Your story or your life?
It’s an interesting phenomenon – cinema, down the years, has by and large served the Fourth Estate very well. Choice examples such as Billy Wilder’s Ace in the Hole (1951), All the President’s Men (1976) by Alan J. Pakula, and Michael Mann’s The Insider (1999) are very much ancestors to Kevin [...]
[photopress:Scotland.JPG,thumb,alignleft] Monster performance
How can the inhuman be humanized? It’s a difficult line to tread – a very successful attempt of recent times came with Oliver Hirschbiegel’s marvellous Der Untergang (2004), which chronicled the last, pathetic days of one Adolf Hitler (Bruno Ganz).
Acclaimed documentary film-maker Kevin MacDonald (Touching the Void (2002)) here turns his attention to [...]