Self-styled “producer come executive producer come lumpen prole fundraiser and self-effacing emo philips monkey in front of the camera gimp” Kate Spicer visited Cambridge Arts Picturehouse recently to talk about her documentary MISSION TO LARS.
Steve Williams reports back from the 66th Edinburgh film festival, which opened with a wipe-the-floor-with-’em red-carpet opening gala for William Friedkin’s new film KILLER JOE and its assembled firmament of stars.
Filmmaker Michael Apted talked about his career with documentary maker Leslie Woodhead at Sheffield Doc/Fest 2012. David Perilli shares the highlights of their discussion on the “7 Up” series and “Tomorrow Never Dies”.
‘None of men’s fantasies of evil can compare with the reality of JAWS’. Loreta Gandolfi jumps in at the deep end with JAWS, which has recently been remastered, remixed and brought back to the big screen.
Mike Boyd reviews the up-and-coming, relatively young Galway African Film Festival, which is quickly finding its place on the periphery of the more established festivals in the UK.
Following on from the recently released documentary, TAKE ONE’s Woody Allen devotee, Ed Frost, takes his own look at Woody’s work and career
Gavin Midgley looks at the works of Powell and Pressburger, from patriotic wartime propaganda via the vivacious Archers Film Productions to that influential post-Pressburger classic, PEEPING TOM.
“I’d like to annihilate the term ‘social realism'”: Ken Loach was recently in Cambridge and Jim Ross got the opportunity to talk to him about THE ANGELS’ SHARE.
Mike O’Brien takes us through the work of Béla Tarr, the “most uncompromising of filmmakers” whose film THE TURIN HORSE is on release this week.
With the release of his latest feature film, MOONRISE KINGDOM, Wes Anderson is back in heightened colour. Ann Linden revisits his previous features.
