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London Film Festival: Passenger Side
6th October 2009 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
Director: Matt Bissonnette
In a week filled with documentaries and experimental features, I was glad to find that the Friday afternoon screening at the first LFF press week was a laid-back, quirky, slacker road movie set in East LA with a soundtrack consisting of Dinosaur Jr, Wilco, Leonard Cohen, and a host of other indie rock legends.
Passenger Side is the story of Michael Brown (Adam Scott), who is awoken on the... -
London Film Festival: Trash Humpers
30th September 2009 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
Director: Harmony Korine
A film should, according to Godard, have a beginning, middle, and end (even if they aren’t in that particular order). I am, personally, a huge fan of this ideal. It is the careful structuring of a story that engages the audiences and whisks them away into the world of the characters.
I am willing to make allowances in certain cases: I would argue that many of John Cassavetes’ films... -
FutureShorts: Helping you save those precious, useless moments of downtime.
25th September 2009 | 1 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
I was having an argument with myself yesterday on the way home from work. It got quite heated. I was assessing the length of time it takes me to get home, and thus attempting to gauge roughly how much free time I would have before sleep stole me away for the night. I realised that it was perfectly possible to estimate the journey to a fairly accurate time-frame: between 50... -
Young@Heart: A gimmick that becomes a fable
23rd September 2009 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
For the first 45 minutes of this film I was wondering what the point of it was. I could easily appreciate the gimmick of seeing an aging choir from a rural American backwater touring the world with renditions of Jimi Hendrix, Radiohead, Sonic Youth, and the Clash (to name but a few); but I couldn’t understand why this justified a feature-length documentary.
The film seems, at first, more like an extended... -
John Hughes: A tribute to the mad genius of teen romance
10th August 2009 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
On 6th August 2009, one of the most important figures in the history of American cinema shuffled off this mortal coil while taking a quite walk in New York City. John Hughes may not have been a legend in everybody eyes – and he certainly won’t be remembered as an amiable character or an especially renowned artist – but he most undoubtedly was an icon, and a creator of icons.
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Frozen River: an icy tale to warm your heart
24th July 2009 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
Yesterday evening I had an unpleasant realisation… I had completely forgotten to watch Courtney Hunt’s much lauded debut feature, Frozen River. This was, of course, unacceptable. The last ‘promising’ female screenwriter to demand the attention of the Oscars was Diablo Cody, but on the assumption that the Oscar’s couldn’t be so disastrously wrong two years in a row, I decided to head over to the Odeon Panton Street to watch... -
Henry Poole Is Here: A failed ‘Indie’ movie, but a wonderful portrait of a pathetic hero
9th July 2009 | 7 comments | 1 person likes this
I seem to have developed something of a rebellious streak with regards my choice of films recently. After so many years of watching only the most critically acclaimed cinematic milestones (and the most ‘difficult-to-pronounce-in-their-original-language’ Michael Haneke films) my experience of ‘King of California’ has opened up a whole new world of lesser-known American ‘Indie’ films.
I was going to coin a phrase there – post-‘Indie’ – but as soon as you... -
King of California: A straight-to-DVD jewel!
6th July 2009 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
“Its still the middle of nowhere… there’s just more people here.”
I am what the UK Film Council’s survey on ‘UK Audiences and Indicators of Commercial Viability’ would refer to as a film ‘aficionado’. The word sounds complimentary – perhaps it’s just the Hispanic twang – but it really means ‘devoted amateur’.
This is essentially another way of saying that I am pretentious enough to watch foreign language and art house films,... -
Network: I’m mad as hell, and I’m not going to take it anymore!
2nd July 2009 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
“You do whatever the tube tells you! You dress like the tube, you eat like the tube, you raise your children like the tube, you even ‘think’ like the tube! This is mass madness, you maniacs! In God's name, YOU people are the real thing! WE are the illusion! So turn off your television sets. Turn them off now. Turn them off right now. Turn them off and leave them... -
Rudo y Cursi: A wolf dressed in screwball clothing
29th June 2009 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
Last night I was invited by The Script Factory to attend a special screening of ‘Rudo y Cursi’, followed by a Q&A with the film’s makers. ‘Rudo y Cursi’ is the directoral debut of ‘Y tu mamá también’ scribe Carlos Cuarón. It is also the first first film to be unveiled by the new Mexican production powerhouse, Cha Cha Cha Films.
It’s a new company but the names of the three...
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Nicholas Deigman
Nicholas graduated in 2008 after three carefree years reading Film Studies. He has since been eking out a living as a script reader, runner, and intern around various production companies and film magazines in London. He will be tapping into the film industry that he has attached himself to like an aphid in order to bring you up-to-date news on interesting film projects.
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