LFF2013 Archives - Directors Notes

DN LFF2013: The Slaughter – Jason B Kohl

We bring our series of London Film Festival interviews to a close for another year with filmmaker and fellow curator Jason B Kohl’s short The Slaughter.

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DN LFF2013: Afternoon Delight – Jill Soloway

In Jill Soloway’s psychosexual comedy Afternoon Delight, a married mother decides it’s her duty to rescue a stripper but along the way discovers that the

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DN LFF2013: The Kids from the Port – Alberto Morais

The first time we spoke to Spanish director Alberto Morais it was to discuss a journey taken by the old in The Waves. Alberto returns to the London Film

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DN LFF2013: Hide Your Smiling Faces – Daniel Patrick Carbone

Playing out over a nature rich, fragmented dreamlike structure, Daniel Patrick Carbone’s first feature Hide Your Smiling Faces beautifully brings the

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Joe Swanberg Talks Directing, Acting & Getting His Bigger Budget Brew on for ‘Drinking Buddies’

Joe Swanberg’s 15th feature 'Drinking Buddies' sees him working on his biggest scale yet, DN discovered how his indie working methods adapted to the task.

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DN LFF2013: Salvo – Fabio Grassadonia & Antonio Piazza

Making the jump from writers and script consultants to the tandem directors’ chair, Fabio Grassadonia and Antonio Piazza channelled their frustrations from

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DN LFF2013: The Enemy Within – Yorgos Tsemberopoulos

In Yorgos Tsemberopoulos’ 5th feature The Enemy Within, an intellectual is forced to re-evaluate his assumptions when violence invades his home and shakes

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London Film Festival 2013: Roundup

As I sit writing this roundup on the final day of this year’s London Film Festival, I feel the air around me haunted by a strange sense of mediocrity.

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DN LFF2013: Lifelong – Asli Özge

Director Asli Özge switches from the documentary style we saw in her debut feature Men on the Bridge back at the London Film Festival 2009 for the more

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DN LFF2013: Short Term 12 – Destin Daniel Cretton

Adapted from his earlier successful short of the same name, Destin Daniel Cretton’s feature Short Term 12 tells the story of a 20-something supervising staff