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12 April 2021
Interview with Audrey Jean-Baptiste and Maxime Jean-Baptiste, codirectors of Écoutez le battement de nos images
by Clotilde
Is your film mainly an account that you want handed down? How did you construct the voice-over?
The film is essentially tied to my desire to breathe life back into the things that disappeared when the Guiana Space Centre was set up in Kourou in the 60s. To script the voice-over, we dipped into our close networks. For example, our father’s , who’s from Guiana himself. So we were able to exchange ideas in a trusting atmosphere, which helped elicit memories. We also met people whose families’ (...) Continue Reading »
We caught up with actor Matt Houlihan to discuss his lockdown venture: the very successful YouTube "reaction" series A Brit Reacts To Bollywood. Matt, who was still working right up until last year’s first lockdown - playing Uncle Vanya on stage - talks about his discovery and growing love of Bollywood and Indian cinema, his foray into reaction videos and the impact on the pandemic on his work.
Matt’s top film pick for the week is White Tiger, on Netflix, about modern India and particularly (...) Continue Reading »
3 April 2021
Nomadland take 2: A reconfiguration of a terribly dysfunctional society.
by George Crosthwait
In 2011 the USG mine in Empire Nevada closed, effectively creating a ghost town. Caught in the wake of this collapse, Fern (Frances McDormand) has lost her job, her home and is reeling from her husband’s recent passing. Fern becomes part of the disparate and transient “nomad” community. The nomads are usually older, often solitary, Americans living on the road in cars, vans, and mobile homes, following seasonal work and forming short term convoys.
“What the nomads are doing is not that (...) Continue Reading »
23 March 2021
Our Picks + The Obituary Of Tunde Johnson
by Abla Kandalaft, Coco Green, Ryan Ormonde
This week, we are joined by poet and writer Ryan Ormonde to discuss Ali LeRoi’s feature film The Obituary Of Tunde Johnso and yet another Jack Black flick, Bernie.
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In Chloé Zhao’s 2020 docu-fiction, Frances McDormand plays a woman in her sixties whose financial circumstances force her out of her home and into a life on the road, roaming the country in a camper van in search of temporary work.
Nomadland (2020) is a romanticisation of misery. And for that reason, it is going to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. In an era where hopelessness is the norm and anxiety about our bleak future is prevalent among most of us, cultural productions such as (...) Continue Reading »
16 March 2021
Our Picks + Typical
by Abla Kandalaft, Anastasia Osei-Kuffour, Coco Green
We’re stretching things a bit this week to include filmed theatre: our guest is director Anastasia Osei-Kuffour whose latest production is Typical at the Soho Theatre (available to stream online). The play stars Richard Blackwood as Christopher Alder, a Black man who died in police custody in 1998.
The play, a monologue that’s halfway between poetry and rap recounting Christopher’s last day and the acts of racism he experiences leading up to his death, highlights issues around racial (...) Continue Reading »
1 March 2021
Interview with Zachary Woods, director of David
by Abla Kandalaft
Is David based on anyone you know?
Nope. My co-writer Brandon Gardner and I talked about lots of people we care about when we were writing. But there wasn’t one person in particular.
What gave you the idea of setting the story at a therapist’s?
My dad is a therapist and would sometimes get calls from patients in crisis when we were on family vacations. He’d have to walk far away, into the woods or down the beach or whatever, to talk to them. I always thought that must’ve been intense for (...) Continue Reading »
1 March 2021
Our Picks + Judas And The Black Messiah
by Abla Kandalaft, Coco Green
Highlights this week include the Glasgow Film Festival, entirely online, with its usual strong selection and carefully curated programmes, running from 24 February to 7 March and MLK/FBI is a 2020 American documentary directed by Sam Pollard who co-directed the 1987 doc Eyes on the Prize, which traces the FBI’s investigation of Martin Luther King. Obviously Eyes on the Prize comes up as we discuss our main film of the evening: Judas And The Black Messiah
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24 February 2021
Interview with Ibrahim Handal, director of Bethlehem 2001
by Abla Kandalaft
Why did you choose to revisit this – I presume traumatic – event as a short film?
Actually, I am still trying to understand what I have done and why. However, I have held in these memories and feelings throughout these years with the purpose of sharing them in a short film. Other filmmakers might have already told this story differently, but I tried to use my own memories to show events that have happened. These events might not even feel as traumatic anymore, because I shared them with the (...) Continue Reading »
24 February 2021
Interview with Sami Tlili, director of Hors-jeu flagrant [Obvious Offside]
by brasserieducourt.com, Elise Loiseau
Do you have a particular interest in football? In your opinion, what place does football have in Tunisia?
I am both a big fan of football as well as a critic of its excesses (the business of football, the political exploitation of football, the fanaticism of both the fans and the major actors in this sport, to cite a few examples). I often go to the stadium to watch my favorite team play but I don’t like to talk about football, and it annoys me when debates over football are put front and (...) Continue Reading »
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