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Three New Documentaries To Watch Now
1 April 2020, by Benjamin Hollis
Documentary Weekly
As unfortunate and disruptive as the Covid-19 outbreak has been for the film industry, the resulting boom of online releases will be welcomed by cinephiles around the world. On March 20th, Alla Kovga’s highly anticipated « Cunningham » joined the growing list of films forced into an early online release.
An ode to legendary dance choreographer Merce Cunningham, the film blends artistic performance with archival footage, interviews and excerpts from letters to (...)
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A Pick Of Online Releases
28 March 2020, by Mydylarama team
During this hopefully short-lived period of confinement, we’ll bring you some new releases, old gems and freebies that are now available on streaming platforms or video on demand to help distract us all from our currently precarious financial and emotional conditions.
We’ll post 2 or 3 titles at a time, starting with these recent releases:
Bacurau - MUBI
Bacurau is a small, isolated and impoverished village lodged somewhere in the backwaters of Brazil. The day after the death of the (...)
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Soviet Hippies, directed by Terje Toomistu - UK Premiere
14 November 2019, by Tommy Hodgson
Soviet Hippies, directed by Terje Toomistu, ‘Lenin vs. Lennon’ – UK
Premiere via Dash Arts
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The Ponds by Patrick McLennan & Samuel Smith - coming at Art House Crouch End
7 November 2019, by Benjamin Hollis
“The Ponds” meets the Londoners whose lives have been changed by outdoor swimming
Visit Hampstead Heath in North London at the summer’s peak and you’ll see hundreds of sun-seeking locals swimming in the park’s ponds. Although that quintessential image will be familiar to many Londoners, few know that the ponds continue to draw regulars throughout the winter.
“The Ponds” is a yearlong study of the motley crew that religiously swims in the Hampstead Heath ponds every day, come rain, (...)
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Nightcleaners at Bertha DocHouse
2 November 2019, by Benjamin Hollis
Nightcleaners – An oddity of its time that captures the British working class struggle of the early 1970s
« Nightcleaners » is an early 70s observational account of London’s female office cleaners embroiled in an arduous struggle for fair pay and fair treatment by their male and middle-class bosses. The film has an admirable grip on the public conscience, garnering sustained attention from activists and doc-lovers alike over the years and prompting a well-received screening at Bertha (...)
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Support The Girls by Andrew Bujalski
27 June 2019, by Ania D. Brett
COMING OUT TOMORROW Excellent statement on the dynamic of precarious work and the women taking it on - SUPPORT THE GIRLS by Andrew Bujalski
SUPPORT THE GIRLS follows Lisa (Regina Hall), the general manager at Double Whammies, a highway-side ‘sports bar with curves’, who has her normally unstoppable optimism and faith – in her girls, her customers, and herself – tested over the course of a long, strange day.
Double Whammies, a low-budget Hooters, is a typical sports bar and (...)
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Knife + Heart (Un couteau dans le coeur) by Yann Gonzalez - Fragments 2019
11 June 2019, by Abla Kandalaft
You And The Night, celebrated at Cannes’s Critics’ Week in 2014, cemented Yann Gonzalez’s reputation as a truly original director, with his own brand of stylish, colourful and erotic filmmaking. With Knife+Heart, Gonzalez offers up a stylised slasher flick in the vein of Italian gialli, set in the heart of the gay porn industry in the seedier parts of 1970s Paris.
The film opens with a particularly gruesome murder in which a masked killer stabs his victim repeatedly with a dildo-shaped (...)
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Searching Eva by Pia Hellenthal - Fragments 2019
10 June 2019, by Ania D. Brett,
Coco Green
Searching Eva does not use titular character, Eva Collé, as a metaphor for Generation Z taken for granted intersectionality and ‘always on’ social media. Eva’s identity laundry list and reluctance to ‘be’ a gender, culture or nationality is simply context. Its probe into her life through social media posts and vignettes is simply the setup. The true offering of this documentary is its reflection on perception and presentation. In the age of social media, whose domination isn’t limited to (...)
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Woman at War by Benedikt Erlingsson - Q&A
1 May 2019, by Abla Kandalaft
Benedikt Erlingsson is an Icelandic director, author and actor. His first feature, Of Horses and Men, was a hit on the festival circuit and won many international awards, including the New Directors Prize at the 2013 San Sebastián Film Festival and the 2014 Nordic Council Film Prize. His latest film, Woman at War, tells the story of Halla, an environmental activist fighting the local aluminum industry in Iceland through acts of sabotage, some of them large-scale enough to become the focus (...)
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Possum
25 October 2018, by Kai Ellis
POSSUM is the debut feature film from writer/director Matthew Holness, co-creator and writer/star of the cult TV series Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace. Following its successful World Premiere at the Edinburgh International Film Festival and Irish Premiere at the Galway Film Festival, POSSUM screened at Frightfest in August and will be released in cinemas on 26 October.