The What Where When

A record label as fictional narrative, a kind of imaginary parallel world setting, taking inspiration from folklore in a broad sense – musical traditions, world cultures and story telling.

David Lynch’s neo-noir classic Mulholland Drive sees the director at his most beguiling best.

Roman Polanksi’s latest, Carnage featuring Kate Winslet and Jodie Foster is a frantic feast of fury and a lasting dose of reality.

Lucian Freud Portraits at the National Portrait Gallery is one of the most anticipated blockbuster exhibitions of 2012. Curated in close conversation with Lucian Freud, one of Britain’s most celebrated post-war artists, the show opens six months after his death.

Pioneering Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama shares a view of infinity at her Tate Modern retrospective.

The BFI presents a lovingly restored print of Otto Preminger’s 1944 camp noir classic.

Released in the wake of his much-publicised break-up with Mia Farrow, Woody Allen’s Husbands and Wives finds the director at his most visceral and least romantic.

Woody Allen’s homage to Catalonia is a gentle trip that takes in Henry James and Jackie Collins.

The BFI’s Woody Allen season presents a prescient mockumentary of the life and times of Leonard Zelig.

One of 2011′s best films, Drive is screening at the Prince Charles Cinema throughout January. I caught up with award winning director, Nicholas Winding Refn at last year’s Cambridge Film Festival.