By Emma Dogwoof on February 21, 2012
Want to stay informed of all Dogwoof's new acquisitions and documentary
film releases? Then make sure you sign up to the Dogwoof email
newsletter NOW, on the Dogwoof website here
All new sign ups to the newsletter in February will be entered into a
prize draw to win one of 3 copies of documentary film Tabloid on DVD: in
Tabloid, documentary filmmaker Errol Morris follows the salacious
adventures of Joyce McKinney, whose single-minded devotion to the man of
her dreams leads her on a labyrinthine crusade for love. Down a surreal
rabbit hole of kidnapping, masochistic Mormons, risque photography,
magic underwear, celestial sex, jail time and a cloning laboratory in
South Korea, Joyce's fantastic exploits were constant headlines.
Find out more about Tabloid on the films website, Facebook or Twitter pages, and sign up to the Dogwoof newsletter today for a chance to win a copy of this unmissable film on DVD.
Please note this competition is only open to residents of the UK and Ireland. We will email the three winners in March.
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By Emma Dogwoof on February 20, 2012
Dogwoof's documentary film on the modelling industry is now out on DVD
and iTunes - read Mark Kermode's review of Girl Model in The Observer here. Order your copy today here
Girl Model follows a complex supply chain between Siberia, Japan, and
the U.S. within the modelling industry. The story is told through the
eyes of a scout and a 13 year-old model. Despite a lack of obvious
similarities between Siberia and Tokyo, a thriving model industry
connects these distant regions. GIRL MODEL follows two protagonists
involved in this industry: Ashley, a deeply ambivalent model scout who
scours the Siberian countryside looking for fresh faces to send to the
Japanese market, and one of her discoveries, Nadya, a thirteen year-old
plucked from the Siberian countryside and dropped into the center of
Tokyo with promises of a profitable career. After Ashley’s initial
discovery of Nadya, the two rarely meet again, but their stories are
inextricably bound. As Nadya’s optimism about rescuing her family from
their financial difficulties grows, her dreams contrast against Ashley’s
more jaded outlook about the industry’s corrosive influence.
Find out more about Girl Model and the issues by visiting the films website, liking it on Facebook or following the film on Twitter
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By Emma Green on February 13, 2012
Sound it Out is now available for you to own on DVD - order your copy here
Over the last five years an independent record shop has closed in the
UK every three days. Sound It Out is the very last surviving vinyl
record shop in North East England. A cultural haven in one of the
poorest areas in the UK, the film documents a place that is thriving
against the odds and the local community that keeps it alive. Directed
by Jeanie Finlay who grew up in the neighbourhood, this is a
distinctive, funny and intimate film about men, the North and the
irreplaceable role music plays in our lives.
The DVD comes with lots of extras, including filmmaker and cast interviews, Jeanie Finlay's first short documentary film Love Takes and another music themed short docu by Tim Mattia - The Chapman Family is not a Cult. Also included are additional music videos and trailers.
To find out more about Sound it Out visit the films website
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By Terry Dogwoof on February 07, 2012
This February we’ve got a real treat in
store for film fans with a quartet of sensational releases, included a trio of
tremendous docs and a paean to the Cinema from South America.
6th February: Tabloid - A true life tale from the master Errol Morris
featuring gunpoint abduction, manacled Mormons,
oddball accomplices, bondage modelling, magic underwear and dreams of celestial
unions. This notorious affair is barking mad.
13th
February: Sound it Out - Over the last five years an independent record shop
has closed in the UK every three days. Sound It Out is the very last surviving
vinyl record shop in Teesside, North East England and this is the story of its
survival and the people that make it so unique.
20th
February: Girl Model - Girl Model follows a complex supply chain between
Siberia, Japan, and the U.S. within the modelling industry. The story is told
through the eyes of a scout and a 13 year-old model.
27th
February: A Useful Life - Jorge (Jorge Jellinek) still lives with his parents
at the age of 45. He has been the film programmer and technical support at the
cinémathèque for 25 years. He also has a news show at a Montevideo radio
station where he conducts interviews and talks about movies with filmmakers.
Jorge’s life is consumed by movies.
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By andy whittaker on December 27, 2011
Dreams of a Life is now available for Pre-order on DVD.
Dreams of a Life DVD
Nobody noticed when Joyce Vincent died in her bedsit above a shopping
mall in North London in 2003. Her body wasn’t discovered for three
years, surrounded by Christmas presents she had been wrapping, and with
the TV still on.
Who was she? And how could this happen to someone in our day and age-
the so-called age of communication? For her film Dreams of a Life,
filmmaker Carol Morley set out to find out.
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