Wendy Ide

‘Salvation’ review: Emin Alper weaves timely tale of prophecy, paranoia and blood feuds in rural Turkey The director's second Berlin competition title follows two warring clans in the Turkish mountains

Another highlight in Berlin's competition, Emin Alper's tale of a Turkish blood feud, Salvation. www.screendaily.com/reviews/salv...

‘Rose’ review: Sandra Hüller is phenomenal in arresting character study set in 17th-century Germany Markus Schleinzer's black-and-white Berlin Competition title also stars impressive newcomer Caro Braun

My review of Rose: My favourite so far from Berlin's competition, and further proof that Sandra Hüller is one of the finest actors currently working.
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‘Mouse’ review: Rich, bittersweet US coming-of-age drama from ‘Saint Frances’ filmmakers The latest work from Kelly O'Sullivan and Alex Thompson bows in Berlin Panorama

First of my Berlin reviews. Very impressed by Mouse, from the team behind Saint Frances www.screendaily.com/reviews/mous...

I may have to watch it again.

It has no plot and songs that are both instantly forgettable and teeth-grindingly naff. It’s blatantly sexist. Cliff drives a hovercraft up the Birmingham and Fazeley Canal at one point.

I know we use the description “worst movie ever made’ in a fairly profligate manner but I just watched Take me High, the 1973 film that finished Cliff Richard’s acting career. And holy shit, it’s bad.

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Heading to Tromso today for the film festival. Thermals packed. Hoping for great cinema and - just maybe - a glimpse of aurora borealis.

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Hamnet is an earthy, grounded tale of grief | The Observer Jessie Buckley is a force of nature as Shakespeare’s witchy wife in an adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s novel about the tragedy that inspired Hamlet

Hamnet is an earthy, grounded tale of grief.

Jessie Buckley is a force of nature as Shakespeare’s witchy wife in an adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s novel about the tragedy that inspired Hamlet.

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First time watch tonight: Straight Time (1978) starring a never better Dustin Hoffman as a recently released ex-con. How have I never seen this before? It’s phenomenal.

Silver tote, scented candle, Polaroid camera, matches: top swag

Big thanks to Mubi for a New Year celebration kit, to promote Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s series The New Years. I’m a huge fan of Sorogoyen’s terrific drama The Beasts, so this is top of my watch list.

Delicatessen is the film that springs to mind, the rooftop saw and cello duet.

Ah! Thank you - I didn’t realise that there are two instruments that make such an eerie, evocative sound. The music really is stunning.

So proud to send my kid off to an early Halloween party in a Babadook costume. I feel that this is a film education win all round.

‘Endless Cookie’ review: Annecy’s Contrechamp winner is an inventive portrait of Canadian half-brothers Seth Scriver and Peter Scriver's animated documentary is a "picture infused with love"

Also recommended for LFF animation heads, Endless Cookie www.screendaily.com/reviews/endl...

’ChaO’ review: Anarchic Japanese anime imagines a fantastical near-future Shanghai Animator Yasuhiro Aoki makes his debut with this energetic tale of human-merpeople relationships

Animation fans at LFF: check out the gloriously batshit ChaO www.screendaily.com/reviews/chao...

‘Divine Comedy’ review: Ali Asgari skewers Iranian cultural restrictions in witty satire Charming performances carry Asgari's fifth feature about a fictional director attempting to screen his latest film in Tehran

Another Venice review: Ali Asgari’s cine-literate satire Divine Comedy.

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It's broader in comic tone than his previous films, but it works. Hugely enjoyable, achingly stylish

‘The Tale Of Silyan’ review: Tamara Kotevska follows ‘Honeyland’ with portrait of Macedonian farmer Lyrical hybrid documentary charts the highs and lows of rural life in modern Macedonia

Honeyland director Tamara Kotevska returns with the lovely, lyrical Tale of Silyan www.screendaily.com/reviews/the-...

‘Hijra’ review: Family bonds are tested when a teenage girl vanishes in accomplished Saudi drama Saudi filmmaker Shahad Ameen's story centres on a grandmother and granddaughter in search of their missing relative

Me on the Saudi drama Hijra www.screendaily.com/reviews/hijr...

‘No Other Choice’ review: Park Chan-wook’s economic satire is a darkly comic treat The director's Venice Competition title stars Lee Byung-hun as a family man who turns to desperate measures

My pick of the Venice Competion so far: Park Chan-wook's No Other Choice www.screendaily.com/reviews/no-o...

‘Broken English’ review: Marianne Faithfull’s life explored in inventive documentary with starry cast Directors Jane Pollard and Iain Forsyth have assembled collaborators including Tilda Swinton and George MacKay

Me on Broken English www.screendaily.com/reviews/brok...

‘Motor City’ review: Seventies Detroit revenge thriller proves more style than substance Shailene Woodley stars in Potsy Ponciroli's schlocky, dialogue-light Venice Spotlight title

Motor City. Yikes www.screendaily.com/reviews/moto...

‘The Testament Of Ann Lee’ review: Amanda Seyfried is 18th-century preacher in audacious musical Mona Fastvold and co-writer Brady Corbet's uneven biopic of the eponymous Shaker founder bows in Venice Competition

Me on The Testament Of Ann Lee www.screendaily.com/reviews/the-...

‘Late Fame’ review: Greta Lee and Willem Dafoe shine in pleasing New York Story The second feature from Kent Jones bows in Venice Horizons

A few of my Screendaily Venice reviews: loved Kent Jones' Late Fame www.screendaily.com/reviews/late...

Wendy Ide’s pick of other films: Friendship, Four Letters... A new comedy starring Tim Robinson and Paul Rudd is a grotesquely deformed mutation of the bromance genre

Also out this week - me on Friendship, Smurfs, Gold Songs and Four Letters of Love
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Harvest is an atmospheric, hallucinogenic story of displa... This brooding adaptation of Jim Crace’s Booker-shortlisted novel about a village imperilled by outsiders is uncomfortably topical

Not for everyone, certainly, but I am a fan of Athina Rachel Tsangari's Harvest, a heady, muddy story of the end of a community

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František Klišík from ‘Better Go Mad in the Wild’ dies just after film’s Karlovy Vary win Klišík drowned in a pond just hours after the film won the Karlovy Vary Grand Prix, according to Czech media reports.

Gutted to read this. www.screendaily.com/news/frantie...

‘Out Of Love’ review: Camille Cottin stars as a French woman flung into motherhood Nathan Ambrosioni's intimate drama premieres in Karlovy Vary

Camille Cottin and top tier child actors are the main reason to watch Out of Love www.screendaily.com/reviews/out-...