DMovies - Your platform for thought-provoking cinema

Easy as sausage? Taste the complex flavours of German film production!

 

Redmond Bacon - 19-11-2024

Just as German Films celebrates its 70 anniversary, Redmond Bacon surveys the international outlook of German cinema at the Industry@Tallinn and Baltic Event; he uncovers a prolific industry, innovative co-productions, large tax rebates, and... abundant red tape! [Read More...]

The young, the bold and the beautiful

 

Redmond Bacon - 18-11-2024

On the ground at the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, Redmond Bacon looks at the picture of state funding for Europe's young and emerging talent, and reveals the best springboards for their gorgeous and audacious creations [Read More...]

This is scarier than horror!

 

Mariano Garcia - 13-11-2024

Mariano Garcia picks the top 10 most unsettling documentaries ever made, in a sordid reminder than reality is often crueller than fiction [Read More...]

Our dirty questions to Nicolas Dozol

 

Victoria Luxford - 13-11-2024

Victoria Luxford interviews the director of Last Party, an ambitious and reflective graduation drama with a dirty twist; they talk about filming in one continuous take, temporality between the audience and the characters, David Lynch, the teenage experience in film, and much more - read our exclusive interview [Read More...]

On becoming an awkward film star

 

Marina Hillquist - 06-11-2024

Our writer Marina Hillquist shares some very practical tips on how to be a better film actor, while also embracing your inner awkwardness [Read More...]

Soundscapes that shaped Cinema

 

Mariano Garcia - 06-11-2024

Mariano Garcia discusses the art of crafting memorable film, while navigating the various layers of the sound production process [Read More...]

The place where all genres meet!

 

Redmond Bacon - 05-11-2024

Just as he prepares to attend the next edition of the Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event, Redmond Bacon dissects the European Genre Forum, while also identifying some exciting new trends  [Read More...]

Our dirty questions do Sanjay Patel

 

Victoria Luxford - 04-11-2024

The Indo-Canadian director of indigenous drama The Birds Who Fear Death talks to Victoria Luxford about hiring native talent, cultural and environmental challenges, working in the oil and gas industry, drawing inspiration from cancer, and much more [Read More...]

Tallinn Critics’ Picks selection: so good it’s almost impossible to beat

 

Jeremy Clarke - 31-10-2024

Goldfinger said: "Mr. Bond, they have a saying in Chicago. 'Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's enemy action.'" – Jeremy Clarke anticipates his third visit to Tallinn to cover the third year of its Critics' Picks strand [Read More...]


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Our dirty questions to John Jurko II
The co-director of visceral poaching documentary Rhino Man talks to Eoghan Lyng about the physicality of the filming, sleep deprivation, kingpins battling for territory, David Attenborough, the real value of keratin, receiving a nod from the Prince of Wales, and more - read our exclusive interview [Read More...]

One filmmaker and her two very different sisters
The editor of DMovies - a Brazilian filmmaker himself - examines the two most important films of Brazil's top documentarist Petra Costa, revealing a peculiar filmic sorority, and a singular autobiographic signature [Read More...]

Documentaries that deepen the meaning of cinema
As the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival announces its brand new documentary strand, Eoghan Lyng discusses the foibles and the grandeur of a genre that can "easily escape the confines of budget" [Read More...]

A Woman With the Influence
Susanne Gottlieb interviews Marge Liiske, the woman at the helm of the Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event, one of the largest, most exciting and fastest-growing such events of Northern Europe; they discuss “democratic networking”, cooperating with the European commission, supporting regional filmmakers, the joys and the pitfalls of AI, and… why we should throw film professional into the ice-cold Baltic sea!!! [Read More...]

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