Archive for October, 2007
DN LFF07: The English Surgeon - Geoffrey Smith
Amidst the two weeks of screenings and events that was The Times BFI 51st London Film Festival sat the calm oasis of the filmmakers’ breakfasts, which along with being a perfect opportunity to load up on coffee and croissants for the day, meant that I got to speak to some of the directors with their [...]
Drift - Carl Burton
Drift (2007)
A figure gracefully moves through a series of alien landscapes.
DN LFF07: Import Export - Ulrich Seidl
Amidst the two weeks of screenings and events that was The Times BFI 51st London Film Festival sat the calm oasis of the filmmakers’ breakfasts, which along with being a perfect opportunity to load up on coffee and croissants for the day, meant that I got to speak to some of the directors with their [...]
DN LFF07: Water Lilies - Celine Sciamma
Amidst the two weeks of screenings and events that was The Times BFI 51st London Film Festival sat the calm oasis of the filmmakers’ breakfasts, which along with being a perfect opportunity to load up on coffee and croissants for the day, meant that I got to speak to some of the directors with their [...]
DN EP 059: Tovarisch I Am Not Dead - Stuart Urban
Stuart Urban could be said to have pretty much been born a director, with his first film, The Virus of War screened at Cannes 1973 when he was just 13, making him the youngest filmmaker to play the festival. He’s also won BAFTAs for his BBC tragicomedy about the Falklands War, An Ungentlemanly Act, as [...]
DN LFF07: My Kid Could Paint That - Amir Bar-Lev
Amidst the two weeks of screenings and events that was The Times BFI 51st London Film Festival sat the calm oasis of the filmmakers’ breakfasts, which along with being a perfect opportunity to load up on coffee and croissants for the day, meant that I got to speak to some of the directors with their [...]
DN LFF07: A Walk into the Sea - Esther Robinson
Amidst the two weeks of screenings and events that was The Times BFI 51st London Film Festival sat the calm oasis of the filmmakers’ breakfasts, which along with being a perfect opportunity to load up on coffee and croissants for the day, meant that I got to speak to some of the directors with their [...]
Tovarisch I Am Not Dead - Stuart Urban
Tovarisch I Am Not Dead (2007)
Garri Urban, survivor of the Holocaust and Gulag and author of the autobiographical book of the same title, revisits the sites of his horrors and triumphs, 50 years later.
DN EP 058: The Leafcatcher - Leo Sedgley
Leo Sedgley is a National Film and Television School graduate, who after several years as an independent artist joined the school on its post production sound course only to emerge a director. His first post graduation film The Leafcatcher was funded by Switzerland’s Fondation Vevey and shot over 8 months with an ever morphing, skeleton [...]
The Leafcatcher - Leo Sedgley
The Leafcatcher (2006)
The Leafcatcher is a harmless man, he lives a lonely life of street corners and day centres, trying to forget the pain of the life he has lost. When a young women cries out for help, the Leafcatcher rediscovers old instincts and remembers that by helping others, the person he helps most is [...]
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