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2013 Hot Docs: The Machine Which Makes Everything Disappear & The Life and Crimes of Doris Payne
My first day of Hot Docs was a surprising one, the biggest surprise being how popular the festival is. Having not been to Hot Docs before, I wasn’t sure if people would be flocking to a film festival that...
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2013 SFIFF: Twenty Feet From Stardom & The King of Summer
Twenty Feet From Stardom If you’re a music fan, names like Tata Vega, Merry Clayton, and Darlene Love should be familiar to you, but chances are they aren’t. That’s because these ladies—powerhouse singers and masters of their craft—have spent...
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2013 SFIFF: Much Ado About Nothing
On Saturday night, SFIFF was all about the screening of Joss Whedon’s much buzzed-about Shakespeare adaptation, Much Ado About Nothing, and the excitement emanating from the gorgeous Sundance Kabuki Cinema was infectious. There was a line stretching down the...
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2013 Sundance London: Emanuel and the Truth about Fishes, A.C.O.D, Mud
Emanuel and the Truth about Fishes Sitting in the 9am screening of Francesca Gregorini’s Emanuel and the Truth about Fishes, I was surrounded by sleepy film fans and people uncertain of what to expect from what they were about...
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2013 SFIFF: What Maisie Knew
The San Francisco International Film Festival is the biggest festival of the year in the Bay Area, and my SFIFF experience got off to a great start. My festival activities began at the gorgeous Fairmont hotel where I conducted...
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2013 Hot Docs Coverage Introduction
While Cannes, TIFF, Sundance and other major film festivals put their focus on a wide range of films, the Hot Docs festival puts the spotlight entirely on documentaries. Now celebrating their 20th year, Hot Docs is screening over 200...
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2013 Sundance London: Running From Crazy Review & Metro Manila
Running From Crazy The Hemingway family have always been “Running From Crazy” – their dark roots connected to Ernest’s suicide and their long history of mental illnesses caused depressive tendencies within every member of the family, even today. This...
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Simon Killer
In Simon Killer, director Antonio Campos plays provocateur, giving us a protagonist who becomes so unlikable, so repulsive, you’re sure to leave the theater full of hatred and contempt for him. Campos’ film is thoroughly distressing, an exercise in...
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2013 Sundance London Coverage Introduction
Being from the UK with only a select few film festivals to attend each year, Sundance London offers British film-fans the chance to access the UK premiere of the fantastic films that were premiered in Utah earlier this year....
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Modest Reception
Modest Reception is a foreign indie film by Mani Haghighi that is both a dark comedy and a psychological exploration of the human soul. The film travels on the wild joy ride of two people that hand out millions...
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2013 SFIFF Coverage Introduction
In a few days, San Francisco will be flooded with film geeks, critics, filmmakers, hobos (they’re always there), and film lovers of all kinds for the 56th annual San Francisco International Film Festival. San Francisco hosts a huge number...
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Timecrimes
It does not take long to notice that even the smallest of details in Nacho Vigalondo’s Timecrimes are not without purpose. As with most time-travel films, if you were to break everything down you are bound to find plot...
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List of 2013 Cannes Film Festival trailers
So far only a handful of films that will be playing at this year’s Cannes Film Festival actually have trailers available. But as we begin to get closer to the start of the festival, more and more trailers being...
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Paradise: Love
Ulrich Seidl packs a punch full of irony in Paradise: Love where neither paradise nor love is anywhere to be found. On display instead is a voyeuristic view of a shy woman in search of love who goes wild...
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