Tessa Glinoer

It’s been 36 years since renowned Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky’s film Stalker was released, and it is as relevant today as it has ever been before. The film’s screenplay was heavily influenced by Roadside Picnic, written by science fiction authors and brothers Arkady and Boris Strugatsky.  In true Tarkovsky style,...

The Fisher King is mad. It renders you baffled, stifled, and in love with its unravelling story. You appreciate the ingenuity imbued into this film once you try to comprehend it: to understand the method in the madness. Warning: Spoilers follow! Directed by Terry Gilliam, who often draws on...

In anticipation for Christopher Nolan’s wormhole wandering in his pioneering sci-fi epic Interstellar, our writers have united on a voyage to discover some of the most ambitious films ever to have been made. War and Peace The production notes for the 1967 Best Foreign Language Picture winner, War and Peace...

Despite being 88, David Attenborough is more productive than ever. The first episode of the BBC’s new six-part series, Life Story, is slightly more sentimental than any of his previous nature documentaries. Instead of narrating the whole way through, Attenborough is seen getting involved with the animals, most notably with a...

Angelina Jolie-directed Unbroken is set during World War Two. This biographical picture tells the story of Louis Zamperini (1917-2014), an Olympic runner who survived a plane crash, then endured two and a half years in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp. Zamperini is played by upcoming star Jack O’Connell (who recently appeared in...

Set in 1917, Regeneration is a play examining the effects of shell shock on a group of young men. There is particular focus on two poets who would go on to dominate the war-poetry scene; Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen (the latter who wrote the deeply provocative poem Dulce...

First time director Yann Demange, (who does not yet even have a Wikipedia page), has achieved something with this film. This something is sustaining cinematic substance within simplicity. Set in Belfast in 1971, during the height of the violence during The Troubles (1968-98), a British soldier becomes separated from his...