This month in our Directors’ Showcase we celebrate the varied and experimental career of British director Michael Winterbottom.

There’s nothing funny about terrorism or terrorists, unless you’re watching director Christopher Morris’ satire Four Lions.

In 2004, director Aaron Schneider won an Academy Award for his short film Two Soldiers, based on a William Faulkner story. In his other life Schneider pays the bills as an award winning cinematographer, having worked extensively in television and on films such as Titanic (Second Unit DOP) and Kiss the Girls (DOP).

Which is just as well. It took six years from winning his Oscar for this rising star to get his debut feature film Get Low into cinemas - an amusing little drama staring Robert Duvall, Sissy Spacek and Bill Murray, it was worth the wait.

Rialto Official Selection this Saturday evening features the gritty, violent and enthralling Harry Brown, featuring the iconic Michael Caine. 

I like actress Patricia Clarkson. I like her smoky voice, her intelligent presence on screen, and that she didn’t “break through” until her late 30s. I also like that you’re never sure what she’s going to pop up in next.

Tonight, Rialto Channel presents a fascinating introduction to Truffaut and his New Wave brother-in-arms Jean-Luc Godard in a documentary called Two in The Wave.