The films, produced and directed by Seventh Art Productions, will form part of its next season of Exhibition on Screen. The series has consistently broken records for art documentaries and reached audiences in over 70 countries since its first film made in 2011 with the National Gallery – a feature on the Gallery’s Leonardo exhibition. Last year Seventh Art Productions made the hugely successful and critically acclaimed Vermeer: The Greatest Exhibition.
The films will be released in the UK in c.300 cinemas including Picturehouse Cinemas, Curzon, Everyman, Odeon and dozens of local arthouse cinemas and art centres. Internationally, Exhibition on Screen distributes throughout Europe, Asia, North America and Australia/Nz in cinemas, TV, digital platforms as well as screening longer term in museums, art galleries and educational institutions around the world.
My National Gallery, London will tell the story of the Gallery’s collection in a new light through the eyes of...
The films will be released in the UK in c.300 cinemas including Picturehouse Cinemas, Curzon, Everyman, Odeon and dozens of local arthouse cinemas and art centres. Internationally, Exhibition on Screen distributes throughout Europe, Asia, North America and Australia/Nz in cinemas, TV, digital platforms as well as screening longer term in museums, art galleries and educational institutions around the world.
My National Gallery, London will tell the story of the Gallery’s collection in a new light through the eyes of...
- 10/26/2023
- by Art Martin Cid Magazine
- Martin Cid Magazine - Movies
It has been a stellar year for British talent, as is evidenced by the amazing line up of films celebrated and championed by BIFA this evening. The British Independent Film Awards were handed out this evening in London and we were there to talk to the presenters and nominees on the red carpet.
A full list of winners follows the interviews. Colin Hart and Ethan Hart were on the red carpet, here are their interviews.
The 2022 BIFAs Red Carpet Interviews
The full list of winners is below.
Best British Independent Film
Aftersun Charlotte Wells, Barry Jenkins, Mark Ceryak, Adele Romanski, Amy Jackson (Winner)
Blue Jean Georgia Oakley, Hélène Sifre
Good Luck to You, Leo Grande Sophie Hyde, Katy Brand, Debbie Gray, Adrian Politowski
Living Oliver Hermanus, Kazuo Ishiguro, Stephen Woolley, Elizabeth Karlsen
The Wonder Sebastián Lelio, Emma Donoghue, Alice Birch, Juliette Howell, Andrew Lowe, Tessa Ross, Ed Guiney
Best Director,...
A full list of winners follows the interviews. Colin Hart and Ethan Hart were on the red carpet, here are their interviews.
The 2022 BIFAs Red Carpet Interviews
The full list of winners is below.
Best British Independent Film
Aftersun Charlotte Wells, Barry Jenkins, Mark Ceryak, Adele Romanski, Amy Jackson (Winner)
Blue Jean Georgia Oakley, Hélène Sifre
Good Luck to You, Leo Grande Sophie Hyde, Katy Brand, Debbie Gray, Adrian Politowski
Living Oliver Hermanus, Kazuo Ishiguro, Stephen Woolley, Elizabeth Karlsen
The Wonder Sebastián Lelio, Emma Donoghue, Alice Birch, Juliette Howell, Andrew Lowe, Tessa Ross, Ed Guiney
Best Director,...
- 12/5/2022
- by Jon Lyus
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
The awards ceremony takes place today (December 4), starting at 8pm UK time.
The 2022 British Independent Film Awards (Bifas) ceremony is taking place today (December 4) at London’s Old Billingsgate.
The show starts at 8pm UK time, finishing at approximately 10pm.
Screen will be posting all the winners on this page as they are announced during the live ceremony (refresh the page for latest updates).
Leading the pack for nominations is Charlotte Wells’ Aftersun, with 16 mentions – the second-most ever for a film at the Bifas, behind only Saint Maud’s record 17 from 2020. The feature has already won three of those awards,...
The 2022 British Independent Film Awards (Bifas) ceremony is taking place today (December 4) at London’s Old Billingsgate.
The show starts at 8pm UK time, finishing at approximately 10pm.
Screen will be posting all the winners on this page as they are announced during the live ceremony (refresh the page for latest updates).
Leading the pack for nominations is Charlotte Wells’ Aftersun, with 16 mentions – the second-most ever for a film at the Bifas, behind only Saint Maud’s record 17 from 2020. The feature has already won three of those awards,...
- 12/4/2022
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
Further new releases include ‘Summering’, ‘White Noise’ and ‘The Infernal Machine’.
There are a modest number of openers over the next couple of weekends at the UK-Ireland box office in the build-up to Disney’s Avatar: The Way of Water landing on screens on December 16 and as festive fare settles in. This weekend’s widest new release is Violent Night, playing at 588 sites for Universal.
Tommy Wirkola’s alternative Christmas story sees Stranger Things star David Harbour play Kris Kringle during a particular trying Christmas Eve, with John Leguizamo as the leader of a group of dangerous mercenaries who take...
There are a modest number of openers over the next couple of weekends at the UK-Ireland box office in the build-up to Disney’s Avatar: The Way of Water landing on screens on December 16 and as festive fare settles in. This weekend’s widest new release is Violent Night, playing at 588 sites for Universal.
Tommy Wirkola’s alternative Christmas story sees Stranger Things star David Harbour play Kris Kringle during a particular trying Christmas Eve, with John Leguizamo as the leader of a group of dangerous mercenaries who take...
- 12/2/2022
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
Charlotte Wells’ indie breakout “Aftersun” continues to build momentum in the indie awards race.
After receiving four Gotham Award nods, “Aftersun” leads the 2022 British Independent Film Awards nominations in 16 categories, followed by 12 for “Blue Jean” and “The Wonder,” respectively. “Living” earned nine nominations and “Flux Gourmet,” “God’s Creatures,” “Men,” and “The Origin” each landed five nods.
The 25th annual BIFAs introduces new performance, first-time documentary feature, and music categories, with female filmmakers dominating the performance, writing, and directing categories for this year’s batch of nominees, recognizing 36 British features. The 2022 BIFA ceremony takes place December 4.
Hosts Sam Claflin and BIFA winner Kosar Ali announced the 2022 BIFA nominations, including former BIFA recipients Emma Thompson, Jessie Buckley, Florence Pugh, and Alice Birch among them. Two Paul Mescal films, “Aftersun” and “God’s Creatures,” are among the top-nominated films, with Mescal in the running for both Best Joint Lead Performance and Best Supporting Performance for the respective films.
After receiving four Gotham Award nods, “Aftersun” leads the 2022 British Independent Film Awards nominations in 16 categories, followed by 12 for “Blue Jean” and “The Wonder,” respectively. “Living” earned nine nominations and “Flux Gourmet,” “God’s Creatures,” “Men,” and “The Origin” each landed five nods.
The 25th annual BIFAs introduces new performance, first-time documentary feature, and music categories, with female filmmakers dominating the performance, writing, and directing categories for this year’s batch of nominees, recognizing 36 British features. The 2022 BIFA ceremony takes place December 4.
Hosts Sam Claflin and BIFA winner Kosar Ali announced the 2022 BIFA nominations, including former BIFA recipients Emma Thompson, Jessie Buckley, Florence Pugh, and Alice Birch among them. Two Paul Mescal films, “Aftersun” and “God’s Creatures,” are among the top-nominated films, with Mescal in the running for both Best Joint Lead Performance and Best Supporting Performance for the respective films.
- 11/4/2022
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
Also out this weekend: ’Decision To Leave’ and ‘The Gravedigger’s Wife’.
Warner Bros’ Black Adam is this weekend’s widest UK-Ireland release, playing at 664 sites.
Spanish filmmaker Jaume Collet-Serra reunites with Jungle Cruise star Dwayne Johnson for this latest outing from the DC Extended Universe, that follows a Middle Eastern slave who is transformed into a god, with Sarah Shahi, Aldis Hodge, Noah Centineo and Pierce Brosnan also starring.
DC’s 2022 releases kicked off with The Batman in March, a record wide release for Warner Bros, playing at 709 locations. It took £13.5m in its opening weekend. DC League Of Super-pets...
Warner Bros’ Black Adam is this weekend’s widest UK-Ireland release, playing at 664 sites.
Spanish filmmaker Jaume Collet-Serra reunites with Jungle Cruise star Dwayne Johnson for this latest outing from the DC Extended Universe, that follows a Middle Eastern slave who is transformed into a god, with Sarah Shahi, Aldis Hodge, Noah Centineo and Pierce Brosnan also starring.
DC’s 2022 releases kicked off with The Batman in March, a record wide release for Warner Bros, playing at 709 locations. It took £13.5m in its opening weekend. DC League Of Super-pets...
- 10/21/2022
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
’The Worst Person In The World’, ’Everything Everywhere All At Once’ among international selections.
Joachim Trier’s The Worst Person In The World and Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert’s Everything Everywhere All At Once are among the titles in the 17-strong longlist for best international independent film at the 2022 British Independent Film Awards (Bifa).
Laura Poitras’ Venice Golden Lion winner All The Beauty And The Bloodshed also made the longlist. As did Park Chan-Wook’s Decision To Leave; Colm Bairead’s The Quiet Girl; Lukas Dhont’s Close; Carla Simon’s Alcarras; and Santiago Mitre’s Argentina, 1985.
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Joachim Trier’s The Worst Person In The World and Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert’s Everything Everywhere All At Once are among the titles in the 17-strong longlist for best international independent film at the 2022 British Independent Film Awards (Bifa).
Laura Poitras’ Venice Golden Lion winner All The Beauty And The Bloodshed also made the longlist. As did Park Chan-Wook’s Decision To Leave; Colm Bairead’s The Quiet Girl; Lukas Dhont’s Close; Carla Simon’s Alcarras; and Santiago Mitre’s Argentina, 1985.
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- 10/21/2022
- by Ellie Calnan
- ScreenDaily
The British Independent Film Awards (BIFAs) have revealed the nomination longlists for Best Feature Documentary and Best International Independent Film categories. In addition, BIFA’s Raindance Discovery Award longlist has also been unveiled.
Of the 15 films longlisted for Best Feature Documentary, eight are directed by women. The 17 films longlisted for Best International Independent Film have already won top prizes from this year’s premier international festivals.
The final five nominations in each category will be announced in early November and winners will be revealed at the 25th annual BIFA ceremony on Dec. 4.
Best International Independent Film Sponsored By Champagne Taittinger
“Alcarràs” – Carla Simón, María Zamora, Stefan Schmitz, Tono Folguera, Sergi Moreno
“All The Beauty And The Bloodshed” – Laura Poitras, Howard Gertler, Nan Goldin, Yoni Golijov, John S. Lyons
“Argentina, 1985” – Santiago Mitre, Mariano Llinás, Axel Kuschevatzky, Federico Posternak, Agustina Llambi Campbell, Ricardo Darín, Santiago Carabante, Chino Darín, Victoria Alonso
“Broker” – Kore-eda Hirokazu,...
Of the 15 films longlisted for Best Feature Documentary, eight are directed by women. The 17 films longlisted for Best International Independent Film have already won top prizes from this year’s premier international festivals.
The final five nominations in each category will be announced in early November and winners will be revealed at the 25th annual BIFA ceremony on Dec. 4.
Best International Independent Film Sponsored By Champagne Taittinger
“Alcarràs” – Carla Simón, María Zamora, Stefan Schmitz, Tono Folguera, Sergi Moreno
“All The Beauty And The Bloodshed” – Laura Poitras, Howard Gertler, Nan Goldin, Yoni Golijov, John S. Lyons
“Argentina, 1985” – Santiago Mitre, Mariano Llinás, Axel Kuschevatzky, Federico Posternak, Agustina Llambi Campbell, Ricardo Darín, Santiago Carabante, Chino Darín, Victoria Alonso
“Broker” – Kore-eda Hirokazu,...
- 10/21/2022
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Phil Grabsky and Shoaib Sharifi have followed Mir for two decades in what is almost a brutal companion piece to Richard Linklater’s Boyhood
This documentary following one boy’s life in Afghanistan feels like a brutal, desperately sad companion piece to Richard Linklater’s Boyhood. Its co-directors, the British documentary-maker Phil Grabsky and Shoaib Sharifi, first started filming Mir Hussein aged seven in 2002, and they haven’t stopped. They have already made two previous films – The Boy Who Plays on the Buddhas of Bamiyan (2004) and The Boy Mir: Ten Years in Afghanistan (2011) – and this third gives us the complete picture: Mir pulled along by time’s current from boyhood to the present day, married with three kids in Kabul. To be honest, it’s the opposite of life-affirming.
The story begins in 2002, a year after 9/11. US troops have landed in Afghanistan. Seven-year-old Mir is living with his family in a cave in Bamiyan,...
This documentary following one boy’s life in Afghanistan feels like a brutal, desperately sad companion piece to Richard Linklater’s Boyhood. Its co-directors, the British documentary-maker Phil Grabsky and Shoaib Sharifi, first started filming Mir Hussein aged seven in 2002, and they haven’t stopped. They have already made two previous films – The Boy Who Plays on the Buddhas of Bamiyan (2004) and The Boy Mir: Ten Years in Afghanistan (2011) – and this third gives us the complete picture: Mir pulled along by time’s current from boyhood to the present day, married with three kids in Kabul. To be honest, it’s the opposite of life-affirming.
The story begins in 2002, a year after 9/11. US troops have landed in Afghanistan. Seven-year-old Mir is living with his family in a cave in Bamiyan,...
- 9/19/2022
- by Cath Clarke
- The Guardian - Film News
Bali International Film Festival’ 15th edition from 9–12 June is again delivering outstanding entertainment of quality, thought-provoking independent, and award-winning shorts, features, and documentaries from Indonesia and around the world.
In-cinema and online: Films will be presented as a combination of in-cinema and on-line screenings.
Premieres: The Official Program includes many premieres among the 63 features and shorts representing 26 countries.
Awards: Our juried competition will include awards in several artistic and technical categories —Narrative Features, Documentaries and Short Films.
Films In Competition Feature documentary Lamafa (Kujirabito), Director: Bon Ishikawa (Japan) Bucolic (Bukolika), Director: Karol PaÅ‚ka (Poland) My Childhood, My Country — 20 Years in Afghanistan, Director: Phil Grabsky, Shoaib Sharifi (United Kingdom)Mentawai — Souls of the Forest, Director: Joo Peter (Germany) Feature narrative The Coffin Painter The Coffin Painter, Director: Da Fei (China)Inside a Funeral Hall, Director: Ho-hyun Lee (Republic of Korea) Solo on Icebergs, Director: Rouhollah Sedighi (Islamic Republic of Iran)Preman,...
In-cinema and online: Films will be presented as a combination of in-cinema and on-line screenings.
Premieres: The Official Program includes many premieres among the 63 features and shorts representing 26 countries.
Awards: Our juried competition will include awards in several artistic and technical categories —Narrative Features, Documentaries and Short Films.
Films In Competition Feature documentary Lamafa (Kujirabito), Director: Bon Ishikawa (Japan) Bucolic (Bukolika), Director: Karol PaÅ‚ka (Poland) My Childhood, My Country — 20 Years in Afghanistan, Director: Phil Grabsky, Shoaib Sharifi (United Kingdom)Mentawai — Souls of the Forest, Director: Joo Peter (Germany) Feature narrative The Coffin Painter The Coffin Painter, Director: Da Fei (China)Inside a Funeral Hall, Director: Ho-hyun Lee (Republic of Korea) Solo on Icebergs, Director: Rouhollah Sedighi (Islamic Republic of Iran)Preman,...
- 6/8/2022
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Channel 4 and HBO’s lauded drama It’s a Sin missed out in several major categories at the BAFTA TV Awards this evening, as the BBC and ITV emerged as the big winners. Scroll down for the full list.
Russell T Davies’ Red Production Company-created drama was up for Best Mini-Series, with Olly Alexander in contention for Leading Actor and Lydia West competing for Leading Actress.
However, BBC prison drama Time won the Mini-Series category, Sean Bean won Leading Actor for the same drama and Jodie Comer’s performance in Channel 4’s Help pipped West and Kate Winslet in the Leading Actress Category.
Compounding a disappointing evening for the hotly-tipped show, Callum Scott Howells, Omari Douglas and David Carlyle lost out to Succession’s Matthew Macfadyen in the Supporting Actor category. It’s a Sin writer Davies, who earlier today unveiled Sex Education’s Ncuti Gatwa as Doctor Who’s next Time Lord,...
Russell T Davies’ Red Production Company-created drama was up for Best Mini-Series, with Olly Alexander in contention for Leading Actor and Lydia West competing for Leading Actress.
However, BBC prison drama Time won the Mini-Series category, Sean Bean won Leading Actor for the same drama and Jodie Comer’s performance in Channel 4’s Help pipped West and Kate Winslet in the Leading Actress Category.
Compounding a disappointing evening for the hotly-tipped show, Callum Scott Howells, Omari Douglas and David Carlyle lost out to Succession’s Matthew Macfadyen in the Supporting Actor category. It’s a Sin writer Davies, who earlier today unveiled Sex Education’s Ncuti Gatwa as Doctor Who’s next Time Lord,...
- 5/8/2022
- by Jesse Whittock and Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
The Exhibition on Screen series has developed a stellar reputation for its documentaries, and quite rightly so, with profiles of a number of artists and artistic movements which have managed to go into considerable depth whilst remaining accessible to beginners. In this instalment, Phil Grabsky explores representations of the Easter story in art. It’s a film which will have particular appeal to those already planning to celebrate Easter, to whom it offers an emotional bridge to artists who have done so in centuries past, but there’s still a lot here to fascinate art lovers who belong to other religious traditions or none.
This takes a different tack from previous films in the series, sticking very closely to the Biblical Easter narrative and using pieces of art (mostly paintings) as illustrations, reflecting on their approach to communicating the story rather than going into depth about the individual works. The point is made.
This takes a different tack from previous films in the series, sticking very closely to the Biblical Easter narrative and using pieces of art (mostly paintings) as illustrations, reflecting on their approach to communicating the story rather than going into depth about the individual works. The point is made.
- 4/1/2022
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Indian helmer Pan Nalin’s “Last Film Show” walked off on Saturday with the top prize, the Golden Spike, at the 66th Valladolid Intl. Film Festival, one of Spain’s biggest and oldest film events and a bastion of festival-prized art film titles.
The French-Indian co-production marks Nalin’s homage to celluloid and is told through the eyes of a nine-year-old boy whose life is turned on its head after he watches his first film at the cinema. World premiering at Tribeca, it became the first foreign-language feature to score as the first runner up for Tribeca’s Audience Award.
Writer and director Pan Nalin said: “What we started in our solitude in a remote countryside of Gujarat has now started to echoing in multitudes the world over. Winning the best picture Golden Spike at the Seminci is like belonging to the rich history of cinema that Valladolid has stood for nearly seven decades.
The French-Indian co-production marks Nalin’s homage to celluloid and is told through the eyes of a nine-year-old boy whose life is turned on its head after he watches his first film at the cinema. World premiering at Tribeca, it became the first foreign-language feature to score as the first runner up for Tribeca’s Audience Award.
Writer and director Pan Nalin said: “What we started in our solitude in a remote countryside of Gujarat has now started to echoing in multitudes the world over. Winning the best picture Golden Spike at the Seminci is like belonging to the rich history of cinema that Valladolid has stood for nearly seven decades.
- 11/1/2021
- by Liza Foreman
- Variety Film + TV
While we’re waiting for the delayed National Gallery extravaganza, this wide-ranging documentary relays the full breadth of Raphael’s achievements
In 2022, London’s National Gallery will finally get to mount its blockbuster Raphael exhibition for the 500th anniversary of the artist’s death – two years late, thanks to Covid. In the meantime, the Exhibition on Screen strand are offering this taster-cum-primer, which takes as its subject the 500th anniversary exhibition that did take place in 2020 in Rome, and much of which is travelling to London next year.
Raphael Revealed is directed by Exhibition on Screen veteran Phil Grabsky, and it provides a typically smooth and erudite presentation, bringing together artist biography, historical context, knowledgeable talking heads and beautifully filmed closeups of the works themselves. With a subject so well worked over, there’s not much all that new to say, but the depth and brilliance of Raphael’s painting is restated again,...
In 2022, London’s National Gallery will finally get to mount its blockbuster Raphael exhibition for the 500th anniversary of the artist’s death – two years late, thanks to Covid. In the meantime, the Exhibition on Screen strand are offering this taster-cum-primer, which takes as its subject the 500th anniversary exhibition that did take place in 2020 in Rome, and much of which is travelling to London next year.
Raphael Revealed is directed by Exhibition on Screen veteran Phil Grabsky, and it provides a typically smooth and erudite presentation, bringing together artist biography, historical context, knowledgeable talking heads and beautifully filmed closeups of the works themselves. With a subject so well worked over, there’s not much all that new to say, but the depth and brilliance of Raphael’s painting is restated again,...
- 10/13/2021
- by Andrew Pulver
- The Guardian - Film News
This new documentary, co-directed by Phil Grabsky and Shoaib Sharifi and filmed over a period of 20 years, chronicles an Afghan youth, Mir Hussein, from his childhood to his life in present-day Kabul. That it resembles a nonfiction, Afghan variation on Richard Linklater’s acclaimed 2014 Boyhood is a powerful enough hook, but My Childhood, My Country, being released just as the rapid American withdrawal from the country has resulted in violent chaos, gains added urgency when you consider the plight of its principal subject. One can only pray that he survives, and that the filmmakers can catch up with him again in ...
- 8/25/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
This new documentary, co-directed by Phil Grabsky and Shoaib Sharifi and filmed over a period of 20 years, chronicles an Afghan youth, Mir Hussein, from his childhood to his life in present-day Kabul. That it resembles a nonfiction, Afghan variation on Richard Linklater’s acclaimed 2014 Boyhood is a powerful enough hook, but My Childhood, My Country, being released just as the rapid American withdrawal from the country has resulted in violent chaos, gains added urgency when you consider the plight of its principal subject. One can only pray that he survives, and that the filmmakers can catch up with him again in ...
- 8/25/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The Sheffield DocFest has unveiled its line-up for its 2021 programme that includes the World Premiere of the first instalment of Academy Award winner Steve McQueen’s new series for the BBC, ‘Uprising’.
For the first time, Sheffield DocFest goes nationwide with five premiere screenings showing in up to 16 partner cinemas in cities around the UK, and online, followed by pre-recorded Q&As. It also includes the previously announced Retrospective: Films belong to those who need them – fragments from the history of Black British Cinema.
The celebration of Black British screen culture – curated by guest curators including David Olusoga. Films of all lengths will all be presented as part of the retrospective including titles such as ‘Burning An Illusion’ by Menelik Shabazz, ‘It Ain’t Half Racist’, ‘Mum’ by Stuart Hall, ‘Looking for Langston’ by Isaac Julien, ‘Second Coming’ by Debbie Tucker Green, ‘The Black Safari’ by Colin Luke, ‘Baby Mother...
For the first time, Sheffield DocFest goes nationwide with five premiere screenings showing in up to 16 partner cinemas in cities around the UK, and online, followed by pre-recorded Q&As. It also includes the previously announced Retrospective: Films belong to those who need them – fragments from the history of Black British Cinema.
The celebration of Black British screen culture – curated by guest curators including David Olusoga. Films of all lengths will all be presented as part of the retrospective including titles such as ‘Burning An Illusion’ by Menelik Shabazz, ‘It Ain’t Half Racist’, ‘Mum’ by Stuart Hall, ‘Looking for Langston’ by Isaac Julien, ‘Second Coming’ by Debbie Tucker Green, ‘The Black Safari’ by Colin Luke, ‘Baby Mother...
- 5/17/2021
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
The festival will take place in Sheffield, across the UK, and online.
The programme for the 28th edition of Sheffield Doc/Fest includes the world premiere of the first episode of Uprising, a three-part documentary series from UK filmmakers Steve McQueen and James Rogan.
Doc/Fest 2021 will play 55 world premieres and 22 international premieres, for the event running in Sheffield, across the UK and online from June 4-13.
Scroll down for the Competition titles
First announced last week and playing at the festival as a Special Screening, Uprising will examine three events from 1981 - in January, the New Cross Fire which killed 13 black teenagers; in March,...
The programme for the 28th edition of Sheffield Doc/Fest includes the world premiere of the first episode of Uprising, a three-part documentary series from UK filmmakers Steve McQueen and James Rogan.
Doc/Fest 2021 will play 55 world premieres and 22 international premieres, for the event running in Sheffield, across the UK and online from June 4-13.
Scroll down for the Competition titles
First announced last week and playing at the festival as a Special Screening, Uprising will examine three events from 1981 - in January, the New Cross Fire which killed 13 black teenagers; in March,...
- 5/17/2021
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
The 2021 Sheffield Doc/Fest has announced its competition contenders alongside its full program.
The international competition includes “Charm Circle” “Rancho”, “Factory to the Workers” and “Summer”.
Also competing are “Equatorial Constellations”, “From the 84 Days”, “This Stained Dawn”, “Nũhũ Yãg Mũ Yõg Hãm: This Land Is Our Land!”, “White on White”, “Double Layered Town / Making a Song to Replace Our Positions” and “My Dear Spies”.
The festival’s complete program includes 55 world premieres, 22 international premieres, 15 European premieres and 59 U.K. premieres from 57 countries with 63 languages represented, spread over 78 features and 88 shorts.
Being presented as special screenings this year are five world premieres. Steve McQueen and James Rogan’s new series “Uprising”; Clive Patterson’s “Sing, Freetown”; and working with U.K. poet laureate Simon Armitage, Brian Hill presents “Where Did The World Go.” Additionally, three films will offer different perspectives on 9/11 and its consequences — “My Childhood, My Country – 20 Years in Afghanistan...
The international competition includes “Charm Circle” “Rancho”, “Factory to the Workers” and “Summer”.
Also competing are “Equatorial Constellations”, “From the 84 Days”, “This Stained Dawn”, “Nũhũ Yãg Mũ Yõg Hãm: This Land Is Our Land!”, “White on White”, “Double Layered Town / Making a Song to Replace Our Positions” and “My Dear Spies”.
The festival’s complete program includes 55 world premieres, 22 international premieres, 15 European premieres and 59 U.K. premieres from 57 countries with 63 languages represented, spread over 78 features and 88 shorts.
Being presented as special screenings this year are five world premieres. Steve McQueen and James Rogan’s new series “Uprising”; Clive Patterson’s “Sing, Freetown”; and working with U.K. poet laureate Simon Armitage, Brian Hill presents “Where Did The World Go.” Additionally, three films will offer different perspectives on 9/11 and its consequences — “My Childhood, My Country – 20 Years in Afghanistan...
- 5/17/2021
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
This engaging documentary highlights the emotional power of his music – and his liaison with France’s most famous woman
Rereleased as part of special screenings for all of director Phil Grabsky’s Great Composer series, this 2014 documentary is a studious, attentive resumé of the genius Polish émigré one European aristocrat liked to call “Chopski”. What it lacks in the kind of central episodic hook much favoured by the modern biopic, or visual virtuosity, it doubly pays backs in informed piano-side commentary by top pianists – including Daniel Barenboim, Leif Ove Andsnes and Ronald Brautigam – that gets to the essence of the music.
Chopin himself, a teenage prodigy in his native Warsaw, was chary about simply giving this away. He gave only 30 public concerts in his short life (he died of tuberculosis aged 39 in 1849); his preferred method of musical communion was more intimate salon recitals that suited the existential keyboard pieces to...
Rereleased as part of special screenings for all of director Phil Grabsky’s Great Composer series, this 2014 documentary is a studious, attentive resumé of the genius Polish émigré one European aristocrat liked to call “Chopski”. What it lacks in the kind of central episodic hook much favoured by the modern biopic, or visual virtuosity, it doubly pays backs in informed piano-side commentary by top pianists – including Daniel Barenboim, Leif Ove Andsnes and Ronald Brautigam – that gets to the essence of the music.
Chopin himself, a teenage prodigy in his native Warsaw, was chary about simply giving this away. He gave only 30 public concerts in his short life (he died of tuberculosis aged 39 in 1849); his preferred method of musical communion was more intimate salon recitals that suited the existential keyboard pieces to...
- 2/26/2020
- by Phil Hoad
- The Guardian - Film News
’How To Train Your Dragon 3’ moves to second place.
Today’s Gbp to Usd conversion rate: 1.29
RankFilm (Distributor)Three-day gross (Feb 1-3) Total gross to date Week 1 The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part (Warner Bros) £4m £4m 1 2 How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (Universal) £2.7m £9.1m 2 3 Alita: Battle Angel (20th Century Fox) £2.4m £3.2m 1 4 Green Book (eOne) £1m £3.6m 2 5 Glass (Disney) £560,579 £9.6m 4 Warner Bros
Animated sequel The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part opened top of the UK box office, with a £4m three-day weekend.
It played in 572 locations to garner a site average of £6,995.
These figures...
Today’s Gbp to Usd conversion rate: 1.29
RankFilm (Distributor)Three-day gross (Feb 1-3) Total gross to date Week 1 The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part (Warner Bros) £4m £4m 1 2 How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (Universal) £2.7m £9.1m 2 3 Alita: Battle Angel (20th Century Fox) £2.4m £3.2m 1 4 Green Book (eOne) £1m £3.6m 2 5 Glass (Disney) £560,579 £9.6m 4 Warner Bros
Animated sequel The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part opened top of the UK box office, with a £4m three-day weekend.
It played in 572 locations to garner a site average of £6,995.
These figures...
- 2/11/2019
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Claude Monet's Water Lilies
Few people have done more to broaden access to art than Phil Grabsky, who has been instrumental to the creation of over 100 films on the subject for television and the big screen. His latest, I, Claude Monet, tells the life story of the famous impressionist through dozens of his letters, illustrated with his paintings and, in the process, giving them a powerful narrative context. Given his work on The Artist's Garden: American Impressionism last year, I start our interview by asking if the impressionists are his particular favourite area within the wider arc of bringing art to screen.
I, Claude Monet poster
"Well, the most recent film to be finished, on Cézanne, is the 19th Exhibition on Screen. I’m just trying to think how many of those are impressionists. Monet, of course, Cézanne, American Impressionists, Manet; we are doing one right now about Degas.
Few people have done more to broaden access to art than Phil Grabsky, who has been instrumental to the creation of over 100 films on the subject for television and the big screen. His latest, I, Claude Monet, tells the life story of the famous impressionist through dozens of his letters, illustrated with his paintings and, in the process, giving them a powerful narrative context. Given his work on The Artist's Garden: American Impressionism last year, I start our interview by asking if the impressionists are his particular favourite area within the wider arc of bringing art to screen.
I, Claude Monet poster
"Well, the most recent film to be finished, on Cézanne, is the 19th Exhibition on Screen. I’m just trying to think how many of those are impressionists. Monet, of course, Cézanne, American Impressionists, Manet; we are doing one right now about Degas.
- 5/23/2018
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
65 filmmaker teams from around the world will pitch to international and UK decision makers.
Sheffield Doc/Fest (June 7-12) has revealed the titles that will pitch for funding at the 14th edition of its MeetMarket initiative.
A total of 65 filmmaker teams from 20 countries will pitch to international and UK decision makers for research, development and production funding. Around 300 decision makers from 20 countries are expected with execs from YouTube, ESPN, Starz and The Financial Times.
At the Alternate Realities Market, which includes digital titles, a further 25 Vr and interactive projects will pitch in one-to-one meetings to a range of specialist decision makers.
Sheffield Doc/Fest (June 7-12) has revealed the titles that will pitch for funding at the 14th edition of its MeetMarket initiative.
A total of 65 filmmaker teams from 20 countries will pitch to international and UK decision makers for research, development and production funding. Around 300 decision makers from 20 countries are expected with execs from YouTube, ESPN, Starz and The Financial Times.
At the Alternate Realities Market, which includes digital titles, a further 25 Vr and interactive projects will pitch in one-to-one meetings to a range of specialist decision makers.
- 4/24/2018
- by Orlando Parfitt
- ScreenDaily
The Opera House, Fate/Stay Night and Spice World top our January events guideThe Opera House, Fate/Stay Night and Spice World top our January events guideScott Goodyer1/2/2018 2:02:00 Pm
It's a new year, new Cineplex Events lineup!
Check out our list of January showings below and for the full list - click here!
Jan 7th: NFL Wild Card
For three NFL playoff games leading up to Super Bowl Lii special screenings will be hosted at Cineplex’s luxurious, adults-only VIP Cinemas, where football fans can cheer on their favourite team from ultra-wide, luxury recliners. Fans will also enjoy in-seat food and beverage service throughout the game from an expanded menu, which includes a wide selection of beer, wine and spirits as well as classic game-day favourites likes burgers, boneless wings and tacos….and of course, Cineplex’s famous popcorn. Teams and times to be determined. Showtimes for Wild...
It's a new year, new Cineplex Events lineup!
Check out our list of January showings below and for the full list - click here!
Jan 7th: NFL Wild Card
For three NFL playoff games leading up to Super Bowl Lii special screenings will be hosted at Cineplex’s luxurious, adults-only VIP Cinemas, where football fans can cheer on their favourite team from ultra-wide, luxury recliners. Fans will also enjoy in-seat food and beverage service throughout the game from an expanded menu, which includes a wide selection of beer, wine and spirits as well as classic game-day favourites likes burgers, boneless wings and tacos….and of course, Cineplex’s famous popcorn. Teams and times to be determined. Showtimes for Wild...
- 1/2/2018
- by Scott Goodyer
- Cineplex
Filmmaker Phil Grabsky on the enduring art of portraitist David HockneyFilmmaker Phil Grabsky on the enduring art of portraitist David HockneyEvent Cinema12/13/2017 1:36:00 Pm
As we near completion of our 19th feature film for Exhibition On Screen my enthusiasm remains as great as ever for making these cinematic biographies of great artists. I simply do not tire reading their letters, visiting their locations and, of course, looking hard at their artworks. Every season has endless wonderful moments, great stories and new discoveries. For me, this 5th season is no different. The three new films and two much-requested encores all feature some of the greatest artists and art in history. Canaletto, Hockney, Cézanne, Van Gogh and Monet.
With the exception of Canaletto, one real area of focus in this season is that of the portrait artist. Sometimes seen unfavourably in comparison to still lifes or landscapes, portraiture is of course...
As we near completion of our 19th feature film for Exhibition On Screen my enthusiasm remains as great as ever for making these cinematic biographies of great artists. I simply do not tire reading their letters, visiting their locations and, of course, looking hard at their artworks. Every season has endless wonderful moments, great stories and new discoveries. For me, this 5th season is no different. The three new films and two much-requested encores all feature some of the greatest artists and art in history. Canaletto, Hockney, Cézanne, Van Gogh and Monet.
With the exception of Canaletto, one real area of focus in this season is that of the portrait artist. Sometimes seen unfavourably in comparison to still lifes or landscapes, portraiture is of course...
- 12/13/2017
- by Event Cinema
- Cineplex
The latest Exhibition on Screen film is a pleasing study of the Us impressionists Mary Cassatt, Theodore Robinson and Willard Metcalf
The apple hasn’t fallen far from the tree with this latest film from Exhibition on Screen, the long-running series of gallery films: it follows releases from the company that draw on horticulture and impressionism such as Painting the Modern Garden: Monet to Matisse and I, Claude Monet. This time the focus is on Us artists such as Mary Cassatt, Theodore Robinson and Willard Metcalf.
This is relatively unploughed territory, and director Phil Grabsky documents it with his customary meticulous care (as well as roping in Gillian Anderson to provide a studious voiceover). There is a gallery element to the film – the Florence Griswold Museum, located at the former boarding house in Connecticut where the artists congregated – which makes for a interesting context. But these painters are perhaps not...
The apple hasn’t fallen far from the tree with this latest film from Exhibition on Screen, the long-running series of gallery films: it follows releases from the company that draw on horticulture and impressionism such as Painting the Modern Garden: Monet to Matisse and I, Claude Monet. This time the focus is on Us artists such as Mary Cassatt, Theodore Robinson and Willard Metcalf.
This is relatively unploughed territory, and director Phil Grabsky documents it with his customary meticulous care (as well as roping in Gillian Anderson to provide a studious voiceover). There is a gallery element to the film – the Florence Griswold Museum, located at the former boarding house in Connecticut where the artists congregated – which makes for a interesting context. But these painters are perhaps not...
- 3/17/2017
- by Andrew Pulver
- The Guardian - Film News
A documentary that humanises the great impressionist whose stock has been devalued by blockbuster shows
Another elegantly made and thoroughly informative art-history documentary from Phil Grabsky, the latest in the Exhibition on Screen series. Although Grabsky is a past master in the mini-genre of gallery films, this one doesn’t seem linked to a particular show or collection, but rather juxtaposes excerpts from Monet’s letters with the paintings he was working on at the time. What emerges is a portrait of an artist who withstood his fair share of privation and discouragement – the passages around the birth of his children and death of his first wife are particularly tough – but who displayed an unswerving commitment to his work. It humanises a figure who has become somewhat devalued by the haze of modern-day blockbuster art shows. A graceful film that suggests there’s passion beneath the beautiful surface.
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Another elegantly made and thoroughly informative art-history documentary from Phil Grabsky, the latest in the Exhibition on Screen series. Although Grabsky is a past master in the mini-genre of gallery films, this one doesn’t seem linked to a particular show or collection, but rather juxtaposes excerpts from Monet’s letters with the paintings he was working on at the time. What emerges is a portrait of an artist who withstood his fair share of privation and discouragement – the passages around the birth of his children and death of his first wife are particularly tough – but who displayed an unswerving commitment to his work. It humanises a figure who has become somewhat devalued by the haze of modern-day blockbuster art shows. A graceful film that suggests there’s passion beneath the beautiful surface.
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- 2/16/2017
- by Andrew Pulver
- The Guardian - Film News
Author: Andy Furlong
I, Claude Monet is an experimental documentary directed by Phil Grabsky based entirely on the eponymous artist’s personal letters. Monet’s voice is brought to life by acclaimed actor Henry Goodman in a documentary that forgoes traditional narration and talking heads in favour of much more unconventional techniques.
I, Claude Monet creates a disjointed autobiographical account of the founder of French Impressionist painting through his written correspondence with various different people throughout his life. This narration is juxtaposed with the paintings that coincide with these periods in Monet’s life. There are over 100 of Monet’s paintings shown in this documentary and some of his letters record encounters with fellow Impressionist artists Eugene Boudin, Camille Pissarro and even Prime Minister George Clemenceau.
Now while there is a certain insight to be gained from the artist’s inner turmoil at different periods in his life, it is...
I, Claude Monet is an experimental documentary directed by Phil Grabsky based entirely on the eponymous artist’s personal letters. Monet’s voice is brought to life by acclaimed actor Henry Goodman in a documentary that forgoes traditional narration and talking heads in favour of much more unconventional techniques.
I, Claude Monet creates a disjointed autobiographical account of the founder of French Impressionist painting through his written correspondence with various different people throughout his life. This narration is juxtaposed with the paintings that coincide with these periods in Monet’s life. There are over 100 of Monet’s paintings shown in this documentary and some of his letters record encounters with fellow Impressionist artists Eugene Boudin, Camille Pissarro and even Prime Minister George Clemenceau.
Now while there is a certain insight to be gained from the artist’s inner turmoil at different periods in his life, it is...
- 2/15/2017
- by Andy Furlong
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Full of curatorial insights, this souped-up stroll around the Royal Academy exhibition caters fulsomely to its Alan Titchmarsh demographic
Here is another enjoyable stroll around a major exhibition, with the now-familiar mixture of curatorial insights and detailed context, put together with well-practised ease by director Phil Grabsky. The exhibition itself is perhaps rather obviously aimed at the Alan Titchmarsh generation, with its double-populist conflation of gardening and impressionism, but there’s a lot of interesting material here on the history of horticulture and its parallel with late-19th century developments in painting. Monet, and his water garden at Giverny, is somewhat inevitably the main focus; other artists don’t get much of a look-in, though there are short sections on Matisse, Max Liebermann and Joaquín Sorolla. Still, this is a thoroughly pleasant feast for the eyes.
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Here is another enjoyable stroll around a major exhibition, with the now-familiar mixture of curatorial insights and detailed context, put together with well-practised ease by director Phil Grabsky. The exhibition itself is perhaps rather obviously aimed at the Alan Titchmarsh generation, with its double-populist conflation of gardening and impressionism, but there’s a lot of interesting material here on the history of horticulture and its parallel with late-19th century developments in painting. Monet, and his water garden at Giverny, is somewhat inevitably the main focus; other artists don’t get much of a look-in, though there are short sections on Matisse, Max Liebermann and Joaquín Sorolla. Still, this is a thoroughly pleasant feast for the eyes.
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- 4/7/2016
- by Andrew Pulver
- The Guardian - Film News
The latest virtual tour of a blockbuster exhibition shows you around the Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, with critics who grapple with Renoir’s late period
Here is the latest in the Exhibition on Screen series, this time designed to allow us to step inside the celebrated Barnes collection of modern French art – and specifically its mammoth Renoir holdings – as it is unlikely to ever travel away from its Philadelphia HQ. Barnes’s predilection was for Renoir’s “late” period – those fleshy, soft-focus nudes which, to put it mildly, haven’t aged well – and Phil Grabsky’s film deserves points for tackling the issue head-on: distinguished art critics queue up to explain how “weird” and “strange” they find them. Nevertheless, there’s a lot of insight here and plenty of context, with Renoir’s enduring influence on the next generation – Picasso and Matisse – stressed. An interesting film.
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Here is the latest in the Exhibition on Screen series, this time designed to allow us to step inside the celebrated Barnes collection of modern French art – and specifically its mammoth Renoir holdings – as it is unlikely to ever travel away from its Philadelphia HQ. Barnes’s predilection was for Renoir’s “late” period – those fleshy, soft-focus nudes which, to put it mildly, haven’t aged well – and Phil Grabsky’s film deserves points for tackling the issue head-on: distinguished art critics queue up to explain how “weird” and “strange” they find them. Nevertheless, there’s a lot of insight here and plenty of context, with Renoir’s enduring influence on the next generation – Picasso and Matisse – stressed. An interesting film.
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- 2/18/2016
- by Andrew Pulver
- The Guardian - Film News
Crass comedy in the form of The Inbetweeners 2 ruled the Australian box-office last weekend while James Cameron's Deepsea Challenge 3D sank ingloriously.
Doctor Who fans turned out in reasonable numbers for the Sunday cinema screening of the first episode of series 8 while Nick Cave.s new dramatised documentary had its admirers.
Nationwide takings slipped by 4% to $12.6 million, according to Rentrak.s estimates, as four titles each pulled in more than $1 million.
The Australian location of the Inbetweeners sequel no doubt contributed to the comedy.s strapping $3.15 million debut, $3.25 million including previews. That was 10% bigger than the 2011 opening of the original, which wound up earning $9.2 million.
Superhero fans are still discovering Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy, which breezed through its third outing fetching $2.7 million (down 36%), which propels its haul to $19.1 million.
Word-of-mouth is sustaining romantic drama The Hundred-Foot Journey, which eased by just 16% to $1.7 million, banking a hearty $5.7 million in 11 days.
Doctor Who fans turned out in reasonable numbers for the Sunday cinema screening of the first episode of series 8 while Nick Cave.s new dramatised documentary had its admirers.
Nationwide takings slipped by 4% to $12.6 million, according to Rentrak.s estimates, as four titles each pulled in more than $1 million.
The Australian location of the Inbetweeners sequel no doubt contributed to the comedy.s strapping $3.15 million debut, $3.25 million including previews. That was 10% bigger than the 2011 opening of the original, which wound up earning $9.2 million.
Superhero fans are still discovering Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy, which breezed through its third outing fetching $2.7 million (down 36%), which propels its haul to $19.1 million.
Word-of-mouth is sustaining romantic drama The Hundred-Foot Journey, which eased by just 16% to $1.7 million, banking a hearty $5.7 million in 11 days.
- 8/25/2014
- by Inside Film Correspondent
- IF.com.au
New York -- From the people who brought live Metropolitan Opera performances to a movie theater near you comes the next big-screen cultural attraction: museum art exhibits from around the world.
It begins Thursday with a retrospective devoted to the portraits by Edouard Manet from the Royal Academy of Arts in London, screened to 450 theaters across the U.S. and about 600 around the globe, with many locations scheduling encore broadcasts.
Two more exhibits are already lined up: a June retrospective on the art of Edvard Munch from the Munch Museum in Oslo, Norway, and an October showing of works by Johannes Vermeer from the National Gallery in London.
Unlike the live opera broadcasts, the art presentations are slickly produced documentaries giving viewers a VIP guided tour of current or recently ended exhibitions from noted art historian Tim Marlow, who lingers on each of the displayed works and explains why they are special.
It begins Thursday with a retrospective devoted to the portraits by Edouard Manet from the Royal Academy of Arts in London, screened to 450 theaters across the U.S. and about 600 around the globe, with many locations scheduling encore broadcasts.
Two more exhibits are already lined up: a June retrospective on the art of Edvard Munch from the Munch Museum in Oslo, Norway, and an October showing of works by Johannes Vermeer from the National Gallery in London.
Unlike the live opera broadcasts, the art presentations are slickly produced documentaries giving viewers a VIP guided tour of current or recently ended exhibitions from noted art historian Tim Marlow, who lingers on each of the displayed works and explains why they are special.
- 4/9/2013
- by AP
- Huffington Post
This modest, immensely enjoyable documentary is about one of my favourite books, The Rings of Saturn by the German poet and critic Wg Sebald, who was born in 1944, taught for much of his adult life in this country, mainly at the University of East Anglia, and was killed in a motor accident in 2001. It was first published in German in 1995, translated into English three years later and is an account of a walking tour of Suffolk, the people he meets, the places he visits, and the historical and literary reflections prompted by what he sees and senses, taking his mind around the world. Suffolk becomes a sort of palimpsest for his eloquent, precise, lugubrious, often drily witty meditations about war, death, destruction and decay, about memories and continuities and the feeling that nothing entirely disappears.
The film is largely shot in grainy grey-and-white, which matches the photographs, etchings and documents that illustrate the author's text,...
The film is largely shot in grainy grey-and-white, which matches the photographs, etchings and documents that illustrate the author's text,...
- 1/29/2012
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
Haywire (15)
(Steven Soderbergh, 2011, Us) Gina Carano, Ewan McGregor, Antonio Banderas, Channing Tatum, Michael Fassbender. 93 mins
Soderbergh flexes his action muscles for a change, and why not? Since he can do just about anything and get just about anyone. Pro-fighter Carano certainly convinces in the many punch-ups – she could have Salt and Hanna any day – and she's wisely given little space for acting in between them. It's a slick enough succession of foot chases, double-crosses and close-quarters violence, but it still lives in the shadow of the Bourne movies.
Coriolanus (15)
(Ralph Fiennes, 2011, UK) Ralph Fiennes, Vanessa Redgrave, Gerard Butler. 123 mins
Fiennes trims Shakespeare's martial play and grafts it on to a modern, Balkan-like setting, where his war hero is too proud or noble to play the political game. Veteran thesps help it along.
W.E. (15)
(Madonna, 2011, UK) Andrea Riseborough, Abbie Cornish, James D'Arcy. 119 mins
What could have drawn Madonna to this tale...
(Steven Soderbergh, 2011, Us) Gina Carano, Ewan McGregor, Antonio Banderas, Channing Tatum, Michael Fassbender. 93 mins
Soderbergh flexes his action muscles for a change, and why not? Since he can do just about anything and get just about anyone. Pro-fighter Carano certainly convinces in the many punch-ups – she could have Salt and Hanna any day – and she's wisely given little space for acting in between them. It's a slick enough succession of foot chases, double-crosses and close-quarters violence, but it still lives in the shadow of the Bourne movies.
Coriolanus (15)
(Ralph Fiennes, 2011, UK) Ralph Fiennes, Vanessa Redgrave, Gerard Butler. 123 mins
Fiennes trims Shakespeare's martial play and grafts it on to a modern, Balkan-like setting, where his war hero is too proud or noble to play the political game. Veteran thesps help it along.
W.E. (15)
(Madonna, 2011, UK) Andrea Riseborough, Abbie Cornish, James D'Arcy. 119 mins
What could have drawn Madonna to this tale...
- 1/21/2012
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
Following his excellent films on Mozart and Beethoven, the British documentarist Phil Grabsky completes an admirable trilogy with this riveting study of Haydn. As with the earlier films there are no phoney reconstructions and dramatisations, just a lucid chronological account of a life using contemporary prints and new film of the places where he worked; some beautiful music by a variety of performers; informative, unpretentious contributions from musicians, critics and historians; and a commentary nicely spoken by Juliet Stevenson. It's a quieter, less dramatic career than Mozart's and Beethoven's, but longer, no less significant, and one of great dedication and probity. I learned much about this likable man (including the fact that there's only one picture of him without a wig and that he never appeared with his head uncovered), and I intend to hear more of his music.
Joseph HaydnDocumentaryClassical musicPhilip French
guardian.co.uk © 2012 Guardian News and...
Joseph HaydnDocumentaryClassical musicPhilip French
guardian.co.uk © 2012 Guardian News and...
- 1/15/2012
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
War Horse (12A)
(Steven Spielberg, 2011, Us) Jeremy Irvine, Peter Mullan, Emily Watson, Niels Arestrup, Tom Hiddleston, Benedict Cumberbatch. 146 mins
You can see why the hit boy-and-his-horse book/play appealed to Spielberg, in a sort of Et-meets-Saving Private Ryan way. It brings out the best and worst of him. There's some brazen old-school tear-jerking and rosy rural farming hardship, but there's also the first world war, thank God. Epic action frequently comes to the rescue, in what becomes a stirring, gruelling steeplechase across wartime Europe, towards an ending that's pure Hollywood.
Shame (18)
(Steve McQueen, 2011, UK) Michael Fassbender, Carey Mulligan, James Badge Dale. 101 mins
McQueen's follow-up to Hunger tackles an equally risky topic (sex addiction) with a similarly sparse and frank approach, though this is arguably more conventional. Fassbender is magnetic as usual, playing a terminally horny Manhattan man whose lone-wolf existence is disrupted by the arrival of his needy sister.
(Steven Spielberg, 2011, Us) Jeremy Irvine, Peter Mullan, Emily Watson, Niels Arestrup, Tom Hiddleston, Benedict Cumberbatch. 146 mins
You can see why the hit boy-and-his-horse book/play appealed to Spielberg, in a sort of Et-meets-Saving Private Ryan way. It brings out the best and worst of him. There's some brazen old-school tear-jerking and rosy rural farming hardship, but there's also the first world war, thank God. Epic action frequently comes to the rescue, in what becomes a stirring, gruelling steeplechase across wartime Europe, towards an ending that's pure Hollywood.
Shame (18)
(Steve McQueen, 2011, UK) Michael Fassbender, Carey Mulligan, James Badge Dale. 101 mins
McQueen's follow-up to Hunger tackles an equally risky topic (sex addiction) with a similarly sparse and frank approach, though this is arguably more conventional. Fassbender is magnetic as usual, playing a terminally horny Manhattan man whose lone-wolf existence is disrupted by the arrival of his needy sister.
- 1/14/2012
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
DVD Release Date: Feb. 28, 2012
Price: DVD $25.00
Studio: Microcinema
Eight-year-old Mir is The Boy Who Plays on the Buddhas of Bamiyan.
The 2004 documentary film The Boy Who Plays on the Buddhas of Bamiyan follows a year in the life of an eight-year-old boy named Mir who lives in the ruins of the ‘Buddhas of Bamiyan,’ once the tallest stone statues in the world and Afghanistan’s foremost tourist attraction until they were destroyed by the ruling Taliban government.
British film-maker Phil Grabsky travelled alone to central Afghanistan a few months after the fall of the Taliban in late 2001 with the aim of making a film that would explore the lives of ordinary Afghans. Young Mir caught the filmmaker’s eye and over the course of four seasons, he followed Mir’s life against the magnificent backdrop of Bamiyan and its ruined statues. As Mir grows over the course of the year,...
Price: DVD $25.00
Studio: Microcinema
Eight-year-old Mir is The Boy Who Plays on the Buddhas of Bamiyan.
The 2004 documentary film The Boy Who Plays on the Buddhas of Bamiyan follows a year in the life of an eight-year-old boy named Mir who lives in the ruins of the ‘Buddhas of Bamiyan,’ once the tallest stone statues in the world and Afghanistan’s foremost tourist attraction until they were destroyed by the ruling Taliban government.
British film-maker Phil Grabsky travelled alone to central Afghanistan a few months after the fall of the Taliban in late 2001 with the aim of making a film that would explore the lives of ordinary Afghans. Young Mir caught the filmmaker’s eye and over the course of four seasons, he followed Mir’s life against the magnificent backdrop of Bamiyan and its ruined statues. As Mir grows over the course of the year,...
- 1/11/2012
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
Release Date: Nov. 15, 2011
Price: DVD $25.00
Studio: Microcinema
The creation of a theatrical smash is tracked in Making War Horse.
Making War Horse is a 50-minute documentary film that tells the story of how Michael Morpurgo’s acclaimed children’s novel War Horse was transformed into one of the most popular and acclaimed productions in the history of England’s National Theatre.
And that’s before the 2007 play became a smash on Broadway and before Steven Spielberg (Jaws) directed the movie version of War Horse, which is scheduled to open in theaters in December 2011.
Directed by David Bickerstaff and Phil Grabsky (Half Life: A Journey to Chernobyl), the 2009 documentary tracks War Horse from its early development in the National Theatre Studio and follows how the Handspring Puppet Company created the ground-breaking techniques that brought a stylized horse to life on the stage. The film also goes behind the scenes and into...
Price: DVD $25.00
Studio: Microcinema
The creation of a theatrical smash is tracked in Making War Horse.
Making War Horse is a 50-minute documentary film that tells the story of how Michael Morpurgo’s acclaimed children’s novel War Horse was transformed into one of the most popular and acclaimed productions in the history of England’s National Theatre.
And that’s before the 2007 play became a smash on Broadway and before Steven Spielberg (Jaws) directed the movie version of War Horse, which is scheduled to open in theaters in December 2011.
Directed by David Bickerstaff and Phil Grabsky (Half Life: A Journey to Chernobyl), the 2009 documentary tracks War Horse from its early development in the National Theatre Studio and follows how the Handspring Puppet Company created the ground-breaking techniques that brought a stylized horse to life on the stage. The film also goes behind the scenes and into...
- 11/1/2011
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
When British film-maker Phil Grabsky arrived in Afghanistan almost a decade ago, he didn’t know what to expect.
The Boy Mir is the fruit of extraordinary persistence from Grabsky and his team who succeeded against the odds to provide an unprecedented perspective into life in one of the world’s poorest countries.
David Cox caught up with Grabsky to talk about his experiences and what he hopes viewers will take away from the film
David Cox: What first inspired you to film in Afghanistan ?
Phil Grabsky: To some extent you’re always waiting to feel passionate about something, to feel interested about something In 2001, everyone was watching the Buddhas being destroyed in March and then of course all the events through to September and then in Afghanistan, all the changes that happened in November with the foreign aided, temporary eviction of the Taliban and I guess I...
The Boy Mir is the fruit of extraordinary persistence from Grabsky and his team who succeeded against the odds to provide an unprecedented perspective into life in one of the world’s poorest countries.
David Cox caught up with Grabsky to talk about his experiences and what he hopes viewers will take away from the film
David Cox: What first inspired you to film in Afghanistan ?
Phil Grabsky: To some extent you’re always waiting to feel passionate about something, to feel interested about something In 2001, everyone was watching the Buddhas being destroyed in March and then of course all the events through to September and then in Afghanistan, all the changes that happened in November with the foreign aided, temporary eviction of the Taliban and I guess I...
- 10/19/2011
- by Guest
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: I celebrate all levels of trailers and hopefully this column will satisfactorily give you a baseline of what beta wave I’m operating on, because what better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising? Some of the best authors will tell you that writing a short story is a lot harder than writing a long one, that you have to weigh every sentence. What better medium to see how this theory plays itself out beyond that than with movie trailers? The Boy Mir: Ten Years In Afghanistan Trailer Put this on my list of documentaries about the wars in the Middle East that I want to check out.
- 10/15/2011
- by Christopher Stipp
- Slash Film
Melancholia (15)
(Lars Von Trier, 2010, Den/Swe/Fra/Ger) Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Kiefer Sutherland, Alexander Skarsgård. 136 mins
Never have crippling depression and the end of the world looked so appealing. Personal and planetary orbits are fatalistically set on collision course in Von Trier's latest, as two sisters struggle with life, the universe and each other, but despite the grimness, its strange beauty stays with you.
The Debt (15)
(John Madden, 2010, Us) Helen Mirren, Jessica Chastain, Sam Worthington. 113 mins
A trio of Israeli agents try to abduct a former Nazi, then deal with the fallout decades later in this structurally (over)ambitious spy epic.
Red State (18)
(Kevin Smith, 2011, Us) Michael Parks, Melissa Leo, John Goodman. 88 mins
Smith takes aim at Christian fundamentalism in this cultish horror, which doesn't have the firepower it needs.
The Green Wave (Nc)
(Ali Samadi Ahadi, 2010, Ger) 80 mins
Documentary on Iran's 2009 democratic uprising, mixing reportage, animation and tweets and blogs.
(Lars Von Trier, 2010, Den/Swe/Fra/Ger) Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Kiefer Sutherland, Alexander Skarsgård. 136 mins
Never have crippling depression and the end of the world looked so appealing. Personal and planetary orbits are fatalistically set on collision course in Von Trier's latest, as two sisters struggle with life, the universe and each other, but despite the grimness, its strange beauty stays with you.
The Debt (15)
(John Madden, 2010, Us) Helen Mirren, Jessica Chastain, Sam Worthington. 113 mins
A trio of Israeli agents try to abduct a former Nazi, then deal with the fallout decades later in this structurally (over)ambitious spy epic.
Red State (18)
(Kevin Smith, 2011, Us) Michael Parks, Melissa Leo, John Goodman. 88 mins
Smith takes aim at Christian fundamentalism in this cultish horror, which doesn't have the firepower it needs.
The Green Wave (Nc)
(Ali Samadi Ahadi, 2010, Ger) 80 mins
Documentary on Iran's 2009 democratic uprising, mixing reportage, animation and tweets and blogs.
- 9/30/2011
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
This documentary chronicling a decade in the life of a young Afghan is an eye-opening insight into the country's difficulties
An epic labour of righteousness from British documentary-maker Phil Grabsky, who evidently travelled to Afghanistan every year since 2002, to film updates on the charismatic little kid he found while making an earlier film, The Boy Who Plays on the Buddhas of Bamiyan. What emerges is an unadorned chronicle of grinding poverty: Mir starts at school, but is gradually sidetracked into a life of ploughing and coalmining as his father becomes too ill to work. In some ways, Mir's story is that of the universal early-teen – he pines after a motorbike, wants to ring girls, skips lessons – but there's the extra edge of civil war and Taliban-inspired carnage in the background. But the most powerful warning is Mir's rueful stepbrother Khushdel, who bitterly regrets his own lack of schooling.
Rating: 3/5
DocumentaryAfghanistanAndrew Pulver
guardian.
An epic labour of righteousness from British documentary-maker Phil Grabsky, who evidently travelled to Afghanistan every year since 2002, to film updates on the charismatic little kid he found while making an earlier film, The Boy Who Plays on the Buddhas of Bamiyan. What emerges is an unadorned chronicle of grinding poverty: Mir starts at school, but is gradually sidetracked into a life of ploughing and coalmining as his father becomes too ill to work. In some ways, Mir's story is that of the universal early-teen – he pines after a motorbike, wants to ring girls, skips lessons – but there's the extra edge of civil war and Taliban-inspired carnage in the background. But the most powerful warning is Mir's rueful stepbrother Khushdel, who bitterly regrets his own lack of schooling.
Rating: 3/5
DocumentaryAfghanistanAndrew Pulver
guardian.
- 9/29/2011
- by Andrew Pulver
- The Guardian - Film News
Two film-makers followed an Afghan boy and his family over 10 years. The result is a startling documentary full of hardship – but humour, too
It was while he was stopping for a cup of tea on the 24-hour drive from the central Afghan province of Bamiyan to Kabul that film-maker Phil Grabsky caught some unwanted local attention. "There was a whole bunch of guys standing around watching us. One of them looked at me and shouted something in my direction. I asked my translator what he'd said, but he wouldn't tell me. He just said, 'Right, we'd better leave now.' I kept pressing him to tell me. Turns out it was, 'If I had a knife, I'd slit the throat of that American right now.'"
Grabsky isn't American – he lives in Brighton – but he was an obvious outsider who, with his camera in tow, looked dubious enough to garner mistrust from bystanders.
It was while he was stopping for a cup of tea on the 24-hour drive from the central Afghan province of Bamiyan to Kabul that film-maker Phil Grabsky caught some unwanted local attention. "There was a whole bunch of guys standing around watching us. One of them looked at me and shouted something in my direction. I asked my translator what he'd said, but he wouldn't tell me. He just said, 'Right, we'd better leave now.' I kept pressing him to tell me. Turns out it was, 'If I had a knife, I'd slit the throat of that American right now.'"
Grabsky isn't American – he lives in Brighton – but he was an obvious outsider who, with his camera in tow, looked dubious enough to garner mistrust from bystanders.
- 9/15/2011
- by Huma Qureshi
- The Guardian - Film News
Microcinema will release a special DVD boxed set of the music-filled documentary films In Search Of Mozart and In Search Of Beethoven on May 31.
The Mozart/Beethoven DVD package carries a list price of $64.95; the previously released In Search Of Mozart DVD and In Search Of Beethoven DVD are also still available individually for a list price of $39.99 each.
The orchestra plays on in In Search of Mozart.
The two film movies were directed by filmmaker Phil Grabsky and each take a comprehensive look at their respected composer’s life through his musical output. Grabsky documents each piece of music chronologically, placing it in context alongside the composer’s life and letters. Grabsky traveled around the world to interview eminent historians and musicians and then filmed performances by world-class artists.
Produced in association with the world’s leading orchestras, opera houses and musicians, In Search Of Mozart (2009) and In Search Of Beethoven...
The Mozart/Beethoven DVD package carries a list price of $64.95; the previously released In Search Of Mozart DVD and In Search Of Beethoven DVD are also still available individually for a list price of $39.99 each.
The orchestra plays on in In Search of Mozart.
The two film movies were directed by filmmaker Phil Grabsky and each take a comprehensive look at their respected composer’s life through his musical output. Grabsky documents each piece of music chronologically, placing it in context alongside the composer’s life and letters. Grabsky traveled around the world to interview eminent historians and musicians and then filmed performances by world-class artists.
Produced in association with the world’s leading orchestras, opera houses and musicians, In Search Of Mozart (2009) and In Search Of Beethoven...
- 4/15/2011
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
Sigrid Thornton in Michael Rymer's Face to Face Troubadours Wins Santa Barbara Film Festival Audiece Award Panavision Spirit Award for Independent Cinema: Michael Rymer's Face to Face Best International Film Award: Nathan Collett's Togetherness Supreme Special Jury Mention: Alicia Vikander for Pure The Nueva Vision Award: Nostalgia for the Light, Patricio Guzmán Best East Meets West Cinema Award: Patisserie (Coin de rue) by Yoshihiro Fukagawa Best Eastern Bloc Award: If I Want To Whistle, I Whistle by Florin Serban Best Documentary Film Award: The Boy Mir: Ten Years in Afghanistan by Phil Grabsky Bruce Corwin Award for Best Live Action Short Film: West of the Moon Brent Bonacorso Bruce Corwin Award for Best Animation Short Film:The Lost Thing by Andrew Ruhemann and Shaun Tan The Fund for Santa Barbara Social Justice Award: When I Rise by Mat Hames and Nostalgia for the Light by Patricio Guzmán...
- 2/8/2011
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Morgan Neville’s “Troubadours,” a documentary about the Los Angeles music scene from the late 1960s to the early ‘70s, was audience favorite when the 26th Annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival handed out its awards over the weekend at Fess Parker’s Doubletree Resort.
“This year in particular, I have been incredibly impressed by our film lineup. Each of the films possessed their own unique quality, creating one of the most diverse and interesting programs yet,” said Sbiff executive director Roger Durling in a statement.
The following is a list of this year’s winners.
The Panavision Spirit Award for Independent Cinema
“Face to Face” (Australia)
Michael Rymer, director
Winner received a camera package worth $60,000.
The Best International Film Award
“Togetherness Supreme” (Kenya)
Nathan Collett, director
Special Jury Mention
Alicia Vikander, actress, “Pure” (Sweden)
The Nueva Vision Award
“Nostalgia for the Light” (“Nostalgia de la Luc”) (U.S.)
Patricio Guzmán,...
“This year in particular, I have been incredibly impressed by our film lineup. Each of the films possessed their own unique quality, creating one of the most diverse and interesting programs yet,” said Sbiff executive director Roger Durling in a statement.
The following is a list of this year’s winners.
The Panavision Spirit Award for Independent Cinema
“Face to Face” (Australia)
Michael Rymer, director
Winner received a camera package worth $60,000.
The Best International Film Award
“Togetherness Supreme” (Kenya)
Nathan Collett, director
Special Jury Mention
Alicia Vikander, actress, “Pure” (Sweden)
The Nueva Vision Award
“Nostalgia for the Light” (“Nostalgia de la Luc”) (U.S.)
Patricio Guzmán,...
- 2/7/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Network
Morgan Neville’s “Troubadours,” a documentary about the Los Angeles music scene from the late 1960s to the early ‘70s, was audience favorite when the 26th Annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival handed out its awards over the weekend at Fess Parker’s Doubletree Resort.
“This year in particular, I have been incredibly impressed by our film lineup. Each of the films possessed their own unique quality, creating one of the most diverse and interesting programs yet,” said Sbiff executive director Roger Durling in a statement.
The following is a list of this year’s winners.
The Panavision Spirit Award for Independent Cinema
“Face to Face” (Australia)
Michael Rymer, director
Winner received a camera package worth $60,000.
The Best International Film Award
“Togetherness Supreme” (Kenya)
Nathan Collett, director
Special Jury Mention
Alicia Vikander, actress, “Pure” (Sweden)
The Nueva Vision Award
“Nostalgia for the Light” (“Nostalgia de la Luc”) (U.S.)
Patricio Guzmán,...
“This year in particular, I have been incredibly impressed by our film lineup. Each of the films possessed their own unique quality, creating one of the most diverse and interesting programs yet,” said Sbiff executive director Roger Durling in a statement.
The following is a list of this year’s winners.
The Panavision Spirit Award for Independent Cinema
“Face to Face” (Australia)
Michael Rymer, director
Winner received a camera package worth $60,000.
The Best International Film Award
“Togetherness Supreme” (Kenya)
Nathan Collett, director
Special Jury Mention
Alicia Vikander, actress, “Pure” (Sweden)
The Nueva Vision Award
“Nostalgia for the Light” (“Nostalgia de la Luc”) (U.S.)
Patricio Guzmán,...
- 2/7/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Magazine
The Santa Barbara International Film Festival announced its 2011 prize winners earlier today.
The highly-coveted Audience Award went to Morgan Neville’s “Troubadours,” an engaging doc about the rise of singer-songwriters — most notably Carole King and James Taylor, who feature prominently in the film alongside other headliners of the period — in Los Angeles, generally, and at the Troubadour Club, specifically, in the late 1960s and early 1970s. (The film premiered at last month’s Sundance Film Festival and will air nationally on PBS on March 2 at 8pm Est.)
The other top honors were determined by a jury that included actor Billy Baldwin (“Gossip Girl”), writer/director Paul Brickman (“Risky Business”), director Andy Davis (“The Fugitive”), producer Frank Donner (“Deliver Us from Evil”), actor Christopher Lloyd (“Back to the Future”), and actor Anthony Zerbe (“The Matrix”), among others, and went to the following films…
The Panavision Spirit Award for Independent Cinema (given...
The highly-coveted Audience Award went to Morgan Neville’s “Troubadours,” an engaging doc about the rise of singer-songwriters — most notably Carole King and James Taylor, who feature prominently in the film alongside other headliners of the period — in Los Angeles, generally, and at the Troubadour Club, specifically, in the late 1960s and early 1970s. (The film premiered at last month’s Sundance Film Festival and will air nationally on PBS on March 2 at 8pm Est.)
The other top honors were determined by a jury that included actor Billy Baldwin (“Gossip Girl”), writer/director Paul Brickman (“Risky Business”), director Andy Davis (“The Fugitive”), producer Frank Donner (“Deliver Us from Evil”), actor Christopher Lloyd (“Back to the Future”), and actor Anthony Zerbe (“The Matrix”), among others, and went to the following films…
The Panavision Spirit Award for Independent Cinema (given...
- 2/7/2011
- by Scott Feinberg
- Scott Feinberg
Loopline Film and Screen Training Ireland have announced an updated list of tutors for their upcoming Feature Documentary Workshop series taking place in Dublin in November and December. The workshop is aimed at Irish-based documentary makers who are developing a feature project and there will be 10 participants accepted on the workshop. The tutors now include filmmakers Heddy Honigmann (Oblivion, Forever, Crazy); Marc Isaacs & Rachel Wexler (Men in the City); Peter Liechti, winner of the Prix Europa award for his film 'The Sound of Insects'; Eric Daniel Metzgar (Reporter); David Kinsella (A Beautiful Tragedy); Phil Grabsky (The Boy Who Played on the Buddhas of Bamiyan) and Anne Aghion (My Neighbour, My Killer).
- 10/27/2009
- IFTN
The 28th annual Vancouver International Film Festival (Viff) will be held October 1-16, 2009. Founded in 1982, Viff's mandate is "...to encourage the understanding of other nations through the art of cinema, to foster the art of cinema, to facilitate the meeting in British Columbia of cinema professionals from around the world and to stimulate the motion picture industry in British Columbia and Canada..." Over 150,000 people are expected to attend 640 screenings of 360 films from 80 countries. Here is an up-to-date list of directors, confirmed to attend Viff 2009, along with their films : "1428" Du Haibin "1999" Lenin Sivam "65_RedRoses" Philip Lyall & Nimisha Mukerji "Adelaide" Liliana Greenfield-Sanders "The Agony and the Ecstasy of Phil Spector" Vikram Jayanti "Ana & Arthur" Larry Young "The Anchorage" Anders Edström & Curtis Winter "Antoine" Laura Bari "Argippo Resurrected" Dan Krames "The Art of Drowning" Diego Maclean "At Home By Myself... With You" Kris Booth "At The Edge Of The World" Dan Stone...
- 9/27/2009
- HollywoodNorthReport.com
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