nicklacey

Nick Lacey is a freelance film and media teacher, based in UK. He is the author of several textbooks published by Palgrave Macmillan. He supports Everton and Lancashire.

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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

Review: Paul Sanchez Is Back! - Films - France/Belgium
Patricia Mazuy and the suggestive power of the news. A film with hints of social realism, the detective and western genres and some offbeat comedy
Isa Qosja returns to Montenegro - Production - Kosovo
The acclaimed Kosovar director is preparing his upcoming feature film by returning to his birthplace in Montenegro
A Violent Life wins at Vive le Cinéma - Festival - Italy/France
Two films that scooped up awards at the festival dedicated to French cinema in Lecce will be distributed in Italy
GoCritic! Feature: Terry Gilliam and his Don Quixote - GoCritic!
Susanne Gottlieb explores how The Man Who Killed Don Quixote fits and fares within Terry Gilliam's filmmaking career
Review: Year of the Monkey - Palić 2018 - Competition
Vladimir Blaževski offers a fundamentally humanistic, touching and colourful film about the escapades of a runaway chimpanzee and his friends across Macedonia
Gaspar Noé scoops the H.R. Giger “Narcisse” Award at NIFFF - NIFFF 2018 - Awards
The ever-provocative French director Gaspar Noé seduces Neuchâtel's international competition jury, chaired by David Cronenberg, with his film Climax
Gianni Di Gregorio on set again to direct Cittadini del mondo - Production – Italy/France
The shoot for the fourth feature by the director, who stars alongside Ennio Fantastichini and Giorgio Colangeli, has kicked off in Rome
Interview: Adele Tulli • Director - “I aim to generate perspectives to counter heteronormative narratives” - Karlovy Vary 2018 - Industry
KARLOVY VARY 2018: We met up with Italian filmmaker Adele Tulli, who won the Eurimages Lab Project Award at Karlovy Vary with her project Normal

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