Aug 15, 2010 | No Comments | ByEmily Seed
From Fri 13 August on digital re-release
Five Easy Pieces
Jack Nicholson plays Robert Dupea, once a promising concert pianist, now a drifter between oil rig jobs, late night bars and motels. When he hears that his father is ill, he takes his first trip in three years to his family home, where revelations, bitter hurts and some kind of healing awaits him. Swerving in and out of love with his waitress girlfriend Rayette (Karen Black) but mostly in a state of anger towards the world, Bobby is one of ’70s Hollywood best-crafted characters. Screenwriter Carole Eastman was one of the only women to pen such a leading ’70s film as this, and was Oscar-nominated for this work, which remains the peak of her career. Iconic for its penetration of young Americans’ Vietnam era disillusionment and re-evaluation, and for the scene in which Dupea plays a beat-up piano in the back of the truck in which he’s hitching a ride.
US 1970 Dir. Bob Rafelson, Scr. Carole Eastman 98min
Jun 2, 2010 | No Comments | ByEmily Seed
EIFF 2010 16th-27th June
The Edinburgh International Film Festival programme was announced yesterday, and under the directorship of Hannah McGill and her team of programmers, it’s a magnificent year for women filmmakers! Where Cannes tripped up in its relatively weak showcase of work by women, almost half of Edinburgh’s Documentary section and a third of its Rosebud strand of first and second films are by women directors from around the world, which brings a huge amount of optimism for the future of cinema. Read the full story
May 17, 2010 | 1 Comment | ByEmily Seed
All Good Children
Birds Eye View chatted to British filmmaker Alicia Duffy from her home in London yesterday, as she waited for a BBC interview and prepared for her trip to Cannes on Friday, where her first feature film All Good Children will premiere in Directors’ Fortnight. Alicia was first noticed for her 2001 short, the stunning Crow Stone (2001), which won numerous international festival awards, and her second work, 2002’s exquisite The Most Beautiful Man in the World, which was nominated for the short film Palme D’Or at Cannes in 2003, among other laurels. All Good Children tells of two brothers who are sent to France after their mother’s suicide and have to navigate the no man’s land between their tender yet wracked fantasies and a hard adult reality. Certain to come back from Cannes with a UK distributor, we’ll hope to see the film in cinemas later this year.
Alicia is the sole British filmmaker in Directors’ Fortnight this year, and one of only four women filmmakers in the category – watch this space for news of her film’s reception!
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Mar 10, 2010 | 2 Comments | ByEmily Seed
Wanuri Kahiu
Birds Eye View are very happy to be screening Wanuri Kahiu’s award-winning From a Whisper as part of our festival. The film explores a family’s experience of the US Embassy bombing in Nairobi in 1998. Our Senior Programmer, Emily Seed, was lucky enough to catch up with Wanuri for a chat.
Catch From a Whisper today (Wednesday 10th March) & tomorrow (Thursday 11th March) at the ICA. Wanuri’s doc Wangari Maathai: For Our Land will be screened at the ICA tomorrow as part of our Kenyan Double Bill. Read the full story
Mar 8, 2010 | No Comments | ByEmily Seed
Kathryn Bigelow wins the Oscar for Best Director
She did it! Kathryn Bigelow has made film history by becoming the first ever woman in all 82 years of the Oscars to win the Best Director Academy Award for her low-budget war drama The Hurt Locker. Filmmaking women across the world, including we BEV-vers, stood up and applauded her in front of our TVs at 5am this morning! Bigelow’s fellow nominees were her ex-husband James Cameron for Avatar, Quentin Tarantino for Inglourious Basterds, Jason Reitman for Up In The Air and Lee Daniels for Precious. Daniels would have been the first black director to have won this Oscar if his name had been in the envelope opened by Barbra Streisand (herself the first woman to win Best Director Golden Globe for Yentl in 1984), and we hope this happens soon, but this year is all Bigelow’s, and all yours! Read the full story
Mar 4, 2010 | No Comments | ByEmily Seed
Mia Hansen-Love
Our big festival First Weekenders Club film is stunning French drama The Father Of My Children, on release by Artificial Eye from Friday 5 March. Our Senior Programmer Emily Seed chatted to director Mia Hansen-Løve yesterday in London.
The award-winning The Father Of My Children is released tomorrow by Artificial Eye in cinemas around London and the UK.
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