Film Festival
DN LFF2012: Shoot Me! – Kate Hardie
Actor, turned director Kate Hardie’s film Shoot Me screened as part of the Obsessive and Compulsive shorts programme at this year’s London Film Festival and explores issues of female self-image and ageing. In a brief respite from the hubbub of the festival we spoke to Kate about using comedy as an effective camouflage for issues [...]
DN LFF2012: Spike Island – Mat Whitecross
Director Mat Whitecross held his cool in a special ‘speed round’ London Film Festival interview for his new feature Spike Island, which captures the infectious dedication of Stone Roses fans, risen to a fever pitch around that legendary gig. We discuss the importance of mixing lucky breaks with a determination to create on your own [...]
DN LFF2012: Le Grand Soir – Benoît Delépine
Benoît Delépine and Gustave Kervern continue their filmmaking partnership by transforming two of France’s most famous actors into anti-establishment punks in their Cannes Special Jury Prize winning comedy Le Grand Soir. We caught up with Delépine at the London Film Festival to discuss the pair’s preference for low budget, small crew filmmaking and their development [...]
LFF2012: Sightseers
Following a stint in Cannes, DN favourite Ben Wheatley premiered his new film as part of the Comedy Gala at the 56th BFI London Film Festival. His third feature, Sightseers, is the first time we’ve seen Wheatley solely direct as opposed to write and directed, the script being penned by stars Alice Lowe and Steve [...]
DN LFF2012: Kelly + Victor – Kieran Evans
I’ve been a keen follower of the work of director Kieran Evans ever since the DV experimental documentary Finisterre he co-directed with Paul Kelly for Saint Etienne in 2003. I caught up with Kieran at the London Film Festival to discuss his move into features with his adaptation of Niall Griffiths’ Liverpool set novel Kelly [...]
DN LFF2012: Love Story – Florian Habicht
The London Film Festival is currently in full force for its 56th edition, which can only mean that DN has navigated the dangerous territory of the Filmmakers Afternoon Teas (hey some of those finger sandwiches have fierce corners!) to collect the choicest of interviews between mouth fulls of cake and slurps of tea. First up [...]
Looking Back, Moving Forward – Midpoint of the 56th London Film Festival
Once again it’s that time of year when my usual DN output grinds to a halt and is replaced by a stream of all things London Film Festival related. This 56th edition of the festival (we’ve been covering it since the 50th) sees the reigns handed from Sandra Hebron to Clare Stewart and the festival [...]
Reading & Leeds 2012
August, as you should all know by now, is traditionally the month when El Vez and I take some of our favourite shorts from the past year on a road trip to the Reading & Leeds music festivals, where they get to show off in front of a brand new crowd in the Cinema Tent [...]
RSSF2012: DN Picks
Yes, we admit that previous DN attempts to select award winners could be at best described as checkered, and looking at the official finalists list we already know some of our picks are out of the running, but we’re nothing if not confident in our filmic tastes and so here are DN’s category favourites for [...]
RSSF2012: The Documentary Award
We pick out three films from the Documentary Award in a final look at this year’s Rushes Soho Shorts; featuring a 30+ year long vigil in the face of oppression, a man who decides to take on responsibility without power and the very personal accounts of women who don’t feel they meet society’s standards of [...]
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