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July 23, 2014 by Simon Sweetman
Frank: Film
Frank Director: Lenny Abrahamson Runaway Fridge Productions/Element Pictures/Film4 If you’ve ever cared about music at all – and you’re reading this site so chances are you have/do – then you must see Frank. Frank is a wonderful film – and there are reasons to see it for what it offers as a film, not least […]Archive
July 20, 2014 by Simon Sweetman
Life, Death, Supermarkets, Wedding Photography: Florian Habicht’s Film About Pulp
Berlin-based Kiwi filmmaker Florian Habicht isn’t even a fan of music docos or concert films. He’s not well-versed in them at any rate, whereas you might assume going in to his latest movie, Pulp: A Film About Life, Death & Supermarkets that he was a fan of the genre. Well, he didn’t grow up with […]Archive
July 17, 2014 by Simon Sweetman
Pulp – A Film About Life, Death & Supermarkets: Film
Pulp: A Film about Life, Death & Supermarkets Director: Florian Habicht Pistachio Pictures Florian Habicht’s film about Pulp is not quite a band doco, never just a concert film and somehow it’s one of the very best band docos you could see, and a whole new approach to that stale turd that is the concert […]Archive
July 3, 2014 by Simon Sweetman
Jimi – All Is By My Side: Film
Jimi: All Is By My Side Director: John Ridley Darko Entertainment/Freeman Film/Subotica Entertainment This Jimi Hendrix biopic – that isn’t really a biopic, aiming rather to be a portrait of the year leading up to Hendrix becoming a superstar – isn’t so much “based on a true story” (as it tells us before its opening […]Archive
July 30, 2013 by Simon Sweetman
Behind The Candelabra: Film
Behind The Candelabra Director: Steven Soderbergh HBO Films Based on the memoir by Scott Thorson, Liberace’s live-in teen lover, this TV film totally sparkles on the big-screen. Well, it sparkles and then there’s that amber-orange hue that Steven Soderbergh films all have, not so much blunted and dull, more a movie-world setting, an almost hyper-realism. […]Archive
July 26, 2013 by Simon Sweetman