In this episode Dario is joined at the Kino Teatr in St. Leonards by film director Hope Dickson Leach (@hopedickle) who introduces and discusses her newly released first feature The Levelling. Ellie Kendrick plays Clover, a young vet who has to reluctantly return to her father's farm after the sudden death of her brother. Deeply buried family tensions are brought to surface in a painful journey of guilt and self-examination told with an aesthetic precision that belies a low-budget first feature status. Hope outlines the production background and creative process behind this poignant and beautifully rendered drama.
The episode also features a interview with the founder of the Bechdel Test Fest Corrina Antrobus (@corrinacorrina). Corrina discusses the development of the organisation and ruminates on various themes related to the status of women in cinema.
Hope Dickson Leach
Watch The Levelling on the BFI Player
The Bechdel Test Fest
David Edelstein's Wonder Woman Review
Jezebel's response to the Edelstein's Wonder Woman Review
David Edelstein's response to the response to his Wonder Woman review
(Bonus) Brighton CineCity Co-Director Tim Brown
A New Leaf (w/ The Ballad of Shirley Collins filmmakers)
(Bonus) Blade Runner 2049
Crossings 2017
(Bonus) Social Realism?
(Reposting) Ep1 Repo Man
Screenplay Film Festival (With Mark Kermode and Linda Ruth Williams)
Season 6 Trailer
Ask Us Anything
B. Ruby Rich (also with Club Des Femmes and Yance Ford)
The Other Side of Hope (with academic Jaakko Seppälä)
Close-up (with Mania Akbari)
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The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki (with director Juho Kuosmanen)
Professor Richard Dyer
Ben Wheatley
Victim (with writer David Blakeslee)
Feminist Surrealism and Film (with Dr Sabina Stent & Dr Felicity Gee)
Eyes Without a Face (with academic Matt Smith)
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