Posts Tagged ‘documentary’
The House I Live In at Sundance London
It's no secret that America's War on Drugs hasn't been much of a success, which makes Eugene Jarecki’s eye-opening documentary, The House I Live In, all the more impressive. The rainy Sunday which played host to the final day of Sundance London saw film fans trudge blurry-eyed into this at 11 am, the earliest of screenings, with the...
Sundance Film Festival 2012 out-of-comp premières revealed!
Sundance Film Festival reveals highly anticipated premières which will screen out-of-competition! Last week, we told you about the films which would be screening in-competition at the upcoming Sundance Film Festival 2012. The latest announcement is the list of films which will receive their world premières during the...
Sundance Film Festival 2012 Announces In-Competition Films
The line-up for this year's Sundance Film Festival has been announced! The much anticipated line-up for the 2012 Sundance Film Festival has finally been revealed. Amongst those being screening in competition is The Surrogate, a film about a man with an iron lung, who hires a 'sex surrogate' in order to lose his virginity, which stars...
Errol Morris delivers upcoming BAFTA Lecture
Oscar-winning American documentary filmmaker, Errol Morris, is going to deliver BAFTA's annual David Lean Lecture 2011. Widely considered to be one of the world’s great documentary filmmakers, Morris has a dozen major film and television credits to his name, as well as numerous awards and honours including the 2004 Oscar for The Fog of...
Jig – DVD review
If you read most newspapers you'll get the impression that the young people of Great Britain are seriously off the rails. Jig is a documentary that gives a glimpse at disparate group of young people who submit themselves to a life of steely discipline, willing self-sacrifice and limitless dedication. They are Irish dancers. Directed by...
Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo – a bug-inspired film quiz!
Friday 1st June sees the UK release of Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo - an intriguing documentary film which aims to examine Japan's age-old fascination with the world of insects. This film opens in modern-day Tokyo, where $90,000 was recently paid for a single beetle. Working backwards, writer and director Jessica Oreck aims to unravel the...
Indie Game: The Movie is well on its way
If you've never played an indie game, it's no different to indie music - made by unsupported artists for the consumption of the public. Finally, the humble indie game world has a great-looking documentary. If you're into video games, you'll know that the indie game market is growing at an incredible pace. Thanks to the rise of digital...
London to host first sex worker film festival
London is to host the first sex worker film festival this June. The festival is scheduled to take place on 12th June at an East London location, and has been organised by a collection of sex workers. It will feature a number of short films and documentaries from countries around the world which have been affected by the sex industry,...
Talking with the director and cast of Blooded
Blooded is the mockumentary thriller we can't get enough of at the moment. After being wowed and surprised by the independent Brit film, I caught up with the film's director Ed Boase, producer and actor Nick Ashdon, writer James Walker and actors Neil McDermortt and Isabella Calthorpe, to talk hunting, the Highlands and a little about His Royal...
Blooded – a review
I am a human, a tiny person completely overshadowed by the vast world. If I am stripped of my clothes, my phone and computer are taken away from me, I am nothing. I am an animal again. Or at least, this is the feeling I had when I finished watching Blooded. Blooded is conceptually one of the most interesting films I have seen in a long...
Director Ken Wardrop on His and Hers
His and Hers is the first feature-length film from acclaimed short documentary maker Ken Wardrop. Through the voices of 70 women it tells the 90-year-old love story of a single archetypical woman. Set in the Irish Midlands, the film is a charming look at a woman’s relationship to the various men in her life - the father, brother, husband and...
His and Hers – a review
If someone asked if you to want to watch a film with 70 different women talking in it and nothing else, you may be a little apprehensive. But this is exactly what Ken Wardrop has done with his latest documentary His and Hers. Wardrop first came to the forefront with his short film Undressing My Mother, a six minute film of his mother, in the...
Just About Famous: a review
Just About Famous - the (sort of) star-studded short film - is, well, just about the best thing we've watched all day. This short documentary is currently playing at film festivals around the world, and it's certainly worth checking out. Just About Famous takes a look at the unusual and often amusing lives of celebrity...
The Lowdown: I'm Still Here
I'm Still Here, the pseudo-mockumentary starring the somewhat off-the-wall Joaquin Phoenix, could be one of the biggest films of the year. Read on to find out everything there is to know so far. In order to tell the somewhat mysterious tale of this rather bizarre look into the "life" of talented actor Joaquin Phoenix, we're going to need to...
