PETERLOO FILM REVIEW (MIKE WAYNE) – CULTURE MATTERS
September 10, 2019
Mike Wayne reviews Mike Leigh’s new film, a complex, powerful reconstruction of a key historical moment in the ongoing class struggle of the British working class. Most of Mike Leigh’s films have been small scale, intimate and personal stories rather than the explicitly political territory Ken Loach is well known for. And yet with Peterloo, […]
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THE WINNERS – LABOUR FILM FESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL CONTEST 2017
November 27, 2017
SHORT DOCUMENTARY WINNER THEIR LAND, OUR HOME – RYAN POWELL/UK HIGHLY COMMENDED PUNK ROCK POLITICS – RIO GOLDHAMMER/UK A PIECE OF COAL – LAURA TORENBEEK/UK SHORT FICTION WINNER A DAY IN THE LIFE – CARL HUNTER/UK HIGHLY COMMENDED THE BEAST – MICHAEL WAHRMANN & SAMANTHA NELL/SOUTH AFRICAN-ZULU LES MISERABLES LADJ LY/FRANCE CIRILLO – RUBEN SEINZ/SPAIN […]
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MEET THE JUDGES – LABOUR FILM INTERNATIONAL CONTEST 2017
November 11, 2017
Ian Christie, FBA, is a British film scholar. He has written several books including studies of the works of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, Martin Scorsese and the development of cinema. He is a regular contributor to Sight & Sound magazine and a frequent broadcaster. Christie is currently Professor of Film and Media History at Birkbeck, University of London. Cristobal Catalan is an award […]
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What does Nick Broomfield like in documentaries?
October 22, 2017
He likes them to be, “spontaneous and rough and tumble.” After more than thirty years in the field, he has become an iconic presence—standing in front of the camera with a boom in his hand, wearing earphones, and about to pursue the subject of his latest documentary—whether that be an ex-prime minister (Tracking Down Maggie), […]
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