Tag: taharrahim

NAPOLEON Review: Ridley Scott's Engrossing, Enthralling Anti-Epic

Joaquin Phoenix, Vanessa Kirby and director Ridley Scott star.

THE SERPENT Exclusive Clip: Guns And Cars, Cars And Guns!

Gia Skova's indie action flick The Serpent is out now from Vertical Entertainment. If you have not checked it out yet and need a little incentive perhaps this exclusive clip will prompt you to check it out.   Agent Lucinda...

THE MAURITANIAN: Blu-ray Giveaway

Universal Pictures Home Entertainment is releasing Kevin Macdonald's drama thriller The Mauritanian on Blu-ray and DVD on May 11th. Screen Anarchy has three (3) Blu-rays to give away to our readers in the U.S. Look for details down below on...

Exclusive Interview Footage: Tahar Rahim Talks THE MAURITANIAN

Jodie Foster stars in The Mauritanian as sage defense attorney Nancy Hollander, who takes on the real-life case of Mohamedou Ould Slahi (Tahar Rahim). Held for years, without charge or trial, in a detention camp on the island of Cuba,...

Review: THE MAURITANIAN, The Slow and the Infuriated

Jodie Foster, Tahar Rahim, Shailene Woodley and Benedict Cumberbatch star in director Kevin Macdonald's adaptation of a best-selling memoir.

Review: In Katell Quillévéré's HEAL THE LIVING, Heart Wins Over Brain

Quillévéré understands those connections and implies in Heal the Living in a cinematic way. Every movement in the film has to do with being alive. Every stillness implies death. She understands that death is part of life. We lose somebody close and feel like time is standing still- the camera movement becomes static. But we go on living again- and the camera moves again.

Cannes 2015 Review: THE ANARCHISTS Cares Not For Your Bourgeois Cinematic Ideals

How do you say "awards-bait" in French? Take two of the hottest young stars in France, team them up with a rising star director, and then give them a period topic with obvious shades of hot button current events. The...

Review: Asghar Farhadi's THE PAST, An Intense, Mesmerizing Excavation Of Secrets And Lies

Those who saw Asghar Farhadi's previous film, A Separation, already know that though the Iranian filmmaker specializes in two-plus hour family dramas, his movies are as intense and absorbing as any thriller out there. Like the aforementioned film, The Past...

Julien Leclerq Delivers Classy Thrills In Full Trailer And New Posters For French Crime Pic GIBRALTAR

A tropical environment, plentiful guns and bricks of hashish. Other than actors Gilles Lellouche and Tahar Rahim these are the primary factors at play in Julien Leclerq's Gibraltar, a stylish based-on-a-true-story crime thriller that - if the materials thus far...

Cannes 2013 Review: Asghar Farhadi's THE PAST Is An Intense, Mesmerizing Excavation Of Secrets And Lies

Those who saw Asghar Farhadi's previous film A Separation already know that though the Iranian filmmaker specializes in two-plus hour family dramas, his movies are as intense and absorbing as any thriller out there. Like the aforementioned film, The Past...

Win Jacques Audiard's Prison Drama A PROPHET On BluRay

Jacques Audiard's stunning prison drama A Prophet hits DVD and BluRay tomorrow and the fine folk at Sony Pictures Classics have offered up a copy of the film on BluRay for some lucky ScreenAnarchy reader. You want it? Email me...