http://www.nickbroomfield.com Nick Broomfield's Official Website Sat, 10 Nov 2012 00:18:10 +0000 http://www.nickbroomfield.com en http://nickbroomfield.com/Tattooed-Tears http://nickbroomfield.com/following/nickbroomfield.com/Tattooed-Tears Sat, 10 Nov 2012 00:18:10 +0000 Nick Broomfield's Official Website 2054712 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/151884/2054712/tt1.jpg" width="341" height="432" width_o="341" height_o="432" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/151884/2054712/tt1_o.jpg" data-mid="10229444" border="0" align="left"/> Co-Directed with Joan Churchill Running Time: 85 minutes DIRECTOR'S COMMENTS: "We were given the run of the institution, and stayed out at Chino for 14 weeks. It was a real challenge to make. By the end of it, we felt like we were in jail!" REVIEWS: "'Tattooed Tears' touches on a number of subjects beyond its immediate view, which is of life at the youth training school in California, a correctional institution for men (17-21). The film goes on to show not only the physical and emotional tensions that are integral to life, but also the particular stories of four inmates including an apparent schizophrenic. One young man has tattooed tears on his face, one for each year of incarceration and copes with his fate by refusing all cooperation. ... As this film demonstrates, Americans these days are talking more and more and saying less and less." - Vincent Canby, The New York Times "A voyage into Dante's Inferno evocative of the power and experiences of the later films of Marguerite Duras and the writing of Jean Genet. The film raises the limits of the intolerable." - Louis Marcovelles, Le Monde "A film which in every scene and every choice of shot, treats its subject with intelligence, thought and compassion, so that even the humiliation suffered by the inmates reveals a sense of personal dignity. It is cinema vérité at its best - and perhaps at its limits." - Clive Hodgson, Film <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/151884/2054712/tt2.jpg" width="432" height="347" width_o="432" height_o="347" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/151884/2054712/tt2_o.jpg" data-mid="10229445" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/151884/2054712/tt3.jpg" width="432" height="313" width_o="432" height_o="313" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/151884/2054712/tt3_o.jpg" data-mid="10229446" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/151884/2054712/tt4.jpg" width="432" height="325" width_o="432" height_o="325" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/151884/2054712/tt4_o.jpg" data-mid="10229449" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/151884/2054712/tt5.jpg" width="432" height="319" width_o="432" height_o="319" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/151884/2054712/tt5_o.jpg" data-mid="10229450" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/151884/2054712/tt6.jpg" width="432" height="301" width_o="432" height_o="301" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/151884/2054712/tt6_o.jpg" data-mid="10229451" border="0" align="left"/> Co-Directed with Joan Churchill Running Time: 85 minutes DIRECTOR'S COMMENTS: "We were given the run of the institution, and stayed out at Chino for 14 weeks. ... 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 Sat, 10 Nov 2012 00:18:09 +0000 Nick Broomfield's Official Website 2054956 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/151884/2054956/tl4.jpg" width="282" height="432" width_o="282" height_o="432" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/151884/2054956/tl4_o.jpg" data-mid="10230740" border="0" 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" width="432" height="416" width_o="432" height_o="416" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/151884/2054956/tl1_o.jpg" data-mid="10230733" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/151884/2054956/tl2.jpg" width="432" height="283" width_o="432" height_o="283" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/151884/2054956/tl2_o.jpg" data-mid="10230738" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/151884/2054956/tl3.jpg" width="432" height="287" width_o="432" height_o="287" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/151884/2054956/tl3_o.jpg" data-mid="10230739" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/151884/2054956/tl5.jpg" width="432" height="283" width_o="432" height_o="283" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/151884/2054956/tl5_o.jpg" data-mid="10230741" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/151884/2054956/tl6.jpg" width="432" height="280" width_o="432" height_o="280" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/151884/2054956/tl6_o.jpg" data-mid="10230742" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/151884/2054956/tl7.jpg" width="432" height="277" width_o="432" height_o="277" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/151884/2054956/tl7_o.jpg" data-mid="10230743" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/151884/2054956/tl8.jpg" width="432" height="287" width_o="432" height_o="287" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/151884/2054956/tl8_o.jpg" data-mid="10230744" border="0" 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... http://nickbroomfield.com/His-Big-White-Self http://nickbroomfield.com/following/nickbroomfield.com/His-Big-White-Self Sat, 10 Nov 2012 00:18:09 +0000 Nick Broomfield's Official Website 2053385 SYNOPSIS: Nick Broomfield revisits his classic and lethal documentary on the Boer separatist Eugene Terre Blanche. This time, he had to go back in disguise, apparently as a character from a Jilly Cooper novel. Bearding the biblical old rascist again was funny, but the real point and poignnancy of the revisit was to see what had happened to the other characters, Terre Blanche's supporting cast. They were as touching as they were unsympathetic. The rural Afrikaners are a stripe in the corner of the new, rainbow South Africa that can now be safely ignored, beaten and unloved; they can be discounted as ultimately irrelevant. What drives these films is an inquisitiveness based on the very human understanding that few people are simply black or white, and that the world won't neatly fall into good and bad. - A.A. Gill, The London Sunday Times REVIEWS: "Like all of Broomfield's films, it is brilliantly made - revealing, angry, partisan, painfully funny and totally engrossing"- David Chater, Times Knowledge, 25.02.06 "Important and powerful.. containing as it does a potted history of apartheid and the post-apartheid years"- Karl French, Financial Times, 27.02.06 "What about Broomfield? Well, 14 years on, his ability to wander into shot remains one of the great marvels of modern documentary making, along with his assumption that the pursuit of the story, to an important extent, is the story"- Giles Smith, Sunday Telegraph, 26.02.06 "A fine illustration of the enduring truth that the fiercest advocates of any sort of racial superiority are invariably the worst advertisements for the idea "- Guardian Guide, 18.03.06 "My admiration for Nick Broomfield knows no bounds, so I was going to enjoy His Big White Self anyway…..The key to Broomfield's success is that he allowed these people to come across as the likeable folk they are, which made their daft racist views more complex, less easy to dismiss "- Rupert Smith, Guardian, 24.03.06 "The result is part shaggy-dog story, part intensely revealing insight…this is a fascinating portrait of a morally bankrupt political movement "- Independent, 18.03.06 "As usual with Broomfield, this is funny, dark and thought-provoking - **** "- Daily Mail, 18.03.06 "It's a better film than the first, valuing storytelling…Fascinating "- Emma Perry, Time Out, 22.03.06 "The texture is different from earlier work in that a large section is given over to a history of the AWB during and after the collapse of apartheid, including the startling footage of a violent attack on an ANC conference."- The Guardian, 21.02.06 "I've had a connection with the people in all my films even after the filming has finished and I felt a close bond with JP and Anita, even after I was convinced JP had sent me a death threat. I was curious how people like this would adapt to black majority rule in South Africa."- Metro, 27.02.06 "Broomfield says he was inspired to return to the subject of Terreblanche after the media reported he was a changed man following his release from prison."- Screen international, 24.02.06 "What happened there was a kind of a miracle, that there wasn't a really bloody war. The country really did go through a revolution, so it was fascinating to see what happened."- Radio Times, 25.02.06 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/151884/2053385/1.jpg" width="600" height="338" width_o="600" height_o="338" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/151884/2053385/1_o.jpg" data-mid="10223862" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/151884/2053385/2.jpg" width="600" height="338" width_o="600" height_o="338" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/151884/2053385/2_o.jpg" data-mid="10223863" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/151884/2053385/3.jpg" width="600" height="338" width_o="600" height_o="338" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/151884/2053385/3_o.jpg" data-mid="10223864" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/151884/2053385/4.jpg" width="600" height="338" width_o="600" height_o="338" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/151884/2053385/4_o.jpg" data-mid="10223865" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/151884/2053385/5.jpg" width="600" height="338" width_o="600" height_o="338" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/151884/2053385/5_o.jpg" data-mid="10223867" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/151884/2053385/6.jpg" width="600" height="338" width_o="600" height_o="338" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/151884/2053385/6_o.jpg" data-mid="10223868" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/151884/2053385/7.jpg" width="600" height="409" width_o="600" height_o="409" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/151884/2053385/7_o.jpg" data-mid="10223869" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/151884/2053385/8.jpg" width="600" height="383" width_o="600" height_o="383" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/151884/2053385/8_o.jpg" data-mid="10223870" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/151884/2053385/9.jpg" width="600" height="384" width_o="600" height_o="384" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/151884/2053385/9_o.jpg" data-mid="10223871" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/151884/2053385/10.jpg" width="600" height="384" width_o="600" height_o="384" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/151884/2053385/10_o.jpg" data-mid="10223872" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/151884/2053385/11.jpg" width="600" height="354" width_o="600" height_o="354" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/151884/2053385/11_o.jpg" data-mid="10223873" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/151884/2053385/12.jpg" width="455" height="600" width_o="455" height_o="600" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/151884/2053385/12_o.jpg" data-mid="10223874" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/151884/2053385/13.jpg" width="500" height="637" width_o="500" height_o="637" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/151884/2053385/13_o.jpg" data-mid="10223876" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/151884/2053385/14.jpg" width="600" height="424" width_o="600" height_o="424" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/151884/2053385/14_o.jpg" data-mid="10223877" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/151884/2053385/15.jpg" width="600" height="457" width_o="600" height_o="457" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/151884/2053385/15_o.jpg" data-mid="10223878" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/151884/2053385/16.jpg" width="600" height="439" width_o="600" height_o="439" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/151884/2053385/16_o.jpg" data-mid="10223879" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/151884/2053385/17.jpg" width="600" height="415" width_o="600" height_o="415" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/151884/2053385/17_o.jpg" data-mid="10223880" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/151884/2053385/18.jpg" width="600" height="378" width_o="600" height_o="378" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/151884/2053385/18_o.jpg" data-mid="10223882" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/151884/2053385/19.jpg" width="600" height="359" width_o="600" height_o="359" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/151884/2053385/19_o.jpg" data-mid="10223883" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/151884/2053385/20.jpg" width="600" height="356" width_o="600" height_o="356" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/151884/2053385/20_o.jpg" data-mid="10223884" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/151884/2053385/21.jpg" width="600" height="358" width_o="600" height_o="358" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/151884/2053385/21_o.jpg" data-mid="10223885" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/151884/2053385/22.jpg" width="600" height="410" width_o="600" height_o="410" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/151884/2053385/22_o.jpg" data-mid="10223886" border="0" align="left"/> SYNOPSIS: Nick Broomfield revisits his classic and lethal documentary on the Boer separatist Eugene Terre Blanche. This time, he had to go back in disguise,... http://nickbroomfield.com/Too-White-For-Me http://nickbroomfield.com/following/nickbroomfield.com/Too-White-For-Me Sat, 10 Nov 2012 00:18:08 +0000 Nick Broomfield's Official Website 2054753 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/151884/2054753/twfm1.jpg" width="310" height="432" width_o="310" height_o="432" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/151884/2054753/twfm1_o.jpg" data-mid="10229599" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/151884/2054753/twfm2.jpg" width="432" height="340" width_o="432" height_o="340" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/151884/2054753/twfm2_o.jpg" data-mid="10229600" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/151884/2054753/twfm3.jpg" width="287" height="432" width_o="287" height_o="432" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/151884/2054753/twfm3_o.jpg" data-mid="10229602" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/151884/2054753/twfm4.jpg" width="287" height="432" width_o="287" height_o="432" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/151884/2054753/twfm4_o.jpg" data-mid="10229603" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/151884/2054753/twfm5.jpg" width="432" height="314" width_o="432" height_o="314" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/151884/2054753/twfm5_o.jpg" data-mid="10229605" border="0" align="left"/> Made with Riete Oord (producer) and Barry Ackroyd (cinematographer) Running Time: 80 minutes DIRECTOR'S COMMENTS: "I really loved Chicco's music, we first heard it when we were doing 'The Leader ...' The music was hard to record well, South Africa was still embargoed and no decent equipment existed. We nearly got shot in Soweto when we picked up armed hitchhikers. Chicco saved us." REVIEWS: "We've grown accustomed to the idea of pop music being a fast route to money, glamour and success, but to be born in Soweto and to make yourself into a black millionaire superstar brings new meaning to the term 'over-achiever.' Chicco Twala was born in the notorious South African township 29 years ago and he pioneered a pop genre which has come to be known as 'Township Bubblegum,' a mixture of disco beat and western-style pop melodies with an undertow of African rhythms and tribal chants."- Adam Sweeting, The London Guardian "Still in his role as the innocent Brit in Africa, ludicrously encumbered by earphones and microphones, Broomfield turns to Chicco Twala -- one of South Africa's black millionaires. Chicco Twala (who recommends that men take 10 wives and father 40 children) made his pile out of the African music business. Dazzlingly shirted Chicco is a good friend of Winnie Mandela He shoots people who want to kill him, and he sports a large revolver, which plays havoc with the microphone. Marvelous."- Mark Sanderson, London Observer "When the film is done it is clear that Broomfield has again contrived a close-up view of South African life as telling as any we are likely to see all year."- Sean Day-Lewis, The Sunday Telegram Made with Riete Oord (producer) and Barry Ackroyd (cinematographer) Running Time: 80 minutes DIRECTOR'S COMMENTS: "I really loved Chicco's music, we first heard... http://nickbroomfield.com/Tracking-Down-Maggie http://nickbroomfield.com/following/nickbroomfield.com/Tracking-Down-Maggie Sat, 10 Nov 2012 00:18:07 +0000 Nick Broomfield's Official Website 2054738 Made with Riete Oord (producer) and Barry Ackroyd (cinematographer) Running Time: 83 minutes DIRECTOR'S COMMENTS: "I never liked Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. I thought she was mean and inhuman, and when by chance Riete got her secret itinerary as she was promoting her book, 'The Downing Street Years,' I couldn't resist stalking her. She was also very corrupt, as well as being humorless." REVIEWS: "Kamikaze documentarian Nick Broomfield unleashes his bothersome Brit persona on the Iron Lady with hilariously revealing results in 'Tracking Down Maggie.' He trails Thatcher on a U.S. promotional tour for the publication of her autobiography. Basically one and a half hours of the filmmaker being rigorously denied access to his subject, the outcome exposes sides of Thatcher that more hands-on portraits might never approach."- David Rooney, Daily Variety "Broomfield exposes Thatcher's lack of moral responsibility in 'Tracking Down Maggie'. The film explores Thatcher's tyrannical hold over the male world of politics, her autocratic personality, her glaring lack of support for women and, most significant, her alleged complicity in son Mark's involvement in multimillion-dollar weapons deals."- Diedre Kelly, The Globe and Mail "Broomfield's shaggy-dog saga of not meeting Lady T, as she was whisked from podium to bookstore to hotel to aircraft carrier is vastly more provocative than an authorized encounter with some titled TV interviewer. Merely by ramming home the extent to which she is sealed off by her minders, Broomfield evokes the delusions of Imperial pomp and creeping paranoia which envelop her."- Adam Sweeting, The London Guardian Made with Riete Oord (producer) and Barry Ackroyd (cinematographer) Running Time: 83 minutes DIRECTOR'S COMMENTS: "I never liked Prime Minister Margaret... http://nickbroomfield.com/Diamond-Skulls http://nickbroomfield.com/following/nickbroomfield.com/Diamond-Skulls Sat, 10 Nov 2012 00:18:06 +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." Made with Tim Bevan (producer) Mick Coulter (cinematographer) Tim Rose Price (screenwriter) Lucy Boulting (casting) Starring Gabriel Byrne, Amanda Donohoe, Sir... http://nickbroomfield.com/Monster-In-A-Box http://nickbroomfield.com/following/nickbroomfield.com/Monster-In-A-Box Sat, 10 Nov 2012 00:18:05 +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 Made with John Blair (producer), Renee Shafransky (co-producer), Michael Coulter (director of photography), Written & Performed by Spalding Gray Running Time: 88... http://nickbroomfield.com/Soldier-Girls http://nickbroomfield.com/following/nickbroomfield.com/Soldier-Girls Sat, 10 Nov 2012 00:18:03 +0000 Nick Broomfield's Official Website 2054776 Co-Directed with Joan Churchill Running Time: 87 minutes DIRECTOR'S COMMENTS: "Joan and I went through Basic Training for 14 weeks. Fred Wiseman lent us a tape recorder. Pennebaker and Chris Hedgesus lent us a cutting room. We only got funding after it was shot. We both lost 20 pounds making it -- it was so hot." REVIEWS: "'Soldier Girls' is an extraordinary look at a platoon of women undergoing base training at Fort Gordon, Georgia. The enormous strain the women are under, the sadism of their superiors and the element of role playing inherent in Army life contrive to creat some tremendously dramatic moments. Scene after scene in 'Soldier Girls' shows the truth to be much much stranger than fiction. 'Private Benjamin,' indeed."- Janet Maslin, The New York Times "One of the funniest, most thought-provoking studies of the US Army I've seen ... A wonderfully original piece of work."- Roger Ebert, Sneak Previews, Chicago Sun-Times "'Soldier Girls' is not just a feminist triumph; it is also a human triumph."- Amanda Spake, Editor, Mother Jones <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/151884/2054776/sg1.jpg" width="432" height="351" width_o="432" height_o="351" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/151884/2054776/sg1_o.jpg" data-mid="10229675" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/151884/2054776/sg2.jpg" width="420" height="432" width_o="420" height_o="432" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/151884/2054776/sg2_o.jpg" data-mid="10229676" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/151884/2054776/sg3.jpg" width="432" height="324" width_o="432" height_o="324" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/151884/2054776/sg3_o.jpg" data-mid="10229677" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/151884/2054776/sg4.jpg" width="432" height="336" width_o="432" height_o="336" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/151884/2054776/sg4_o.jpg" data-mid="10229678" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/151884/2054776/sg5.jpg" width="432" height="296" width_o="432" height_o="296" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/151884/2054776/sg5_o.jpg" data-mid="10229679" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/151884/2054776/sg6.gif" width="432" height="294" width_o="432" height_o="294" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/151884/2054776/sg6_o.gif" data-mid="10229680" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/151884/2054776/sg7.jpg" width="298" height="432" width_o="298" height_o="432" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/151884/2054776/sg7_o.jpg" data-mid="10229681" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/151884/2054776/sg8.jpg" width="432" height="294" width_o="432" height_o="294" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/151884/2054776/sg8_o.jpg" data-mid="10229682" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/151884/2054776/sg9.jpg" width="295" height="432" width_o="295" height_o="432" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/151884/2054776/sg9_o.jpg" data-mid="10230804" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/151884/2054776/sg10.jpg" width="432" height="291" width_o="432" height_o="291" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/151884/2054776/sg10_o.jpg" data-mid="10230805" border="0" align="left"/> Co-Directed with Joan Churchill Running Time: 87 minutes DIRECTOR'S COMMENTS: "Joan and I went through Basic Training for 14 weeks. Fred Wiseman lent us a tape... http://nickbroomfield.com/Lily-Tomlin http://nickbroomfield.com/following/nickbroomfield.com/Lily-Tomlin Sat, 10 Nov 2012 00:18:02 +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 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... http://nickbroomfield.com/Driving-Me-Crazy http://nickbroomfield.com/following/nickbroomfield.com/Driving-Me-Crazy Sat, 10 Nov 2012 00:18:02 +0000 Nick Broomfield's Official Website 2054917 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/151884/2054917/dmc1.jpg" width="432" height="295" width_o="432" height_o="295" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/151884/2054917/dmc1_o.jpg" data-mid="10230578" border="0" 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" width="432" height="280" width_o="432" height_o="280" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/151884/2054917/dmc2_o.jpg" data-mid="10230579" border="0" align="left"/> Made with Andrew Braunsberg (producer), Ted Hope & Steve Menken (co-producers), Rob Levi (cinematographer) & John Mister (editor) Festivals include London,...