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HOME (DIR. MUZAFFER ÖZDEMİR, TURKEY, 2011) – REVIEW
How would we look upon our lives in an ideal world? Would we still revel in nostalgia and pine for childhood experiences, or would we move forward and blossom? These are the questions provoked in the...
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HELP JASON FIGGIS COMPLETE THE ECSTASY OF ISABEL MANN
Back in 2012 we reviewed the low budget Irish horror The Railway Children, directed by Jason Figgis. Despite its tiny budget the film was an impressive piece of work that proved Figgis’ directing...
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SHORTS: ANGST, PISS AND SHIT (DIR. FREDRIK S. HANA, NORWAY, 2012)
The charmingly titled Angst, Piss and Shit from Norwegian director Fredrik S. Hana is a stylish throwback to Italian Giallo filmmaking (shot in Argento-esque CinemaScope), with a subversive Nordic...
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BOYS ON FILM 9: YOUTH IN TROUBLE – DVD REVIEW
Boys on Film: Youth in Trouble is the ninth edition of Peccadillo Pictures’ successful series of gay themed short films. This collection looks around the world to Brazil, Australia, Spain, Switzerland,...
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A PORTRAIT OF JAMES DEAN: JOSHUA TREE 1951 (DIR. MATTHEW MISHORY, USA, 2012)...
Matthew Mishory’s A Portrait of James Dean – Joshua Tree 1951 takes the myth of James Dean (James Preston) and re-writes it with a convincing queer slant. Shot in a penetrating black and white style,...
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FILMMAKER INTERVIEW: MATTHEW MISHORY
Reimagining the story of a Hollywood icon like James Dean is not a task exempt from pressure and expectation. With A Portrait of James Dean: Joshua Tree 1951, LA based director Matthew Mishory has...
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MODERN PANIC: DREAMS AND FREEDOM
The film contains strong imagery from the start, viewer discretion advised. We are proud to announce the release of our first short documentary, Modern Panic: Dreams and Freedom, directed by...
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ADVENTURES IN FILM | CANNES 2013
For me 2013 has become ‘the year of the film festival.’ In February I attended my first big international film festival, the Berlinale, as part of the Berlinale Talent Campus. Bitten by the festival...
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EAST END FILM FESTIVAL 2013 | INTRODUCTION
The 2013 East End Film Festival begins on the 25th of June, running through to the 10th of July. Founded in 2000 the festival works hard to screen films with a consciousness local to this part of...
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EEFF 2013 | SOLDIER JANE (DIR. DANIEL HOESL, AUSTRIA, 2013) – REVIEW
Beginning with a flatly lit, digital image of Fannie (Johanna Orsini-Rosenberg) cynically trying on an expensive (but unflattering) dress in a boutique, Soldier Jane initially generates less than...
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EEFF 2013 | THE HEART OF BRUNO WIZARD (DIR. ELISABETH RASMUSSEN, NORWAY/UK,...
The Heart of Bruno Wizard is a raw feature documentary from first time director Elisabeth Rasmussen. The film dives into a little known pocket of the British punk scene during the late 1970′s to find...
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EEFF 2013 | SUSPENSION OF DISBELIEF (DIR. MIKE FIGGIS, UK, 2012) – REVIEW
In spite of Mike Figgis’ vocal struggle to fund the film in the UK, his psycho thriller Suspension of Disbelief plays like a distinctly British answer to David Lynch’s evocative Mulholland Drive. Shot...
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EEFF 2013 | THE OUTER EDGES (DIR. KIERAN EVANS, UK, 2013) – REVIEW
The result of a collaboration between director Kieran Evans and musician Karl Hyde of Underworld, The Outer Edges is a documentary exploring the characters and geography of the boarder between London...
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‘SMASH THE CONTROL MACHINE’ FILMAKERS LAUNCH IFP FISCAL SPONSORSHIP CAMPAIGN
The filmmakers behind documentary Smash The Control Machine: Howard Brookner & The Western Lands (director Aaron Brookner, producer Paula Vaccaro and executive producer Jim Jarmusch,) have just...
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WE SHALL OVERCOME (DIR. NIELS ARDEN OPLEV, DENMARK, 2006) – DVD REVIEW
Before Danish director Niels Arden Oplev focused his camera on a culture of woman hating, in Swedish film The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, he directed the child-eyed 60′s family drama We Shall...
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ONLY GOD FORGIVES (DIR. NICOLAS WINDING REFN, FRANCE/THAILAND/USA/SWEDEN,...
Cannes was not kind to Only God Forgives. Yet, Nicolas Winding Refn is not a director who requests niceties. He has facetiously called himself a pornographer, which is not literally true; however in...
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PLEIN SOLEIL (DIR. RENE CLEMENT, FRANCE & ITALY, 1960) – REVIEW
Newly restored for 4K digital projection, René Clément’s 1960 thriller Plein Soleil has aged well. With its bold Mediterranean colours and deviously charismatic central performance by Alain Delon, it...
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COMPETITION: WIN PLEIN SOLEIL, THE TALENTED MR RIPLEY AND BREATHLESS ON BLU-RAY
To celebrate Studio Canal’s 4K cinema and home entertainment release of René Clément’s classic 1960 thriller Plein Soleil (starring Alain Delon as Tom Ripley), we are giving away a Blu-ray bundle...
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BRINGING BACK HOWARD BROOKNER – AN ARTIST LOST TO AIDS
World AIDS Day has been observed every December 1st since 1988, with the intention of creating a wider awareness of the disease. Every year the day is adorned with a theme, which, between 2011 and...
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