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Shooting Michael Moore: A Fish in a Barrel
15th June 2010 | 4 comments | 3 people like this
A great documentary is an unbiased one. A great documentary can turn your brain inside out. It can kill thoughts which you were certain you would always have. They change minds and dispel myths, enrage nations and bring unseen beautiful people and stories in to peoples lives.
I guess my main problem with Michael Moore's feature documentaries was their obvious heavy approach, their set (and often painfully set up) pieces, the... -
The Cove: The Flipside of Flipper
18th December 2009 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
Richard O’Barry is the man who trained Flipper; The Lassie of the sea and surprisingly, in the opening moments of The Cove the man who believes that by sparking the public interest in these fascinating creatures, he is directly responsible for the way the species is treated, bought and sold today.
The Cove takes us to a small beach near Taiji, in Wakayama, Japan, which O’Barry has discovered is actually a... -
Little Scene: Rivers and Tides
16th October 2009 | 2 comments | 1 person likes this
"A lot of my work is like picking potatoes; you have to get into the rhythm of it."
-Andy Goldsworthy
Thomas Riedelsheimer's criminally unheard of documentary on British artist Andy Goldsworthy could be, for most people, just as much a test in patience as the process of making the works of art is for the artist. The pace of any film is dictated by character and if your only character is a...
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Neil Innes
Neil was born in the UK but weaned on cinema in the world's most isolated capital city (Perth, Australia). He moved to london in 2001 where he works as a film editor and writer. He has travelled widely and is passionate about cinema and music and can often be found waiting on line in the Brixton Sainbury's. This column is a little celluloid-like piece of him.
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