Act2Cam Workshop Thursday 4th March 2010
Footage from the fifth week of Act2Cam workshops occurring during the local spring term, showcasing the students’ growing confidence in front of the cameras, and …
02 Mar
Act2Cam Workshop Thursday 25th February 2010
Act2Cam Workshop Thursday 25th February 2010
Footage from the fourth week of Act2Cam workshops during the spring term course of 2010 – some of it shot by the students themselves. Watch …
22 Feb
Act2Cam Workshop Thursday 18th February 2010
Act2Cam Workshop Thursday 18th February 2010
Here’s footage from the third week of Act2Cam workshops taking place during the spring term 2010, focussing on how far the students have come with …
21 Feb
Jack the Ripper: The Final Solution (1980; dir. Gary Rhodes)
Jack the Ripper: The Final Solution (1980; dir. Gary Rhodes)
Stephen Knight’s elaborate Masonic theory for the infamous Whitechapel murders of 1888, first presented in his book of the same name in 1976, has since …
31 Jan
Bronco Bullfrog (1969; dir. Barney Platts-Mills)
Bronco Bullfrog (1969; dir. Barney Platts-Mills)
Music in cinema, as previously noted in this review here, usually takes the form of pre-determined and marketable – for which read “‘as conventional as …
20 Jan
Capturing the Light (2008; dir. Frank Longo)
Capturing the Light (2008; dir. Frank Longo)
“If a person is sincere and really wants to see the light, then they’ll see it,” states the subject of this straight-to-DVD documentary, and her …
14 Jan
Contact: An Investigation into the Extraterrestial Experiences of Eduard Meier (1978; dir. Larry Savadore)
Contact: An Investigation into the Extraterrestial Experiences of Eduard Meier (1978; dir. Larry Savadore)
This deplorable film not only makes a mockery of science, religion and common sense, but also insults its audience by presenting as documentary fact scenes …
11 Jan
Cinema Europe (1995; dir. Kevin Brownlow and Dan Carter)
Cinema Europe (1995; dir. Kevin Brownlow and Dan Carter)
With modern film criticism and theory on UK broadcast television limited to the insipid Mark Kermode and the pointless Matthew Sweet on the BBC, and …
24 Dec
Production Diary 02
Production Diary 02
An early present from our Christmas stocking: here’s the second production diary for Scenes from the Private Life of Scratchman Drexel, detailing the new pre-production …
14 Dec
Valkoinen peura (1952; dir. Erik Blomberg)
Valkoinen peura (1952; dir. Erik Blomberg)
This beautiful, oneiric film is possibly the finest rendering of the human-into-animal myth – popularised by countless werewolf movies with dubious heritage. The story tells …
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