Author Archives: Nick Chen

About Nick Chen

26-year-old journalist who's written for places like Total Film, Sight & Sound, Little White Lies, Complex, SFX Magazine, Dazed and Confused, Grolsch Film Works, London Calling, Vice, and a bunch of other places. Why pencils have razors. Based on a book. Screenwriter. Buzz word. London. Twitter: @halfacanyon. Lesser known Olsen brother. Multiple instances of words misused contemporaneously.

LFF14 Dare reviews: “Mommy”, “Goodbye to Language 3D”, “Hard to Be a God”, “White Bird in a Blizzard” and 2 others…

Posted on October 29, 2014 by Nick Chen

Films reviewed: “Goodbye to Language 3D”, “Hard to Be a God”, “Metamorphoses”, “Mommy” (pictured above), “Thou Wast Mild & Lovely” and “White Bird in a Blizzard”. London Film Festival 2014 was split into strands including Cult, Debate, First Feature, Galas, … Continue reading →

Posted in Film review, London Film Festival | Tagged Aleksei German, Christophe Honoré, Gregg Araki, Jean-Luc Godard, Josephine Decker, Xavier Dolan | 8 Comments

LFF14 Cult & Sonic reviews: “Eden”, “Tokyo Tribe”, “Björk: Biophilia Live”, “Spring”, “In Darkness We Fall” and 3 others…

Posted on October 28, 2014 by Nick Chen

Films reviewed: “Björk: Biophilia Live”, “Eden” (pictured above), “In Darkness We Fall”, “The Man in the Orange Jacket”, “Spring”, “Tokyo Tribe”, “The Town That Dreaded Sundown” and “When Animals Dream.” London Film Festival 2014 was split into strands including Dare, … Continue reading →

Posted in Film review, London Film Festival | Tagged Aaron Moorhead, Aik Karapetian, Alfonso Gomez-Rejon, Alfredo Montero, Jonas Alexander Arnby, Justin Benson, Mia Hansen-Løve, Nick Fenton, Peter Strickland, Sion Sono | 8 Comments

LFF14 Laugh reviews: “Dear White People”, “Wild Tales”, “Listen Up Philip”, “Land Ho!”, “If You Don’t, I Will” and 5 others…

Posted on October 27, 2014 by Nick Chen

Films reviewed: “1001 Grams”, “Appropriate Behaviour”, “Dear White People”, “Excuse My French”, “If You Don’t, I Will”, “Land Ho!”, “Listen Up Philip” (pictured above), “The Mule”, “Ping Pong Summer” and “Wild Tales”. London Film Festival 2014 was split into strands … Continue reading →

Posted in Film review, London Film Festival | Tagged Aaron Katz, Alex Ross Perry, Amr Salama, Angus Sampson, Bent Hamer, Damián Szifrón, Desiree Akhavan, Justin Simien, Martha Stephens, Michael Tully, Sophie Fillières, Tony Mahony | 7 Comments

LFF14 Debate, Thrill & First Feature reviews: “Rosewater”, “Camp X-Ray”, “The Tribe”, “The Face of an Angel” and 6 others…

Posted on October 25, 2014 by Nick Chen

Films reviewed: “’71”, “Camp X-Ray”, “The Face of an Angel”, “French Riviera”, “A Girl at My Door”, “El Niño”, “Rosewater”, “The Salvation”, “Self Made” (pictured above) and “The Tribe”. London Film Festival 2014 was split into strands including Cult, Dare, … Continue reading →

Posted in Film review, London Film Festival | Tagged André Téchiné, Daniel Monzón, French Riviera, Jon Stewart, July Jung, Kristian Levring, Michael Winterbottom, Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy, Peter Sattler, Shira Geffen, Yann Demange | 8 Comments

LFF14 Journey & Love reviews: “Casa Grande”, “10,000km”, “Hungry Hearts”, “The Way He Looks”, “3 Hearts” and 4 others…

Posted on October 24, 2014 by Nick Chen

Films reviewed: “3 Hearts”, “10,000 km” (pictured above), “Casa grande”, “Güeros”, “Hungry Hearts”, “The Way He Looks”, “Wild Life”, “The Wonders” and “X + Y”. London Film Festival 2014 was split into strands, with this blog post covering Journey and … Continue reading →

Posted in Film review, London Film Festival | Tagged Alice Rohrwacher, Alonso Ruizpalacios, Benoît Jacquot, Carlos Marques-Marcet, Cédric Kahn, Daniel Ribeiro, Fellipe Barbosa, Morgan Matthews, Saverio Costanzo | 7 Comments