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UnderWire: Producing
Part of Me is a film that certainly leaves an impression. In many ways a quite disturbing short, as a viewer you’re left with questions that remain unanswered. A film about two women’s relationship; Nathalie is left distraught when the two closest people in her life betray her. With minimum dialog featured throughout the script, [...]
UnderWire: Screenwriting
The two films I’ve chosen to mention from UnderWire’s Screenwriting category were actually old favourites of mine from a past Filmstock Festival (RIP) and London’s Short and Sweet film night. Mother, Mine is the haunting story of the young Alison, grieving the death of her adoptive mother she sets out on a quest to find [...]
UnderWire: Representation
The opening night of the first ever UnderWire Film Festival began on Thursday with five short films within the Representation category. This category was designed to show films that question societies’ norms of women and show them in a different light to how they’re often depicted; the only category in the festival that both men [...]
Holy Fuck – Red Lights
This is quite possibly the best music video I have ever seen. Of course, this is a heavily biased statement as there are few things I love more in the world then felines. I do however believe that even if you’re not as much of a crazy cat lady as myself, you should be able [...]
LFF2010: Over Until Next Year
The London Film Festival has been over for four days now, I’ve finished my reviews, caught up on some sleep and now feel I’m in the right frame of mind to reflect. It seems like I’ve spent the best part of a month dedicating my time in the hope of seeing as many films as [...]
LFF2010: 127 Hours
Danny Boyle’s latest film 127 hours is based on the true story of Aron Ralston, an American canyoneer who was trapped by a boulder in John Blue Canyon, Utah for nearly five days. The closing film for this year’s BFI London Film Festival, it follows the day Aron became trapped, leaving his house without telling [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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