Tea Time opens with painted half-smiles on porcelain dolls, mint green buttercream and sugar pearls, strawberries, cherries, and slices of lemon. Women wear floral blouses, tweed jackets, long gold chains strung with turquoise beads, crucifix (…) Continue Reading »

Duncan Cowles a réalisé tout a fait par accident un court qui totalise maintenant presque 400 000 vues sur Youtube, et qui a été sélectionné dans les meilleurs festivals de Grande Bretagne, LSFF et Glasgow entre autre. Hier soir Doc Heads organisait une soirée de projection au Monty’s Bar a Brick Lane. L’occasion de voir une série de courts documentaires présentés par leur réalisateur, puis (…) Lire la suite »

The East End Film Festival is still going strong, still showcasing an incredibly eclectic selection of first and second films, shorts, docs and other cinematic gems. The full programme is available on the festival’s website. We will be (…) Continue Reading »

This is one for the francophones amongst you.... Calling La Ligne de Couleur a documentary about the French “minority” experience would be reductive. It is this and much more. It is also a quietly moving and intimate collection of personal (…) Continue Reading »

Young children are often very receptive to new ideas. In 1987 when my favourite toy was adapted into a Hollywood movie ’Masters of The Universe’ I lapped it up, even though the film played fast and loose with the He-Man story so familiar to me from the cartoons, tapes and books I made my mum buy me along with all those brightly coloured, muscly figurines. The hyper-consumerist 1980s was a (…) Continue Reading »

The film opens on an interview with Elliott, his voice characteristically unassuming, sincere and generous in spirit. "I’m the wrong kind of person," he says, "to be really big and famous." However, throughout we learn he did enjoy a certain (…) Continue Reading »

‘The Exhibitionists’ is a collection of films about collections. The series brings together four cinematic portraits of European museums; the Kunsthistorisches museum in Vienna, the National Gallery in London, Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum and The (…) Continue Reading »

Chris Rock gives an updated twist to the boy-meets-girl story here, playing Andre Allen, a not-so-funny-anymore-since-getting-sober comedian, as he promotes his first serious film ’Uprize’ on its opening night to a disinterested public. Gaining attention for a movie about the largest slave uprising in the New World is almost impossible and it’s clear from Andre’s promotional rounds that no (…) Continue Reading »

A campaign to save a legendary nightclub is the theme of two separate documentaries depicting the fight to save community and history from their demolition by property developers. The Starlite in Brooklyn, New York is the subject of Kate Kunath and Sasha Wortzel’s We Came To Sweat while the ongoing fight to Save the Tavern (specifically the Royal Vauxhall Tavern in South London) is the impetus (…) Continue Reading »

The Reed Short Film Awards were hosted by writer, TV and radio presenter and all-round funnyman Danny Wallace, who was certainly on top form last night. Introducing the shortlisted films, Wallace took the opportunity to celebrate the short format and the "admirable struggles" of short film makers ("making a short film is like watching a Danny Dyer film: awful"). The first screening of the (…) Continue Reading »