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Jan 17, 2025 | 
thepeoplesmovies.com | Ibrahim Azam
Oscar nominee Carey Mulligan stars in James Griffiths’ The Ballad of Wallis Island, as the first trailer for the Sundance 2025 official selection is released. The film follows Herb McGwyer (Tom Basden), a musician hired to perform a gig on Wallis Island by lottery winner Charles (Tim Key), who lives alone on the island.
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Oct 17, 2024 | 
bfi.org.uk | Josh Slater-Williams |Ibrahim Azam |Michael Chanan |Michal Leszczylowski
‘There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there be any remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come after.’— Ecclesiastes 1:2The darkness was so intense that July night that it seemed impassable and time might have stopped. Only the music streaming from the car radio and the monotonous sound of the engine were proof that time did flow. I found the Chalons-sur-Marne railway station in the nick of time.
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Oct 14, 2024 | 
bfi.org.uk | Josh Slater-Williams |Ibrahim Azam |Michael Chanan |Emily Maskell
Sean Baker, director of the Palme d’Or winning Anora, spoke to the LFF audience about wildly differing reactions to his films, and why ‘non-professional actor’ is a damaging term.
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Oct 14, 2024 | 
bfi.org.uk | Ibrahim Azam |Michael Chanan |Emily Maskell |Stuart Isaac Burnside
At his LFF Screen Talk, the Dune director spoke of the formative influence of Steven Spielberg, the female characters at the centre of the Dune franchise, and the scar that reminds him not to act. 14 October 2024For a filmmaker who eschews heavy dialogue in his work, Denis Villeneuve certainly has a way with words.
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Oct 11, 2024 | 
dmovies.org | Ibrahim Azam |RaMell Ross |Christopher Greenslate
Ziba (Deba Hakmat) is a well-kept and determined British-Iranian teen. It is A-level results day, and she’s anxiously waiting for the outcome. Ziba’s stellar grades align with her aspirations to study astronomy at King’s College London, but a recent life-changing diagnosis thwart her greatest desires.Seemingly unperturbed by her ill health, Ziba plans a day of catharsis with her friends, culminating in viewing a meteor shower on Primrose Hill.
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Nov 22, 2023 | 
bfi.org.uk | Paul Cuff |Lisa Kerrigan |Nasheed Qamar Faruqi |Ibrahim Azam
The epic saga of Gance’s 1927 masterwork – both its original production and the painstaking, decades-long efforts to reconstruct it from surviving prints – displays some of the fearless single-mindedness and megalomaniac ambition of the emperor himself. From our December 2016 issue. 22 November 2023By Paul CuffNews, reviews and archive features every Friday, and information about our latest magazine once a month.
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Nov 17, 2023 | 
bfi.org.uk | Ibrahim Azam |Xavier Alexandre Pillai |Philip Horne |Nasheed Qamar Faruqi
It was a rainy London afternoon in 1985 when I first saw Black Narcissus, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s 1947 masterpiece – this beautiful, troubling movie that I love, admire and doubt. My impressions of the film have evolved since that first viewing as a seven-year-old girl in her great-aunt’s East Finchley lounge. I have learned more – about the Archers (as Powell and Pressburger branded themselves and their team of collaborators), about colonialism and about movies.
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Nov 17, 2023 | 
bfi.org.uk | Ibrahim Azam |Nasheed Qamar Faruqi |Xavier Alexandre Pillai |Philip Horne
The new film from Todd Haynes confronts us with the private reverberations of our appetite for celebrity scandal, says Ibrahim Azam, one of the critics on this year's LFF Critics Mentorship Programme. 17 November 2023By Ibrahim AzamSince the advent of the tabloid, we’ve all become addicted to sensationalism. Scandals sell, especially when they concern our beloved celebrities. They scratch that itch of curiosity we all feel about famous lives.
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Oct 29, 2023 | 
medium.com | Ibrahim Azam
Whilst the superbly eerie video game series managed to shock and frighten its way to the horror hall of fame, the Five Nights at Freddy's big screen adaptation fails in every way to even mildly startle its audience. Directed by Emma Tammi and co-written by the game's creator Scott Cawthon, the film follows a down-and-out security guard who takes a job at an abandoned pizza restaurant for kids.
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Oct 22, 2023 | 
medium.com | Ibrahim Azam
Introductions are wasted on a seminal talent like Martin Scorsese, so I won't bother with one here. What makes the director so (rightfully) revered is not only his knack for bringing out the best in his cast or a keen eye for what makes a mesmerising shot, but his willingness to experiment, take risks and push boundaries. It would be unfair to say these qualities are not present in his latest work, Killers of the Flower Moon.
