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On the eve of the UK release of Ben Wheatley’s eagerly anticipated filmed adaptation of J.G. Ballard’s novel, HIGH-RISE, I am exclusively posting the entire transcripts of a series of interviews that I conducted with the cast and crew of the film for the British Film Institute film magazine, Sight and Sound. The magazine’s editor, … Continue reading
On the eve of the UK release of Ben Wheatley’s eagerly anticipated filmed adaptation of J.G. Ballard’s novel, HIGH-RISE, I am exclusively posting the entire transcripts of a series of interviews that I conducted with the cast and crew of the film for the British Film Institute film magazine, Sight and Sound. The magazine’s editor, … Continue reading
Mike Leigh will be my first guest to kick-off my Riverside Nights programme at The Riverside in Woodbridge on Friday 26th February 2016. Tickets for this event are selling fast and can be found here: http://www.theriverside.co.uk/programme_100_detail.php?id=631#anchor
From January 2016 I shall be hosting a monthly film-related event at The Riverside in Woodbridge. These events will take place once a month and throughout the year. So far I can confirm the following special events have been discussed, with specific dates still to be finalised: An Evening with Mike Leigh – Celebrated British … Continue reading
Whilst at the Midnight Sun Film Festival in June this year, I got the chance to interview Portuguese director, Miguel Gomes, about his recent film ARABIAN NIGHTS, which had only been unveiled a few weeks previous at Cannes. Miguel was in great spirits which made for a very light-hearted interview. Photo by Ella Karttunen © … Continue reading
On Sunday August 23rd at my local cinema, The Riverside Theatre, in Woodbridge, Suffolk I had the great pleasure of interviewing director, Paul Greengrass. Paul was in town as part of The Riverside Theatre’s centenary celebrations and was there to kick-start the proceedings. A screening of his last film, CAPTAIN PHILLIPS (2013), was shown and … Continue reading
This was my first visit to the film festival in the beautiful picturesque town of Karlovy Vary. The festival was celebrating its 50th year and full details of the festival can be found here: http://www.kviff.com/en/news/ Listed below is a day by day account of films viewed along with a rating out of 10. Day 1 … Continue reading
Day 7 Apologies for the late posting of my summary of the last two days of Il Cinema Ritrovato but we literally left the festival Sunday morning for Prague and another film festival at Karlovy Vary, where it’s been non-stop movies again each day! Not that many movies were watched over the last two days, … Continue reading
Day 5 I received a text late on Tuesday evening from Bristol Watershed’s Mark Cosgrove asking if we’d like to take a private tour around the Cineteca’s film restoration laboratory, L’Immagine Ritrovata, at 10am the next morning. We agreed and the tour included myself, my wife, Mark and Tom Vincent of Aardman Animation. The tour … Continue reading
Day 3 The morning kicked off with Gordon Douglas 1964 western RIO CONCHOS. Considering the year the film was made I was surprised how violent it was for a studio picture (20th Century Fox); it opens with a shootout and mass killing at an Indian funeral, later we see people burned alive in a locked … Continue reading
just tryin' to capture it
racconti delle immagini in movimento
A Criterion Podcast
and this is not an exit.
because anything is possible with Charisma
"All art is contemporary, if it's alive, and if it's not alive, what's the point of it?" Hockney
Where Suspense Lives!
Notes on Films and Culture
Watching films, going places, researching history, making stuff. That's me.
passion explored endures more
....unless it's a cinema
....unless it's a cinema
Cinema, music, opera, books, television, theater
david cairns
reports from the lost continent of cinephilia
There's No Place Like Home 