by Ambrose Heron on 30/03/2009
DVD PICKS Waltz With Bashir (Artificial Eye): One of the most remarkable films to be released in the last year deals with the memory of Israeli soldiers involved in the invasion of Lebanon in the early 1980s and the 1982 Sabra and Shatila massacre. Directed by Ari Folman, it examines his own experiences on that mission and the struggle to remember [...]
by Ambrose Heron on 21/11/2008
Blindness is the film adaptation of the 1995 novel by José Saramago about a society suffering an epidemic of blindness. Directed by Fernando Meirelles it stars Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo , Danny Glover and Gael Garcia Bernal as a group of people struggling to survive amidst the chaos that ensues. In recent years Fernando has directed such acclaimed films as City of God (2002) and The Constant Gardener (2005) and I recently [...]
by Ambrose Heron on 03/10/2008
Blindness is released in UK cinemas on Friday 21st November
by Ambrose Heron on 14/05/2008
The opening film of this year’s festival was Blindness, directed by Fernando Meirelles (City of God, The Constant Gardener) and starring Julianne Moore and Mark Ruffalo. Based on José Saramago’s 1995 novel it is about an epidemic of blindness in a modern city. Here is a summary of some of the critical reaction: Jeffrey Wells [...]