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Obsessed with film, the internet and WordPress, Directors Notes is the place Rob gets to brings all his interests together and really geek out. When not writing for DN he can be found on Short of the Week or Vimeo.

Music Video

Bot'Ox – Blue Steel

Sometimes, it’s the simplest of ideas that make the best videos and this is certainly true of Körner Union’s video for the Bot’Ox single

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Live Action

Challenge Haneke

If someone was to ask me who my current favourite director was, despite some close opposition from Jim Jarmusch, Lars Von Trier and Park Chan-Wook, I would

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News

Tweets from the Cage

In an interesting turn of events, caged Screenwriter (Pulp Fiction) and Filmmaker (Killing Zoe) Roger Avary is using Twitter to now tell his own story, from

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Art & Fashion

Blk/Car

If we had a section called ‘weirdest short of the day’ on Directors Notes, then Blk/Car by Øyvind Aspen would definitely be my recommendation

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Music Video

Heaven Can Wait

Not content with starring in the most controversial film of the year, actress and daughter of famous French actor/singer Serge Gainsbourg, Charlotte

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Music Video

Further Complications

With a simple idea, basic set and a bendy singer from Sheffield, Director Stéphanie di Giusto has created one of the music videos of the year, with Jarvis

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Live Action

Cold Souls

Having missed Cold Souls at this year’s London Film Festival due to the major inconvenience that is work and then missing it a couple of weeks later at

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Documentary, Film Festival, Music Video

Filmstock 11: Oil City Confidential

Julian Temple completes his documentary trilogy of 70s music, with a beautifully inventive look at British pub rock band Dr. Feelgood.

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Film Festival

Filmstock 11: The Best of the Shorts

The Filmstock short weekend has become somewhat of an annual event in my life in recent years and whatever I had planned for my summer or winter (the festival

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Film Festival, Live Action

DN LFF09: A Serious Man – The Coen Brothers

  Ever since I saw Barton Fink over 15 years ago, I knew I would forever be a fan of the Coen Brothers; their style was unusual, their storytelling unique

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Film Festival, Live Action

DN LFF09: Samson and Delilah – Warwick Thornton

DN takes a look at Warwick Thornton's Cannes, Camera D’or Winning debut feature Samson & Delilah.

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Film Festival, Live Action

DN LFF09: A Prophet – Jacques Audiard

The reputation of Jacques Audiard’s Un prophète (A Prophet) has, as expected, gone from strength to strength. DN takes a look at this much lauded debut.

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