Tag: HAR: Service Animals

Creature Comforts (Series 1, Episode 1). Dir. Richard Goleszowski. ITV. 2003.

Creature Comforts, the ITV series which started life as an Oscar-winning short film in 1989, might, at first glance, best be described as a documentary; its vox pop format providing a platform for the genuine, unscripted opinions of the British public. However, what appears on screen is anything but reality, as these voices are given…

19th January 2015
Brokeback Mountain. Dir. Ang Lee. Focus Features. 2005.

Brokeback Mountain Based on a short story by Annie Proulx published in the New Yorker in 1997, Brokeback Mountain (dir. 2005 Ang lee) opens in 1963 with the meeting of the two protagonists, the taciturn Ennis Del Mar and his affable herding partner Jack Twist. After a sternly delivered set of instructions from flock owner…

19th January 2015
Into The Wild. Dir. Sean Penn. Paramount Vantage. 2007.

It’s 1992, and Christopher McCandless, reborn as Alexander Supertramp, embarks on a ‘rite of passage for a young man in search of meaning,’[1] escaping from the human world and into the Alaskan wilderness. A ‘vagabond loner’[2] who donates his college fund to Oxfam and abandons his worldly goods by the side of the road, Alex forges relationships with the…

14th January 2015
The Plague Dogs. Dir. Martin Rosen. United Artists. 1982.

Based on Richard Adams’ 1977 novel of the same name, The Plague Dogs[1] follows the story of Rowf and Snitter, who escape from an animal research centre after Rowf’s cage is left unlocked, finding themselves in the heart of the Peak District. The dogs hope to find a master, but every human encounter is hostile. Running out…

14th January 2015
The Selfish Giant. Dir. Clio Barnard. IFC Films. 2013.

Clio Barnard’s The Selfish Giant[1] (2013)follows the story of thirteen year old best friends Arbor and Swifty in a modern adaption of Oscar Wilde’s story of the same name. Once they are excluded from school the boys start collecting scrap for Kitten, the owner of the local scrapyard; although his name might suggest geniality, he is anything…

21st December 2014
Mon Oncle Antoine. Dir. Claude Jutra. National Film Board of Canada, Janus Films. 1971.

18th December 2014
Black Christmas . Dir. Bob Clark . Warner Brothers . 1974.

18th December 2014
Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner. Dir. Zacharias Kunuk. Sony Pictures. 2001.

18th December 2014
Black Beauty. Dir. Carol Thompson. Warner Bros. 1994.

Good Places, Make Good Horses Black Beauty (1994), directed by Carol Thompson is a film adaption of the 1877 Anna Sewell children’s novel of the same name. The film follows the life of Victorian black stallion Black Beauty and his companions after he leaves his idyllic first home to serve new owners both kind and…

22nd August 2014
War Horse. Dir. Steven Spielberg. DreamWorks. 2011.

Steven Spielberg’s War Horse (2011) tells the story of teenager Albert Narracott and his horse Joey, tracing their journey from rural Devonshire farm to the Western Front. Joey is the dominant character within the film with the plot line tied directly to his experience rather than Albert’s. Throughout the course of the film Joey encounters…

22nd August 2014