A poignant film essay about ‘superfluous people’ facing up to a moment of crisis in their lives.
Category: Documentary
Documentary
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The Making of Sun City
Documentary Chronicling the making of Artists United Against Apartheid “Sun City”
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Myth Makers 3: Nicholas Courtney
Back in the mid 1980’s two Nicks (Courtney & Briggs) strolled around the location for the Doctor Who story Mawdryn Undead and chatted about Nick C’s life and career. Now, parked in a little red car on the shores of Rutland Water (location for Battlefield) they find not only that it’s too cold to venture outside, but also that they are surrounded by sheep! With the aid of previously unseen footage from their original Myth Makers, Mr B delves deeper and Mr C reveals a good deal more!
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Woodshock
It’s just a simple stretch of interviews and images capturing the people who camp out, dope up, drink up, sometimes get naked, and jump into a nearby waterfall, whilst listening to musicians like Daniel Johnston.
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Myth Makers 5: Janet Fielding
Janet Fielding played the Australian air stewardess Tegan in Doctor Who from 1980 to 1983. She started with Tom Baker and then did every Peter Davison story except his last two! Janet is a founder of Women in Film and Television UK which she ran for the first four years. When legendary London agent Marina Martin was ready to retire she recruited Janet to take over her eponymous agency. As an agent, Janet represented Paul McGann when he was offered the part of The Doctor in the 1996 Doctor Who TV pilot. In 2008, she moved to Ramsgate and started Project MotorHouse, which is a charity and social enterprise that works with local youths and specializes in photographic projects. This unique Myth Makers combines two interviews recorded with Janet in 1985 and 2020.
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Broken Rainbow
Documentary chronicling the government relocation of 10,000 Navajo Indians in Arizona.
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Our Lives
The documentary addresses the stereotypes that imprison both men and women, the prejudice against women at the time and the need to legalize abortion to avoid the damage caused by illegal abortion.
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Punks and Poseurs: A Journey Through the Los Angeles Underground
At its core, “Punks and Poseurs” is a narration-free concert film, but it’s cut with terrific interview footage that explores the changing nature of punk, from insider and outsider perspectives. There’s a lot of great footage with writer/performers Pleasant Gehman and Iris Berry, torpedoing the influx into the music scene of neophyte phonies who just didn’t get it, explaining title of the program. (After this first aired in 1985, a bunch of the new waver/Durannie chicks at my high school—which is to say all the girls who were trying their suburban Ohio best to look like Gehman and Berry—started calling everyone “poseurs,” which was pretty funny.) There’s also a hilarious interview with employees at a store called “Poseur,” which sold punk fashions and accessories—people had to get that shit somewhere before Hot Topic forever banished punk to the mall, no? Also keep an eye out for the kid giving a primer on how to fashion liberty spikes with Knox gelatine.
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Boca Aberta
A discussion on Brazilian cinema, focusing on São Paulo’s Boca do Lixo production pole.
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Mikhail Romm. Confessions Of A Film Director
A film about the life and work of the famous film director Mikhail Romm.