London Film Festival
DN LFF2011: Without – Mark Jackson
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] Named as one of Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film, director Mark Jackson has crafted a perfectly balanced portrait of a young woman balancing on the edge of sanity, whilst drowning in the depths of grief in his feature debut Without. A lot of it is [...]
DN LFF2011 – The Black Power Mixtape 1967 – 1975 – Göran Hugo Olsson
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] After discovering a cache of nearly 85 hours of pristine 16mm film shot by Swedish news reporters documenting the evolution of the Black Power Movement in the black community, director Göran Hugo Olsson brought together contemporary commentators and musicians to bring the material to life and so create [...]
DN LFF2011: Darwin – Nick Brandestini
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] In the first of our London Film Festival interviews we sit down with director Nick Brandestini to discuss his feature documentary Darwin; a look at an isolated community of 35 residents who live at end of a weathered road in Death Valley, California. When we saw there was [...]
Back in the LFF
After leaving you in the capable hands of Danni Lizaitis last year, I’m extremely happy to be returning to the London Film Festival for its 55th iteration. As always, I have the envious job of watching as many films as possible and talking to the directors whose work has made the greatest impression over the [...]
LFF2010: Over Until Next Year
The London Film Festival has been over for four days now, I’ve finished my reviews, caught up on some sleep and now feel I’m in the right frame of mind to reflect. It seems like I’ve spent the best part of a month dedicating my time in the hope of seeing as many films as [...]
LFF2010: 127 Hours
Danny Boyle’s latest film 127 hours is based on the true story of Aron Ralston, an American canyoneer who was trapped by a boulder in John Blue Canyon, Utah for nearly five days. The closing film for this year’s BFI London Film Festival, it follows the day Aron became trapped, leaving his house without telling [...]
LFF2010: Strange Powers: Stephin Merritt and the Magnetic Fields
Songwriter Stephin Merritt is hailed to many as the Cole Porter of his generation. Writing alongside his band The Magnetic Fields, he writes memorable, lovelorn songs that were basically ignored until the release of 69 Love Songs in 1990. An interesting character whose bluntness and honest forward thinking often gets misread by the media and [...]
LFF2010: Dear Doctor
Dear Doctor for me, was one of the surprise favourite films of the festival. Almost missing it, I was advised by a friend to fit it in and I’m glad I did. Set in a mountain village in Japan, a young student doctor from Tokyo comes to work alongside the remote village’s only doctor Ino. [...]
LFF2010: Home by Christmas
Home by Christmas tells the unique story of Ed Preston’s experiences of World War II. Father to acclaimed New Zealand filmmaker Gaylene Preston, he had never liked to talk to her about the war, she often refers to times in the movie known as “before the war”, “after the war” and the least commonly spoken, [...]
DN LFF2010: Special Treatment – Jeanne Labrune
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] Alice (Isabelle Huppert) is a luxury prostitute in her fortys, our main protagonist throughout the film, she’s intelligent, strong and getting fed up with her job. Xavier (Bouli Lanners) is in a similar situation; middle aged, intelligent and fed up of his job as an analyst. We meet [...]
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