My Cultural Life - London

Tarsem Singh follows the critical flop The Cell with a fairytale for grown-ups that shows a more thoughtful side to the director.  The Fall is set in a Los Angeles hospital in 1915, where a chirpy Spanish girl befriends a patient in the men’s ward, and manages to dodge doctors and nurses in her efforts to cheer him up and hear more of his story – the ‘epic’ as he calls it.

Novelist Philipe Claudel's first movie is an intense character driven drama with outstanding performances.

The mostly hotly anticipated film of the year, with twilight screenings at the IMAX selling out weeks before the film’s release, The Dark Knight looks set to light up the summer with the crime thriller fireworks of its stellar cast. Remember the adrenaline that was pumping through your veins during The Bourne Ultimatum? Times that by five and you’ll have some idea of what to expect.

Mike Leigh’s latest film, 'Happy Go Lucky', has been received with enthusiasm as review pages proclaim: Mike Leigh does happy! Karen Ball wondered if she was the only film viewer who found the film’s heroine annoying. But then she decided, that may have been the whole point...

‘You, the Living’ is not so much a comedy as a ‘glumedy,’ that is a film which primarily sets out to be funny but invests its laughs with a pervading sense of doom and gloom. The film, written and directed by Roy Andersson, is from Sweden and has a very Scandinavian sensibility about it. Whether it is down to the long nights or the high price of alcohol, Scandinavia tends to be especially good at making light of misery.