Sumner Redstone, the influence of 95-year-old patriarch of CBS and Viacom once wielded over the content of film and television screens. Redstone realised the best way to become US media mogul was to grab a territory as he knew what brought to the sunrise Drive-in the Long Island cinema founded by his father Max Rothstein.…
Michael Ovitz, the former Hollywood agent, who earned a reputation for ruthless negotiation, brilliant strategy and fierce loyalty to his clients, who writes “We are lucky to work in a golden age of commercial film, in the 1980s at the helm of Creative Artists Agency, which wrested superpower and influence from film studios, its directors,…
Bad Poetry:- Japanese feature. Raindance 26th Festival 2018. Vue Piccadilly London. A story which would be also suitable in smaller “bites” in a series/soap. Indian writer and director Anshul Chauhan has created a dark, disturbing yet mostly watchable soap opera of a story about a young woman, Jun, a person whether we’re not sure we…
LOVE POSSIBLY – A BRITISH MOCKUMENTARY WITH SOME REFRESHING AD LIB SCENES. RAINDANCE FILM FESTIVAL SCREENING. 83 MINS. MICHAEL BOCCALINI, CHE GRANT FOR THE LOVE OF COMEDY..PLEASE WATCH THIS! Hoping that other countries will fall for the funny side of deliberately nerdy characters who jump through personally made hoops to try and achieve their dreams,…
Review of Rumble:- The Indians who Rocked the World. Raindance 26th Film Festival London – till 7th October – closing night includes a party – look online for tickets). “At one time in parts of the USA you could not own a drum or you would be killed”. This film which has already been at…
Raindance world premiere “Above the Clouds” – British film – Third Light Films. 87 minutes. Feelgood factor films do work with no spoilers. Leon Chambers – Director, together with screenwriter Simon Lloyd came up with this feelgood factor tale working together and after several re-writes, the film was made in a relatively short time. But…
Review of Boom – A story of The Sonics (band) at The 26th Raindance Film Festival The Sonics are amazing…first, they invaded the music world, then secondly they receded into obscurity, then thirdly they came back bigger than ever nearly 40 years later. Writer/Director/Producer Jordan Albertsen (of Scandinavian descent) took it upon himself to make…
THIS IS LOVE – FILM AT RAINDANCE 26TH FILM FESTIVAL 30TH SEPTEMBER 2018 A fantastic array of Love family members came over from the USA to this screening about the Love family and their musical exploits mainly in the USA but more recently at the 100 club last night where an audience including Elliott Grove…
A Raindance film festival event. New York Times award-winning reporter Jim Gutenberg was in a one-hour live interview, with a Q and A session at the end of the event explaining how the #METOO campaign led to the exposure of Harvey Weinstein as a totally unacceptable sexual predator. It is difficult to expose these people…
Review of A Crimson Star at Raindance 26th London Film Festival. Young lady auteur:- Japanese Aya Igashi – who directed this poignant film was at 21 the youngest ever director to be nominated at Cannes for the best international feature film. She is now 22. Debut direct Aya Igashi reveals the bond between two lonely…