July 1st-12th, 2015 www.eastendfilmfestival.com by Michael Anderson The fourth East End Film Festival came to a climax last night with its increasingly prestigious awards ceremony, held at the glitzy Everyman Cinema in Canary Wharf. Not the most bish bash bosh ‘East End’ of venues, you might think, but try telling that to the winners and […]

Directed by A. J. Edwards Starring Jason Clarke, Diane Kruger, Brit Marling and Wes Bentley The best film Loose Lips caught at the 2015 East End Film Festival was The Better Angels, an earnestly Malickian coming-of-age tale. ‘Malickian’ is in this instance no lazy shorthand, director A.J. Edwards having cut his teeth editing several post-Tree […]

Directed by Daniel Barber Starring Brit Marling, Hailee Steinfeld, Sam Worthington, Muna Otaru and Kyle Soller by Joanna Orland This film is so empowering for its strong female characters, it is actually somewhat of a surprise that it comes from a male director.  During the American Civil War, two sisters, Augusta (Marling) and Louise (Steinfeld) […]

  Award winning director Mike Cahill returns to his Raindance Festival roots with I Origins.  His latest film will open the 22nd annual independent film festival on September 24th, 2014.  Cahill will host a Q&A with the audience following the screening. I Origins stars Michael Pitt, Archie Panjabi and Brit Marling.   www.raindance.org