Clouds Of Sils Maria (15)
Juliette Binoche, soon to tread the boards in the Edinburgh International Festival, stars alongside Kristen Stewart and Chloe Grace Moretz as an actress reprising her most famous stage role, only this time playing the older woman. Taking the role she once filled is a young Hollywood starlet (Moretz). A psychological drama from director Oliver Assayas, it saw Stewart become the first American actress to win a Cesar, the French version of the Oscars.
Man With A Movie Camera (U)
Dziga Vertov's peerless 1929 documentary-essay is given the Special Edition Blu-Ray treatment in this BFI release, which comes with a range of extras including short films with newly-commissioned electronic soundtracks by shadowy experimentalists Mordant Music. It's a perennial favourite, of course, but what tips the balance in this release is Michael Nyman's wonderfully glossy score.
A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night (18)
Billed by its director as “the first Iranian vampire Spaghetti Western” (will there be a second?), this 2014 film from Anglo-American-Iranian Ana Lily Amirpour was a hit at Sundance and is based on her own graphic novel. Filmed in California, it's set in an imaginary Iranian ghost town called Bad City. A beguiling and promising debut.
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