Dave Lawrie Aug 4, 2017
Blackfish, The Act Of Killing - we celebrate the great documentaries distributed by the UK's Dogwoof...
Did you know that around 20 percent of the films released in the UK are documentaries? It’s a surprisingly large figure. I think the reason behind it might be that ‘documentary’ is considered to be a genre in and of itself. “And the Academy Award for best documentary feature goes to…”. They're all lumped into the same bracket. Also, they're relatively cheap to make and can be assembled independently by a team of only a few people. Success at the box office is often down on the priorities list for creators wanting to spread a message, tell a story or get a point across and, when they only need to recoup that small amount to be considered successful, documentary cinema becomes fertile ground for ambitions to grow in.
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Blackfish, The Act Of Killing - we celebrate the great documentaries distributed by the UK's Dogwoof...
Did you know that around 20 percent of the films released in the UK are documentaries? It’s a surprisingly large figure. I think the reason behind it might be that ‘documentary’ is considered to be a genre in and of itself. “And the Academy Award for best documentary feature goes to…”. They're all lumped into the same bracket. Also, they're relatively cheap to make and can be assembled independently by a team of only a few people. Success at the box office is often down on the priorities list for creators wanting to spread a message, tell a story or get a point across and, when they only need to recoup that small amount to be considered successful, documentary cinema becomes fertile ground for ambitions to grow in.
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- 8/3/2017
- Den of Geek
With a seemingly endless amount of streaming options — not only the titles at our disposal, but services themselves — we’ve taken it upon ourselves to highlight the titles that have recently hit platforms. Every week, one will be able to see the cream of the crop (or perhaps some simply interesting picks) of streaming titles (new and old) across platforms such as Netflix, iTunes, Amazon, and more (note: U.S. only). Check out our rundown for this week’s selections below.
David Lynch: The Art Life (Jon Nguyen, Rick Barnes, and Olivia Neergaard-Holm)
Before David Lynch was a filmmaker, he was a struggling painter, whose lifeblood was to “drink coffee, smoke cigarettes, and paint.” That’s what he dubbed “the art life,” and what an image – as featured in the many contemporary photos seen in this new documentary – it is, the bequiffed 20-something Lynch sitting back in his Philadelphia studio,...
David Lynch: The Art Life (Jon Nguyen, Rick Barnes, and Olivia Neergaard-Holm)
Before David Lynch was a filmmaker, he was a struggling painter, whose lifeblood was to “drink coffee, smoke cigarettes, and paint.” That’s what he dubbed “the art life,” and what an image – as featured in the many contemporary photos seen in this new documentary – it is, the bequiffed 20-something Lynch sitting back in his Philadelphia studio,...
- 6/30/2017
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
So cinema is dying again. The streaming incomes of Amazon and Netflix will overtake theatrical box office in the next few years, we’re told. As they were in the 1950s and 1980s, movies are on their last legs. But just as TV and VHS gave a new life to movies, and brought them to new audiences, maybe with streaming will follow suit. This week, my own documentary “A Story of Children and Film” will premiere on the streaming service FilmStruck, along with my selection of some amazing movies about kids from around the world that very few Americans have previously had the chance to see. So once again, what seems like the latest death knell for cinema is perhaps just another stage in its path to adulthood.
If cinema survives, it will perhaps be for an unexpected reason. We’re so used to fearing the end of film, and...
If cinema survives, it will perhaps be for an unexpected reason. We’re so used to fearing the end of film, and...
- 6/20/2017
- by Mark Cousins
- Indiewire
Mark Cousins’ cine-essay for BBC Storyville to mark the 70th anniversary of the Hiroshima bomb falls short as straight documentary or visual poetry
Mark Cousins’ epic Story of Film reinforced his credentials as a fine, intuitive advocate for cinema. But his efforts to straddle the gap between interpreter and creator remain fitful. His otherwise enlivening A Story of Children and Film, from (2013) was bogged down by awkwardly indulgent digicam sections with his family. Other would-be lateral jeux d’esprits fall flat in this BBC Storyville cine-essay touring small UK cinemas to mark the 70th anniversary of the dropping of the first atomic bomb. The early montage of mushrooming cells and sprouting seeds is a bit pat: life over death, man! Soundtracked by Mogwai’s doomy lull, the archival collage that follows – Hiroshima, cold-war paranoia, Cnd marches, Chernobyl, nuclear medicine and much else – contains lots of Google fodder. Steadfastly unanalytic, it...
Mark Cousins’ epic Story of Film reinforced his credentials as a fine, intuitive advocate for cinema. But his efforts to straddle the gap between interpreter and creator remain fitful. His otherwise enlivening A Story of Children and Film, from (2013) was bogged down by awkwardly indulgent digicam sections with his family. Other would-be lateral jeux d’esprits fall flat in this BBC Storyville cine-essay touring small UK cinemas to mark the 70th anniversary of the dropping of the first atomic bomb. The early montage of mushrooming cells and sprouting seeds is a bit pat: life over death, man! Soundtracked by Mogwai’s doomy lull, the archival collage that follows – Hiroshima, cold-war paranoia, Cnd marches, Chernobyl, nuclear medicine and much else – contains lots of Google fodder. Steadfastly unanalytic, it...
- 10/20/2016
- by Phil Hoad
- The Guardian - Film News
Twenty-two emerging producers to receive up to £2.2m; almost 500 applicants.Scroll Down For Recipients
The BFI has announced the recipients of its 2016-18 Vision Awards, comprising 22 investments in up-and-coming UK producers.
The awards, generally spread over two years, are designed to enable producers to build and develop their companies, slates and creative relationships.
The BFI had intended to give 20 awards but increased that allocation to 22 in response to the number of strong applications it received. Almost 500 companies applied for the awards, which are backed by a total commitment from the BFI of £2.2m of National Lottery funding.
Fifteen of the awards are to women producers or partnerships, while eight of the companies are based outside of London, located in Belfast, Cardiff, Glasgow, Hull, Leeds, Manchester, Sheffield and York.
In a bid to foster sustainability, the third iteration of the Vision Awards will include an allowance to cover a producer’s fees and overheads of up to half...
The BFI has announced the recipients of its 2016-18 Vision Awards, comprising 22 investments in up-and-coming UK producers.
The awards, generally spread over two years, are designed to enable producers to build and develop their companies, slates and creative relationships.
The BFI had intended to give 20 awards but increased that allocation to 22 in response to the number of strong applications it received. Almost 500 companies applied for the awards, which are backed by a total commitment from the BFI of £2.2m of National Lottery funding.
Fifteen of the awards are to women producers or partnerships, while eight of the companies are based outside of London, located in Belfast, Cardiff, Glasgow, Hull, Leeds, Manchester, Sheffield and York.
In a bid to foster sustainability, the third iteration of the Vision Awards will include an allowance to cover a producer’s fees and overheads of up to half...
- 8/24/2016
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Keen to differentiate his latest work from recent academic film essays such as The Story of Film: An Odyssey and A Story of Children and Film, Mark Cousins switches his own telltale narration for that of a woman, Helen Bereen, who he has rather unusually cast as Belfast itself. Encouraging the city to speak for herself, he proceeds
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- 2/29/2016
- by Steven Neish
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Exclusive: Documentary played in competition at Karlovy Vary.
Jan Naszewski’s Warsaw-based sales outlet New Europe Film Sales has picked up world sales rights to Mark Cousins’ documentary, I Am Belfast.
In the film, the Northern Ireland city is personified by a 10,000 year old woman who reveals its story. Themes brought up in the film range from the landscapes surrounding the city, its changing architecture and social structure to the political and personal repercussions of the Northern Irish conflict.
The feature, with a score by composer David Holmes (Ocean’s Eleven), received its world premiere as the opening feature of the Belfast Film Festival in April and played in the documentary competition of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in July.
Cousins previous documentaries include A Story of Children and Film (2013), The Story of Film: An Odyssey (2011) and The First Movie (2009).
I Am Belfast is a co-production between Hopscotch Films and Canderblinks Films. It was funded...
Jan Naszewski’s Warsaw-based sales outlet New Europe Film Sales has picked up world sales rights to Mark Cousins’ documentary, I Am Belfast.
In the film, the Northern Ireland city is personified by a 10,000 year old woman who reveals its story. Themes brought up in the film range from the landscapes surrounding the city, its changing architecture and social structure to the political and personal repercussions of the Northern Irish conflict.
The feature, with a score by composer David Holmes (Ocean’s Eleven), received its world premiere as the opening feature of the Belfast Film Festival in April and played in the documentary competition of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in July.
Cousins previous documentaries include A Story of Children and Film (2013), The Story of Film: An Odyssey (2011) and The First Movie (2009).
I Am Belfast is a co-production between Hopscotch Films and Canderblinks Films. It was funded...
- 8/24/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
From the Pudsey The Dog movie to Joe Cornish and Roger Ebert, what happens when critics make films themselves?
Arts critics tend to get a rough time of it in the movies. Even looking at this year's awards season hopefuls, Birdman casts a wonderfully scabrous Lindsay Duncan as a theatre critic who is determined to kill the hero's play, and Mr. Turner presents John Ruskin as a lisping, pretentious fop, a representation that has led some to take mild umbrage.
To look even further back, at Ratatouille's sneering Anton Ego, or Lady In The Water's film-savvy 'straw critic', or Theatre Of Blood's gleefully murderous tract, there's not a whole lot of love for critics in film. Any of this might give way to the preconception that critics, especially film critics, don't actually like films and that they're out of touch with both the filmmakers whose works they...
Arts critics tend to get a rough time of it in the movies. Even looking at this year's awards season hopefuls, Birdman casts a wonderfully scabrous Lindsay Duncan as a theatre critic who is determined to kill the hero's play, and Mr. Turner presents John Ruskin as a lisping, pretentious fop, a representation that has led some to take mild umbrage.
To look even further back, at Ratatouille's sneering Anton Ego, or Lady In The Water's film-savvy 'straw critic', or Theatre Of Blood's gleefully murderous tract, there's not a whole lot of love for critics in film. Any of this might give way to the preconception that critics, especially film critics, don't actually like films and that they're out of touch with both the filmmakers whose works they...
- 1/22/2015
- by simonbrew
- Den of Geek
The Glasgow Youth Film Festival team. Photo: Stuart Crawford
The Glasgow Youth Film Festival opened this afternoon with a family gala screening of Mr. Peabody And Mr. Sherman, the story of a brilliant inventor who also happens to be a dog. With a gala showing of youth punk hit We Are The Best! scheduled for tonight, it's already pulling in the crowds.
Film highlights this year include Mark Cousins documentary A Story Of Children And Film, thoughtful odyssey Stand Clear Of The Closing Doors and much-loved comedy horror classic Beetlejuice.
Special events this year include a movie poster design workshop, a cosplay red carpet parade and a comedy writing master class with Burnistoun alumnus and first time film director Robert Florence. There will also be a closing night showcase of local bands for the over-12s, with visual contributions from Edinburgh experimental filmmaker Ania Urbanowska.
The festival runs until 12 February.
The Glasgow Youth Film Festival opened this afternoon with a family gala screening of Mr. Peabody And Mr. Sherman, the story of a brilliant inventor who also happens to be a dog. With a gala showing of youth punk hit We Are The Best! scheduled for tonight, it's already pulling in the crowds.
Film highlights this year include Mark Cousins documentary A Story Of Children And Film, thoughtful odyssey Stand Clear Of The Closing Doors and much-loved comedy horror classic Beetlejuice.
Special events this year include a movie poster design workshop, a cosplay red carpet parade and a comedy writing master class with Burnistoun alumnus and first time film director Robert Florence. There will also be a closing night showcase of local bands for the over-12s, with visual contributions from Edinburgh experimental filmmaker Ania Urbanowska.
The festival runs until 12 February.
- 2/2/2014
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
The Glasgow Youth Film Festival team for 2014 Photo: Stuart Crawford
Screening films chosen by young people for young people, the Glasgow Youth Film Festival, which precedes the main festival in February, is one of the biggest youth cinema events in Europe. Today it announced its 2014 line-up, with The Dirties heading up a a selection which ranges from animated spookfest ParaNorman to Mark Cousins' insightful documentary A Story Of Children And Film.
"Although a lot of the films in our programme are about teenage life, we’re not just putting on a bunch of Ferris Bueller rip-offs," said 16 year old programmer Matthew Cairns. "The issues, and the quality of films in our programme, are real and relevant. We’ve got a film as haunting, brilliant and raw as The Dirties, alongside Leave To Remain, which deals with issues affecting teenage asylum seekers in the UK right now. Other films in...
Screening films chosen by young people for young people, the Glasgow Youth Film Festival, which precedes the main festival in February, is one of the biggest youth cinema events in Europe. Today it announced its 2014 line-up, with The Dirties heading up a a selection which ranges from animated spookfest ParaNorman to Mark Cousins' insightful documentary A Story Of Children And Film.
"Although a lot of the films in our programme are about teenage life, we’re not just putting on a bunch of Ferris Bueller rip-offs," said 16 year old programmer Matthew Cairns. "The issues, and the quality of films in our programme, are real and relevant. We’ve got a film as haunting, brilliant and raw as The Dirties, alongside Leave To Remain, which deals with issues affecting teenage asylum seekers in the UK right now. Other films in...
- 12/13/2013
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Apart from the three sneak screening titles that will stir up the buzz in the coming days, Julie Huntsinger and Tom Luddy’s 40th edition of the Telluride Film Festival excels in bringing a concentration of solid docus from the likes of Errol Morris and Werner Herzog who this year cuts the ribbon on a theatre going by his name and introduces Death Row, a pinch of Berlin Film Fest items (Gloria, Slow Food Story, Fifi Howls from Happiness) Palme d’Or winner (this year Abdellatif Kechiche will be celebrated), upcoming Sony Pictures Classics items (Tim’s Vermeer, The Lunchbox), Venice to Telluride to Tiff titles (Bethlehem, Tracks and Under the Skin), the latest Jason Reitman film (Labor Day) and the barely known docu-home-movie whodunit (by helmers Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine) The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden which features narration from the likes of Cate Blanchett, Diane Kruger and Connie Nielsen.
- 8/28/2013
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
New work from Errol Morris and Frederick Wiseman will screen in the Toronto International Film Festival’s Tiff Docs strand, while City To City spotlights Athens and Alex Aja’s Horns is among the Vanguard offerings.
Festival staff remind readers that the following listing is not complete or final and is subject to change.
Premieres key
Wp = World PremiereIP = International PremiereNAP = North American PremiereCP = Canadian PremiereTIFF Docs
A Story Of Children And Film
Mark Cousins (UK) Nap
Ain’t Misbehavin’
Marcel Ophüls (France) Nap
At Berkeley
Frederick Wiseman (Us) Nap
Beyond The Edge
Leanne Pooley (New Zealand) Wp
Burt’s Buzz
Jody Shapiro (Canada) Wp
The Dark Matter Of Love
Sarah McCarthy (UK) Nap
The Dog
Allison Berg and Frank Keraudren (Us) Wp
Faith Connections
Pan Nalin (France/India) Wp
Filthy Gorgeous: The Bob Guccione Story
Barry Avrich (Canada) Wp
Finding Vivian Maier
John Maloof and Charlie Siskel (Us) Wp
Hi-Ho Mistahey!
Alanis Obomsawin (Canada...
Festival staff remind readers that the following listing is not complete or final and is subject to change.
Premieres key
Wp = World PremiereIP = International PremiereNAP = North American PremiereCP = Canadian PremiereTIFF Docs
A Story Of Children And Film
Mark Cousins (UK) Nap
Ain’t Misbehavin’
Marcel Ophüls (France) Nap
At Berkeley
Frederick Wiseman (Us) Nap
Beyond The Edge
Leanne Pooley (New Zealand) Wp
Burt’s Buzz
Jody Shapiro (Canada) Wp
The Dark Matter Of Love
Sarah McCarthy (UK) Nap
The Dog
Allison Berg and Frank Keraudren (Us) Wp
Faith Connections
Pan Nalin (France/India) Wp
Filthy Gorgeous: The Bob Guccione Story
Barry Avrich (Canada) Wp
Finding Vivian Maier
John Maloof and Charlie Siskel (Us) Wp
Hi-Ho Mistahey!
Alanis Obomsawin (Canada...
- 7/30/2013
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
New work from Errol Morris and Frederick Wiseman will screen in the Toronto International Film Festival’s Tiff Docs strand, while City To City spotlights Athens and Alex Aja’s Horns is among the Vanguard offerings.
Festival staff remind readers that the following listing is not complete or final and is subject to change.
Premieres key
Wp = World PremiereIP = International PremiereNAP = North American PremiereCP = Canadian PremiereTIFF Docs
A Story Of Children And Film
Mark Cousins (UK) Nap
Ain’t Misbehavin’
Marcel Ophüls (France) Nap
At Berkeley
Frederick Wiseman (Us) Nap
Beyond The Edge
Leanne Pooley (New Zealand) Wp
Burt’s Buzz
Jody Shapiro (Canada) Wp
The Dark Matter Of Love
Sarah McCarthy (UK) Nap
The Dog
Allison Berg and Frank Keraudren (Us) Wp
Faith Connections
Pan Nalin (France/India) Wp
Filthy Gorgeous: The Bob Guccione Story
Barry Avrich (Canada) Wp
Finding Vivian Maier
John Maloof and Charlie Siskel (Us) Wp
Hi-Ho Mistahey!
Alanis Obomsawin (Canada...
Festival staff remind readers that the following listing is not complete or final and is subject to change.
Premieres key
Wp = World PremiereIP = International PremiereNAP = North American PremiereCP = Canadian PremiereTIFF Docs
A Story Of Children And Film
Mark Cousins (UK) Nap
Ain’t Misbehavin’
Marcel Ophüls (France) Nap
At Berkeley
Frederick Wiseman (Us) Nap
Beyond The Edge
Leanne Pooley (New Zealand) Wp
Burt’s Buzz
Jody Shapiro (Canada) Wp
The Dark Matter Of Love
Sarah McCarthy (UK) Nap
The Dog
Allison Berg and Frank Keraudren (Us) Wp
Faith Connections
Pan Nalin (France/India) Wp
Filthy Gorgeous: The Bob Guccione Story
Barry Avrich (Canada) Wp
Finding Vivian Maier
John Maloof and Charlie Siskel (Us) Wp
Hi-Ho Mistahey!
Alanis Obomsawin (Canada...
- 7/30/2013
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
The 2013 Toronto International Film Festival has set its documentary program to start unspooling when the festival launches September 5. The subjects range from Donald Rumsfeld to Penthouse publisher Bob Guccione and the Congo. Here are the films: A Story Of Children And Film Mark Cousins, United Kingdom North American Premiere A Story of Children and Film is the world’s first movie about kids in global cinema. A passionate, poetic portrait of the adventures of childhood — its surrealism, loneliness, fun, destructiveness and vitality — as seen through 53 great films from 25 countries, director Mark Cousins’ landmark film is an eye opener and a celebration of both childhood and the movies. Ain’t Misbehavin’ Marcel Ophüls, France North American Premiere The director of The Sorrow and the Pity shares his memories with us, stories both incredibly rich and fascinating, making Ain’t Misbehavin’ a cheerful and bittersweet trip through cinema history. Son of the great director Max Ophüls,...
- 7/30/2013
- by MIKE FLEMING JR
- Deadline
From Mark Cousins, the esteemed documentary filmmaker behind the near-definitive The Story Of Film: An Odyssey, A Story Of Children And Film explores the way cinema has dealt with children and childhood. Drawing from 53 films from around the world, and using his own niece and nephew to help jog his memory, Cousins gives a detailed and affectionate demonstration of the relationship between the two. Cinema is, as he points out, an art-form still in its infancy.
Given that there are so many films associated with children and childhood — from Harry Potter and Peter Pan to last year’s Oscar-nominated Beasts Of The Southern Wild — you might think Cousins has a reasonably easy task on his hands. As is becoming characteristic of the filmmaker, however, Cousins instead focuses primarily on relatively obscure titles from throughout history, from Yasujiro Ozu’s An Inn in Tokyo (1935) right up to Wes Anderson’s Moonrise Kingdom...
Given that there are so many films associated with children and childhood — from Harry Potter and Peter Pan to last year’s Oscar-nominated Beasts Of The Southern Wild — you might think Cousins has a reasonably easy task on his hands. As is becoming characteristic of the filmmaker, however, Cousins instead focuses primarily on relatively obscure titles from throughout history, from Yasujiro Ozu’s An Inn in Tokyo (1935) right up to Wes Anderson’s Moonrise Kingdom...
- 7/1/2013
- by Steven Neish
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
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