Tag Archives: Les Miserables

Days like these?

May 20, 2015Documentary, Film, New ReleasesLes Miserables, Noam ChomskySarah Slade

Sarah Slade watches We Are Many – a new documentary about popular opposition to the Iraq war – and she can’t help noticing what gets left out.

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Natan – Part 2

January 30, 2014Cult Movies, Directors, Documentary, French cinemaBernard Natan, David Cairns, Fuck a Duck, Les Miserables, Pathé, paul duaneMostlyFilm

Part 2 of David Cairns’ recounting of the strange story of Bernard Natan. Part 1 was published yesterday.

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Natan – Part 1

January 29, 2014Cult Movies, Directors, Documentary, French cinemaBernard Natan, David Cairns, Fuck a Duck, Les Miserables, Pathé, paul duaneMostlyFilm

MostlyFilm regular Paul Duane, who has written about his films Barbaric Genius and Very Extremely Dangerous in these pages, has teamed up with the most excellent David Cairns to make an acclaimed documentary about the once-notorious, now obscure, Bernard Natan, which will receive its English premiere this weekend. In this 2-part essay (the 2^nd part will be published tomorrow), David recounts the whole strange story.