Archive for October, 2010
LFF2010: Strange Powers: Stephin Merritt and the Magnetic Fields
Songwriter Stephin Merritt is hailed to many as the Cole Porter of his generation. Writing alongside his band The Magnetic Fields, he writes memorable, lovelorn songs that were basically ignored until the release of 69 Love Songs in 1990. An interesting character whose bluntness and honest forward thinking often gets misread by the media and [...]
High as a Kai
It’s truly heart-warming to see someone using the medium of film for a good cause and I know entertaining people is a good cause, but I mean a REALLY good cause. Marking the end of National Adoption week, High as a Kai is a film highlighting the importance of the adoption system in our society [...]
LFF2010: Dear Doctor
Dear Doctor for me, was one of the surprise favourite films of the festival. Almost missing it, I was advised by a friend to fit it in and I’m glad I did. Set in a mountain village in Japan, a young student doctor from Tokyo comes to work alongside the remote village’s only doctor Ino. [...]
LFF2010: Home by Christmas
Home by Christmas tells the unique story of Ed Preston’s experiences of World War II. Father to acclaimed New Zealand filmmaker Gaylene Preston, he had never liked to talk to her about the war, she often refers to times in the movie known as “before the war”, “after the war” and the least commonly spoken, [...]
DN LFF2010: Special Treatment – Jeanne Labrune
Alice (Isabelle Huppert) is a luxury prostitute in her fortys, our main protagonist throughout the film, she’s intelligent, strong and getting fed up with her job. Xavier (Bouli Lanners) is in a similar situation; middle aged, intelligent and fed up of his job as an analyst. We meet the two as they enter their own [...]
DN LFF2010 – Leap Year – Michael Rowe
Leap Year follows the month of February with freelance jounrnist, Laura. Shot within the four walls of her apartment, she observes her neighbours and eats canned food whilst lying to her mother on the phone about the life she’s living in the city. Some nights, Laura goes out and returns home with a man to [...]
Oops
Somewhere between a home-video mixtape and a postmodern travelogue, “oops”—a ten-minute art video composed entirely of appropriated YouTube videos, seamlessly stitched together via a motif of camera drops—serves both as transportative adventure and metaphorical elucidation of YouTube itself (i.e. endless related videos), exemplifying the Internet’s infinite repository of “throwaway” social documentation. From suburbia to subterranea, [...]
DN LFF2010: Malavoglia – Pasquale Scimeca
Based on the famous novel by Giovanni Verga, Malavoglia is a film about a family of fisherman that live in a house known as ‘The Medlars House’ and have a boat named ‘Providence’. A poor but hardworking family, they are clearly grateful for the belongings they have and don’t take their life for granted. It’s [...]
LFF2010: Winter Vacation
It’s frustratingly difficult to get hold of Hongqi Li’s previous films Routine Holiday and Hao Duo Da Mi, even in his native China, so I’m coming to Winter Vacation as a Hongqi Li novice. I understand he’s better known as a poet, though I haven’t been able to read up on him much. But believe [...]
Todor & Petru
Todor & Petru is a totally off the wall piece of stop motion animation, blended with some in your face 2D graphics. It was created at CRCR by a team of Les Goblins students in two weeks as part of a stay at Wizz in Paris. via redazril TODOR & PETRU from CRCR on Vimeo. [...]
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