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Jan 10, 2012 | No Comments | ByRachel Millward
January’s big new release is high-profile Brit filmmaker Phyllida Lloyd‘s biopic of Margaret Thatcher The Iron Lady. Written by Abi Morgan (Brick Lane, Shame, BBC’s The Hour) it’s on release in your local cinema. We urge you to see it and join the vociferous debate among its admirers and critics, suitably so given its subject. Last month Nest Members had the opportunity to attend an industry preview of the film, with thanks to distributors Pathe, and we asked them to review it for BEV followers. Read on for your friends’ and colleagues’ opinions of a controversial work! Read the full story
Dec 14, 2011 | No Comments | ByEmily Seed
Claire Foy and Benedict Cumberbatch
Wreckers is a tense and disturbing tale of what we believe but don’t know about those closest to us, set in a Fens village amid a pastoral landscape of epically stretching fields and woods and starring Claire Foy and Benedict Cumberbatch. It is the debut feature from female writer/director Dictynna Hood, whose previous work includes shorts Journey Man (2002) and The Other Man (2006), which BEV screened in 2007 and which was nominated for a BBC Upcoming Director Award. Dict was also selected for BEV’s recent ReAnimate animation development initiative. We review the film, talk to Dict and offer you free tickets to see her and Benedict live at the Curzon Soho!!
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Dec 1, 2011 | No Comments | ByEmily Seed
Film4 and visionary interactive agency and social games designers Hide and Seek have just launched their thought-provoking and immersive online experience Dreams Of Your Life, supporting the release of Carol Morley’s stunning docu-drama Dreams Of A Life (see BEV blog posted earlier today) and engaging viewers in exploring the film’s themes in the contexts of their own lives.
One of Lottie Davies' visuals for Dreams Of Your Life
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Nov 9, 2011 | No Comments | ByEmily Seed
We Need to Talk about Kevin is the latest offering from critically acclaimed filmmaker Lynne Ramsay. Having previously gained recognition for her stunning and brave dramas Ratcatcher (1999) and Morvern Callar (2002), both scripted also by Ramsay and both multi-award winners, Ramsay’s new work is an adaptation of Lionel Shriver’s powerful Orange Prize-winning 2003 novel about the family behind the teenage perpetrator of a high school massacre. The film has been engulfed in a wave of overwhelmingly positive reviews and recently received the Best Film award at the BFI London Film Festival, but is it possible for the film to live up to its exceptional critical reputation? BEV reviewer Sonia Zadurian delves into the high-profile work. Read the full story
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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