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	Nick Broomfield - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Nicholas Broomfield (born January 30, 1948, in London) is an English documentary filmmaker.
		Broomfield is an alumnus of the National Film and Television School.
		Nick was also given a BAFTA tribute evening on March 8, 2005.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nick_Broomfield (425 words)

	Telegraph \| Entertainment \| 'I can't stand being in here, it's just too awful'
		While Broomfield never denies the fact that Wuornos was a murderer, she is portrayed in the film as an essentially sympathetic character, and the murders she committed as the desperate acts of a woman who had led a tragic life.
		Broomfield is outspoken in his criticism of those in favour of the death penalty, including the shadow home secretary David Davis who announced last week that he believes serial killers should be put to death.
		Broomfield sees a parallel between Davis's position and that of Governor Jeb Bush, who is shown in the film speaking in favour of "reuniting Wuornos with her maker" during his re-election campaign in Florida.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2003/11/21/bfail.xml (1090 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Film \| Features \| Mark Lawson examines the case for Nick Broomfield
		Broomfield's intrusions - padded headphones around his neck, boom mike on a stick, handsome tanned face in profile - became such a visual signature that he was able to use them as a joke in an ad campaign he made for Volkswagen cars.
		Broomfield's sequel arose because the first film became evidence - and its director a defence witness - at Wuornos's final legal appeal before Governor Jeb Bush was able to attach her to the Florida grid and throw the switch.
		Broomfield captures memorable images - such as Aileen brushing her hair with her hands in the reflection of the security glass between them before beginning her interview - but they would generally sit as well on a 20in TV as on the wide screen.
	film.guardian.co.uk /features/featurepages/0,4120,1084039,00.html (1322 words)

	CBC Cinema Real Documentary Festival: Meet the Directors (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Nick Broomfield: I think it was growing up in LA. I loved their music but I think it was watching all those police scandals over the years, and I thought this is an LA story - all these police out of control.
		Nick Broomfield: No I think the most important thing in doing these films is that one has fun making them and that you appeal to people’s humor and that’s fun to make and that’s why I do these kinds of films and work in the style I work.
		Nick Broomfield: When we started this I was just talking to the lawyer who was talking about the Chuck Phillips piece and he felt as I do, that the Chuck Phillips piece is a lot of rubbish and is completely unsupported and Chuck Phillips is probably is in the pay of Death Row.
	www.cbc.ca /documentaries/cinemareal/broomfield.html (2468 words)

	Screens: The Texas Documentary Tour: Nick Broomfield ("The Man Who Wasn't There") (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Broomfield explained there that he'd come to realize that his observational films left out what, in hindsight, he believed to be the most revealing scenes, namely, those that showed the process of making the film.
		Nick stopped the camera and said as much, in essence demanding that she be a better interviewee.
		Darn if that's not Broomfield leaping onto the stage at an ACLU banquet where Love, the guest speaker, whom we've just seen in graphic footage to be no booster of the fourth estate, has just finished extolling the beauty of the First Amendment.
	www.austinchronicle.com /issues/vol18/issue28/screens.broomfield.html (1704 words)

	RSA - Read - Author Details
		Nick Broomfield is a documentary film-maker and commercials director.
		Broomfield’s early films were in keeping with the traditional documentary aim of trying to bring about social change, but striking out on his own, he eschewed this for a style more in tune with American New Journalism.
		Broomfield's persistent presence in his own frame has undoubtedly played a role in the trend towards self-reflexivity among many documentarists, and he seems to have anticipated the decline of issue-based films and the rise of personality-led documentaries.
	www.rsa.org.uk /read/speakerCloseUp.asp?speakerID=306 (156 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Aileen: Life And Death Of A Serial Killer [2003]: DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Nick Broomfield follows his disturbing film on the selling of Aileen Wurnos with this commentary on her last days and her attitude towards execution.
		Broomfield uses cuts from the police video of her original confession, pieces from US television news broadcasts, and excerpts from his earlier film.
		Broomfield sets out to leave questions in the air, but you are left thinking it would have been a better film if he'd been prepared to analyse and speculate.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B0001IMD7Y (2177 words)

	Nick Broomfield - Voyager, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Nicholas Broomfield (born January 30, 1948, in London, England) is a British documentary filmmaker.
		Broomfield is an alumni of the National Film and Television School.
		A Follow-up to The Leader...: Broomfield has also confirmed that he plans to record a follow-up to The Leader, His Driver and the Driver's Wife, showing the change in South Africa through the demise of Eugène Terre'Blanche.
	voyager.in /Nick_Broomfield (465 words)

	LOVEFiLM \| Europe's No.1 online DVD rental service (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Nick Broomfield 1948 - Present, UK A graduate of the National Film School (where one of his teachers would despair at his lack of organisation), his early films - Behind the Rent Strike, Marriage Guidance, Soldier Girls etc - were in the straight observational mould.
		Documentary filmmaker, Nick Broomfield, presents a portrait of the life and death of Kurt Cobain and his relationship with Courtney Love.
		Director Nicholas Broomfield uses his documentary-making skills to good effect in this study of female recruits in the U.S. Army, a mixed bunch of girls from the hopelessly inept to the fanatical.
	www.lovefilm.com /director.php?dr_id=3299 (626 words)

	BBC - Films - review - Biggie and Tupac
		Nick gleans insights into the way the rap world operates, coaxes friends (particularly of Biggie's) into candid talk, leading you to believe the angle he's picked may be true even though it may not be able to be proven.
		Broomfield's approach is a blunt, engaging technique, terrier-like and yet always polite.
		Nick's bravery in dangerous situations (synonymous with MacIntyre Investigates) is certainly worthy of applause as like Captain Willard in "Apocalypse Now", he goes in search of the imposing legendary god-like figure of Suge Knight, ignoring a succession of closed doors between him and Suge in his State Penitentiary Exercise Yard.
	www.bbc.co.uk /films/2002/05/15/biggie_and_tupac_2002_review.shtml (410 words)

	Metroactive Movies \| Kurt & Courtney (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Love's legal team claimed that filmmaker Nick Broomfield hadn't cleared the rights to the music used in the film, and that may well be true (the scenes in question have been cut from the version now showing).
		Broomfield also takes a glancing look at Cobain's hometown, Aberdeen, Wash., and makes reference to a troubled home life, but he skips entirely any mention of Kurt's move to Olympia, Wash., the formation of Nirvana, the rise of grunge, the success of Nevermind and what it all meant to the music industry.
		Broomfield skips mention of who Love is and what she's done, merely assuming that viewers know the story by heart.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/03.05.98/kurt&courtney-9809.html (786 words)

	nick broomfield: documenting icons - review at videovista
		Broomfield is even allowed to interview them in their homes as well as film sessions with clients.
		In fact, the sight of Broomfield halfway up a dungeon door with the various mistresses climbing after him and Mistress Raven yelling: "This is bigger than both of us Nick!" is quite possibly the highlight of the entire set.
		With Broomfield providing introductions for most of the discs, this is a fascinating look at a fascinating filmmaker and his work.
	www.videovista.net /reviews/april05/nickbroom.html (1557 words)

	Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer (2003): Aileen Wuornos, Nick Broomfield, Dawn Botkins, Joe Hobson - ...
		Soon after, Broomfield and others who have been called to testify at Wuornos' last appeal hearing grimly await her execution, knowing that she has stopped the appeals process (she was executed on 9 October 2003).
		For Broomfield, she has demonstrated obvious insanity during their conversations, his film footage bearing out his observation that "It was really pretty incredible that Aileen had sailed through the psychiatric interview the day before." And then Broomfield gets a call from Wuornos' best friend, Dawn Botkins, who assures him, "She's sorry, Nick.
		Broomfield's own testimony has to do with his 1992, used as evidence of Steve's ineptitude (he brags about smoking dope en route to the courtroom, he asks for $25,000 in exchange for an interview with Wuornos).
	popmatters.com /film/reviews/a/aileen-life-and-death.shtml (1413 words)

	Biggie and Tupac (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Broomfield is a Brit, and his whiny voice adds a bit of pompousness to the proceedings.
		Still, Broomfield's cajones takes him places that would otherwise scare the normal documentarian, and he does get some good interview material, including a truly bizarre interview with Marion "Suge" Knight, in which Knight purports to give a message to the kids and ends up giving veiled threats.
		Broomfield does a decent job of introducing the world of rap as well as the history of Shakur and Smalls, although information along the same lines can easily be found elsewhere.
	www.haro-online.com /movies/biggie_and_tupac.html (373 words)

	Honest Tabloid Sleaze - Nick Broomfield and the art of trash. By Bryan Curtis
		Nick Broomfield: a tabloid muckrakerIf you took a Michael Moore film and surgically removed the liberal agitprop (and who hasn't dreamed of doing that?), you might wind up with something like the work of British muckraker Nick Broomfield.
		By phone from London, Broomfield explains, "The person has to be a fair target"—by which I think he means that the person has to be disinclined to cooperate with him.
		Broomfield's villain in Biggie and Tupac is Suge Knight, the chairman of Death Row Records, who was doing time at the bucolic Mule Creek State Prison in California.
	www.slate.com /id/2079986?0sl=-13 (1279 words)

	Serial Stories: Nick Broomfield on "Aileen: The Life and Death of a Serial Killer"
		Nick Broomfield is perhaps best known for his pushy muckraking expeditions into the darker side of American culture, such as his exhumations of dead rockers and rappers ("Kurt and Courtney," "Biggie and Tupac") and his investigative pieces on high-end prostitutes ("Heidi Fleiss: Hollywood Madam").
		Broomfield's first person investigations are occasionally distracting, often funny, and sometimes, as in his latest film "Aileen: The Life and Death of a Serial Killer," deeply disturbing.
		Broomfield: I originally came here seeing the United States as the land of freedom, the land of opportunity, the land of civil liberties, all those incredible things that happened here during the 1960s.
	www.indiewire.com /people/people_040105broom.html (2193 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Biggie and Tupac -- Nick Broomfield - DVD
		Broomfield often has the demeanor of an absent-minded professor; his combination of brashness and naivete, while often grating, somehow manages to get results.
		Through a balanced mix of regurgitated footage and guerrilla-style interviews, Broomfield deftly chronicles the twists and turns of the two police investigations and manages to capture a distinctly human element of the story through conversations with Wallace's mother.
		Nick Broomfield, director of Heidi Fleiss: Hollywood Madam and Kurt and Courtney, unleashes another provocation with Biggie and Tupac.
	video.barnesandnoble.com /search/product.asp?ean=74645212999&userid=AD8xPbiB5p&frm=0&itm=4 (484 words)

	Xiibaro Reviews: Biggie and Tupac, The Trials of Henry Kissinger, Bowling for Columbine, Friday After Next, and Tuck ...
		Broomfield, who is usually working for the BBC, finds it incredulous: in America, only those with a stupid channel number on their microphone get respect.
		Broomfield becomes entranced by the so-called revelations he's privy to that it becomes more fun to watch him rally around the interviewees like they are giving vital information even if it seems like pure lies and embellishments.
		She understands that this is a persona that he needed to use to sell records, but it still hurts to hear her son comment on having the upbringing she worked to keep him from living.
	www.cinema-scene.com /archive/04/48.html (2196 words)

	Nick Broomfield Biography :: Hollywood.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Broomfield first collaborated with producer-director Joan Churchill on "Juvenile Liaisons" (1975), a study of police work with youthful offenders that was also used as the basis of a British government study.
		Broomfield and Churchill found themselves embroiled in unwanted publicity in 1987 when Lily Tomlin sued them to block release of a documentary the pair had filmed about Tomlin's Broadway show "The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe".
		Broomfield and Churchill were to have creative control of the project, begun in 1983.
	www.hollywood.com /celebs/fulldetail/id/187189 (980 words)

	Nick Broomfield News
		JAMIE Campbell follows in the footsteps of documentary makers such as Michael Moore and Nick Broomfield with a film about his - mostly unsuccessful - attempts to get access to his subject.
		Nick Broomfield, one of the gutsiest documentary filmmakers around (his Biggie & Tupac fingered two Los Angeles cops and a record producer in the...
		A useful supplement to the watershed drama "Monster," Nick Broomfield's documentary about the final days of condemned murderer Aileen Wuornos fills in the gaps of her lifelong descent...
	www.topix.net /who/nick-broomfield (287 words)

	Popcorn Taxi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The film portrays Aileen’s childhood in Troy, Michigan, as one of terrible abuse and violence, which continued during her years on the road as a hitch-hiking prostitute and ultimately culminated in the murders.
		In her last interview, which Aileen grants to Nick Broomfield exclusively, she said she believed her mind was being controlled by radio waves and that she would be taken away by angels on a space ship.
		Broomfield's career can be divided into two parts, represented by two distinct styles.
	www.popcorntaxi.com.au /Events.asp?Event_ID=300 (1099 words)

	PopMatters Film Interview \| Nick Broomfield - Biggie & Tupac
		Broomfield first caught attention for Who Cares (1978), a documentary on urban redevelopment in Liverpool, eventually used by the British government in a reassessment of policy.
		Since then, he has been prolific, his films ranging in style from vérité (the award-winning Chicken Ranch, a 1984 study of legal prostitution in Nevada) to satirical documentary (Proud to Be British in 1979) to fiction (Dark Obsession/Diamond Skulls, made in 1989; released in the U.S. in 1991).
		We begin by discussing the end of the film, in which Broomfield and his film crew return to the home of Voletta Wallace, Biggie's mother.
	www.popmatters.com /film/interviews/broomfield-nick-030428.shtml (2766 words)

	BIGGIE & TUPAC - DVD
		In Kurt and Courtney, Broomfield set out to assassinate Love's character--his inevitable encounter with her was proposed all along as a confrontation, while Knight, interviewed in the slammer on the eve of his 2001 parole, can't afford to indict himself like Love.
		Supplementary material is where the disc's strengths lie: Broomfield offers a feature-length yak-track wherein he familiarizes us with many of the problems a documentarian faces and mentions challenges specific to Biggie and Tupac--all with an admirable lack of overlap with his 14-minute interview elsewhere on the platter.
		Discographies for Biggie and Tupac, a filmography for Broomfield, text-based profiles of Biggie, Tupac, Knight, Poole, Kevin Hackie (a bounty hunter), Billy Garland (Tupac's biological father), Mopreme (Tupac's stepbrother), Voletta Wallace (Biggie's mother), and Reggie Wright Sr.
	filmfreakcentral.net /dvdreviews/biggietupac.htm (442 words)

	Chicken Ranch Review (1983)
		On the DVD audio commentary, Broomfield reveals that the girls were initially highly reluctant to be filmed going about their business, fearing that the result would purely focus on the sleazy aspects if their lives.
		It is also strange for Broomfield himself to be almost completely absent from the film — apart from a few glimpses of him and his trusty boom-mike reflected in the many mirrors of the brothel, he takes an observational back seat.
		Broomfield's earliest films were observational documentaries covering such subjects as prostitution (Chicken Ranch), army life (Soldier Girls), and comedienne Lily Tomlin (Lily Tomlin).
	www.thespinningimage.co.uk /cultfilms/displaycultfilm.asp?reviewid=1162 (642 words)

	Tracking Down Maggie Review (1994)
		Documentary maker Nick Broomfield is determined to secure an interview with her, in spite of the fact that she is refusing to give interviews and only plans to appear at book signings where photographs may be taken and hold speeches which will not be open to the media.
		All the while, Broomfield uncovers the truth behind Mark's shady arms dealings which put Britain at the number two spot in the league table of weapons dealing countries, all apparently endorsed by his mother who was making like easy for him.
		Anyone but Broomfield, that is. As the repetitive quality of the film wears the patience, you start to wonder what would happen if he actually did get his precious interview.
	www.thespinningimage.co.uk /cultfilms/displaycultfilm.asp?reviewid=1173 (723 words)

	Director Uncouples `Kurt and Courtney' / Broomfield's sources saw plot in Cobain death
		Nick Broomfield's documentaries are as much about the director's pursuit of difficult subjects as they are about the subjects themselves.
		Broomfield's latest film, ``Kurt and Courtney,'' boldly takes on one of the entertainment world's most difficult figures -- Courtney Love, bandleader and aspiring actress, widow of the late rock star Kurt Cobain, and ruthless protector of her own image.
		Broomfield said Sundance's decision backfired on Love, winning him publicity and bolstering his claims about her manipulative ways.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1998/02/27/DD53258.DTL (626 words)

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