BBC Film Network

18.12.09
bbc.co.uk/filmnetwork The BBC has recently relaunched the Film Network site, and it’s had a glamorous new makeover. The video player has at last been upgraded to match the usability of the BBC’s iPlayer, making it a much more enjoyable way to watch all the interviews, festival reports and most importantly the shorts. If you’ve never visited it before and you’re a British filmmaker then take a ...
Ajay Hothi on Alan Clarke’s Elephant

13.12.09
Elephant, Alan Clarke There is a remarkable cadence to Alan Clarke’s Elephant (1989) that makes it difficult to define as a television drama, extended short, short-form feature or artist’s moving image piece. In differing contexts it could be read alongside films such as Culloden, Partie de Campagne or Meshes of the Afternoon. The film, a circle of violence, near silent with no thematic context provided, other ...
Greg Kurcewicz on Adam Curtis

12.10.09
It Felt Like a Kiss, Adam Curtis Greg Kurcewicz writes on the music of It Felt Like a Kiss… and says it’s time Adam Curtis had a room at Tate Modern. Have you ever noticed that when you have a documentary on TV covering any issue to do with the 1960s – anything – could be about banning pesticides, moon landings, car production in the midlands, whatever ...