that harks back to the heady days of Visconti and Antonioni, I Am Love is blessed with a contemporary star who pulls off the film’s grand passions magnifcently. Tilda Swinton plays Emma, a Russian-born woman who … Continue reading →

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At the Cinema | I Am Love – Ice queen Tilda melts in passionate Italian melodrama

Posted on 9 April 2010 by Jason Best

With her upper-crust poise and aloof beauty, Tilda Swinton looks perfectly at home in the elegant patrician world depicted in Italian director Luca Guadagnino’s remarkable film I Am Love (Io sono l’amore). When the movie opens, we find her supervising … Continue reading →

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Pete’s Peek | Derek Jarman’s Edward II on DVD

Posted on 2 March 2010 by peter

Its 1990, Margaret Thatcher was on her way down, but the Tories were still strangling Britain as well as the human rights of gays and lesbians throughout the land. Visionary director Derek Jarman, who was living with AIDS at the … Continue reading →

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News Hound | 2 September 2009

Posted on 2 September 2009 by Adele Craciun

Movie Talk sniffs around the back alleys of the internet to bring you the latest showbiz news – so you don’t have to get your paws dirty… The bang. comedy theater in LA is putting on a Meryl Streep tribute … Continue reading →

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News Muse – The Screen Machine: Tilda Swinton’s travelling film festival

Posted on 7 August 2009 by Adele Craciun

You Crystal Palace lot sure got fired up after reading Couch Potato’s blog on the importance of local cinemas. I do hope you win your bureaucratic battle and get the Rialto back. There is something very precious indeed about indy … Continue reading →

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Out on DVD | Aria – 10 operas + 10 directors = much more than posh music video

Posted on 17 June 2009 by Jason Best

Back in the late 1980s, producer Don Boyd came up with the quixotic idea of collaring ten renowned directors and letting them loose on the world of opera, instructing them each to chose a favourite musical segment to illustrate on … Continue reading →

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Out on DVD | Burn After Reading

Posted on 9 February 2009 by Jason Best

  When a computer disc containing the memoirs of a disgruntled CIA analyst falls into the hands of a pair of dim gym workers, the pair reckon they can take advantage of this unexpected windfall, but their half-baked scheme quickly … Continue reading →

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