Louisa Mellor Dec 12, 2016
We’ve taken a pen to the UK Christmas TV and radio schedules and circled the shows we’re looking forward to. Add yours below!
Amid the cosy repeats, big movies and inescapable cranberry-stuffed cookery shows on TV this month are a few original gems. Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton’s Inside No. 9 festive special The Devil Of Christmas (Tuesday the 27th of December, 10pm, BBC Two) is top of our must-watch list. Hot on its heels is Yonderland’s family friendly Yonder Yuletide (Saturday the 24th of December, 6.30pm, Sky One). Another for families on Sky is the Christmas Day Jasper Fforde adaptation The Last Dragonslayer, while Channel 4 has the non-festive-but-essential-for-fans-of smart-sci-fi Humans series two finale (Sunday the 18th of December, 9pm).
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We’ve taken a pen to the UK Christmas TV and radio schedules and circled the shows we’re looking forward to. Add yours below!
Amid the cosy repeats, big movies and inescapable cranberry-stuffed cookery shows on TV this month are a few original gems. Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton’s Inside No. 9 festive special The Devil Of Christmas (Tuesday the 27th of December, 10pm, BBC Two) is top of our must-watch list. Hot on its heels is Yonderland’s family friendly Yonder Yuletide (Saturday the 24th of December, 6.30pm, Sky One). Another for families on Sky is the Christmas Day Jasper Fforde adaptation The Last Dragonslayer, while Channel 4 has the non-festive-but-essential-for-fans-of smart-sci-fi Humans series two finale (Sunday the 18th of December, 9pm).
See related James Cameron's Avatar: five years on Avatar review
Not to forget, of course, the Doctor Who Christmas Special, a brand-new series of Sherlock,...
- 12/9/2016
- Den of Geek
For the first installment in his “Work” series of documentaries, filmmaker Daniel Kraus followed a small-town sheriff; for the second, he covered jazz musician Ken Vandermark. The third installment of “Work” is called Professor, and it’s about Rabbi Jay Holstein, a member of the University Of Iowa faculty who teaches courses on Judaism, the Holocaust, and “The Quest For Human Destiny.” Holstein is pushing 70, but looks like he’s in his early 50s. He teaches in the campus’s biggest lecture halls, and has a pedagogical style halfway between a stand-up comic and a drill sergeant—complete with ...
- 11/3/2010
- avclub.com
Professor Jay Holstein Daniel Kraus's Professor doesn't start with a bang so much as a barrage. In its opening minutes, the University of Iowa's Jay Holstein comes right at his undergrads, waking them from their lecture hall reveries and deflating any preconceptions they might have about what lies in store for them. And of course, thanks to Kraus, Holstein has the same effect on us. What's more, Holstein is a prime example of practice-what-you-preach (or maybe the reverse?): he's not only a popular professor of religious studies, but also an ordained rabbi. As such, like the subjects of the other films in the Work Series - Preacher, Musician, and Sheriff - Holstein is something of a performer. Yet these docs aren't really about playing to the public, or even about all the introspective, behind-the-scenes work that's done in preparation for them. Rather, the focus is on that middle...
- 9/20/2010
- TribecaFilm.com
Welcome back to Moment of Truth, Movieline's weekly spotlight on the best in nonfiction cinema. Today we hear from Daniel Kraus, whose superb Work Series gets a showcase this weekend in Chicago.
Remember those seven masterpieces of the '00s you've likely never seen? Hopefully you have checked out at least some of them by now -- particularly the endlessly intriguing work of Chicago filmmaker Daniel Kraus. Since 2004, the documentarian has delivered three films chronicling ordinary Americans at their rather extraordinary jobs. Their tiles are self-explanatory and deceptively simple -- Sheriff, Musician and Kraus's latest, Professor. The films, meanwhile, are anything but.
Remember those seven masterpieces of the '00s you've likely never seen? Hopefully you have checked out at least some of them by now -- particularly the endlessly intriguing work of Chicago filmmaker Daniel Kraus. Since 2004, the documentarian has delivered three films chronicling ordinary Americans at their rather extraordinary jobs. Their tiles are self-explanatory and deceptively simple -- Sheriff, Musician and Kraus's latest, Professor. The films, meanwhile, are anything but.
- 5/13/2010
- Movieline
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