News and Politics | March 03, 2009 | 1 comment

Check out some great films at Bird's Eye View Festival this week.

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Birds Eye View Film Festival runs from the 5-13th March at various venues around the country and is showcasing some amazing films by women filmmakers from across the globe. It really is a stellar line up with a retrospective on cinema's earliest sex symbols including Greta Garbo and Louise Brooks and feature film highlights from Sundance, Cannes and the Oscars. There's also a bunch of interesting masterclasses and sessions for budding filmmakers.

True to form I'll be checking out the documentaries, in particular Nanette Burnstein's American Teen which won Best Feature Doc at Sundance and Franny Armstrong's The Age of Stupid which features a futuristic Pete Postlethwaite commenting on the stupidity of our current generation's reaction to climate change.

Oh and make sure you tune in to Current (Sky 183, Virgin 155) this Sunday evening March 8th to watch our International Women's Day special featuring an interview with Birds Eye View director Rachel Millward.
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1 comment // Check out some great films at Bird's Eye View Festival this week.

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    • I went to a screening of "Salome" at the NFT yesterday - the screen temptress in question was Alla Nazimova whose wickedly innocent (oxymoron, but apt!) heroine gets spurned by prophet Jokanaan and sulking, demands he be killed. She persuades King Herod to have the deadely deed done by dancing for him, a treat the drooling Herod can't pass up.

      The scene where Salome dances for her wicked uncle to get what she wants was brilliant.For a film made in 1923 the provocative movements and the barely-there costumes came across as even more risque!

      But all in all, I think the celluloid femme fatale was upstaged by the foxy musician Bishi who, peforming live in the auditorium, wrote the original soundtrack for this screening, and hit just the right dramatic and exotic notes for this camp pantomime interpretation of the biblical tale. For more info on Bishi check out the link ...

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