Open City Documentary Festival review Director: Wang Bing Wang Bing, one of China’s most prolific documentarians, continues to relentlessly lay bare the reality of contemporary China; something that state-endorsed blockbusters try arduously to avoid. Filmed in […]
Director: Hugo Bousquet Watch Beyond Here on FilmDoo Beyond Here opens with a quote by the French historian and anthropologist, Jean-Pierre Vernant: “There is some of Hestia in Hermes and some of Hermes in Hestia. For a […]
Director: Eiji Uchida Watch Lowlife Love on FilmDoo Like Hitchcock’s Vertigo and Michael Powell’s Peeping Tom, Eiji Uchida’s Lowlife Love thrives on the psychosexual and metacinematic underpinnings of what some academic types might refer to as ‘the […]
Director: Dome Karukoski East End Film Festival 2017 review Watch Tom of Finland on FilmDoo Dome Karukoski’s decades-spanning biopic, Tom of Finland, is a gradual emergence from the darkness for a man, a way of life and an […]
Directors: Donald Mugisha and James Taylor Watch The Boda Boda Thieves on FilmDoo For their feature film The Boda Boda Thieves (2015), duo Donald Mugisha and James Taylor set out to create a tribute to Vittorio De […]
By Freddy Gelati-Meinert Director: Feng Xiaogang Feng Xiaogang’s films are not just films, they are cultural events. Famed for repeatedly directing the blockbusters which China sits down to in their collective 1.3 billion to ring in the […]
