2012 - Directors Notes

Subs 2012 Top Ten

As 2012 rumbles to a close I can’t decide whether this was a vintage year for film or not. There have been some amazing films (as detailed below, and I

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Neil Fox 2012 Top Ten

We get to the end and we look back, and again, regardless of what they say, it’s a strong field full of fantastic movies of all kinds from all corners. 10.

Music

Sauvage: Wolves

Motivation become clearer as time shifts backwards in Francois Ferracci’s unofficial music video for Sauvage’s Wolves.

Animation

A Little Christmas Miracle

I’m not sure where you’ve been seeking your Christmas tales of tolerance and acceptance this holiday season, but I’m betting that nothing

Music

Sufjan Stevens: I’ll be Home for Christmas

Directing brothers Aaron & Alex Craig run us through a gauntlet filled with strange goings on for Sufjan Stevens’ Silver & Gold track I’ll

Music

Jimmy Fallon, Mariah Carey & The Roots: All I Want For Christmas Is You

How could we not post this bit of musical genius from Jimmy Fallon, Mariah Carey & The Roots today? Merry Christmas folks!

Animation, Music

Holly and the Wolf: Marzipan Reindeer

Tony Johnson ventures back into the forest but this time instead of a serenade for woodland creatures, he sets a lone girl in flight pursued by ghosts in the

Animation

Merry Christmas From…

One of the delights Christmas has to offer is the animated seasons greetings from many of the folks we cover on DN throughout the year. And so here’s a

Art & Fashion

Toyland

From the recently returned DN podcast guest, Kurtis Hough comes Toyland, a festive technicolor dreamland from The Ocean Floor.

Music

Rhye: The Fall

A man lives out the dual realities of his vibrant past and stymied present in Daniel Kragh-Jacobsen’s pathos filled yet sublimely measure promo for The

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Fist Of The First Man: Hertzbreaker Arc

I hope you like the look of Nathan Sussex because director Tom Betts keeps the actor’s face in front and centre close up throughout his promo for Fist Of

Documentary, Podcasts

DN270: As I Am – Alan Spearman

A combination of portraiture and vérité, mixed with a poetically impressionistic voice over, Alan Spearman’s As I Am is one of the most powerful

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