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Denis Double
Claire Denis is fast becoming one of the most respected and critically acclaimed directors in world cinema. With this in mind, I’m almost embarrassed to admit that before this week I could count the number of Denis films I’d seen on one finger (that film being Beau Travail). However, this week I managed to rectify [...]
DN Gear
Back in 2006 when I first launched DN I spent a massive chunk of my time hunting down information on podcast set ups in the hope of finding the ‘perfect’ rig. Short answer, there is no one perfect solution, but there is a solution that will work for you. From time to time people ask [...]
Isolation
In recent years we’ve become all too accustom to reports highlighting the ever increasing number of troop deaths arising from the global war on terror, but little is said about the many who are seriously injured and left with no alternative than to try and rebuild their lives in the civilian world. Even more worrying [...]
Indie Film’s 25 New Faces Revealed
If lists and the freshest talent in film are your thing – they are ours – then, like us, you’ll be poring over Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces list with interest. These are the folks likely to be rocking our screens in the near future so take note.
Valhalla Rising
Sometimes I know I’m going to love a film just from seeing one still. Sure, sometimes this assumption can prove hideously wrong, but on other occasions it can be a perfect presumption. Arriving at the London Film Festival last year, I picked up the heavily packed programme and started thumbing my way through a head-spinning [...]
SotW: Apricot
Do you remember your first love? Your first kiss? Do you remember anything? Ben Briand’s Apricot questions what it would be like if you just couldn’t quite recall anything. It’s Short of the Week time again. Have a read and a watch.
Moviemaker’s 10 Podcasts Worth a Listen
Time is short, so if you had to boil all the film podcasts vying for your attention down to a perfect 10, then the 10 Podcasts Worth a Listen list in the Spring issue of Moviemaker Magazine is where I’d start. Now aside from the fact that Directors Notes has made the cut (yea us!), [...]
Nicholas Rombes’ 10/40/70
You know those ideas which are so good you wish they were your own? Well that’s how I feel about Nicholas Rombes’ 10/40/70 film columns. To quote: This column is an experiment in writing about film: what if, instead of freely choosing which parts of the film to address, I select three different, arbitrary time [...]
SotW: Born Free
Nudity, foul language and truly extreme violence result in M.I.A’s return with the music video for Born Free, directed by Romain Gavra… It’s Short of the Week time again. Have a read and a watch.
A Conversation with Jack Thorne
When people knew I was talking to a writer who lives in Luton and has written for Shameless and Skins they assumed he moved here for material, but Jack Thorne, an acclaimed writer for TV, theatre, radio and now film had a different motive. “Price, sorry. I wanted somewhere where I wasn’t working in my [...]
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