London Film Festival
DN LFF09: American: The Bill Hicks Story – Matt Harlock & Paul Thomas
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Sadly, we’ve reached the last of our London Film Festival ‘09 afternoon tea interviews, but it’s a great one to go out on. I very selfishly took up a nice chunk of time with directors Matt Harlock and Paul Thomas, who were at LFF for the premiere of their [...]
DN LFF09: A Serious Man – The Coen Brothers
Ever since I saw Barton Fink over 15 years ago, I knew I would forever be a fan of the Coen Brothers; their style was unusual, their storytelling unique and when settling down to watch a Coen Brothers film, you always felt like you were about to witness something spectacular. Over the last couple of [...]
DN LFF09: Samson and Delilah – Warwick Thornton
When talking about innovators and pioneers of the moving image, critics are always looking for the next ‘original voice’ of cinema, but seem to rarely actually discover one. Well, Warwick Thornton, debut feature director of the Cannes, Camera D’or Winner, Samson and Delilah may be one such voice. This tale of a small aboriginal community [...]
DN LFF09: A Prophet – Jacques Audiard
After wining the Grand Prix at Cannes earlier this year, the reputation of Jacques Audiard’s Un prophète (A Prophet) has, as expected, gone from strength to strength. The film’s continuous rise throughout the year, has seen it take its enviable place at LFF09 as the Sight and Sound Special Screening on the final Saturday of [...]
DN LFF09: We Live in Public – Ondi Timoner
Double Sundance Grand Jury prize winner Ondi Timoner, must have thought she was living the documentary filmmaker’s dream, when in 1999 she was asked to document a social experiment/art project involving 100 artists living in an underground bunker in New York for a month. However, the project soon turned into a nightmare as the life [...]
DN LFF09: Passenger Side – Matt Bissonnette
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For his third feature Passenger Side, director Matt Bissonnette decided to go back to basics and the freedom that comes from shooting a film on a low budget, with a skeleton crew. We sat down over LFF tea and cakes to discuss the process of bringing his tale of [...]
DN LFF09: Mother – Bong Joon-Ho
South Korean cinema has been going from strength to strength in recent years and if Mother is anything to go by, then this rise isn’t going to stop anytime soon. Park Chan-Wook has stolen much of the praise for the nation’s growing cinematic power with his Vengeance trilogy (Sympathy for Mr Vengeance, Old Boy and [...]
DN LFF09: Starsuckers – Chris Atkins
Chris Atkins made his name with his Blair busting documentary Taking Liberties and now with his new doc he takes a look at fame, celebrity and the media. Although the director’s latest film does provide entertainment and plenty of laughs, it does seem as if the ‘facts’ it’s revealing are things the majority of it’s [...]
DN LFF09: The Men who Stare at Goats – Grant Heslov
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Not content with acting, writing and producing (mostly on George Clooney projects), Grant Heslov has now turned his hand to directing, with this wacky feature [...]
DN LFF09: Trash Humpers – Harmony Korine
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As a fan of many years and with a couple near misses in the past, today’s LFF interview is probably the highlight of the festival for me. It was my pleasure to spend some time (however brief) with director Harmony Korine, to discuss his latest offering Trash Humpers, along [...]
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