Author

About the Author /

Neil Fox is the co-founder and co-host of The Cinematologists podcast, a senior lecturer in film at Falmouth University and screenwriter whose debut feature Wilderness is currently touring festivals. He was also co-responsible for the mighty Filmstock Film Festival throughout its far too brief 10 years of cinematic curation.

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

Read more

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

Read more

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

Read more

Music

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

Read more

Music

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

Read more

Music

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

Read more

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,

Read more

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

Read more

Music

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

Read more

Animation

The Wonder Of Wes

Regardless of what you think about Wes Anderson he is a unique force in contemporary cinema. An auteur in the classic sense with his visual, aural, tonal stamp

Read more

Article

Neil Fox The Dirty Dozen 2009

It felt like another strong year as I struggled to get all my favourites down to twelve. When people say films aren’t as good as they used to be, I point to

Read more

Article

Neil Fox The Dirty Dozen 2008

If you’re a long-term DN reader, you’ll know that while the rest of the net has put their ‘Best of’ lists to bed by early December, we

Read more