A gaming novice, I approached Brendan Walker’s Oscillate ‘ride’ and Karen Palmer’s Syncself 2 neurogame with trepidation, but came away a convert
documentary
Good Girl review – a beautifully shot but flawed insight into mental illness
Watching Solveig Melkeraaen’s film with a psychiatrist gave me answers the audience are denied in this underexplored self-portrait of depression and ECT
My Beautiful Broken Brain review – moving study of life after stroke
This study of a young stroke patient’s struggle to regain language and memory manages to be at once visually arresting, deeply moving and uplifting
Altman
Robert Altman was a well-respected if not necessarily always commercially successful director whose career spanned over 40 years. He started off in TV and finally got his big break when he directed M*A*S*H* which won him the Palme d’Or in 1970 and finally gave him the recognition he had been seeking.
Lambert & Stamp
This documentary is about how aspiring filmmakers Kit Lambert and Chris Stamp ended up managing the career of The Who.
Hockney
This documentary takes us through the life and career of great British artist and living legend David Hockney – considering it spans over 50 years this is quite an achievement. We learn about Hockney’s humble beginnings in Bradford to his life in Hollywood as a renowned artist. Continue reading
Still the Enemy Within
In 1984 the biggest workers union in the country went on strike – the coal miners’ strike was long and bitter and all over the media. From 1979 when she became prime minister Margaret Thatcher had always had a plan to crush the unions and privatise all that the post war Labour government had nationalised; coal being firmly in her sights. Continue reading
“I’ve tried to focus on the projects rather than the ceilings”
Documentary filmmaker Maureen Judge hails from Canada and has an industry CV that spans over 20 years. Working in TV and film she here shares her expertise and talks of the new challenges she faced with her latest project Living Dolls. Continue reading
“A big producer once said to me I would never be a director because I’m too nice”
Gail Harvey has been working as a director in Canada for 26 years; both in TV and film. She brought her latest low budget feature Looking is the Original Sin to the Raindance Film Festival ahead of its upcoming release. She took a break from promotion to share some of her insider knowledge. Continue reading
Living Dolls
Veteran documentary maker Maureen Judge presents us with a film which follows 5 doll collectors from different places, of different ages and who collect very different dolls. Continue reading
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