Archive for April, 2010
What volcano? Next stop Hot Docs
After spending a nervous few weeks wondering whether my trip would actually happen – tentatively searching to make sure the online bookings company I used to book my flight haven’t gone bust in the post volcano fallout – I am happily installed on Air Canada and heading to Toronto for North America’s biggest documentary festival [...]
DN EP 163: Erasing David – David Bond
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] If thoughts of the exposure of your personal data concern you or if the phrase, You have nothing to worry about if you have nothing to hide, is something you find comforting, then the journey of discovery director David Bond goes on in his feature documentary Erasing David [...]
Erasing David – David Bond
Erasing David (2009) David Bond lives in one of the most intrusive surveillance states in the world. He decides to find out how much private companies and the government know about him by putting himself under surveillance and attempting to disappear – a decision that changes his life forever. Leaving his pregnant wife and young [...]
Vote Luca for 2010 Moby Awards
I know you’re as much a fan of our friend Luca Dipierro’s work as we are here at DN, so you should be itching to throw him your vote in Melville House’s 1st Annual Moby Awards for book trailers. If so take a minute to head over and show some love to Luca’s latest animated [...]
Werner Herzog Reads Where’s Waldo
If Werner Herzog was to read children’s classic Where’s Waldo, it would sound like this… via albaztks
Hot Chip: I Feel Better
I saw Hot Chip’s new music video for the single I Feel Better awhile ago and always intended to put it on the site. Some of you may have seen it by now but if you haven’t it’s defiantly worth a watch. To be honest, I don’t really know what to say about it. It’s [...]
Moleskine Passions
Despite my utter dependence on tech – from the MacBook I carry everywhere, to the iPhone constantly glued to my palm (I even have a toaster that boils and poaches eggs) – I am never without my Moleskine notepad. So was very glad to see that their advertising is just as good as their products. [...]
MovieChatter: Kick-Ass
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] Despite all the time he had to spend listening to my film rants at SXSW, Andrew Johnson, host of the excellent MovieChatter, invited me to join him and Erik Blythe in their discussion of Matthew Vaughn’s superhero flick Kick-Ass and the surrounding controversy. If you enjoyed this then [...]
DN EP 162: Dogtooth – Yorgos Lanthimos
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] Awarded the Un Certain Regard prize at last year’s Cannes and riding a wave of positive critical response from festival to festival, Yorgos Lanthimos’ dysfunctional Greek family feature Dogtooth is an uncomfortable and darkly comedic watch. We discuss the hard road of Greek filmmaking and the power of [...]
Dogtooth – Yorgos Lanthimos
Dogtooth (2009) Dogtooth is a darkly comic insight into a surreal world of parental control gone mad. Three teenagers are grounded in an alternate world by their overprotective parents, when a female outsider bursts into their bizarre family bubble, with shocking and strangely amusing results.
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