Archive for October, 2009
DN LFF09: Trimpin: The Sound of Invention – Peter Esmonde
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] Hailing from Germany’s Black Forest region, the artist simply known as Trimpin is a sonic experimenter, who combines the roles of inventor, engineer and composer, with a body of work that also defies categorization. Director Peter Esmonde joins us at the London Film Festival to discuss the challenges [...]
DN LFF09: The Road – John Hillcoat
The Road is a rare commodity in today’s movie industry, an apocalyptic film that relies on subtlety and imagination, instead of CGI and special effects. It’s the second Cormac McCarty book to be adapted for screen in recent years, following the Coen brothers’ wildly successful take on No Country for Old Men. For The Road, [...]
DN LFF09: The Informant! – Steven Soderbergh
I’m not a big fan of Steven Soderbergh, there I’ve said it, it’s out in the open now……please don’t kill me!! I think I always kidded myself that I was a fan of the prolific director, but going through his filmography earlier, the realization suddenly struck me that he hasn’t made many films I’d rush [...]
DN LFF09: Men on the Bridge – Asli Özge
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] Today’s LFF interview comes from Asli Özge whose debut feature Men on the Bridge began as a documentary concept to explore the distinct lives of three men working at the Bosphorus Bridge in Istanbul. However, after meeting her potential contributors during the research stage, Özge decided she could [...]
DN LFF09: The Exploding Girl – Bradley Rust Gray
This slight, but honest film by Writer/Director Bradley Rust Gray, tells the story of student Ivy (Zoe Kazan), her summer back home in Brooklyn and her relationships, both platonic and romantic. As you can probably tell from this synopsis, this is a tale where nothing much seems to happen, but the little things that do [...]
DN LFF09: Paper Heart – Nicholas Jasenovec
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] Do you believe in true love? If so how do you go about finding that special, once in a lifetime person? These are the questions that send Charleyne Yi and a ‘documentary’ crew on a road trip across America, with a pit stop in Paris to see if [...]
DN LFF09: Fantastic Mr Fox – Wes Anderson
Growing up, the books of Roald Dahl were an important part of my childhood and even now they still have pride of place on my bookshelf. Some of my earliest memories are of my mum and dad reading me the likes of The BFG, The Witches and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, over and over [...]
DN LFF09: 45365 – Bill Ross & Turner Ross
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] Kicking off our series of interviews from the Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival, I got to chat to Bill and Turner Ross, brothers and co-directors of 45365; a verite feature documentary which explores the daily lives of the inhabitants of the American town (and hometown of the [...]
45365 – Bill Ross & Turner Ross
45356 (2009) 45365 explores the congruities of daily life in an American town – Sidney, Ohio. Through a patient and inquisitive look at the lives and landscapes that make up this community of 20,000 people, it captures the complexities and ambiguities of their shared experience. Conclusions are left to the audience as the component characters [...]
DN LFF09: Bad Lieutenant – Werner Herzog
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans was definitely one of the films I was most looking forward to at this year’s London Film Festival, I mean Werner Herzog remaking an Abel Ferrara film, starring Nicholas Cage, isn’t that something we all want to see? Or at least something we all want to witness. Strangely [...]
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