Film Festival Category

Film Festival, Live Action

DN LFF09: The Limits of Control – Jim Jarmusch

"With The Limits of Control, Jarmusch has easily made his best film since the seminal Dead Man." DN takes a look at the master filmmaker's latest movie.

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Animation, Film Festival

DN LFF09: Metropia – Tarik Saleh

After the screening of Metropia, director Tarik Saleh claimed he never wanted to make an animation and even went on to declare that after watching his film he

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Film Festival, Live Action

DN LFF09: Up in the Air – Jason Reitman

Jason Reitman (Juno, Thank You for Smoking) is back with another modern day tale of life, love and frequent flyer miles with Up in the Air. George Clooney

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Documentary, Film Festival, Podcasts

DN LFF09: Still Bill – Damani Baker & Alex Vlack

Damani Baker and Alex Vlack walk us through the 11 years of patient persistence behind their documentary about music legend Bill Withers in 'Still Bill'.

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Film Festival, Live Action

DN LFF 09: Father of my Children – Mia Hansen-Løve

From the opening titles, before even a word is spoken, you can tell this is a French film. From the simple shots of unmistakably French streets and the almost

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Film Festival, Live Action

DN LFF09: Balibo – Roger Connolly

Balibo is a political thriller of sorts, focusing on the Indonesian invasion of East Timor in 1975 and in particular the involvement of a group of Australian

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Film Festival, Live Action

DN LFF09: Enter The Void – Gaspar Noe

There is a particular kind of critic that points at the work they’re reviewing and says ‘Yeah, well, if I had done it, I would have done it like

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Film Festival, Live Action

DN LFF09: The Double Hour – Giuseppe Capotondi

The thing I love most about cinema is how much it constantly surprises me. I was making the dash across London, from the BFI to the Vue Leicester Square,

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Documentary, Film Festival

DN LFF09: The Whites Stripes Under Great White Northern Lights – Emmett Malloy

If The White Stripes were movie characters, they’d be pretty unrealistic and as a viewer you’d have a hard job believing all their quirks and oddities. A

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Documentary, Film Festival, Podcasts

DN LFF09: Trimpin: The Sound of Invention – Peter Esmonde

Hailing from Germany’s Black Forest region, the artist simply known as Trimpin is a sonic experimenter, who combines the roles of inventor, engineer and

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Film Festival, Live Action

DN LFF09: The Road – John Hillcoat

'The Road' is a rare commodity in today’s movie industry, an apocalyptic film that relies on subtlety and imagination, instead of CGI and special effects.

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Film Festival, Live Action

DN LFF09: The Informant! – Steven Soderbergh

I’m not a big fan of Steven Soderbergh, there I’ve said it, it’s out in the open now……please don’t kill me!! I think I always kidded myself that I

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