Monthly Archives: March, 2017

The Global Film Book Blog

The Nile Hilton Incident (Sweden-Denmark-Germany 2017) May 15, 2018
The Nile Hilton Incident is an intriguing film, not only in its presentation of an exciting crime thriller in a precise location, but also as a film production which invokes a specific kind of response. In its own way it’s the perfect case study for ideas about global film. This film is a product of … Continue reading →
Gholam (UK-Iran 2017) April 26, 2018
This unusual film places a major Iranian star actor, known in the West for three leading roles in the films of Asghar Farhadi, into a downbeat slow-paced thriller set in parts of North London. The director is Mitra Tabrizian, Professor of Photography at the University of Westminster whose 2005 exhibition ‘Border’ appears to have been … Continue reading → […]
Las Plantas (Plants, Chile 2015) March 26, 2018
Chilean cinema has certainly developed in recent years. This month a Chilean film won the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar and here is a first-time writer-director Roberto Doveris creating an unusual coming-of-age story which succeeds on several levels. A weird and wonderful tale, Las Plantas combines genres and ideas that don’t always cohere, but the … Cont […]
Godspeed (Yi Lu Shun Feng, Taiwan 2016) February 21, 2018
This year’s Chinese New Year screening at HOME Manchester presented by the Chinese Film Forum UK and the Confucius Institute at The University of Manchester, was a Taiwanese film. We’ve had a variety of features over the last few years in Manchester and they have usually been films that haven’t been acquired for UK release. … Continue reading →
Ek Tha Tiger (India (Hindi) 2012) January 12, 2018
Ek Tha Tiger introduced the pairing of Salman Khan and Katrina Kaif as ‘super spies’ in a Hindi cinema blockbuster for Eid 2012 that became a big commercial hit. It’s interesting to re-visit now that the sequel has been similarly successful after release during the Christmas period of 2017. Though both films are instantly recognisable … Continue reading → […]
Ordinary Heroes (Qian yan wan yu, Hong Kong (Cantonese) 1999) October 23, 2017
‘Creative Visions’ is the title of the latest celebration of Hong Kong Cinema at HOME in Manchester (continuing a series of celebrations that started during the cinema’s previous incarnation as Cornerhouse). This latest short season of films presents work from 1997-2017, twenty years since the handover of Hong Kong back to China. HOME’s seasons come … Contin […]

Media Student’s Book Blog

Balancing left and right
The Labour leadership election appears to have got the UK press and broadcasting media in a real tizz. One of the most aggravating aspects of the reporting is the constant appendage of ‘left-wing’ to any reference to Jeremy Corbyn. He is … Continue reading →
Defining the other
The 10th anniversary of the ‘7/7 bombings’ in 2005 in London saw a range of remembrance events across the UK. These resulted in a great deal of media coverage. One BBC radio reporter referred to the four young bombers and … Continue reading →
Getting the balance right
The local elections in England last week produced two examples of quandaries for broadcasters. The big story for the BBC and other commentators was the rise of the UK Independence Party (UKIP), led by a curiously charismatic Nigel Farage. UKIP are … Continue reading →
Welsh TV noir: Hinterland (UK 2013)
Hinterland is a good example of the global/local. Like some other modern states the UK has statutory requirements and cultural policies that protect the other languages in the Home Nations and this means support for both Welsh and Gaelic broadcasters … Continue reading →

Cineuropa

FEST returns to Espinho - Festivals – Portugal
Portuguese documentary Lupo by Pedro Lino nabs a spot in the main competition, while Asghar Farhadi is delivering a masterclass as part of the Training Ground programme
Films and professionals flock to the 21st Shanghai Film Festival - Shanghai 2018
European films to feature in all three strands of the Chinese festival’s main competition this year
Anchor and Hope sets sails from Valletta on a wave of victory - Valletta 2018
The festival's 4th edition saw Spain's Carlos Marques-Marcet walk away with the top prize, while Gabrielle Brady’s Island of the Hungry Ghosts triumphed in the Best Documentary category
Funan triumphs at Annecy - Annecy 2018 - Awards
Denis Do wins the Crystal Prize for Best Feature Film, while the Jury Prize and Audience Prize go to The Breadwinner by Irish director Nora Twomey
Review: Welcome to Sodom - Valletta 2018
Austrian directors Florian Weigensamer and Christian Krönes document life at the world’s largest e-waste dump in Ghana through powerful imagery and the voices of the people who live there
Review: The Poetess - Valletta 2018
The documentary by German directors Stefanie Brockhaus and Andreas Wolff portrays modern-day Islamic society through the bravery of the poet Hissa Hilal
Interview: Anna de Manincor • Director - "CERN is a place of absolute privilege and pure research" - Biografilm 2018
Director Anna de Manincor from the ZimmerFrei collective talks about her documentary about CERN, Almost Nothing, which won an award at Nyon and is screening at the 14th Biografilm in Bologna
Filming kicks off on Xavier de Choudens’ Damien veut changer le monde - Production - France
Franck Gastambide, Melisa Sözen, Camille Lellouche and Gringe star in this Agat Films & Cie production, which is due to be sold by WTFilms

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	Mimic Hootings on Der traumhafte Weg (The Dreame…
	John David Hall on The Radical Film Network

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