Friday 12 August
Monocle’s weekend global events guide includes a pop-up menswear shop in London, indie film Littlerock showing in New York and LA, Helsinki’s summer music festival, a tour of regeneration in New Orleans and an exhibition…
Friday 10 June
Something for your weekend: Monocle’s global selection, including exhibitions to lose your Saturday in, a racy Californian cinematic release and a theatrical adaptation of a childhood classic staged in the woods.
Joy King started out as an accountant and ended up as a script writer for an adult film company. She tells Monocle about her love for conjuring up steamy scenes and her efforts to boost the image of her business.
The Berlin International Film Festival is one of the most influential showcases in the world and part of Germany’s rich cinema tradition. Join Monocle for a look at the city’s relationship with filmmaking.
For the past eight years, Assaad Taha’s company, Hot Spot, has been making films for the Al-Jazeera TV network. His mission? To uncover and objectively report injustices through Arab eyes, while staying firmly opposed “to…
The global camera market has switched from film to digital with lightning speed. In Japan, 94m digital cameras were produced last year, compared to 800,000 film cameras. However, an army of die-hard fans is keeping the…
For five days a year much of the English-speaking documentary-making world focuses in on an old industrial town in northern England for the Sheffield Doc Fest, one of the major events on the film calendar. Monocle visited…
Sounds Like Teen Spirit, Jamie Jay Johnson's warm and witty documentary following four contestants in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest, is a sure contender as one of the strongest factual films of 2009. Monocle's Robert…
Two productions by K+D for video installations in Paris. The first, an extract from the video installation presented at Paris Capitale de la Création, 2004: 'The curse of bears and dolls in Paris sky'. Second, an extract…
Friday 24 June
Something for your weekend: Monocle’s global selection, including new music, new theatre talent in London, and a snap-happy exhibition in Vienna.
Friday 3 June
Something for your weekend: Monocle’s global selection, including exhibitions to lose your Saturday in, a photography festival on the Channel Islands, and an impressive new short storyteller with ten tales on the subject…
Wednesday 11 August
The Shanghai World Expo is nothing if not forward-looking.
Wednesday 24 February
The prospect of India’s first on-screen gay liaison has made foreign media outlets hot under the collar but it is proving to be a different story on the sub-continent.
Hollywood and the rest of the world are paying close attention to the films coming out of Taiwan, South Korea and Japan. Even Vietnam is getting in on the act. Monocle takes a seat at Korea’s Pusan International Film Fes…
While newspapers and broadcasters pull the plug on budgets for investigative journalism and documentary, Monocle meets Norway’s documentary filmmakers leading the charge to protect films that ask, answer and entertain.
If your town needs a tourism boost, there is nothing more likely to bring in the punters than a blockbusting film set on your street. No wonder cities are offering film companies big incentives for a moment on the casting…
At the 2007 Oscars three Mexican film directors received 16 nominations between them, but in their homeland, the industry is lagging. Monocle meets the next generation of filmmakers, whose dream is to turn talent into…
If you are making a film, a low-budget TV show or a commercial, head to Buenos Aires. Since the Argentinian economic meltdown in 2002, low wages, skilled professionals and excellent production facilities have seen filmma…
Wednesday 15 May
A short film made in 1927 of London's unremarkable city streets has become an internet sensation – and all because it adds a bit of colour.
Sunday 25 December
Our selection of must-watch films include two all-time classics, new DVD releases and the latest epic with Christian Bale.
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