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6 December 2012
Nordic Film Festival: Olafur Eliasson Space is Process
by Tilly LunkenSpace is Process is a documentary that follows Olafur Eliasson in the time leading up to the realisation of his Waterfalls intstallations along the Hudson River and his retrospective exhibition at the MOMA in New York. Continue Reading »
5 December 2012
Tony Hickson’s Review a Lift-Off Film Festival Trilogy
by Tony HicksonWednesday evening’s selection of the Festival at the Curzon Soho.
Killing Anna (29m, Australia) Documentary. After his long term girlfriend asked him to move out. The filmmaker finds himself wishing that she had instead died in a tragic (...) Continue Reading »
5 December 2012
LiftOff Film Fest
by Abla Kandalaft"The Lift-Off Film Festival was created by James Alexander and Ben Pohlman back in May 2011 as a way to showcase many of the work being created by exceptional artists who didn’t have the funds to rent high tech equipment or buy themselves onto (...) Continue Reading »
26 November 2012
Romanian Film Festival - Periferic
by Tilly LunkenEstablished in 2003, The Romanian Film Festival is in its 9th year and is continuing to bring the best of Romanian films to a wider audience. Periferic (aka. Outbound) is the debut feature film from the New York based Romanian filmmaker Bogdan (...) Continue Reading »
24 November 2012
The Romanian Film Festival in London, THE OTHER SIDE OF HOPE 2012
by Tilly LunkenThe Romanian Film Festival in London brings an extraordinary line-up of new and exciting films, between 22- 25 November 2012, at Curzon Renoir Cinema - Wednesday, November 07, 2012
Profusion International who are behind the festival are also the people behind the Profusion Crime Series, a collection of crime writing from Eastern Europe.
The films are screened at the Renoir Cinema, (...) Continue Reading »
14 November 2012
Interview with Masquerade director Chang-Min Choo and actors Byung-Hun Lee and Seung-Ryong Ryu
by Jacques BreenChang-Min Choo and Seung-Ryong Ryu
Byung-Hun Lee
During the 17th century Joseon Dynasty, comic performer Ha-Seon (Korean star Lee Byung-Hun) is recruited as a double for King Gwanghae (Lee) who’s been targeted for assassination.
On 20 October 2012, "Masquerade" passed 10,000,000 million admissions in South Korea, becoming only the 8th film to ever do so. Continue Reading »
14 November 2012
Interview with The Thieves’s director Dong-Hoon Choi, and actor Yun-Seok Kim
by Abla Kandalaft, Jacques BreenThe London Korean Film Festival 2012 kicked off with a screening of mega-hit crime caper The Thieves. Director Dong-Hoon Choi pulled out all the stops, casting the most bankable starts from the region, shooting in Macao, Hong Kong, Seoul, and Busan. On 2 October 2012, "The Thieves" passed "The Host" (13 million) to become the best selling South Korean film.
In order to pull off the (...) Continue Reading »
11 November 2012
The Expendables 2 - the poster
by Tony HicksonTony Hickson reviews the Expendables 2 poster.
Tony is the editor of Meat Plough magazine "the journal of transgressive poetry". Continue Reading »
6 November 2012
Podcast - Interview with Andrey Gryazev - London Film Fest 2012
by Abla KandalaftDirector Andrey Gryazev’s underground hit Tomorrow was screened at the BFI London Film Festival.
Embedding himself in the Russian performance art / activist collective known as "Voina" (war in Russian), Gryazev charts the controversial (...) Continue Reading »
14 octobre 2012
RDV 18 octobre à 20h au Nouveau Latina pour L’AUTRE CÔTÉ DU MUR, suivie d’un débat.
par Abla KandalaftComment plus de 35 ans de lutte du peuple Sahraoui ont-ils mené au tout premier soulèvement du Printemps Arabe ?
Dernière colonie d’Afrique, le Sahara Occidental voit depuis 35 ans sa population coupée en deux. D’un côté, les Sahraouis vivent sous l’occupation marocaine, sans aucune liberté d’expression et confrontés à la violente répression du régime ; de l’autre, plus de 165.000 réfugiés (...) Lire la suite »