Thomas Dolby: The Invisible Lighthouse
Tom Dolby’s half-hour elegy-doc was filmed over a year and is still a work-in-progress. It’s much more than a motion picture, writes Huw Oliver.
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Muscle Shoals
MUSCLE SHOALS riffs on Rick Hall’s often pained backstory and his success as the world’s most in-demand knob-twiddler, writes Huw Oliver.
The Lebanese Rocket Society
Higher and higher, bigger and bigger. That was the Lebanese Rocket Society’s motto in the early to mid 1960s. Huw Oliver reviews this improbable documentary screening at Cambridge Film Festival.
Confession of a Child of the Century
In CONFESSION OF A CHILD OF THE CENTURY, time-honoured badboy and reputable polemicist Peter Doherty takes on the role of Octave, a 19th century version of his faltering and outré self.
Grandma Lo-Fi
Shot over a period of seven years on bleary Super8 film, GRANDMA LO-FI gives an amusing insight into the working mind and thought processes of a septuagenarian garage rockstar, writes Huw Oliver.
Jason Becker: Not Dead Yet
JASON BECKER: NOT DEAD YET gallantly attempts to lift the lid on a degenerative condition, and is an uplifting and closely-stitched documentary bolstered with an extraordinary spirit, writes Huw Oliver.