Monthly Archives: March, 2017

The Global Film Book Blog

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 […]
Hotel Salvation (Mukti Bhawan, India (Hindi) 2017) August 28, 2017
Hotel Salvation is the latest Indian Independent film to successfully tour film festivals worldwide and now receive a limited general release in the UK. It was first launched at the Venice Film Festival last year. Its young (25 year-old) writer-director Shubhashish Bhutiani had already won prizes with Kesh (2013), his thesis film short from New … Continue re […]
Cloud-Capped Star (Meghe Dhaka Tara, India (Bengal) 1960) July 14, 2017
Cloud-Capped Star is the first film in Bengali director Ritwik Ghatak’s trilogy about the partition of Bengal in 1947 and its aftermath. It could be argued that all of Ghatak’s features between 1952 and 1977, when his last work was released posthumously, were concerned with the partition, but it is the trilogy that has been … Continue reading →

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

MPM Premium aims to sell Rafiki - Cannes 2018 - Market
The French company will be touching down at Cannes to sell the film by Kenyan director Wanuri Kahiu, co-produced by Europe and due to be unveiled in the Un Certain Regard section
French VR crosses the Atlantic with French Immersion - Industry – France/USA
The new programme initiated by the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the USA, in partnership with UniFrance, the CNC and the Institut Français, aims to promote VR productions in the USA
Review: Genesis 2.0 - Visions du Réel 2018
Christian Frei and Maxim Arbugaev's new film imagines a somewhat bizarre future that looms on the horizon like a treacherous and feverish threat
Jens Lien’s sci-fi series Beforeigners gets funded by NFI - Television - Norway
Created by the Lilyhammer writing duo, Anne Bjørnstad and Eilif Skodvin, and produced by Rubicon TV, this is the first Norwegian Original Series for HBO Nordic
Review: Srbenka - Visions du Réel 2018
Nebojša Slijepčević's eagerly anticipated documentary on the controversial murder of a 12-year-old girl explores the issue through work on a theatre play about the same subject
Netflix presents a new batch of European series, and produces an Italian film - Production - Europe
Netflix announces plans for 55 new non-American productions, including European projects such as the TV series Money Heist, The Wave, Luna Nera and Antonio Morabito’s new film
The Trial triumphs at Visions du Réel - Visions du Réel 2018 – Awards
Other winners include Island of the Hungry Ghosts and The Still Life of Harley Prosper; Chaco has won Best Swiss Film, while the Audience Award went to When Arabs Danced
87 French productions on show in Hollywood - Festivals – France/USA
The 22nd edition of the COLCOA (City of Lights, City of Angels) festival is unspooling in Los Angeles from 23-30 April

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