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Mar 2, 2010 | No Comments | ByTamsyn Dent
Tamsyn
Tamsyn Dent, BEV’s Development and Outreach Manager (and new Mum!) reviews our 2010 Bring a Baby Film Junior, about a parent-child relationship - a generation on. According to Time Out, Junior is “Beautifully observed… a soulful movie about the importance of family” Read on to see what Tam had to say…
Junior is screening at 11am on March 5th at the Ritzy in Brixton for the Bring a Baby screening - you can also catch it that evening at the Ritzy at 6pm and at the ICA on Saturday March 6th and Monday March 8th.
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Feb 8, 2010 | 1 Comment | ByRachel Millward
Rachel+bump - now two months bigger...
Well, this is the funniest of festival years for me. Just as Birds Eye View gears up to what looks to be an outrageously brilliant festival - a true celebration of the scope of women’s creative vision, I gear up to a very different moment of creativity - giving birth for the first time. There’s something rather poetic (and nuts) about the timing for me. Should I go those two “permissable” weeks over the official due date, our baby girl could be coming into the world on opening night. Which means that the festival - my first baby, of sorts, is now safely in the hands of BEV’s most excellent team, allowing me to focus on this momentous and unknown journey ahead. Obviously, should baby decide to come this week, or next, I may shuffle down to share in the joys of closing night delight, but maybe our new little world will be too fresh and fragile - we shall see…
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Dec 16, 2009 | No Comments | BySophie Ivan
Sam Taylor-Wood in action:directing Nowhere Boy
About a third of the way into Nowhere Boy, there’s a moment which snaps the viewer back to director Sam Taylor-Wood’s debut short, Love You More: a close-up of a needle being delicately settled on a vinyl groove, an audible crackle which sparks an electric sense of silent anticipation and sexual tension… And then a rock ‘n’ roll record lets rip. Except, this time round, it’s not 1978 and it’s not the Buzzcock’s unrestrained ‘Love You More’ providing both foreplay and soundtrack to the teenage protagonists’ charming, fumbling, randy lovemaking; it’s the fag end of the 1950s, it’s Screamin’ Jay Hawkins howling, thrilling ‘I Put a Spell on You’ on the stereo, and the two thumping hearts trying not to be heard over it belong to a teenager called John Lennon and his estranged mother. In essence, it’s a tad more complicated this time round. Read the full story
Sep 10, 2009 | No Comments | ByMarcie Maclellan
Three Miles North of Molkom directed by Corinna Villari-McFarlane and Robert Cannan
Three Miles North of Molkom, a documentary that follows fabulously relatable characters through the Shamanic rituals of a Swedish spiritual-enlightenment festival is a film that should be seen. It has been described as “a sheer delight” by The Mirror, “a hoot” by The Guardian and “hilarious” by The Times, but filmmakers Corinna Villari-McFarlane and Robert Cannan, do not want viewers to walk away with the notion that ‘this is dark’ or ‘this is hilarious.’ Unafraid of confusion, they simply hope that you will walk away sensing that something amazing has happened. And, cynic or believer, hippy or not, you will. Read the full story
Jul 8, 2009 | No Comments | ByMarcie Maclellan
Rebecca Miller
BEV’s new reviewer Marcie MacLellan has both read and watched Private Lives of Pippa Lee, and last week had the chance to talk to the inspirational director, Rebecca Miller. Read on for her review:
“I’ve had enough of being an enigma, I want to be known.”
When this line is delivered by the title character of Rebecca Miller’s new film, The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, it’s hard to predict what surprises are in store. Played by a subdued Robin Wright-Penn, Pippa Lee appears to be anything but mysterious. But as with any good movie, all is not as it seems.
Perhaps this line is one of the more poignant in the film because Miller is a bit of an enigma herself. Writer, director and best-selling author of the book of the same name, Miller’s life could read like a Hollywood script. But it’s her unwillingness to box her film into a particular genre or wax lyrical about its main message that makes her so elusive – in the best kind of way.
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Jun 30, 2009 | No Comments | ByMarcie Maclellan
Marcie MacLellan reviews…
American Teen
Dir, Nanette Burstein, USA, 2009, 97 mins
Starring: Hannah Bailey, Colin Clemens, Jack Tusing
DVD out now
Some people loved high school. I was not one of them. Not because I didn’t fit in. I did. Not because I didn’t have a boyfriend. I did. Not because I didn’t do well in school. I did. In fact, I couldn’t really tell you why I didn’t like high school. That is, until last night, after watching American Teen.
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