Friday, February 29, 2008

Fashion & Britannia at the movies

Movie Night at Redbones - 21 Braemar Avenue
This Saturday 1st March, 2008
Presents:
1) Over The Hill
This documentary done by a Dutch woman takes a look at the fashion and cosmetics industries and their link with women's magazines and mass media which ultimately make women feel worse about themselves as they struggle to achieve a beauty ideal that has no basis in reality. Based largely on interviews in Amsterdam and Los Angeles.
(Directed by Sunny Bergman, in English and Dutch w/subtitles, 60 minutes, 2007)


2) This is England
This is England is a look back at the early eighties of British working-class life through the eyes of 12 year old Shaun and his new gang dealing with the bitterness of racism, unemployment and the fall out of the Falkland's War. Won the prize for Best British Film at the 2008 British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) awards.
(Directed by Shane Meadows, 98 minutes, 2006)

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