Culturegloss.

Category: Film

  • That’ll Learn Ya: Best Free Documentaries on the Internet

    Above all things, the internet is as close as humans get to creating the infinite. It is glorious. It is hideous. And it is the perfect mirror for our own imperfect minds: vast, largely unknown, its usage restricted by habits, sometimes by physical defects – and increasingly by a clampdown on civil liberty… …Yes. The internet…

  • THANKS BATMAN! IMAX Winning Cinema Battle

    THANKS BATMAN! IMAX Winning Cinema Battle

    Batman may well have saved traditional cinema this year. The renowned massive-screen exhibitor  IMAX saw its revenue rise 19.5 percent from $67.5 million to $80.7 million in just a quarter. It’s a good sign for cinemas within the network. IMAX’s latest profits display a recovering cinema audience, all while having beaten Wall Street predictions made earlier…

  • THE WOMAN WHO COULD NOT SIT STILL – AT THE CINEMA

    THE WOMAN WHO COULD NOT SIT STILL – AT THE CINEMA

    Bane’s about to deliver his first wobbly, vaguely elderly, disturbed and freakishly delivered line… and the girl sitting in the centre seat right in front of you at the Odeon scratches her apparently noisy scalp. “Oh, OK – that – that’s fine,” goes the internal monologue. “Yes it’s fine, totally fine, I guess some, nay,…

  • Scarlet Road (EU Premiere 2012; 70 mins)

    Scarlet Road (EU Premiere 2012; 70 mins)

    Scarlet Road EU Premiere, 70 mins (2011, Australia) Catherine Scott “It meant working with Rachel as a filmmaker, and not just her friend,” says Scott, smiling over at her documentary subject who’s flown from Australia with her. “So while she had to trust me, I also had to trust her to show me and allow…

  • Manchester Businesses Back Salford “Movie”

    Manchester Businesses Back Salford “Movie”

    Editors Keys founder and MD Mark Brown has donated $1,000 to film studio Future Artists for their upcoming feature film, The Lost Generation, funding 25% of the film company’s investment project. The money raised will go towards an editing suite for the artists collective, Future Artists Co-op, the in-house studio of creatives who work together…

  • Activism and new UK Film: How The Underground Recreated The Hero

    Activism and new UK Film: How The Underground Recreated The Hero

    [as written for Filmmaker Magazine NYC and Shooting People] In Emily James’ Just Do It, we watch news packages from major news outlets interlaced with POV footage from protestors scaling the giant cooler chimneys at the Ratcliffe Power Station. For a UK audience, a film like Just Do It is particularly subversive – even controversial.…

  • Film Review: Bill Cunningham New York [2010]

    Film Review: Bill Cunningham New York [2010]

    “The catwalk is on the street. Always has been, always will be.” Zeitgeist had no shortage of beautiful soundbites for a fitting trailer. Bill Cunningham is one of the most well-loved American fashion photographers. The film, directed by Richard Press, is a vivid documentary that rejoices in the dazzling world of fashion, featuring the infamous…

  • Review: If A Tree Falls [2011] by Marshall Curry

    Review: If A Tree Falls [2011] by Marshall Curry

    Tree-huggers. Hippies… Others call them extremists. And George W Bush said they were the number one terrorism threat within America. If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front spares us the labels and instead, tells us the story of Daniel McGowan and the ELF – an activist group who carried out arson…