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Neil Fox is a professor of film at Falmouth University and author of Music Films (BFI/Bloomsbury, 2024). His debut feature film as a screenwriter, Wilderness, was released by Sparky Pictures in 2021. He was the co-founder and co-host of The Cinematologists podcast [2015-2025] and was co-responsible for the mighty Filmstock Film Festival throughout its far too brief 10 years of cinematic curation.

Film Festival

Kerry Film Festival 2011

Part One I’ve been incredibly quiet on DN this year. Apologies for that, but the reason is I have been studying for my doctorate in cinema and writing a

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Article

Neil Fox 2010 Top Ten

Each year they say that it’s not a vintage year, but I don’t. And this year is no different. It was hard to get it down to twelve for my dirty dozen, let

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Film Festival

Cornwall Film Festival 2010

Without being patronising the Cornwall Film Festival has a lot of charm. Taking place in Falmouth at a cinema that forms part of the South West’s Merlin

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News

Salt Films

When my designer of choice Chris Henley tells me he loves a website I check it out. I headed over to Salt Films website expecting to find something that looked

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Documentary

Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff

People who don’t think film is an art form need to watch Craig McCall’s documentary Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff. Jack Cardiff was

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Documentary

Strummerville: A Don Letts Film

Whilst the idea of creative people having to work across various platforms and art forms to succeed seems like a 21st century, internet bred phenomenon, some

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Music Video

Repo Man

The website Aquarium Drunkard is a beautifully written treasure trove of a website for music. It’s an mp3 blog with real soul. They just posted a little

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Music Video

The Golem: How He Came into the World

The idea of rescoring classic cinema is becoming increasingly common but I missed this. In 2008 Pixies main man Black Francis rescored the 1920s German

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Music Video

Shark's Tooth by Archie Bronson Outfit – Ferry Gouw

I love Archie Bronson Outfit. I believe they are one of the finest rock & roll bands the UK has produced in years. For their new album Coconut out in March

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Live Action

A Conversation with Jack Thorne

When people knew I was talking to a writer who lives in Luton and has written for Shameless and Skins they assumed he moved here for material, but Jack Thorne,

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Asides, Live Action

Mixtape – Luke Snellin

I’m normally dubious of corporate short film competitions. You know, the ‘make a two second short featuring our brand in 14 minutes yada yada

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Music Video

Damn You Noah Baumbach

Miranda July did it first. She stole a song I really wanted to use in one of my films. I mean really wanted to use Spiritualized’s cover of The

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