For some, filmmaking is the best, if not the only, way to keep on the right track in life. It definitely worked out for Kim Longinotto, who is now considered one of Britain’s pre-eminent documentary […]
DOCUMENTARY
Dir: Boris Malagurski By Charlie Roberson The Weight of Chains is a 2010 documentary from Serbian national Boris Malagurski examining the break-up of Yugoslavia and the bloody conflicts that came with it. It uses […]
(Sundance London Film Festival 2014) Dir: Todd Douglas Miller By: Oliver Thom Until the discovery of a T. Rex christened “Sue” by a pack of lovable dino nerds in a South Dakota cliff face, only […]
Dir: Dan Cutforth, Jane Lipsitz By Weerada Sucharitkul Sundance Film Festival review If a film could bring to life one of the world’s largest dance festival, then Under the Electric Sky (EDC 2013) would be […]
Dir: Visra Vichit Vadakan Karaoke Girl, a debut feature film by a Thai female director Visra Vichit Vadakan, stands out as a story of an escort girl in Bangkok, told without moralizing or reproach. In […]
By Oliver Thom “F-ck, f-ck, f-ck, f-ck! We are so fucked! F——c-k!“ A featurette turned feature length fly-on-the-wall documentary, Lost in La Mancha is the last survivor of a filmmaking train-wreck for the ages, a film […]