Compliance: the McSploitation of real-life horror
Craig Zobel’s gauche exploration of shocking real-life incidents is a frustrating and dishonest experience, writes Rosy Hunt.
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March Hare Spray
Happy March, chums! This week, editor Rosy Hunt talks about ¡VIVA!, Vegfest, Twitter trending and Tony: London Serial Killer.
Interview with Sarah Waldron
“It’s not a job, it’s a vocation, but a very rewarding one.” At the Watersprite festival Rosy Hunt spoke to Sarah Waldron, series producer at the BBC, about documentary filmmaking.
Meet the Cambridge APH's new programmer!
“Cambridge audiences love wonderful world and arthouse cinema. They like challenging films and I’m absolutely up for continuing that.” We’re in safe hands with new programmer Madeleine Mullett.
So you want to make documentaries?
The documentary panel at Watersprite explained how the opportunities that documentary filmmaking offers can lead to a filmmaker changing the world.
Leaving Baghdad
Koutaiba Al-Janabi’s LEAVING BAGHDAD is an intimate, unpolished road movie in which we accompany a gentle immigrant on his journey from Iraq to London. The Independent Film Trust and the Cambridge Film and Media Academy are organising a free screening at Magdalene College in March.
Calling student filmmakers!
Want to get your video in front of a prestigious panel, showcase it at a BFI event and win £1,500? Well, look no further!
Ratatouille
Plenty of slapstick offsets a romantic, witty and dramatic storyline that is never cheap or condescending: RATATOUILLE caters for all tastes, writes Rosy Hunt.
Ahiru to kamo no koinrokkâ
Don’t mistake this for just another hipster “my wacky friend is crying on the inside” dramedy – AHIRU TO KAMO NO KOINROKKA is a slow burning thriller with a Lynchian twist.
Diary of a Country Priest
Today is the thirteenth anniversary of Robert Bresson’s death. Rosy Hunt commemorates his life with a review of DIARY OF A COUNTRY PRIEST, one of Martin Scorsese’s influences.