The film critic and painter Manny Farber wrote jazzy, freestyle appreciations of cinema, more concerned with moments and gestures than stories or directors. A lover of slapstick, B-movies and Chuck Jones cartoons, his best-known legacy is a...

A series of short film postcards, with the filmmaker using their camera to get under the skin of a place and explore their own response to it. Green Path Ahead of You Me Him Her Us Them and All (dir: NaoKo Takahashi) has a mouthful of a...

Joy was last seen a few days ago, walking across the park towards the woods in a yellow coat. One of her class-mates at college, Helen, is asked to play the role of Joy in a police reconstruction. As time goes on she develops a strong...

Three very different half-hour films combine to create an enjoyably skewed portrait of contemporary Tokyo, more satisfying than many anthology films. Gondry’s piece is based on a comic-strip by his partner Gabrielle Bell, and concerns...

A flock of sheep are slowly herded along a hillside. A bale of hay gets wrapped in black plastic. A dog watches a tractor disappear in the distance. A choir practice. A mobile library. This documentary portrait of a Welsh farming community...

In 1949 John Andrews was given a second-hand Pathe 9.5mm cine camera for his 15th birthday. He and a few other boys in the neighbourhood decided to start up a youth-club, using John’s garage as a studio and filming around the area in...

Pale 12-year old Oskar (Hedebrant) lives in the suburbs of Stockholm with his mother, and dreams of taking revenge on the bullies at school.  Eli (Leandersson), a girl of the same age, arrives in the neighbourhood with a mysterious...