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Albatross DVD
Outside of the briefest of flying visits I was a no show at last year’s Edinburgh International Film Festival, which meant that (amongst many other things) I missed the world premiere of Niall MacCormick’s debut cinematic feature Albatross. It also slipped past me on its UK theatrical release so I was intrigued to finally take [...]
DN Picks: Jan12
January 2012 is obviously the month of weirdness – featuring a maverick panda wandering an apocalyptic landscape, Bird Benny strutting a penis-shaped plumage and a stupid hoe. Then, just when you thought every form of Star Wars parody had been covered, another two come along in the space of a couple weeks; first the epic [...]
Like Crazy
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 [...]
Shame
Sex in film has always been a controversial subject, whether it’s the explicit scenes of Baise-Moi, the teenage promiscuity exhibited in Larry Clark’s Kids or the legendary ‘butter’ scene of The Last Tango in Paris, celluloid sex has for decades now caused debate for audiences and film classifiers alike. Adding more fuel to the fire, [...]
DN 2011 Year in Review
So last year I told you that we’d put out the most amount of posts since DN began back in ’06. Well rather than resting on our laurels we took it as a challenge to do even better in 2011 – which I’m happy to say we did with a whopping 770 published posts! That’s [...]
DN Picks: Dec11
DN227: The Monster of Nix – Rosto – Creator of the brilliant Jona/Tomberry, Dutch artist and filmmaker Rosto is back with his latest short The Monster of Nix, an existential animated musical fairytale, suitable for kids from 10 to 100. Martha Marcy May Marlene – This is possibly the best films of last year (well [...]
DN 2011 Top Ten
We’ve put all the personal torment of 2011′s top ten lists behind us now, which leaves only the mathematical precision of the overall DN top ten. I think this year has seen the least amount of crossover between our picks, which means the films below are as diverse as we could get and a nice [...]
MarBelle 2011 Top Ten
Normally the final weeks of December find me frantically scrutinising the published top ten lists of my fellow film types, in a mad dash effort to fit in a few more last minute screeners for movies I’d somehow missed, which would endlessly haunt me due to their omission from my final ten. This time round [...]
El Vez 2011 Top Ten
Another year, another painful internal debate over the traditional end of year list and with an intimidating ten of Cave of Forgotten Dreams, The Guard, Sleeping Beauty, Terri, Drive, The Tree of Life, Bad Fever, Stake Land, Trolljegeren (Troll Hunter) and Involuntary not even making the final list it just goes to show what a great year for film [...]
Jeanie Finlay 2011 Top Ten
2011 has been a funny old year. At the beginning I had just finished my documentary film Sound It Out and was getting ready to release it on DVD in the Stockton record shop I made the film in. In February I got the news we had got into SXSW for our world premiere and [...]
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