On Location: London
To coincide with the London Film Festal 2014 The Big Picture is casting its eye back through London’s rich cinematic…
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Spotlight: Holidays
Holidays rarely go to plan both in real life and the movies, and as Rhys Williams and Cleaver Patterson find…
Spotlight: What’s Your Favourite Scary Movie?
What’s Your Favourite Scary Movie? Here at The Big Picture HQ, we thought it would be fun to ask some…
Australia: Backroads (Phillip Noyce, 1977)
Noyce collaborated on Backroads with Aboriginal activist Gary Foley, who, apart from his political actions such as the establishment of…
Brazil: 5 x Favela, Now by Ourselves (Amaral, Barcelos, Bezerra, Carneiro, Felha, Novais, Vidigal, 2010)
The favela is still seen as a place of deprivation and negativity…
Fan Phenomena: Heroes with issues: Fan identification with Batman
I realized that he was a ‘superhero’…he is just a man walking among gods, but he can take every single one of them out and they all know it.
Poland: Tricks (Andrzej Jakimowski, 2007)
World cinema’s hidden gems handpicked by the Big Picture. When I asked the writer/director of Tricks/Sztuczki, Andrzej Jakimowski, about the…
Fan Phenomena: Fashion from a galaxy far, far away
So there I was, standing in line, surrounded by a Sith Lord, a space rebel and a slave girl…
Belgium: Man Bites Dog (Poelvoorde, Bonzel, Belvaux, 1992)
World cinema’s hidden gems handpicked by the Big Picture and well worth seeking out.
