January, 2010 Archive

Film Festival

Top 10 Sundance Documentaries of the Decade

Film critic Dennis Lim, who’s been covering the festival this year over at the Sundance Channel, has put together a rather nice list of the Top 10

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Film Festival

LIVE@SUNDANCE 2010: Producers Round Table

“Recently, Sundance Film Festival brought a group of independent film producers together for an informal discussion. This is what they talked about. Join

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Live Action, Podcasts

DN154: Panic Attack! – Fede Alvarez

It’s an oft quoted phrase that ‘Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity’, well this week’s guest Fede Alvarez is

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Animation, Music Video

The Fitzcarraldo Sessions

Creative double-act Duckeye have created a mesmerizing video for French Musicians The Fitzcarraldo Sessions, using a fascinating combination of hands on

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Music Video

Jam Session

8 people with 5 instruments from 4 Continents speaking 3 languages for 1 song.

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Animation

Garuda

An animated short film about a young boy in India chasing after his dream. Animated at Les Gobelins in Paris.

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Animation

Forget the film, Watch the Titles

I can often tell how much I’m going to like a film, just by viewing it’s opening sequence and with my ever increasing interest in in motion

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Art & Fashion

Insignificant Images

At one point in photographer Ryan McGinley’s glorious promo for Pringle, Tilda Swinton staggers bewildered though a cornfield in a black cocktail dress,

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News

Yes to nofilmschool

I’m sure I wasn’t the only one saddened at the announcement that Ryan Bilsborrow-Koo and Zachary Lieberman vehicle, The West Side was going on

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Animation

The Power Gap

Not content with adorning my walls with their posters, wearing their t-shirts and planning my weeks ahead on their calendars, I’m now going to share my

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Asides, Live Action

Four Lions

To say I’m excited about UK japester Chris Morris’ foray in to features with Jihadist Comedy Four Lions would be the understatement of the decade

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Live Action

I'm (Almost) Here

Let’s face it, despite the love that we here at DN liberally pour on shorts, they largely go unnoticed by most folks. However take 1 part Spike Jonze,

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