Film: The Five Best Revivals

FILM: THE FIVE BEST REVIVALS
The Independent – United Kingdom
Feb 05, 2005

1
Every Little Thing & Nicolas Philibert in conversation (today 6.45pm &
8.45pm NFT1)
The inmates and staff of a French psychiatric institution stage their
annual theatrical experience in this documentary from the much-lauded
director of tre et Avoir, interviewed onstage after the screening.
2
Pierlequin (Fri 8.30pm Lumiere)
The first season of Armenian films in the UK for 25 years kicks off
with this award-winning, low-budget love story about a clown, made by
Tigran Xmalian who will be present at the screening.
3
Chain (Tue 6.40pm Curzon Soho)
This first feature by New York film-maker Jem Cohen, which describes
the world as one corporate shopping mall, was shot in seven countries
and took more than six years to make.
4
Pawel Pawlikowski Quadruple Bill (Sun 2.30pm Riverside)
The poet Yerofeev, a war report in Bosnia, a trip round St Petersburg
with the great-grandson of Dostoevsky, and Russian nationalist
Vladimir Zhirinovsky – all the subjects of documentaries by the
talented, UK-based director.
5
The Minders & The Liberace of Baghdad (Wed 7pm Barbican)
Sean McAllister presents two of his documentaries from Iraq – pre and
post the US-led invasion. The first concerns Saddam’s minders sent to
“look after” journalists; the second an eccentric former
concert-pianist now scratching a living in Iraqi bars.