Demise of Film Council
There is something very seriously rotten in the State when the Government can decide to abolish the Film Council to save £15m a year at the same time that the head of BP is said to be about to take … Continue reading
Category Archives: Film matters
Rocha on DVD
Glauber Rocha’s Antônio das Mortes is surely one of the most astonishing films to come out of Brazil in the 1960s… See my review of the new DVD release in Sight & Sound here
Posted in Film matters, Latin America
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Music Documentaries
Back from ‘Sights and Sounds’, a small but stimulating and enjoyable conference on music documentary in Salford. Films about music and musicians have been a major strand of documentary since the 1960s, so it’s odd, especially given the huge predominance … Continue reading
Release Osama Qashoo & the Gaza Flotilla activists
The figure in this grab from C4 news on Monday evening of the scene aboard the Mavi Marmara at the moment of the Israeli attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla, is Osama Qashoo, an award-winning documentary film-maker, a Palestinian peace … Continue reading
Three Stooges
The new ministers at the Department of Culture, Media and Sport: Someone help us!
Posted in Cultural Politics, Film matters, Miscellany
Tagged General Election 2010
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Job Prospects
These are not the best of times for people completing their doctorates and looking for academic posts, especially in fields like film studies, and when we recently advertised two jobs in the area at the university where I teach, we … Continue reading
Cuba 2, Venezuela 1
Cuba 2, Venezuela 1 Three DVDs have turned up, two about Cuba and one about Venezuela, which portray different perspectives on revolutionary politics in Latin America at different stages. Mike Wayne & Deirdre O’Neill’s Listen to Venezuela is a lengthy … Continue reading
Posted in Cuba, Documentary, Film matters, Latin America, Venezuela
Tagged Boxing, Cuba, Venezuela, women
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Documentary attitudes
Back from Pamplona, from one of the new crop of small documentary film festivals which have grown up all around the globe in the last several years. This one goes by the name ‘Punto de vista’ or ‘Point of View’, … Continue reading
¡Documentary Now! Again
Very difficult, when you’re running a conference, to properly take it in when the moment arrives, so these notes on the third ¡Documentary Now! are not your normal conference report. ¡Documentary Now! was initiated in 2007 by Mike Wayne, of … Continue reading
Imagining Documentary in Atlántida
Arriving in Atlántida, the location for Uruguay’s documentary festival Atlantidoc, gave me a very strange sensation. A sleepy coastal town near Montevideo, I had the feeling that I’d been here before, or somewhere very much like it. Searched my memory … Continue reading
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Tagged Documentary, Latin America
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