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Benjamin 4 stars☆☆☆☆☆

7th August 2019 by Sarah Cartland Leave a Comment

A second film, like a second album, is fraught with problems, but it also offers a rich seam of jokes, especially around the double edged sword that early success brings. “Ideally I’d have just made that film and died”, young filmmaker Benjamin tells his publicist, Billie about his first movie. “Is that not a good answer…?”… Benjamin Read More

Filed Under: Film Reviews Tagged With: anxiety, filmmaking, LGBT, love, media

The Isle: Tori and Matthew Butler-Hart on their spooky, siren drama…

9th July 2019 by Sarah Cartland Leave a Comment

“On the island… when something like a force nine gale hit, or a beach disappeared due to a storm, we couldn’t just stop filming, we didn’t have the luxury of time.” Three sailors, the sole survivors of a shipwreck on the rocks, find their way to shore through the mist. This is an island that shouldn’t… The Isle: Tori and Matthew Butler-Hart on their spooky, siren drama… Read More

Filed Under: Interviews, Support Indie Film Tagged With: filmmaking, indie film, the isle

Director-producer Rita Osei on her journey to bring Bliss! to the big screen

14th June 2019 by Sarah Cartland Leave a Comment

“A boy at the end of the Seville screening came up and said ‘I want to be a dad now. A real dad’.” Rita Osei is the director-producer of Bliss!, set in North East England and Norway. Bliss! follows Tasha, a 16 year old girl with a seemingly indifferent mother and a violent stepdad, who… Director-producer Rita Osei on her journey to bring Bliss! to the big screen Read More

Filed Under: Interviews Tagged With: bliss, diversity, film director, filmmaking, norway, rita osei, south shields, women directors, women in film

The Man Who Killed Don Quixote 3.5 stars☆☆☆☆☆

10th April 2019 by Sarah Cartland Leave a Comment

“This is a marvellous day for adventures!” says film director Toby as Gilliam’s highly enjoyable film meanders to a close, by which point Toby has finally found a rarely-reached freedom. A hot, sweaty buddy movie, both dreamy and nightmarish, little is as it seems in The Man Who Killed Don Quixote. Gilliam’s film is based… The Man Who Killed Don Quixote Read More

Filed Under: Film Reviews Tagged With: chivalry, don quixote, filmmaking, sancho panza, spain

“Intensive Care” director Jared Bentley: “it’s been a long road. Finally I just said this is dumb, let’s get a movie made”

31st January 2019 by Sarah Cartland Leave a Comment

Amid a career spanning filming The Jacksons on world tours to making videos for Rotten Tomatoes and Fandango, Jared Bentley recently made his first feature film – the action crime comedy Intensive Care. Made for only $75,000 and with a very tight two week shoot, the film stars hugely successful stuntwoman Tara Macken in her… “Intensive Care” director Jared Bentley: “it’s been a long road. Finally I just said this is dumb, let’s get a movie made” Read More

Filed Under: Interviews, Stunts, Support Indie Film Tagged With: filmmaking, indie films, jacksons, special effects, stunts

Smartphone Filmmaking

1st December 2018 by Sarah Cartland Leave a Comment

“You can be much more guerrilla with your filming, you can just film in a train or a cafe” director Simon Horrocks. Smartphone filmmaking is making waves in the industry. But what does it involve for directors, and what does it mean for actors? How can you harness its artistic capabilities and what about its… Smartphone Filmmaking Read More

Filed Under: Smartphones Tagged With: AAA, filmmaking, iPhone filmmaking, simon horrocks, smartphone films, smartphones, unsane, you have been chosen, zoe cunningham

Redoubtable 3.5 stars☆☆☆☆☆

31st August 2018 by Sarah Cartland Leave a Comment

I wouldn’t exactly say that Redoubtable is set to the backdrop of the 1968 Paris unrest. The revolutionary fervour that swept the city in May that year is used more as a prop for Jean-Luc Godard in particular scenes, and like the director himself the film pops in and out of marches, stone throwing and… Redoubtable Read More

Filed Under: Film Reviews Tagged With: 1968, Anne Wiazemsky, filmmaking, france, french new wave, jean-luc godard, marriage, paris

“Mobile Homes” Director Vladimir De Fontenay On Home-Making, Film-Making, & Losing All His Worldly Goods

13th July 2018 by Sarah Cartland Leave a Comment

“Film-making is points of view, it’s confrontations of points of views on things. And somehow, being an observer, you’re inside but you’re also kind of outside.” Vladimir De Fontenay Mobile Homes follows young mother Ali (Imogen Poots), as she tries to escape her aggressive boyfriend Evan (Callum Turner) for a better life with her 8 year… “Mobile Homes” Director Vladimir De Fontenay On Home-Making, Film-Making, & Losing All His Worldly Goods Read More

Filed Under: Interviews Tagged With: director, filmmaking, imogen poots, mobile homes, outsider, trailer park, vladimir de fontenay

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