Thursday 28 July 2011

Electric Sheep article



















Review of 'Stalker' for Electric Sheep - http://tinyurl.com/3wgkcsm

With all of the late Andrei Tarkovsky's films recently released in DVD and Blu Ray box sets Electric Sheep have spent the last month looking at the individual films that make up his lasting legacy. My contribution to this celebration is a review of his masterpiece Stalker. It's difficult to do justice to Tarkovsky's films as they really need to be experienced, pondered over and watched again. If you haven't seen Stalker you really should, as soon as possible. Every now and again a film comes along that changes the very nature of cinema and how audiences subsequently look at the real world, this is one of them.

Monday 11 July 2011

Competition week 3

http://youtu.be/ZEopisQUfiA - trailer

This week's DVD giveaway courtesy of Dogwoof is Leslie Iwerk's Dirty Oil. Described by Total Film as 'disturbing & illuminating' and narrated by Canadian actress and environmentalist Neve Campbell Dirty Oil is a behind the scenes look at the toxic Alberta Tar Sands, from where the US gets the majority of its oil and the impact on the environment of the 'largest industrial project on the planet today'.

To be in with a chance of winning the DVD simply email me at neil.mitch1972@googlemail.com with the answer to this question -

In which country can the Alberta Tar Sands be found?

The competition closes at midnight on Saturday the 16th.

Monday 4 July 2011

Competition week 2

This week's documentary up for grabs courtesy of Dogwoof is Chris Smith's 'Collapse'. The director of the wonderful American Movie (1999) turns his camera on controversial 'author, radical thinker and investigative reporter' Michael Ruppert. The former police officer's views on 9/11 and energy issues have seen him labelled a paranoid 'conspiracy theorist' by his detractors. To win this eye opening look into Ruppert's divisive views just email me the answer to this question -
Who directed this year's Oscar winning documentary Inside Job?

Send your answers to - neil.mitch1972@googlemail.com no later than midnight on Saturday the 9th.

Sunday 3 July 2011

Rogue Cinema review - July

http://www.roguecinema.com/article2782.html - This month's review for RogueCinema.com is now up. It's a version of the Red Hill review I posted a couple of weeks ago. Well worth catching up with this genre splicing effort from down under.