Editors’ Films of 2014
The best films of 2014, as selected by our editorial team.
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Reinventing the Reel: Grace of Monaco
Film critic Chuck Williamson gathers his thoughts on ‘Grace of Monaco’, Olivier Dahan’s much-maligned Cannes 2014 opener.
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Reinventing the Reel: Dukhtar
Ali Zubair writes on ‘Dukhtar’, “the latest in a new wave of Pakistani films driven primarily by the vision of filmmakers and their desire to tell stories beyond the usual commercial motivations”.
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Independent I: An Interview with Charles Pinion
Film critic Chuck Williamson interviews Charles Pinion — an ex-artist and punk singer turned transgressive filmmaker — about his methods, philosophy and new film ‘Aztec Blood’.
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Halloween: The TMS Alternative Horror Selection
The Missing Slate’s film team offer up their selection of alternative horror picks for Halloween.
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‘Nam in Hollywood (Part Two: War is Hell)
In the second part of a series on the Vietnam war in Hollywood, Michael Dodd explores how American cinema addressed ‘Nam itself and influenced the nation’s perspective on the war.
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VIFF ’14 Vol. 1: Amirpour, Perry, Godard and the Dardennes
Ben Hynes begins his coverage of the 2014 Vancouver International Film Festival with capsules on ‘Two Days, One Night’, ‘Goodbye to Language’, ‘A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night’ and ‘Listen Up Philip’.
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TIFF ’14: Foxcatcher + Wild
Christine Jin reviews ‘Foxcatcher’ and ‘Wild’ in her first dispatch from this year’s Toronto International Film Festival.
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Laughing Gas: The Close-Up and Racial Spectacle
Chuck Williamson revisits Edwin S. Porter’s ‘Laughing Gas’ (1907), a film which ‘traffics in racial spectacle.’
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‘Nam in Hollywood (Part One: The Beginning)
In the first part of a series on the Vietnam war in cinema, Michael Dodd traces the early history of this now instantly identifiable sub-genre.
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