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In the Fade (Aus dem Nichts, Germany-France 2017) January 12, 2019
This film by German-Turkish director Fatih Akin features a ‘powerhouse performance’ by Diane Kruger which won her the best female acting prize at Cannes in 2017. However, when the film went on release in the US and UK (it opened … Continue reading →
Casa de los babys (US-Mexico 2003) January 6, 2019
John Sayles has been away from UK cinema screens for a long time. I think Honeydripper was the last of his films to get a UK release back in 2008 . These days the ‘godfather of American Independent cinema’ is mostly … Continue reading →
Ciao Ciao (France-China 2017) November 20, 2018
Ciao Ciao is the latest DVD release from Matchbox Films and a welcome surprise. Matchbox Films pick up a diverse range of films, but not usually a film like this which comes with the support of a Cannes Cinéfondation ‘Atelier’ tag … Continue reading →
Spike Lee Joint 3: Four Little Girls (US 1997) November 7, 2018
I’ve been prompted by shootings of African-Americans in far too many incidents over the last few years to dig out some notes I used in 2003. The crime investigated in Four Little Girls, the Spike Lee documentary, is also alluded to … Continue reading →
The Girl Who Kicked in the Hornet’s Nest (Luftslottet som sprängdes, Sweden/Denmark/Germany 2009) October 4, 2018
(I discovered this in a pile of unpublished posts. I’m posting it now as a tribute to Mikael Nykvist who died ridiculously young (of lung cancer) at 56 in June 2017. I also note that a second ‘follow up’ title … Continue reading →
Purple Butterfly (Zi hudie, China-France 2003) September 25, 2018
MUBI has recently included several films by the Chinese auteur Lou Ye as part of its rolling monthly programme. They titled their mini-season of Lou’s films ‘Freedom and Defiance: The Cinema of Lou Ye’. Lou Ye (born 1965) made his … 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

Interview: Xavier Henry Rashid • Sales agent, Film Republic - "With Brexit, we have to reevaluate if we stay a UK company or not" - Berlin 2019 - EFM
BERLIN 2019: We chatted with Xavier Henry Rashid, sales agent at British company Film Republic, at the European Film Market
Filming wraps up on Une autre que moi by Marion Laine - Production - France
Sandrine Bonnaire stars alongside Brigitte Roüan, Aure Atika, Sarah Stern, Kenza Fortas and Alice Botté in an Apsara Films production sold by Pyramide
Interview: Virginie Devesa • Sales agent, Alpha Violet - "Eastern Europe is always very important for us" - Berlin 2019 - EFM
BERLIN 2019: We chatted with Virginie Devesa, sales agent at French company Alpha Violet, at the European Film Market
Interview: Jean-Christophe Simon • Sales agent, Films Boutique - "All the films are probably not for everybody" - Berlin 2019 - EFM
BERLIN 2019: We chatted with Jean-Christophe Simon, sales agent at German-French company Films Boutique, at the European Film Market
ACM Distribution launches new call for projects - Funding - France
The seventh call for applications for the funding component managed by the CNC, intended to support worldwide distribution of international co-productions, has been launched
Review: African Mirror - Berlin 2019 – Forum
BERLIN 2019: The feature debut by Swiss filmmaker Mischa Hedinger lifts the lid on how explorer René Gardi created a clichéd iconography of Africa and its native inhabitants
Interview: Pia Hellenthal, Eva Collé • Director and protagonist of Searching Eva - "We were really captured by Eva's honesty" - Berlin 2019 – Panorama
BERLIN 2019: We met up with Pia Hellenthal and Eva Collé, director and protagonist of Searching Eva, a documentary presented in the Panorama section
Interview: Eric Franssen • Head, Wallonie Bruxelles Images - "We are looking to enlarge our scale of collaborations with different territories" - Berlin 2019 - EFM
BERLIN 2019: Eric Franssen, head of Wallonie Bruxelles Images, the official agency for the audiovisual promotion of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation, talked to us at the EFM

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