Interview with Michael Rix, director of Tengers, by Olivia Humphreys.
Michael Rix must be relieved. Nine years in the making, his second feature film TENGERS finally enjoyed its world premiere at the Cambridge film Festival on Saturday. Billing itself as ‘a movie that tells it like it is in the new South Africa’, TENGERS is the story of Jo’burg resident Rob, whose luckless attempts to write the ‘great South African novel’ are interrupted by his falling in love and winning the lottery. A sharp and dark satire, TENGERS is making history not just as South Africa’s first clay-mation feature film but as a new departure in the country’s comic cinema scene. Read the rest of this entry »
Instead of waiting for the final installment of J.K. Rowling’s boy wizard’s tale - ‘A Deathly Hallows’, to find out how it will all end for Harry this summer, a unique opportunity already exists at a UK PREMIERE screening at this years Festival, courtesy of Studio Ghibli (HOWL’S MOVING CASTLE, SPIRITED AWAY), to see where it almost certainly began. Read the rest of this entry »
Julie Faveur interviews Felix, Sylvie and Johnny, the creators of the Projector Tank, a solar panel cinema which, after touring around Romania at the beginning of the year, has now landed on Parker’s Piece to show a prime selection of environmental and political shorts and feature films. Read the rest of this entry »
The story of ‘Lady Chatterley’s Lover’ comes full circle, or perhaps it would be more accurate to say half-circle, with this new film version by Pascale Ferran, which won the top film prize at the Cesars. Read the rest of this entry »
Hammer: The Studio that Dripped Blood, after two decades of cranking out middle-of-the-road movies to fill the wrong half of double bills, finally hit upon a winning formula: reinventing the Hollywood horrors of the 1930s with grand guignols photographed in splashy, glorious Eastmancolor. Big campy slabs of genre entertainment, Hammer horrors have become synonymous with raw gaudiness and jerry-built special effects, all wrapped up in red velvet and crimson gore. Read the rest of this entry »
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