Xavier Dolan

Though inherently an incredibly manipulative medium, film becomes doubly so when scores and soundtracks play a prominent role; the site of intersection between image and sound is by turns cynically prescriptive and sentimentally liberating. From the taut strings of Psycho (1960) to the exhilarating rush of Bowie’s ‘Modern Love’...

‘Five films and only 26 years old!’, ‘The new Orson Welles!’, ‘Bad boy queer icon!’ French-Canadian filmmaker and actor Xavier Dolan might be sick to death of these labels, but the title of enfant terrible is set to follow him around for the rest of his life. A child...

Ambition. The driving force of all the arts, ambition was as much the subject of 2014’s cinematic output as it was the modus operandi. From the pseudo-philosophical posturing of Interstellar to the Achilles heel of tragic protagonists (Inside Llewyn Davis, Starry Eyes), ambition has proved a millstone just as...