Articles by Scott Tavener

Leatherheads

George Clooney

PUBLISHED Sep 26, 2008

Ostensibly a whimsical sports tale, Leatherheads has higher aspirations than the average football farce — it’s not Unnecessary Roughness go...

Sukiyaki Western Django

Takashi Miike

PUBLISHED Sep 19, 2008

Inexplicably made in English with an almost entirely Japanese cast, Sukiyaki Western Django blends a wealth of inspirations, many overtly r...

Star Wars: The Clone Wars

Dave Filoni

PUBLISHED Aug 14, 2008

Star Wars Episodes I to III crumpled under the weight of expectations, aiming for grandness but achieving convolution and an ironic sligh...

Brideshead Revisited

Julian Jarrold

PUBLISHED Jul 24, 2008

Taking cinematic scissors to Evelyn Waugh’s deceptively complicated tome, this latest adaptation of Brideshead Revisited shuffles its synta...

Love Songs

Christophe Honore

PUBLISHED Jun 26, 2008

Writer/director Christophe Honoré (Ma mere, Dans Paris) has built a career out of circumventing expectations. Eagerly merging genres, he bo...

The Smiths: The Queen Is Dead: A Classic Album Under Review

PUBLISHED Jun 18, 2008

A scene from Bryan Forbes’s 1962 film, The L Shaped Room, begins the arduously titled, unauthorised documentary, The Smiths: The Queen is D...

The Witnesses

Andre Techine

PUBLISHED Jun 6, 2008

Like Rainblo gum, The Witnesses (Les Témoins) begins robustly but rapidly loses gusto, ending well chewed, spread out and unfulfilling. Set...

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Julian Schnabel

PUBLISHED May 23, 2008

At the age of 42, French Elle Editor Jean-Dominique Bauby suffered a stroke that left him completely incapacitated, save for his left eye....