Tag: Festival Coverage

“To Dance is to Resist | TAKE ONE Magazine Watch Online” The feature documentary TO DANCE IS TO RESIST, directed by filmmaker and artist Julian Lautenbacher, covers how in Ukraine’s capital Kyiv, a world of underground raves, performers, and artists persists despite the war. The film spans from February 24th, 2022, the first day of…

“Departures | TAKE ONE Magazine Watch Online” DEPARTURES has an unabashed fondness for its influences, yet its own flashes of filmmaking personality add freshness to the echoes of Danny Boyle’s TRAINSPOTTING and Andrew Haigh’s work. Even if the film begins a little too energetically to let its emotional moments land, it settles into an engaging…

“Sukkwan Island (My Father’s Island) | TAKE ONE Magazine Watch Online” SUKKWAN ISLAND (also known as MY FATHER’S ISLAND) is a slow devastation. The conclusion seems inevitable from the outset but, like the young man in the film, we are dragged along for the experience as director Vladimir de Fontenay shows the raw boundaries of…

“California Schemin’ | TAKE ONE Magazine Watch Online” James McAvoy closed the Glasgow Film Festival this year with his directorial debut, CALIFORNIA SCHEMIN’, an entertaining examination of Scottishness, authenticity, and creativity. Filmed around Dundee and Glasgow, it’s a fun film that is easy to compare to KNEECAP through their exploration of hip-hop from a Celtic…

“Sukkman Island (My Father’s Island) | TAKE ONE Magazine Watch Online” SUKKWAN ISLAND (also known as MY FATHER’S ISLAND) is a slow devastation. The conclusion seems inevitable from the outset but, like the young man in the film, we are dragged along for the experience as director Vladimir de Fontenay shows the raw boundaries of…

“The Fall of Sir Douglas Weatherford | TAKE ONE Magazine Watch Online” THE FALL OF SIR DOUGLAS WEATHERFORD is deeply embedded in a Scottish context. The story of a tour guide in a small Borders town, driven mad by the intrusion of a television crew filming a prestige fantasy series really speaks to the impact…

“Molly vs The Machines | TAKE ONE Magazine Watch Online” The conversation around teens and social media is forever volatile, with reason and facts often overshadowed by feelings, fears, and moral – even mortal – panics. In such an environment it can be difficult to find truth and rationality, muddling rather than clarifying any productive…

“Effi o Blaenau | TAKE ONE Magazine Watch Online” Reworking the Greek myths is a living tradition. EFFI O BLAENAU, Marc Evans’ Welsh-language drama, takes Greek mythology and transports its tropes and tragedies to a rural Welsh housing estate. Based on the award-winning one-woman play Iphighenia in Splott by Gary Owen, the film follows Effi…

“Rebuilding | TAKE ONE Magazine Watch Online” When everything you have is gone, how can you pick up the pieces? This is the premise of REBUILDING, Max Walker-Silverman’s gentle human drama about a rancher who loses his home and livelihood following a devastating wildfire. Living in a FEMA camp with the other displaced, he struggles…

“Think of England | TAKE ONE Magazine Watch Online” The brief synopsis of THINK OF ENGLAND, a story based on rumours the UK government commissioned pornography to boost World War II troop morale, reads a little like something boldly pitched as a modern incarnation of bawdy CARRY ON humour. Inviting a Glasgow Film Festival audience,…