Archived Reviews

  Frances-Anne Solomon: Review

      (2 Articles)

  Siege of the Scriptwriters

(Article added: Nov-09-04)
By Frances-Anne Solomon Ariel June 8, 1993 How did we get here, knee-deep in 600 scripts, in an office like a box, scribbled sheets of paper the size of my desk spread precariously over all the walls, cigarette smoke so...

 

 Beating the System

(Article added: Nov-09-04)
By Bruce Paddington Bruce Paddington on a young Caribbean film-maker who has been making waves in London. When she directed Peggy Su in 1996, Frances-Anne Solomon became one of the few Trinidadians to have directed or produced a feature film....

 

  Leda Serene Films Reviews

  Cop Killers: Reviews

      (2 Articles)

 

Leonie Forbes Gets Role In Cop Killers

(Article added: May-05-05)
Gemini nominated actress Leonie Forbes will play a social worker Leda Serene Films' next project, Cop Killers, scheduled to go before the lens next summer. The script for the low-budget feature film - a fictional story inspired by newspaper reports...

 

Lord Have Mercy Creator Has New Film

(Article added: Nov-04-04)
By Gerald V. Paul The Caribbean Camera December 18, 2003 Solomon told the Camera that the mainstream media made much of the fact that the women were not only lesbians, but also drug addicts, and sex trade workers. Solomon has...

 

  I Is A Long-Memoried Woman:      Reviews

(4 Articles)

 

Feature

(Article added: Nov-04-04)
'From de pout of mih mouth, To de treacherous calm of mih smile, You can tell...' Grace Nichols' first published collection of poems tells the story of a young African woman uprooted from her homeland and transported to slavery in...

 

Nanny in Europe

(Article added: Nov-04-04)
By Tony Hall I Is A Long-Memoried Woman, directed by Frances-Anne Solomon, is a video on the poems of Grace Nichols. Both Grace Nichols and Frances-Anne are CARIBBEAN immigrants living in Britain (Frances-Anne is from Trinidad and Tobago and Ms....

 

Shit, Filth & Video Tape

(Article added: Nov-04-04)
By Martina Attille I is a Long Memoried Woman, the 1983 collection of poems by Grace Nichols has been the inspiration of a new fifty-minute video, which goes by the same name. Financially assisted by the Arts Council of Great...

 

I Will Enter Into You

(Article added: Nov-04-04)
By Gwyneth Cumberbatch I have by now lost count of the times I have absorbed myself in Frances-Anne Solomon's 1990 video 'I Is A Long-Memoried Woman'. At first I thought I was drawn simply to the two dominant faces of...

 

  Lord Have Mercy: Reviews

      (3 Articles)

 

LORD HAVE MERCY: Is Canada Ready?

(Article added: Jan-17-06)
By Aileen Santos  It's not Friends or  Survivor. It/s called Lord Have Mercy and it's getting very positive feedback from The Globe and Mail, My Bindi.com and studio audience viewers alike. Canadian viewers have yet to experience anything like it ...

 

Caribbean Sitcom Breaks New Ground in Canada

(Article added: Jan-09-06)
Posted by: international, Arts & Entertainment, www.onlinedemocracy.ca A television sitcom centered on Canada's Caribbean community that started very small has won plaudits, built an audience and picked up two nominations for Gemini Awards, Canada's version of the Emmys. 'Lord Have...

Vision TV's Lord Have Mercy! and Carry Me Home Receive Gemini nominations

(Article added: Jan-09-06)
Release Date: September 12, 2003 The groundbreaking series Lord Have Mercy!, Vision TV's first foray into situation comedy, has received two nominations for the 18th Annual Gemini Awards. In addition, a nomination went to the documentary Carry Me Home: The Story...

 

  Peggy Su!: Reviews

      (2 Articles)

 

Peggy Su!

(Article added: Nov-09-04)
Ormskirk Advertiser 13 June 1996 LATHOM Park Chapel has never seen a wedding like it... There were guests galore... even an international film star or two. But there was no vicar! Well, not a real vicar. The wedding was a...

 

At last, a Film Where the City Can Play Itself

(Article added: Nov-09-04)
By Ian Kirby Daily Post May 5 1996 THE city that has stood in for Cairo, Moscow, Dublin and London got to play itself yesterday. The city has so many landmarks which cry out Liverpool that it is fast developing...

 

  Reunion: Reviews

      (2 Articles)

 

From a Black Perspective

(Article added: Nov-04-04)
By Leone Ross The Voice June 29, 1993 The latest of Birthrights shows Black British documentary makers at their best. [The] career of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, the immensely prolific Black classical composer who was packing the Albert Hall in 1904. "He...

 

TVs Review from the EVENING STANDARD

(Article added: Nov-04-04)
By Mathew Norman EVENING STANDARD July 6, 1993 THE link between money and religious faith is no preserve of Catholicism, as we saw at the beginning of Birthrights: The Reunion (BBC2), a series returning to look at the contribution made...

 

  Siren Spirits (Bideshi): Reviews

     (4 Articles)

 

Ghostly Offerings to Challenge Expectations

(Article added: Nov-09-04)
By Elizabeth Cowley Daily Telegram December 12, 1994 DEFIANTLY enthusiastic, independent series producer Ingrid Lewis almost dares us not to like the four 20-minute plays we are about to see. She needn't worry BBC2's Siren Spirits two on Christmas Day(9:45...

TV Offerings From All-Woman Black Independent

(Article added: Nov-09-04)
The Times December 12, 1994 FOUR films of "magic and mystery" will be broadcast on BBC2 over Christmas in a new series, Siren Spirits. Bideshi, Get Me to the Crematorium on Time, White Men are Cracking up, and Memsahib Rita...

 

Dreaming of a Black Christmas

(Article added: Nov-09-04)
By Ellen Cranitch December 12, 1994 This Christmas, at a time of night when viewers habitually become sacrificial victims to the televisions set, BBC 2 plans to stimulate them into some degree of mental alertness. The channel is launching Siren...

 

Tales of the Unexpected

(Article added: Nov-09-04)
Fact can often be spookier than fiction, and this is proved by Siren Spirits, four ghost stories base on personal experiences HUNGRY for original drama by Asian and Black writers, Siren Spirits was conceived to showcase the wealth of non-white...

 

  What My Mother Told Me: Reviews

     (1 Articles)

 

Female Safari

(Article added: Nov-04-04)
Talk of Trinidad with The Humming Bird The movie What my mother told me" is unique in that it is one of the few works produced by a Trinidadian woman about the paradoxes and survival strategies of Caribbean women. Written...

 

  Flight: Reviews

    (2 Articles)

 

Crew on the Front Lawn

(Article added: Nov-09-04)
By Mike Ribbeck Laurashire Evening Telegraph September 25, 1995 Residents in a quiet Accrington Street woke to find a film crew camped out on their doorsteps. The technicians took over Carter Street for the day to film scenes for a...

 

BBC Produces Black Screen

(Article added: Nov-09-04)
Production: Flight Media: Televisual December 1995 A 500k film from Hindi Pictures is the first to be produced for Screen Two's 1996 Black Screen season. Flight is set in the Bengali community of Accrington, and is the story of a...

  

  Love is the Devil: Reviews

  (2 Articles)

Jacobi Takes on a Meaty Role     in Film About Bacon

 

(Article added: Nov-09-04)
By Matthew Brace BBC Drama Publicity April 29, 1997 Sir Derek Jacobi has stepped in to play the artist Francis Bacon in a controversial new film about his life called Love Is The Devil, it was confirmed yesterday. The star...

Bacon Film Hit By Dispute Over Who Owns Artist's Words

(Article added: Nov-09-04)
By Dalya Alberge BBC Television Drama Publicity Production: Love is the Devil Media: The Times A film being made about the artist Fancis Bacon, starring Derek Jacobi, may be halted by the administers of his estate. The film's director says...