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Film picks: Babel | La Ciénaga | Prizzi's Honor

Babel 5.35pm, Sky Movies Indie (Alejandro González Iñárritu, 2007) A rifle is fired in Morocco, and the shock waves reverberate around the world, through several families - Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett are the tourists at the centre of the storm when the latter is badly wounded by the random bullet. The contrived plotting is hard to swallow, but it's still powerful stuff. La Ciénaga 10.55pm, Film4 (Lucrecia Martel, 2001) It's hot, up in the back-of-beyond that is northern ... (read more)


Tags: La Cienaga  Brad Pitt  Cate Blanchett  Lucrecia Martel  Graciela Borges  John Huston  Jack Nicholson  Anjelica Huston  Kathleen Turner  TV  2001  November 26th, 2008

Peter Bradshaw: How I lost my head for The Headless Woman

The Discovering Latin America Film Festival or DLAFF starts this Thursday in London, and there's a very particular reason for booking tickets. This festival is to showcase a remarkable film which when first shown at Cannes was variously jeered at for being a boring muddle, or hailed as compelling and inspired. Every time I think about it, I drift further into the latter category. Even if it isn't a work of genius, I'm inclined to say it's the work of a genius, or at the very least one of the most ... (read more)


Tags: Peter Bradshaw  Lucrecia Martel  The Holy Girl  La Cienaga  Tate Modern  Nick James  November 24th, 2008