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Live Action, Podcasts

DN222: The Grasshopper – Håkon Larssen

Adapted from a short story by Norwegian writer Kjell Askildsen, Håkon Larssen’s The Grasshopper (Gresshoppen) is the story of a couple out of love, in a

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Live Action

The Reformed Troglodyte

Past DN guest Ben Briand returns with another trademark short The Reformed Troglodyte, once again showcasing the confident style he displayed in earlier films

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Live Action, Podcasts

DN221: Littlerock – Mike Ott

Director Mike Ott joins us this week to discuss his second feature Littlerock, a beautifully balanced fish out of water story, with the added complication of a

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Live Action

Welcome to Hoxford

When I think of fan videos, the first thing I usually imagine homemade lightsaber special fx and people doing bad kung-fu, however, it would seem my opinion of

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Film Festival, Live Action, Podcasts

DN LFF2011: Li and the Poet – Andrea Segre

Andrea Segre’s debut feature Li and the Poet tells the story of Shun Li, a Chinese woman working off her debt to a better life in Italy and the forbidden

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Film Festival, Live Action, Podcasts

DN LFF2011: Natural Selection – Robbie Pickering

Although I’ve been chasing Robbie Pickering for an interview since seeing his multi-award winning Natural Selection at SXSW, it was the London Film

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Film Festival, Live Action, Podcasts

DN LFF2011: The Dish and the Spoon – Alison Bagnall

Alison Bagnall’s The Dish and the Spoon features a woman betrayed, who takes a romantic English teen on her journey through blind rage. Alison and I

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Documentary, Film Festival, Live Action, Podcasts

DN LFF2011: How to Re-Establish a Vodka Empire – Daniel Edelstyn

I’m pretty sure that Daniel Edelstyn is the only director I met at the London Film Festival this year who’s the rightful heir to a Russian vodka

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Art & Fashion, Documentary, Film Festival, Live Action, Podcasts

DN LFF2011: Shock Head Soul – Simon Pummell

Based on the famous book Memoirs of My Nervous Illness from German judge Daniel Paul Schreber, Simon Pummell’s feature Shock Head Soul depicts

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Art & Fashion, Film Festival, Live Action, Podcasts

DN LFF2011: The Somnambulists – Richard Jobson

Angered by the way he and the rest of us allowed the UK to sleepwalk into the Iraq war, Richard Jobson’s The Somnambulists is a departure for the

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Film Festival, Live Action, Podcasts

DN LFF2011: The Waves – Alberto Morais

In his debut feature The Waves (Las Olas), director Alberto Morais explores the conversations we have with history and ourselves through his lead character

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Live Action

Sleeping Beauty

Having sufficiently got over my jealousy of MarBelle’s LFF jaunt and screenings aplenty, we made our way to the Screen on the Green for Julia

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