While the documentary doesn't shy away from some of the more unscrupulous practices it works as a love letter to a period where all bets were off and anything could happen.
A documentary celebrating the Filipino exploitation films of the Seventies and Eighties, where lax health and safety regulations led to remarkable thrills.
Mingled with brief interviews and observations of factory work are occasional sequences of bleak yet dazzling beauty as Jain draws his camera back to explore the landscape and provide context.
An observational documentary exploring a fabric factory in Gujarat.
Those anarchic avians, the penguins, steal every scene they are in making them, to my way of thinking, the best additions to animated film since that coyote fancied roadrunner for dinner.
Trouble brews when the New York Zoo animals try to head back to the Big Apple.
The biggest flaw here is that, despite its excellent music and infectious energy, Lapperrousaz's documentary feels as though it is constantly skating across the top of much bigger issues that you wish he'd investigate.
Snapshot documentary looking at the Jamaican music scene.
If you're in the mood for a nicely crafted, well-acted, thoroughly entertaining time-filler featuring familiar faces who are well within their comfort zone, you could do far worse.
Commitment- phobe realises who he wants - too late?
Sadly, like many biopics, the film blends so many elements of the life of its subject that it starts to lose focus, and falls back on a relationship conflict to lend some backbone.
The story of psychiatrist RD Laing and his unique community at Kingsley Hall, East London, during the Sixties.
Instead of ticking off normal narrative beats, Vermut revels in humanity's natural unpredictability, often having his characters act on impulse or a whim.
Three people become caught in a complex web of blackmail.
Described in this film as the "patron saint of independent filmmakers" and with his work marked by ambition and a desire to push boundaries, it's a shame that this documentary about Orson Welles by Chuck Workman is, well, so workman-like.
A First World War officer, concussed by a shell blast, is transported to a magical world in which he must undertake a quest to rescue a beautiful princess.
Most effective is the film's playing with the concept of character motivation, highlighting the studied intellectual complexity prevalent in theatrical fiction in contrast to the often crude driving forces present in reality.
A would-be actor finds his new home haunted by the ghosts of actors past, but sometimes reality is stranger than fiction.
