Tag: documentary

BAFTA award-winning filmmaker (for A Syrian Love Story), Sean McAllister, has voiced his dismay at the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) rating his new…

Just what can money buy you? Status, class, authority, respect, infamy, a presidency? The list of things you can gain with a little (or rather…

Despite being dubbed as another dumb blonde to rival Marilyn Monroe,  Jayne Mansfield was actually a genius with very high IQ, of 163. In addition…

Once upon there was a beautiful house that represented the American dream. Inside the house, there were two beautiful, sophisticated socialites, who were part of…

Whitney Houston was an icon, a film star, a pop legend, a woman who overcame the odds to rise to the top of stardom. But…

Those who follow me on Twitter will probably know that one of my favourite films this year so far has been Tony Zierra’s Filmworker produced…

There’s no denying that Ingmar Bergman made a lasting impression on so many great filmmakers. But it’s often hard to wrap our heads around the…

The British Empire is a thing of the distant past, long dead and buried. But, out of the ashes a new, more destructive empire emerged;…

“When I left university I was working for a documentary film company for six or seven years to the great relief of my father whose…

“It’s a funny thing with documentary films – you want them to feel as entertaining and as gripping as a fictional film. With a fictional…

“There is so much investment in it of people’s labor time that it will never make money. But there are other documentaries that you might…

“I’ve been encouraging documentary filmmakers to use more and more humor, and they’re loath to do that because they think if it’s a documentary it…

“When you’re shooting a feature that costs $200,000 a day with a crew of 250, you don’t want accidents; you want to know exactly what’s…

“I try to learn from both, from features and documentaries. In both cases you have to find a way to make the camera as discreet…