In July BFI Southbank will present a short season dedicated to the work of Iranian director and actress Mania Akbari. The highlight of the season will be a Q&A with the director following a screening of her debut fiction film 20 Fingers (2004) on Wednesday 17 July. Akbari is perhaps best known for her leading […]
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We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks
1st July 2013 – 13:16
News Source: https://www.facebook.com/WeStealSecrets?v=app_379496515501585&app_data=gaReferrerOverride%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.google.de%252Furl%253Fsa%253Dt%2526rct%253Dj%2526q%253Dwe%252520steal%252520secrets%2526source%253Dweb%2526cd%253D6%2526cad%253Drja%2526ved%253D0CFkQFjAF%2526url%253Dhttp%25253A%25252F%25252Fwww.westealsecretsmovie.com%25252F%2526ei%253DwGjOUaCBMojStQbr64G4Bw%2526usg%253DAFQjCNHrzrMAsQXv_ndxUAagzHYSVbk4jQ%2526bvm%253Dbv.48572450%252Cd.Yms Filmed with the startling immediacy of unfolding history, Academy Award-winning director Alex Gibney’s We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks is a riveting, multi-layered tale about transparency in the information age and our ever-elusive search for the truth. Detailing the creation of Julian Assange’s controversial website, which facilitated the largest security breach […]
Occupy Monsanto’s photo
19th June 2013 – 12:10
News Source: Watch here: http://geneticroulettemovie.com/movienight Global GMO Movie Night: FREE viewing of the documentary film, Genetic Roulette, by Jeffrey Smith of the Institute for Responsible Technology. Today only, June 15th – SHARE!
Children Of The Night: s about early 80sthree film Goth nightlife in the UK
18th April 2013 – 13:21
h, if only time machines had been invented already. We would each be free to zip back and visit the desired nightclub/live venue/social scene of our choice, to revel in a world we can now only read, or dream, about. I’ve thought about this before, of course, and most of my preferred time travel destinations […]
The Punk Syndrome – watch it here
18th April 2013 – 12:16
The third film in our New View documentary season is a full-on account of an angry Finnish punk act, whose members are all learning disabled. Available in the UK and Ireland only Blasting onto day three of our New View season comes The Punk Syndrome, the angry Finnish documentary about learning-disabled band Pertti Kurikka’s Name […]
‘The Day the Clown Cried’: Behind the scenes of the infamous Jerry Lewis film
15th March 2013 – 10:22
This is a guest post from Tabitha Vidaurri, a writer and comedinette from Brooklyn In 1971 Jerry Lewis infamously directed and starred in a film about the Holocaust titled The Day the Clown Cried. For reasons that are still unclear, Lewis chose to depart from his trademark slapstick formula and play the role of Helmut […]
Joe Strummer’s film-making debut: ‘Hell W10’
23rd February 2013 – 13:21
Back in 1983, Joe Strummer directed a short film called Hell W10. I wonder if Joe was tempted to call it The Clash By Night, a play on Fritz Lang’s noir classic. The film has the right look. With the participation of Mick Jones, Paul Simenon, Kosmo Vinyl, Pearl Harbour and various Clash crew members, […]
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13th February 2013 – 15:12
‘Imaginary Man’: Julien Temple’s superb documentary on Ray Davies Director and Kinks fan, Julien Temple beautifully captures Ray Davies’ wistfulness in his excellent documentary on the former-Kink, Ray Davies: Imaginary Man. Davies is allowed to gently meander around his past life, talking about his childhood, his family of 7 sisters and 1 brother, his early […]
Read the first chapter of Richard Hell’s autobiography
5th February 2013 – 12:56
Richard Hell’s autobiography I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp is hitting the streets on March 12. But you can read the first chapter here right now. I wanted to have a life of adventure. I didn’t want anybody telling me what to do. I knew this was the most important thing and that […]