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Happy Christmas
I first came across Mark Jenkin’s work running Filmstock, when his first film Golden Burn came across our path. It’s been a long time since that film, and Jenkin has grown into an accomplished feature filmmaker. His latest film is Happy Christmas, shot in 2011 and released for free on Vimeo over the 2012 festive [...]
Neil Fox 2012 Top Ten
We get to the end and we look back, and again, regardless of what they say, it’s a strong field full of fantastic movies of all kinds from all corners.
Neil Fox 2011 Top Ten
It’s been a weird year for me. I’ve been spending so much time working on my doctorate it’s left less time for films, something I need to rectify in 2012 but even so, I loved a lot of movies this year and as ever, my top 3, I think, would stand up against any year’s [...]
Kerry Film Festival 2011
Part One I’ve been incredibly quiet on DN this year. Apologies for that, but the reason is I have been studying for my doctorate in cinema and writing a feature screenplay. Let’s just say you aren’t the only people I’ve been neglecting. The past week however saw me leave my relative hermit’s existence to see [...]
Neil Fox 2010 Top Ten
Each year they say that it’s not a vintage year, but I don’t. And this year is no different. It was hard to get it down to twelve for my dirty dozen, let alone ten for DN, with many more films worthy of a place. And this year, they are actually ranked in order. Bring [...]
Cornwall Film Festival 2010
Without being patronising the Cornwall Film Festival has a lot of charm. Taking place in Falmouth at a cinema that forms part of the South West’s Merlin chain of cinemas, it’s in a beautiful location and a wonderful space. This was my first time at the festival and I was invited by the University College [...]
Endgame In Afghanistan
Films such as the Oscar-winning The Hurt Locker are gruelling, brutal and detailed looks at life on the frontline of modern warfare in the Far East, but they aren’t reality. Filmmaker for The Guardian, Sean Smith’s short documentary Endgame In Afghanistan, is closer to reality. He spent five weeks in Afghanistan documenting and reporting and [...]
Life Just Is: Getting Out There and Doing It
Award winning short filmmaker Alex Barrett, cinephile and sometime DN contributor is nearing production on his debut feature Life Just Is. His cast has just been announced and it’s a belter, including Paul Nicholls and Jayne Wisener who played Johanna in the Burton/Depp Sweeney Todd. Presumably they’ve been drawn in by the calibre of the [...]
Salt Films
When my designer of choice Chris Henley tells me he loves a website I check it out. I headed over to Salt Films website expecting to find something that looked gorgeous. The site does indeed please the eyes but there’s something more. Something, fun. It’s a simple idea beautifully realised and instantly Salt Films becomes [...]
Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
People who don’t think film is an art form need to watch Craig McCall’s documentary Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff. Jack Cardiff was one of the legendary cinematographers. He was an innovator, a magician, an artist. McCall’s film spends time with him over the last 13 or so years of his life. [...]
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