DANCE TOWN brings a snowy rallentando to Jeon’s trilogy which began with ANIMAL TOWN and MOZART TOWN. Each film looks at Korean life through the eyes of urban misfits who have been excluded from, or simply ignored by the rest of society.
Rosy Hunt reviews E.A. Dupont’s Piccadilly, which is screened on 12 November as part of Silent London’s silent film season at West London Trade Union Club.
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.
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.
Rosy Hunt reviews Martin Bargiel’s short psycho-thriller AUGENBLICKE
Rosy Hunt reviews Gil Kofman’s directorial debut THE MEMORY THIEF, a character study in guileless, earnest obsession.
Rosy Hunt reviews this claustrophobic, clever take on the shuffling undead genre.
First-time director Jonathan Furmanski has been a fan of the controversial singer/songwriter Clarence “Blowfly” Reid since high school. His documentary “The Weird World of Blowfly” isn’t just a showcase for the unsung grandaddy of rap – it also features some fascinating off-stage character studies.
Photographer, film maker and blogger Danny Lyon was BORN TO FILM, and this is the title of his legacy cum genealogical tribute. Lyon courts immortality with a studied, choreographed and yet engagingly honest record of his own son’s boyhood, intercut with stills from his father Ernst’s photograph album.
There were no empty seats at the showing of THE THIRD MAN, the highlight of The Spying Game programme. The film is more freckled than it once was, and glitching slightly, but still retains its original guile and vigour.
