This summer sees the East End Film Festival (EEFF) return for its 12th edition, in what will be its longest run to date. From June 25th to July 10th, London’s East End will be the home of two weeks of films and events, with 16 world premieres, 2 European premiers, …
In this case, that “yours truly” does not refer to me, but to the renowned video artist. With experience in ads, music videos, and many other varied forms of filmmaking, Yours Truly was the perfect choice for a collaboration with electronic/soul/funk master Jamie Lidell. Together they’ve produced a …
Dir. Malik Bendjelloul
StudioCanal
Review by Matt Mansfield
Why do people love films about losers? Does it make them feel better about their own lives? Take a film like The Shawshank Redemption, for example. It’s more than two hours of a man sent to prison for something he didn’t …
by Siam Goorwich
Forget obscure foreign language films with too fast subtitles, mind-numbing documentaries about far away places, or anything with a title you can’t pronounce. If you really want to see something genuinely different, thought-provoking and utterly fantastic, Mission to Lars is the film for you.
Mission to Lars…
Coming in 2013 is a new documentary film telling the story of one of the most important technological developments in the history of modern electronic music; the Roland 808 drum machine. Planet Rock and Other Tales of the 808 is brought to viewers by Alex Dunn (You Know) and legendary …
Here at PlanetNotion we care about bands. We realise they probably sit for hours doing trillions of interviews during which they’re asked where their name comes from and how they’d describe their music in one word. We realise this must be really boring. So in an effort to make musicians’ press …
It’s a cheap unimaginative way to start a review, but I’m going to say it anyway: If you see just one movie this year, please make sure it’s Marley. Like most people I have his greatest hits album, Legend, on my ipod, and can recognise Three Little Birds within a …
Channel 4’s ‘My Transsexual Summer’ followed seven men and women who came together to share their experiences of changing gender in Britain today. Albeit as a pertinent topic throughout the year, Planet Notion decided to talk to one of the stars of this programme, Karen Gale, about transitioning, surgery, labels …
Self Made is Turner Prize-winning artist Gillian Wearing’s first foray into feature-length film. Her art is often preoccupied with articulating the ineffable, with the unspoken weaknesses that humans often feel beneath the façades they present to the world. Self Made takes this preoccupation and extrapolates it into a deft, 83 …
Seb Law met the legend of hairdressing that is Vidal Sassoon for lunch in Mayfair for a piece in Notion 053. At 83, he’s still full of life and full of fascinating stories. He’s led a fantastic life and for an hour, he waxes lyrical about hair, architecture, music, …
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