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MarBelle has a strange compulsion to watch as many films as he can get his hands on and find jobs that give him a legitimate excuse to drill filmmakers about their work. Directors Notes is the multi-decade incarnation of this disorder and remains so much cheaper than film school.

Animation, Asides, Music Video

Atoms For Peace: Before Your Very Eyes

If like us you just can’t get enough of director Andrew Thomas Huang’s elemental promo work and the subsequent looks behind the curtain to see the

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Film Festival, Live Action, Podcasts

DN LFF2013: The Slaughter – Jason B Kohl

We bring our series of London Film Festival interviews to a close for another year with filmmaker and fellow curator Jason B Kohl’s short The Slaughter.

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Film Festival, Live Action, Podcasts

DN LFF2013: Afternoon Delight – Jill Soloway

In Jill Soloway’s psychosexual comedy Afternoon Delight, a married mother decides it’s her duty to rescue a stripper but along the way discovers that the

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Film Festival, Live Action, Podcasts

DN LFF2013: The Kids from the Port – Alberto Morais

The first time we spoke to Spanish director Alberto Morais it was to discuss a journey taken by the old in The Waves. Alberto returns to the London Film

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Animation

In a Forest

Fons Schiedon’s thrilling suspension of disbelief animated chase In a Forest sees a rabbit pursued through various realities, not all of them real.

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Film Festival, Live Action, Podcasts

DN LFF2013: Hide Your Smiling Faces – Daniel Patrick Carbone

Playing out over a nature rich, fragmented dreamlike structure, Daniel Patrick Carbone’s first feature Hide Your Smiling Faces beautifully brings the

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Film Festival, Live Action, Podcasts

DN LFF2013: Salvo – Fabio Grassadonia & Antonio Piazza

Making the jump from writers and script consultants to the tandem directors’ chair, Fabio Grassadonia and Antonio Piazza channelled their frustrations from

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Live Action

Tale of an Idiot

It’s something we’ve long suspected about DN alumnus comedian/director Lee Kern, but only now do we have confirmation from the man himself about

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Film Festival, Live Action, Podcasts

DN LFF2013: The Enemy Within – Yorgos Tsemberopoulos

In Yorgos Tsemberopoulos’ 5th feature The Enemy Within, an intellectual is forced to re-evaluate his assumptions when violence invades his home and shakes

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Film Festival, Live Action, Podcasts

DN LFF2013: Lifelong – Asli Özge

Director Asli Özge switches from the documentary style we saw in her debut feature Men on the Bridge back at the London Film Festival 2009 for the more

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Film Festival, Live Action, Podcasts

DN LFF2013: Short Term 12 – Destin Daniel Cretton

Adapted from his earlier successful short of the same name, Destin Daniel Cretton’s feature Short Term 12 tells the story of a 20-something supervising staff

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Film Festival, Live Action, Podcasts

DN LFF2013: Luton – Michalis Konstantatos

Director Michalis Konstantatos’ debut feature Luton, depicts the mundanity of three seemingly unrelated lives, which are brought together by a deeply

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