Subs

Subs has written 7 posts for Directors Notes

Like Crazy

By Subs ⋅ January 30, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

Like Crazy is the story of Jacob and Anna. Anna is a British student studying for a year in LA during which she meets Jacob in a class they share. She writes him a kooky letter, they start to date and fall in love. The film charts their relationship in the US and across borders [...]

Miranda July on Strangers

By Subs ⋅ November 11, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Have you heard of the School of Life? No, no. Not the one everyone talks about when something goes horrifically wrong and your only saving grace is that you’ve learnt something. I mean The School of Life. No. I hadn’t heard of it either. Until Miranda July popped along to the Conway Hall to talk [...]

Sleeping Beauty

By Subs ⋅ October 21, 2011 ⋅ 2 comments

Having sufficiently got over my jealousy of MarBelle’s LFF jaunt and screenings aplenty, we made our way to the Screen on the Green for Julia Leigh’s directorial debut Sleeping Beauty, which is also her first screenplay following a literary career that has included a film adaptation of her novel, The Hunter. I was unsure of [...]

Tyrannosaur

By Subs ⋅ October 11, 2011 ⋅ 2 comments

Let me preface this review by saying that I’m one of them ones with a lady garden. Having been subjected to the chatter of philosophical men (suspected) film students on the way out of the screening who used the word functional far too much and talking about the film with him indoors on the tube [...]

Gravity Was Everywhere Back Then Live at Black Rat Gallery

By Subs ⋅ September 16, 2011 ⋅ One comment

On the 27th July I made my way to Black Rat Gallery to see Brent Green’s Gravity Was Everywhere Back Then. The event was hosted by Branchange Film Festival. I had only heard of Brent from MarBelle and having checked out some animation I took him up on his offer of going to see a [...]

Bad Fever

By Subs ⋅ July 6, 2011 ⋅ 3 comments

This review originally appeared on the fabulous Miss. Bladder blog, which you should subscribe to immediately! Long ago, in a distant land I used to make time for myself to watch films. It was a good time. A time filled with interest and chat. I miss that time. So I am ensuring that I deliberately [...]

Submarine

By Subs ⋅ March 18, 2011 ⋅ 3 comments

It just goes to show that if you piss and moan about wanting to see something enough (i.e. stating to whoever will listen every time I walked past the poster on the tube that I wanted to see that. Even if I was alone. To strangers. And the tube is pretty saturated with said posters [...]