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East End Film Festival –‘Ping Pong’
After film Ping Pong frolicking According to Les D’Arcy, an 89-year-old Table Tennis world champion, death is the winning post, but that doesn’t mean you sit around waiting for the winning post, you...
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East End Film Festival and Competition
Since 2001 the East End Film Festival has provided the east side of the capital with a prodigious outlet for an impressive array of films, many of which you would be hard pressed to see anywhere else....
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East End Film Festival – El Ultimo Elvis (Armando Bo, 2012)
This was the closing film for the 2012 East End Film Festival and a thoroughly deserving one at that. Most exported Latin-American cinema focuses on the social and political issues that plague the...
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East End Film Festival – Ai Weiwei Never Sorry
Ai Weiwei has risen to international fame as both an artist and political activist (or threat depending on where you’re situated). Alison Klayman’s film Ai Weiwei Never Sorry takes a look at many...
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East End Film Festival – How to Survive A Plague
This was one of my favourite documentaries from the 2012 East End Film Festival How to survive a Plague (David France) is one of the most powerful documentaries I have seen made in recent times....
View ArticleArmando Iannucci’s advice for Comedy Writers
ARMANDO IANNUCCI IV London Student Follow the above link to see Armando Iannucci give his tips on how to carve out a career from wisecracks; exclusive to the London Student. Armando will be giving a...
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Notes Towards a New Wave
The crisis in cinema continues. Edgar Morin’s analysis of the 1950’s in ‘Conditions that Led to the Appearance of the New Wave’ shows a symmetry of the cinema today with the flailing industry then....
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Review: After Lucia
After Lucia Dir. Michel Franco Like an adaptation of Bataille’s The Story of the Eye, if its anti-heroes were camera phone pornographers in a Mexican High-School, After Lucia unflinchingly observes...
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Review: Looper
Looper Dir. Rian Johnson Looper is a future, like our present, that is a scrap yard of past wreckages. Cars are stitched together from solar panels and junk while the fashionable styles of...
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Introducing- Passengerfilms.
Passengerfilms is a not-for-profit film society founded by Amy Cutler, a PhD student in Cultural Geography at Royal Holloway. Cutler now runs it with several other volunteers, most...
View ArticleCasa De Mi Padre (Dir. Matt Piedmont / Out Now)
Will Ferrell looks to expand his linguistic capabilities in his latest film, Casa de mi Padre (House of My Father) an offbeat comedy almost entirely spoken in Spanish. The setting is Mexico, caught in...
View ArticleOpen City Docs Fest 21-24 June 2012
Established last summer by several faculty members at University College London and a number of creative and financial partners, Open City is London’s only major documentary film festival. From the...
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