Free Film: South of the Border
Hat tip: Derek Wall
Fashion Is Not Escapism If It’s Still In The Real World
So, there’s been a huge amount of pixels spilt on Lady Gaga. I don’t want to get into every aspect of the debates, but there’s one aspect which I find strange, and it isn’t just relevant to feminism. To quote one blog in particular, here’s Gender-Agenda: She is also an innovator. Working with famous fashion [...]
Advert: Get The Fear Factory & Ministry of Truth for only £9.95
Spirit Level Film is offering a special deal exclusive to readers of The Third Estate. You can now get their two hit films The Fear Factory and Ministry of Truth together for a special discount price of just £9.95 (RRP £24.90) To take advantage of this special offer, simply click on one of the links [...]
The Fear Factory: A Response to The Third Estate’s Review
Guest post by Richard Symons We came to “The Fear Factory” via an unusual but (as we discovered) incredibly astute request. The Nationwide Foundation’s steering committee brief was simple enough, “give us a tool to change minds” – a regrettably necessary first step in making the treatment of young offenders something you could convince the [...]
You may not know it, but this video is worth watching again.
What were you doing in the summer of 2004? I was going to the gym alot (!), waiting for my a level results, and starting a relationship which ended abruptly when the girl in question took a holiday to France and made love to the entire male half of the native population. Yet a recent post [...]
Review: The Fear Factory
When I received my review copy of Spirit Level Film’s latest documentary, The Fear Factory, through my letterbox a few days ago, I had little idea what to expect. A few seconds in, as the ominous music begins to play and the image of a foetus looms into view accompanied by the voiceover telling us [...]
Zeitgeist Exposed
In Agatha Christie’s classic crime novel the ABC Murders, the detective Hercule Poirot comes up with the following formulation: “When do you notice a pin least? When it is in a pin cushion. When do you notice a murder least? When it is one of a series of related murders.” I would like to extend [...]
An Interview with Lucy Bailey
The Third Estate catches up with Lucy Bailey, director of the Oscar-nominated Mugabe and the White African It may have been pipped to the post at the Oscars last night, but ‘Mugabe and the White African’ scooped Best Documentary at the British Independent Film Awards and was shortlisted for the award of Outstanding Debut Film [...]
The Deep Racism of Avatar
It is rather a shock that they managed to spend $400m on a film without anyone in Hollywood saying, “erm, guys, I think this is a bit racist.” In fact so much of a shock that since the release of Avatar in late December, blogging and reviewing communities have time and time again criticised the [...]
Review: We Live in Public
Like Starsuckers, reviewed last week, Ondi Timoner’s We Live in Public is a confused film. It’s a documentary about ‘the most brilliant dot.com millionaire you’ve never heard of’ [actually that would probably be all of them] ― a chap called Josh Harris. Not that even if you had heard of him, you’d necessarily have recognised [...]
