Dan
Hollis
LATEST POSTS BY Dan Hollis
The Silent House
‘Real Fear in Real Time’, reads the tagline, and for once it’s an accurate marketing shtick.
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Another Year
An unconventionally told tale of conventional middle-class angst, Another Year is quite special.
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Robin Hood
The action is kinetic and exciting and I absolutely cannot fault the cinematography, but I wouldn’t expect anything less from the director of Blade Runner. What I would expect is a dose of originality.
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The Scouting Book For Boys
It longs, unashamedly, to be a quirky, parochial indie-comedy, whilst striving, also, to hit those Loach, Leigh and Meadows notes of gritty slice-of-life gravitas.
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Jez Lewis
Pure Movies talks to filmmaker Jez Lewis about Shed Your Tears And Walk Away.
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Shed Your Tears and Walk Away
Shed Your Tears And Walk Away is one man’s desperate bid to save his childhood friends from death.
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The Road
Any filmic adaptation of a loved and lauded novel inevitably draws intense scrutiny over its ‘faithfulness’ and rightly so; this, however, is arguably one of most impressive reincarnations I’ve ever seen.
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Viggo Mortensen
Viggo Mortensen talks about becoming the man, film adaptations and, his latest film, The Road.
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Johnny Mad Dog
As with van Sant’s Palme D’Or winning masterpiece, Johnny Mad Dog portrays young teenagers as terrifyingly consummate killers.
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Paper Heart
Paper Heart is an ostensibly harmless indie film about love, that, when stripped of its oh-so-quirky gloss coat, reveals a far more intelligent animal
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ABOUT Dan Hollis
Dan Hollis graduated from the University of Sussex and Studied Digital Filmmaking at the New York Film Academy. He shot and edited a New York based web series called The Madness of Art and 'This Is The Winter Crew', a documentary about Coney Island.