Spoilers ahoy – so not that ambiguous – but you may want to come back after you’ve watched it… (My review is here.) As a title, Bait works in several ways: fishing bait, as a metaphor to entice, and bait meaning to provoke. Martin the fisherman deliberately goads the incomers, while they as a group… Bait: ambiguous and ambivalent Read More
BFI At Home: The Lighthouse director Robert Eggers in conversation with Mark Jenkin, director of Bait
Put it in your diaries – 19:00 BST, Thursday 11 June on BFI YouTube! To celebrate the digital release of The Lighthouse, director Robert Eggers is joined by the BAFTA-winning director of Bait, Mark Jenkin – to discuss their influences, comparative working practises and creating magic with black and white celluloid. The Lighthouse is available to rent… BFI At Home: The Lighthouse director Robert Eggers in conversation with Mark Jenkin, director of Bait Read More
Director Mark Jenkin on Bait, his black and white Cornish classic-in-the-making
“There are shots in the film that I know were taken from rolls of film that I must have been processing when I was wearing a woolly jumper, because I can see the little bits of fibres.” Mark Jenkin on his film-making process. Bait, Jenkin’s beautiful and jolting film, looks at the gentrification of a… Director Mark Jenkin on Bait, his black and white Cornish classic-in-the-making Read More
The “Bait” trailer is here, and I will be carping on about it all summer
Okay that’s the only fish pun as I used them up in my review of Fisherman’s Friends. I saw Bait last week and I can confirm it is just as extraordinary (in a good way) as the quotes on the trailer say it is. There’s a magic to writer-director Mark Jenkin’s stunning film, combined with grittiness,… The “Bait” trailer is here, and I will be carping on about it all summer Read More