Chris Cottam

Filmes

100 Dias para o Natal
Director
Uma boy band do momento procura por um hit natalino e se depara com uma música escrita pelo baixista de uma banda de metal. Tudo dá errado quando a banda de metal também quer a música, já que ela foi escrita originalmente para a sobrinha do baixista que está hospitalizada.
Rich Hall's Working for the American Dream
Director
In this sobering look at the current state of the American Dream, comedian Rich Hall explains how the US viewed and treated labour throughout its history and why this inevitably led to the economic and social problems Americans face today. Award-winning comedian Rich Hall explores the American dream and the dictum that came over with the very first pilgrims who set foot on Plymouth Rock - work hard and you will succeed. With his sharp wit and acerbic insight, Rich looks at how Americans strive to achieve this dream and how it's been explored and perpetuated by politicians, industrialists, artists, writers and film-makers.
Rich Hall's Countrier Than You
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Award-winning comedian Rich Hall takes a country music journey from Tennessee to Texas to look at the movements and artists that don't get as much notoriety but have helped shape the genre over the years. With the help of prominent performers and producers including Michael Martin Murphey, Robbie Fulks and Ray Benson, Rich explores the early origins of country music in Nashville and Austin. He visits the rustic studios where this much-loved sound was born and discovers how the genre has reinvented itself with influences from bluegrass, western swing and americana.
Rich Hall's Presidential Grudge Match
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An examination of the sordid machinations involved in becoming president of the United States. Rich Hall looks back at some of the dirtiest and nastiest presidential campaigns of the past, proving that the 2016 race to the White House is not the first time the contest has got personal.
Rich Hall's California Stars
Director
Rich Hall takes the viewer on a skewed but keenly-eyed journey to the Land of Dreams.
Rich Hall's The Dirty South
Director
Comedian Rich Hall looks at how Hollywood has got the Deep South all wrong.
Maybe One Day
Director
This film documents a day in the life of Dan Fredenburgh and spontaneously captures his life. From the moment he wakes up in bed to the moment he goes to sleep.
Rich Hall's How The West Was Lost
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Comedian Rich Hall goes west to find out what killed off that most quintessentially American of all film genres, the western. Through films such as The Searchers, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence, Little Big Man, The Wild Bunch and Unforgiven, Rich charts the rise and fall of America's obsession with its own creation myth - the Wild West. He explores how the image of the cowboy as a moral, straight-talking heroic figure was created by Hollywood but appropriated by Washington, as one president after another sought to associate themselves with this potent symbol of strength and valour.
Lives of the Saints
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Mr Karva runs a shady little empire in North London. We don't know exactly how he makes his money but we know it's probably not very nice. Mr Karva's stepson, Othello, has ambitions to take the old man's place; and Othello's fainthearted friend, Emilio, has ambitions of his own. This delicate balance of power is upset when Roadrunner finds a strange, sickly-looking 10 year old boy in the park. All his life, Roadrunner has been on the move - but when he looks into the child's eyes, he finds he can finally stop running. It becomes clear that the child can grant each character their own taste of heaven - the 'perfect, rosy future of your dreams'. The child never talks but transforms the world around him, working on the desire in each character's heart, whatever it may be.
The Problem with People
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Two estranged cousins who never knew each other tries to make amends for many generations of family dispute.