HELP RESTORE ‘BURROUGHS’ BY HOWARD BROOKNER
Aaron Brookner, nephew of the late documentarian Howard Brookner, is currently seeking support to digitally restore his uncle’s famous documentary Burroughs; a portrait of extraordinary and infamous...
View Article‘SMASH THE CONTROL MACHINE’ FILMAKERS LAUNCH IFP FISCAL SPONSORSHIP CAMPAIGN
The filmmakers behind documentary Smash The Control Machine: Howard Brookner & The Western Lands (director Aaron Brookner, producer Paula Vaccaro and executive producer Jim Jarmusch,) have just...
View ArticleTOP TEN FILMS OF 2014 – ROB ARNOTT (CONTRIBUTING EDITOR)
1) IDA (DIR. PAWEL PAWLIKOWSKI, POLAND) Ida, the Polish nun at the heart of Pawlikoski’s WW2 drama, perfectly encapsulates the lightness and darkness of the film, her beetlebug black eyes framed by a...
View ArticleTOP TEN FILMS OF 2014 – TOM COTTEY (EDITOR)
1) 12 YEARS A SLAVE (DIR. STEVE MCQUEEN, USA/UK) An ultra-early release of 2014 in the UK (January 10th to be precise), Steve McQueen’s third film 12 Years A Slave has endured, in my memory, as the...
View ArticleGANJA & HESS (DIR. BILL GUNN, USA, 1973) – DVD REVIEW
As Spike Lee arrives on Vimeo on Demand with the crowdfunded horror Da Sweet Blood of Jesus, there couldn’t be a better time to revisit – and rightly celebrate – the film’s visceral and poetic...
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