Birdsongs 9
19 January 2012 // Film/TV //Music
It’s been a long time coming but I’m happy to announce that number nine in our series of ‘bird songs’ downloads is going to be coming your way tomorrow. That is of course if you are on our mailing list. If you’re not then sign yourself up in the box at the top of the [...]
New In The Shop
19 November 2011 // Film/TV //Shop
This restored masterpiece was premiered at the National Film Theatre last year, along with a live performance of the soundtrack by composer Simon Fisher Turner and The Elysian Quartet. Caught by the River contributor Andy Childs went along and reviewed it for us at the time. That review can be found HERE and the DVD, [...]
Requiem For A Village
20 October 2011 // Film/TV //Shop
As the list of DVD titles from the BFI grows ever more interesting we decided we should be stocking them in our shop and a good place to start is with this, the recently released ‘folk film’, Requiem For A Village. It’s a strange and wonderful thing for which Electric Eden author Rob Young has [...]
The Corncrake and the Croft
A welcome post on our Facebook wall from Steve Rowland, yesterday: This 1970′s film by the BBC and RSPB for the World About Us might appeal to Caught By The River readers, its available now on BBC Iplayer. Lovely viewing and topped and tailed by a look at the islands today: A unique opportunity to [...]
Wild River, Cold Stone
7 May 2011 // Film/TV //On Water
A film of Dartmoor by Chris Chapman and Kate King (three minute extract from the sixty minute film) In July 2007 photographer and film maker Chris Chapman and film maker Kate King set up The Dartmoor Film Project to produce an independent film about Dartmoor.
Eastern Rises
Eastern Rises: Trailer from Mountainfilm in Telluride on Vimeo. Dear Caught by the River folks, A very belated thanks for sending me the Collins New Naturalist calendar that I won in you competition before Christmas. It has pride of place in my office and makes going to work almost bearable. By way of thanks I [...]
Spiral
Spiral: Series 3. Episode 1 Saturday 2nd April. BBC4 21:00hrs. by John Andrews: For all those left without purpose in their lives on a Saturday evening since last week’s screening on BBC 4 of the final episode of ‘The Killing’, take heart for ‘Spiral’ returns in the same slot this coming weekend for a third [...]
The Moon & The Sledgehammer
Review by Mathew Clayton. Made in 1971 the Moon and the Sledgehammer is an extraordinary documentary about a family that live in a Sussex wood – change the vegetation and you could be watching a hillbilly family from the American deep south. Cut off from the modern world the father and his two grown-up sons [...]
Hugh’s Fish Fight
12 January 2011 // Film/TV //Food and Drink
Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall’s Channel 4 programme last night – Hugh’s Fish Fight – was tough viewing whichever way you look at it. Much like his exemplary campaign to try to improve welfare for chickens, Fish Fight showed just how screwed up the current quota system is. Actually, scrap that – it’s downright abhorrent. The series [...]
Lost Scene from The Lost World of Mr Hardy
We wrote about The Lost World of Mr Hardy when it was released on DVD back in April 2009. The film was made by Andy Heathcote and Heike Bachelier and what you see here is a lost scene. The filmmakers explain: While making our movie The Lost World of Mr Hardy, a major theme was [...]
