Third Star… the Trailer
The film we watched and reviewed way back in September last year has finally launched on general release! Here’s the official trailer to tempt you, but if you want to enjoy Third Star in full glory...
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2011, our A-Z of the Year
Or at least of those things, jaded and happy on the 22nd December, that we could remember… A is for avaaz – giving the good people, the millions of ordinary people, a real voice. A great thing....
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Bombay Beach is a film set apart. Where most documentaries show us events as they really happened, give us facts and carefully sign-posted opinion, Bombay Beach weaves fact with imagination, pure...
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In March
On Radio 4′s Front Row earlier this week Andrew Stanton, the film-maker behind Toy Story, Finding Nemo and other such Pixar wonders, was asked by Mark Lawson whether the opening scene of WALL-E was...
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In April
The lengthening evenings and prospect of a long Easter weekend leave us unable to think of much else at present than getting out of town and out of doors. There is something about the changing of the...
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In May
On Monday the sun shone so I cycled home slowly on quiet roads, tipping my face to the sky. The evening air was dry, a constant warmth broken only by the breeze. As I reached home, clouds gathered low...
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A Christmas Quartet: 1. Blue Nun
The first of four short Christmas stories written and read by author and poet Michael Smith, filmed by Nick Seaton. Watch the stories – as they are released – here or download them as podcasts from...
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A Christmas Quartet: 2. Christmas Lights
The second of four short Christmas stories written and read by author and poet Michael Smith, filmed by Nick Seaton. Watch the stories – as they are released – here or download them as podcasts from...
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Irish Folk Furniture [clip] (2012) from Alan Eddie on Vimeo. We are delighted that Tony Donoghue’s quietly moving Irish Folk Furniture has won the Best Animation prize at Sundance 2013. The film...
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2013: Twenty-Three Good Things
A highly personal list 1. Candy ads: three very short films by Wes Anderson, advertising Prada’s perfume called Candy. The films are pure Anderson – perfectly observed, superbly detailed, delightful...
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BLACK COUNTRY
At last night’s Forward Prize 2014, poet Liz Berry won the Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection. We had expected the news. Her debut, Black Country – about place, childhood and flight – soars...
View ArticleA FILM – NEW YEAR, NEW LIGHT
Putting the old year respectfully to bed and turning forward to face the new one: each day’s light growing longer and, though there might not yet be much sign of it, knowing spring is not far off. New...
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Bombay Beach is a film set apart. Where most documentaries show us events as they really happened, give us facts and carefully sign-posted opinion, Bombay Beach weaves fact with imagination, pure...
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12 GOOD THINGS 2014 / A PERSONAL LIST
1. THE MOSS – TOAST DEC / 14 SHOOT IN ICELAND 2. BOYHOOD – FILM 3. TOAST KING’S ROAD. POP UP TO PERMANENT 4. ST. VINCENT – MUSICIAN 5. HOST RESTAURANT – COPENHAGEN 6. OAK THE NORDIC JOURNAL 7. JAPANESE...
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Putting the old year respectfully to bed and turning forward to face the new one: each day’s light growing longer and, though there might not yet be much sign of it, knowing spring is not far off. New...
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5 GOOD THINGS – FEBRUARY
A curation of our five favourite things this month… THE LIFE-CHANGING MAGIC OF TIDYING UP – The Japanese art of de-cluttering and organising. By Marie Kondo. TOAST Founder Jessica recently read this...
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