Nessa Johnston

17 articles

Blank City

Perhaps the GSA students present at the screening will have come away from it thinking that maybe, just maybe, economic collapse can be fun sometimes.

1 March 2011

Gagarin Way

On a grand scale tenth anniversary tour, Rapture Theatre Company offer a politically relevant and tense tale that's perhaps a little over-shadowed by farce.

28 February 2011

Submarino

This isn't exactly a feelgood movie, but it's nice to see dodgy, disreputable people depicted as credible human beings rather than irredeemable scum.

28 February 2011

Oranges and Sunshine

A heart-wrenching and involving true story that's let down by a clunky, mechanical screenplay and dialogue that has the feel of a Guardian feature article.

25 February 2011

A Screaming Man (Un homme qui crie)

An exemplary job of showing rather than telling, a slow pace that simply heightens the sense of ennui at the heart of this complex film.

25 February 2011

Incendies

A masterful piece of cinematic storytelling, capturing the pains and hypocrisies of civil war and sectarian conflict.

25 February 2011

Apnea

Complex, poetic, haunting and original, Apnea is an assured and striking piece of work.

20 February 2011

Attenberg

From the producer of Dogtooth, another Greek oddity to add to the pile...

20 February 2011

Cave of Forgotten Dreams 3D

Werner Herzog + 3D = A definite highlight of the Glasgow Film Festival, as well as being just the ticket for the intellectually snobbish 3D cinema skeptics...

20 February 2011