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Coming out the gate with his most personal and career topping achievement as a writer and director, Kenneth Branagh’s “Belfast” is a touching and moving portrait of childhood and family and ...
Everything that works in “Belfast” keeps the movie’s superficialities and lower-grade sentiment at bay — if not every step of the way, then at least every other step. I&#821… ...
It's a clever but secondhand reference in a movie that never quite finds its own point of view. All art may be autobiographical, but Belfast is a reminder that not all autobiography is necessarily ...
New nonprofit revives Colonial, giving Belfast its movie theater back. After going dark for a year, the screens at Belfast's historic Colonial Theatre will light up again this month.
Editor's note: This segment was rebroadcast on March 1, 2022. Find that audio here. Actor-director Sir Kenneth Branagh’s new film centers around a working-class North Belfast family in the 1960s ...
Belfast is an absolutely gorgeous movie to look at. Haris Zambarloukos’ cinematography is beautiful. The black-and-white photography is elevated with pops of color in Buddy’s movies and ...
Halfway through “Belfast,” Sir Kenneth Branagh’s deeply personal cinematic memoir of growing up in Northern Ireland during The Troubles, Branagh’s child avatar, Buddy (newcomer Jude Hill ...
Why ‘Belfast’ Cinematographer Added Splashes of Color to the Movie’s Black-and-White World. Wrap Magazine ... symbolized by the movies in this example, was in color.
“Belfast” was not my favorite movie of 2021 (not that anyone was asking) but it is the film that gave me the most hope, and at a time when hope is worth more than rubies, or even an Oscar ...
Their new film, “Belfast,” about a young Irish boy coming of age in the turbulent 1960s, doesn’t eschew color entirely: It’s bookended by two color montages of modern-day Belfast, and ...
Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast, Jerzy Skolimowski’s donkey drama EO and Colm Bairéad’s Irish period drama piece The Quiet Girl are among the winners of the 2022 European Film Awards in the craft ...
Halfway through “Belfast,” Sir Kenneth Branagh’s deeply personal cinematic memoir of growing up in Northern Ireland during The Troubles, Branagh’s child avatar, Buddy (newcomer Jude Hill ...