Wuthering Heights
Jim Ross reviews Andrea Arnold’s take on the classic tale of WUTHERING HEIGHTS, based on the Emily Brontë novel
Category Archives: Reviews
Dreams of Elbidi (Ndoto Za Elbidi)
Rosy Hunt attended DREAMS OF ELBIDI, a unique fusion of community theatre and traditional cinema. It offers not only a dramatisation of Kenyan ghetto life, but a way to entertain its African audience while educating them about HIV and AIDS. Also featured: transcript from the Q&A with Kamau wa Ndung’u.
Long Road Student Reviews: The Yellow Sea
Long Road student reviewers James Doughty and Jack McCurdy offer their thoughts on The Yellow Sea, which screened at CFF2011 and is also part of this year’s London Korean Film Festival programme.
The Yellow Sea
Claire Henry reviewed YELLOW SEA, an “ambitious but very well executed bloodbath”, which was screened at CFF2011 and more recently at the London Korean Film Festival.
Notre Étrangère (The Place In Between)
Jim Ross reviews NOTRE ÉTRANGÈRE, an excellent but heartbreaking film screening at the Cambridge African Film Festival on Monday November 7th
Sound It Out and Analogue Kingdom
The SOUND IT OUT Documentary tour has started. The first Picturehouse Cinemas screening is this coming Tuesday in York. Follow the film’s Facebook page to keep up to date with tour details.
Koundi And The National Thursday
The villagers of Koundi in Cameroon have created their own communally cultivated cacao plantation as a way of alleviating their poverty independently. Turning away from typical NGO filmmaking, Ariane Atodji’s debut is a strong statement that Africa exists outside of the narrow, stereotypical lens of poverty, conflict and famine so often used to invoke it.
African Cinema and the London Film Festival
Mike Boyd was at the London Film Festival last week to take in some African cinema ahead of the Cambridge African Film Festival
Page One: Inside The New York Times
Jim Ross takes a look at Andrew Rossi’s journalism documentary PAGE ONE, following the employees of The New York Times.
Burnout (Abgebrannt)
Loreta Gandolfi reviews Verena Freytag’s emotionally charged portrayal of unconditional love and coming of age.