Michael Brooke
All articles by Michael Brooke
Where to begin
Where to begin with Aki Kaurismäki
As his first film in six years, Fallen Leaves, touches down in cinemas, we plot a beginner’s path through the beguilingly bleak and droll universe of Finnish auteur Aki Kaurismäki.
By Michael Brooke
Where to begin with Aki Kaurismäki
Reviews
20 Days in Mariupol: harrowing on-the-ground reportage from the war in Ukraine
By Michael Brooke
Reviews
R.M.N. second-look review: Cristian Mungiu explores the collective psychology of a Transylvanian town
By Michael Brooke
Where to begin
Where to begin with Cristian Mungiu
By Michael Brooke
Where to begin
Where to begin with Krzysztof Kieślowski
By Michael Brooke
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The Silent Twins: this true-life tale is visually rich, musical, and not a little disturbing
By Michael Brooke
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Medieval: this blood-soaked Bohemian biopic spares no expense
By Michael Brooke
Where to begin
Where to begin with Peter Greenaway
By Michael Brooke
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Leave No Traces: impassioned, tragically pertinent political drama
By Michael Brooke
From the Sight and Sound archive
František Vláčil: out of the past
By Michael Brooke
Reviews
The Story of Looking gazes lovingly at the world through Mark Cousins’s eyes
By Michael Brooke
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Sophie: A Murder in West Cork presents the facts of an ongoing Irish investigation
By Michael Brooke
Features
“I’m only interested in honest stories”: people watching with Márta Mészáros
By Michael Brooke
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Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time is a brainteasingly ambiguous surgeon-stalker chiller
By Michael Brooke
Reviews
Dear Comrades! uncovers a Khrushchev-era Soviet state massacre
By Michael Brooke
From the Sight and Sound archive
Remake/remodel: 45 weird and wonderful alternative film cuts
By James Bell, Tom Charity and others
Reviews
We Are Who We Are lifts the lid on teenage identity crises
By Michael Brooke
Features
The Painted Bird and the cinema of Eastern Europe’s WWII bloodlands
By Michael Brooke
10 great
10 great modern black-and-white films from eastern Europe
By Michael Brooke
Lists
Forgotten treasures of the multiplex
By Ryan Gilbey, Nick James and others
Where to stream
Where to stream the best Eastern European films
By Michael Brooke
Features
Ian Holm obituary: an actor of many facets
By Michael Brooke
Features
Max von Sydow obituary: Swedish star whose filmography sets him among the immortals
By Michael Brooke
Features
Terry Jones obituary: the world’s funniest medieval historian
By Michael Brooke
Features
Lakes of courage: in praise of Ken Russell’s music films
By Michael Brooke
Features
The Ear is listening: Karel Kachyna and the resurrection of a banned classic
By Michael Brooke