Latest Guest Columns

NOT Predicting The Oscars 2019
In order not to lose, or rather, in order to not win, but to not win with integrity, this year Dr. Garth Twa is choosing winners who aren’t even nominated.
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Giving a voice to the 48%
David Wilkinson on why he is bringing Postcards from the 48% to the big screen.
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Football’s Coming Out
Marcel Gisler on what triggered the making of Mario, a new LGBT football film.
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Nobody’s Baby Now
Brock Norman Brock on how Yardie was written for the screen.
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The story before the story
Derf is an American cartoonist and graphic novelist. He was the recipient of a prestigious Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for political cartoons in 2006 and an Angoulême Prize for My Friend Dahmer in 2014.
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The making of Concealed
Filmmaker Shane T Hall writes about the process behind his latest movie.
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Beneath the Cambodian Spring
Director Chris Kelly’s nine-year journey unearthing the rapidly changing landscape of Cambodia.
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The beginning of Book Club
A rather unconventional conversation that gave way to an incredible journey.
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The Alphabetarium of Kötting
From way back when to the here and now – hereunder an Alphabetarium of Kötting.
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My love letter to football
The long, often frustrating, but ultimately rewarding process of bringing The Bromley Boys to the screen
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Filming on a mountain
Director Simon Hunter on making Edie and the extraordinary stamina of Sheila Hancock
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The making of a legend
Eric Styles writes about directing John Hurt in his last leading role
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The hills are still alive
Prof. Caryl Flinn on the enduring appeal of The Sound of Music
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Basildon is complicated
Director Christopher Ian Smith explores the location of Basildon for his new film New Town Utopia.
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Why Jayne?
The directors of Mansfield 66/67 write about what attracted them to 50s Hollywood movie goddess Jayne Mansfield.
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We Shall Not Forget: the lost films of 2017
In this season of awards and pantheonic enshrinement, Dr. Garth Twa remembers those films that were treated negligently, their merits left to fallow.
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‘The Graduate’ at 50
On it’s anniversary, Peter Kramer takes a closer look at the film’s critical and commercial success, and at the rather puzzling way in which it tells Benjamin’s story.
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Das Boot – Probably the Biggest German Blockbuster of All Time
How did this epic bestseller come to be turned into a movie?
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When it Rains, it Pours
Joshua Glenn looks at the 25th Raindance Film Festival
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Attack of the Runaway Production
The gates are wide open in Vancouver, and Hollywood is moving in
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