http://www.nickbroomfield.com Nick Broomfield's Official Website Mon, 03 Oct 2011 16:20:45 +0000 http://www.nickbroomfield.com en http://nickbroomfield.com/Nick-Broomfield-Autobiography-by-Jason-Wood http://nickbroomfield.com/following/nickbroomfield.com/Nick-Broomfield-Autobiography-by-Jason-Wood Mon, 03 Oct 2011 16:20:45 +0000 Nick Broomfield's Official Website 2092067 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/151884/2092067/book.jpg" border="0" width="500" height="500" width_o="500" height_o="500" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/151884/2092067/book_o.jpg" align="left" /> Nick Broomfield Documenting Icons by Jason Wood Available from these retailers: Amazon UK Amazon Abe Books Reviews: The Telegraph Kamera http://nickbroomfield.com/Volkswagen-Commercials http://nickbroomfield.com/following/nickbroomfield.com/Volkswagen-Commercials Mon, 26 Sep 2011 02:25:32 +0000 Nick Broomfield's Official Website 2055082 Laser Bulletproof http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjY8-JirqyE&feature=player_embedded Eject Dead Sea Smooth http://nickbroomfield.com/The-Leader-His-Driver-and-The-Driver-s-Wife http://nickbroomfield.com/following/nickbroomfield.com/The-Leader-His-Driver-and-The-Driver-s-Wife Mon, 26 Sep 2011 01:43:08 +0000 Nick Broomfield's Official Website 2054956 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/151884/2054956/tl4.jpg" border="0" width="282" height="432" width_o="282" height_o="432" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/151884/2054956/tl4_o.jpg" align="left" /> Made with Riete Oord (producer) Barry Ackroyd (cinematographer) John Mister (editor) Running Time: 80 minutes DIRECTOR'S COMMENTS: "We lived in Ventersdorp in the Transvaal in a remote farmhouse. Barry's son was born while he was shooting the film. Barry and Riete are very charismatic and likable, I always think the people you work with have an enormous effect on the final film and the way your subjects respond to you." PRECIS: The film portrays the sinister and comic sides of the leader, Terre Blanche and his followers of the AWB Afrikaner Party in South Africa. The leader is followed around the country as he addresses rallies whipping up white hostility to the policies of F.W. de Klerk and the ANC of Nelson Mandela. REVIEW: "The outcome in Ventersdorp, S. Africa, where the leader has his headquarters was that Broomfield did a number on the AWB so comprehensive and so definitive -- fixing them as buffoonish political neanderthals -- that one can only hope serious journalists will be persuaded to leave the subject well alone for a long time to come. More than anything else, 'The Leader ...' is drama and its structure is purely chronological. It's not fiction and it's not pure farce, but only because the 'actors' happen to be real."- John Carlin, The Independent <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/151884/2054956/tl1.jpg" border="0" width="432" height="416" width_o="432" height_o="416" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/151884/2054956/tl1_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/151884/2054956/tl2.jpg" border="0" width="432" height="283" width_o="432" height_o="283" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/151884/2054956/tl2_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/151884/2054956/tl3.jpg" border="0" width="432" height="287" width_o="432" height_o="287" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/151884/2054956/tl3_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/151884/2054956/tl5.jpg" border="0" width="432" height="283" width_o="432" height_o="283" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/151884/2054956/tl5_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/151884/2054956/tl6.jpg" border="0" width="432" height="280" width_o="432" height_o="280" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/151884/2054956/tl6_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/151884/2054956/tl7.jpg" border="0" width="432" height="277" width_o="432" height_o="277" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/151884/2054956/tl7_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/151884/2054956/tl8.jpg" border="0" width="432" height="287" width_o="432" height_o="287" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/151884/2054956/tl8_o.jpg" align="left" /> http://nickbroomfield.com/Diamond-Skulls http://nickbroomfield.com/following/nickbroomfield.com/Diamond-Skulls Mon, 26 Sep 2011 01:34:47 +0000 Nick Broomfield's Official Website 2054935 Made with Tim Bevan (producer) Mick Coulter (cinematographer) Tim Rose Price (screenwriter) Lucy Boulting (casting) Starring Gabriel Byrne, Amanda Donohoe, Sir Michael Horton, Judy Parfitt, Ian Carmichael, Sadie Frost, Douglas Hodge and Struan Rogers Running Time: 93 minutes DIRECTOR'S COMMENTS: "Yep, well what can I say. A great cast, a great producer, writer and cinematographer... But I think I kind of screwed it up." http://nickbroomfield.com/Driving-Me-Crazy http://nickbroomfield.com/following/nickbroomfield.com/Driving-Me-Crazy Mon, 26 Sep 2011 01:30:42 +0000 Nick Broomfield's Official Website 2054917 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/151884/2054917/dmc1.jpg" border="0" width="432" height="295" width_o="432" height_o="295" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/151884/2054917/dmc1_o.jpg" align="left" /> Made with Andrew Braunsberg (producer), Ted Hope & Steve Menken (co-producers), Rob Levi (cinematographer) & John Mister (editor) Festivals include London, Edinburgh, Toronto, Houston, San Francisco, Sydney Running Time: 85 minutes DIRECTOR'S COMMENTS: "The first film I ever appeared in. I was so desperate in this out-of-control situation that it was the only way I could think of telling the story. Rob Levi was an enormous support. It's a miracle it ever got finished." REVIEWS: "This is a film that's really about show business. In other words, it's about sex, power, money, megalomania, egotism, spite, stupidity, dreams, nightmares, disasters and chaos. ... The result brings new meaning to the phrase 'That's Entertainment.'"- London Observer "An hilarious exposé of showbiz. Broomfield's off-the-wall documentaries frequently get him into trouble either with participants ('Lily Tomlin'), officialdom ('Juvenile Liaison') or avaricious lawyers. But here he gets into a tangle more or less unaided. Engaged to make a film on European impresario Andre Heller's multimillion-dollar black musical 'Body and Soul,' he gets pitched into the middle of a first-class disaster. Problems start when the film budget of £1.3 million is slashed to £300,000 -- Broomfield is reduced to a crew of two, Mercedes Ellington (the Duke's granddaughter) gets hit on the head by a camera and the lighting crew blows the fuses in the rehearsal hall. Meanwhile dancers, choreographers, producers and backers get into arguments with each other in front of the cameras. Somebody's bound to sue again ... so hurry along before it's too late."- Derek Malcolm, The Guardian "Mr. Broomfield managed to live through a nightmare, and turn it into a documentary maker's dream."- Janet Maslin, The New York Times <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/151884/2054917/dmc2.jpg" border="0" width="432" height="280" width_o="432" height_o="280" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/151884/2054917/dmc2_o.jpg" align="left" /> http://nickbroomfield.com/Monster-In-A-Box http://nickbroomfield.com/following/nickbroomfield.com/Monster-In-A-Box Mon, 26 Sep 2011 01:23:58 +0000 Nick Broomfield's Official Website 2054908 Made with John Blair (producer), Renee Shafransky (co-producer), Michael Coulter (director of photography), Written & Performed by Spalding Gray Running Time: 88 minutes DIRECTOR'S COMMENTS: "This was a project that Jon Blair produced and put together. I was brought in as director. At first, I feared it might be a repeat of the experience of working with Lily Tomlin, but it turned out very differently - Renee Shafransky and Spalding were the best to work with. Very open to suggestions, not overly protective of their material, and also completely methodical. I basically borrowed the approach used by Jonathon Demme in 'Swimming to Cambodia." PRECIS: After his brilliant "Swimming to Cambodia," Spalding Gray returns with this critically acclaimed film version of his latest stage hit. This time, a case of writer's block turns into an 1800 page monster - one Spalding can't get back inside its box. His inimitable adventures take him from a haunted writer's retreat in New Hampshire to L.A.where he can't find a soul who isn't working on a screenplay. Then, he's a movie studio spy in Nicaragua before heading back to New York where hysteria reigns supreme. It's a thrilling journey of laughs, insights and pure comic genius! REVIEWS: "Exhilarating!"-The New York Times "A treat awaits!"-Vincent Canby, The New York Times "Pure comic bliss!"-Peter Travers, Rolling Stone http://nickbroomfield.com/Lily-Tomlin http://nickbroomfield.com/following/nickbroomfield.com/Lily-Tomlin Mon, 26 Sep 2011 01:16:57 +0000 Nick Broomfield's Official Website 2054890 Co-Directed with Joan Churchill Running Time: 90 minutes DIRECTOR'S COMMENTS: "Pursuant to an agreement with Ms. Tomlin the rights to the film are limited to a strictly non-commercial basis." REVIEWS: "You can go to see 'Lily Tomlin' (and you should) for one of two reasons: to enjoy Tomlin's skill as a comedienne and uniquely talented actress, or to enjoy the skill of the two talented documentarians, who have fashioned a singularly interesting film about her methods of woking. Their film affords the viewers a rare chance to observe the creative process in motion as we watch the painstaking Miss Tomlin put together her current one-woman show 'The Search for Intelligent Life in the Universe' through an arduous process of writing, rehearsing, taking the show on the road, further refining and finally, a star-studded opening night on Broadway. The noted filmmakers were allowed extraordinary access, filming Tomlin at home, on the road, backstage in motel and hotel rooms, we see her working with her longtime collaborator, writer-director Jane Wagner, her private acting coach, the late Peggy Feury, and her loyal, cheerful, tolerant and amusing stage crew. Tomlin is constantly experimenting and refining, soliciting comments and criticism from the many audiences who view pieces of her work-in-progress as she tries it out around the country."- Meredith Brody, LA Weekly "The real pleasure is seeing bits of the finished product. 'Hi, Ah am not a professional actress,' Tomlin intoned solemnly, taking off on those Every-woman TV ads. 'Ah am a semi-orgasmic woman. That means Ah am capable of being fulfilled, but it is highly unlikely.' The documentary has become inextricably linked to the publicity surrounding the court case. It is hard to tell just what she objected to, but she needn't have worried that this film would steal any of her thunder. If anything, it whets the appetite for more Lily."- Jami Bernard, New York Post http://nickbroomfield.com/Marriage-Guidance http://nickbroomfield.com/following/nickbroomfield.com/Marriage-Guidance Mon, 26 Sep 2011 01:12:01 +0000 Nick Broomfield's Official Website 2054877 Co-Directed with Joan Churchill Running Time: 80 minutes DIRECTOR'S COMMENTS: A film about couples undergoing marriage guidance therapy. Filmed over a 6-month period. We made it in part because it could just be Joan and I, the therapist and couple in the room. We could avoid the other ten men in crew. This was a union requirement at the time. Joan Churchill was the first camerawoman in the British Union. She was known as a Lady Cameraman. The unions made cinéma vérité type films impossible. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/151884/2054877/mg1.jpg" border="0" width="432" height="321" width_o="432" height_o="321" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/151884/2054877/mg1_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/151884/2054877/mg2.jpg" border="0" width="432" height="318" width_o="432" height_o="318" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/151884/2054877/mg2_o.jpg" align="left" /> http://nickbroomfield.com/Proud-To-Be-British http://nickbroomfield.com/following/nickbroomfield.com/Proud-To-Be-British Mon, 26 Sep 2011 01:09:12 +0000 Nick Broomfield's Official Website 2054862 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/151884/2054862/proud1.jpg" border="0" width="408" height="432" width_o="408" height_o="432" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/151884/2054862/proud1_o.jpg" align="left" /> DIRECTOR'S COMMENTS: "My first film at the National Film School. Started as a student exercise and became this film a year later. Mixture of black and white and color, learned about interviewing and working with synch sound. Crew: Ben Lewin, who did interviews; Diana Ruston; Mike Radford, who despaired at my lack of organisation. He wrote I've 'got to get it together' on my camera reports, which I thought very insulting at the time." REVIEWS: "Directed by Nicholas Broomfield, student at the National Film School in Beaconsfield, including a highly-articulate carpenter whose explanation of why he was proud to be British gave the film its title. Following closely on a shot of the carpenter's council house was a shot of Earl Howe talking in front of his home. Mr. Ronald Bell talked about education and immigration, and there was film taken at a hunt and a girls' private school. The Church was exemplified by the Rev. Oscar Ambrose and his church at Penn. Mr. Broomfield claimed to be giving a straight forward account of the events and places he had filmed, but in fact 'Proud to be British' emerged as low-key satire of South Bucks attitudes. It was difficult to avoid the conclusion that it was a film about private schooling, the Church and the Conservative Party, made by a left wing, pro-comprehensive atheist, though Mr. Broomfield said this would be an exaggeration!"- The Buckinghamshire Advertiser "An hilariously funny and widely acclaimed film made in the heart of the 'Home Counties,' a region that clings to a way of life that is reminiscent of the time when Britain was at the peak of her Colonial power. We see how those nationalistic sentiments of courage, tenacity, the will to win, and the will to rule, continue to exist and how they are passed on and reiterated by the younger generation."- Jim Pines, Time Out <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/151884/2054862/proud2.jpg" border="0" width="432" height="312" width_o="432" height_o="312" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/151884/2054862/proud2_o.jpg" align="left" /> http://nickbroomfield.com/Behind-The-Rent-Strike http://nickbroomfield.com/following/nickbroomfield.com/Behind-The-Rent-Strike Mon, 26 Sep 2011 01:03:08 +0000 Nick Broomfield's Official Website 2054838 Made with Phillip Jones Griffith, Diana Ruston, and Graham Berry; and a special thanks to the Singletons who were the inspiration for the film. Running Time: 50 minutes <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/151884/2054838/btrs1.jpg" border="0" width="432" height="288" width_o="432" height_o="288" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/151884/2054838/btrs1_o.jpg" align="left" /> DIRECTOR'S COMMENTS: "My graduating film from the National Film School. Colin Young, the head of the N.F.S., helped me a great deal to structure the film, as did Brian Winston." REVIEWS: "Not least of the advantages of 'Behind the Rent Strike' is the simplicity and clarity of its structure. The film deals with the rent strike undertaken by 3000 tenants in Kirkby New Town, shortly before Christmas 1973, as a protest against the Housing Finance Bill. Beginning and ending with affirmation of the value of the experience gained during the action, 'Behind the Rent Strike' falls into two main sections. The first deals with social conditions in Kirkby: from an exposé of appalling housing conditions, the film moves inside Ruffwood Comprehensive School, where we first of all witness visits by representatives of authority formally external to the school (religion and the police) and then a compelling scene of internal school discipline acted out between the deputy headmaster, another master and two boys. The teachers play their parts with great relish, for all the world like slightly older and more powerful bullies. The work possibilities open to the young people of Kirkby are then demonstrated in footage of a chicken processing factory employing almost entirely female labour. The second section deals with the rent strike -- tenants' meetings, council meetings, clashes between tenants and police, and the attempt to extend the strike to include industrial action, the arrest of one militant and the consequent demonstrations. 'Behind the Rent Strike' is an extremely competent movie -- ebullient, enthusiastic and entertaining."- Rosalind Delmar, Sight and Sound <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/151884/2054838/btrs2.jpg" border="0" width="432" height="288" width_o="432" height_o="288" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/151884/2054838/btrs2_o.jpg" align="left" /> "A totally brilliant and riveting account of a rent strike in Kirkby involving 3000 tenants. Insightful without being didactic." - Rod McShane, Time Out "The difficult stuff for a trendy liberal is contained in 'Behind the Rent Strike,' which crudely centres around the anger of tenants on a housing estate outside Liverpool: Tower Hill, Kirkby, 1972-73. A magnificent Liverpudlian lady as good as spits at the interrogating director in the opening instants: 'I'm very sceptical ... the working-class position may change, but it won't change through the media' (or words to that effect: her nostrils flare stormily as she utters. People were being asked to pay what they thought to be too much for their council flats, someone organised them, they revolted. Mr. Broomfield set out to make a screenable account of their group-action. The 'behind' of his title is a saver, because he has filmed an extraordinary, irascible series of visits: somehow he and his crew got backstage, Kirkby-side. You can forget the matter of rents and restlessness in favour of a hard look at the local comprehensive school -- a headmaster at assembly helping a Bible-seller to dish out his stock to his flock, a senior teacher (enjoying the camera, hands false-nonchalantly in pockets) telling off kids for a playground fight, an articulate cop addressing a class of tinies and ensuring they will despise policemen from here to eternity. There is a sustained circling shot round a factory-floor of women picking chickens to bits. Mr. Broomfield -- to put it as moderately as possible -- knows that some pictures speak louder than any words. Truth, however selected, may be stranger than fiction, and stronger."- John Coleman, New Statesman