Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films (2014)
For anyone who came of cinematic age during the heady days of cheesy 1980s cinema, Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films – the documentary by [...]
Documentary
Kiss the Water (2013)
When someone is the subject matter of a film memoir, they must have a magical quality if they are never physically seen – either in person or in the form of archive [...]
Cathedrals of Culture (2014)
When six world renowned filmmakers – including Robert Redford and the late Austrian director Michael Glawogger – were asked to make short films for a [...]
Vito (2011)
Some films though hard to watch, make essential, enlightening viewing. Vito, the biographic documentary by director Jeffrey Schwarz about the American film journalist [...]
EXPERIMENT UNDER LONDON (1961) – The British Transport Films Collection, Vol. 11
Experiment Under London (1961), released by the BFI as part of their British Transport Films Collection, is an example of what the Institute does best – the [...]
Paul Smith: Gentleman Designer (2012)
Paul Smith: Gentleman Designer (2012), is a bit flashy, much like the clothing by this iconic British label. This short documentary film by Stéphane Carroll – [...]
We’ll Take Manhattan (2012)
We’ll Take Manhattan – the BBC docudrama starring Karen Gillan (of Dr Who fame) and Aneurin (Hunky Dory (2011)) Barnard, which is a fictional account of the [...]
