All articles by Jonathan Romney – Page 9
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FeaturesBerlin 2022: Screen’s guide to the Panorama titles
The Berlinale unfolds this year as an in‑person event, while the European Film Market has been forced online for a second time.
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FeaturesBerlin 2022: Screen’s guide to the Encounters titles
Screen profiles the Competition, Encounters, Panorama and Specials strands.
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FeaturesBerlin 2022: Screen’s guide to the Competition titles
The Competition line-up includes new titles by Claire Denis, Phyllis Nagy, Rithy Panh, Hong Sangsoo, Francois Ozon and Denis Côté.
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Reviews‘Drifting Petals’: Rotterdam Review
Rotterdam regular Clara Law returns with a haunting lyrical elegy
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Reviews‘Corsini Sings Blomberg & Maciel’: Rotterdam Review
Mariano Llinas unpicks the music during a re-recording of the classic Argentinian LP
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Reviews‘Dos Estaciones’: Sundance Review
The machinations of a Mexican tequila factory make for compelling dramatic intrigue
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Reviews‘We Met In Virtual Reality’: Sundance Review
Joe Hunting explores the freedoms offered and questions posed by virtual reality
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Reviews‘Mars One’: Sundance Review
Vivid, Black working-class drama from Brazil has niche breakout appeal
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Reviews‘Tantura’: Sundance Review
Israeli documentary investigates controversial events at the Arab village of Tantura from 1948
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FeaturesFilms of the year 2021: Jonathan Romney
A longtime contributor to Screen, Romney also writes for Film Comment, Sight & Sound and The Observer, and teaches at the UK’s National Film and Television School.
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Reviews‘Mr Landsbergis’: IDFA Review
Sergei Loznitsa compiles an exhaustive account of the struggle for Lithuania’s independence from the USSR
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Reviews‘Pilgrims’: Thessaloniki Review
Laurynas Bareisa’s spare drama explores a mysterious, traumatic crime full of violence and despair
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Reviews‘The Four Walls’: Tokyo Review
Bahman Ghobadi delivers an eccentric mixture of tragedy and farce in this tale of a musician who longs to see the sea
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Reviews‘Payback’: Tokyo Review
Brillante Ma Mendoza explores political corruption in this hip-hop-fuelled crime drama
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Reviews‘You Are Ceausescu To Me’: Doclisboa Review
A group of young people gather to play the infamous Romanian dictator in Sebastian Mihailescu’s experimental documentary
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Reviews‘No Time To Die’: Review
Daniel Craig exits shaken and stirred: now audiences will have their say
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Reviews‘Carajita’: San Sebastian Review
Concise and compelling film from ‘Tigre’ duo wins a special mention at San Sebastian New Directors
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Reviews‘Who’s Stopping Us’: San Sebastian Review
Jonás Trueba’s sprawling documentary takes in five years in the lives of Spanish high-school students
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Reviews‘Aloners’: San Sebastian Review
South Korean writer-director Hong Sung-eun shines a knowing light on modern urban solitude
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Reviews‘Blue Moon’: San Sebastian Review
Romanain filmmaker Alina Grigore makes a memorable debut with this sprawling dysfunctional family drama