Tag: film festivals
Rétrospective du Festival de Cannes: Le Passé / The Past (2013)
Iranian maestro filmmaker, Asghar Farhadi, dipped his toe in French language cinema in 2013 with The Past. It has to be said, a far more…
Winners at the 64th Cork Film Festival Announced
Although I wonder how many of you were among the 20,000 people that actually attended, the 64th Cork Film Festival wrapped up their 11 day…
LFF Review: Calm With Horses
Set deep in the heart of rural Ireland, Douglas ‘Arm’ Armstrong (Cosmo Jarvis) is a lapdog and personal nose-buster for The Devers, a notorious drug-dealing…
Bill Murray Wakes Up in Time to Receive his Lifetime Achievement Award at the Rome Film Festival
The Festa del Cinema di Roma AKA the Rome Film Festival kicked off on Thursday with an extension of the already thriving film festival season….
Katie Keener’s Coverage of the Calgary International Film Festival
Before You Know It Before You Know It is the debut feature film from the writing duo of Hannah Pearl Utt and Jen Tullock who both…
Jeremy Robinson’s Coverage of the Calgary International Film Festival
One Day in The Life of Noah Piugattuk One Day in The Life of Noah Piugattuk begins with a startling opening shot of an arctic morning….
LFF Review Round-Up as we say Goodbye for Another Year
The Deathless Woman Crimes buried in the shallow graves of the recent past rise to the surface of the poisoned earth, carrying with them the…
LFF Review: Courtney Hope Thérond’s new short film ‘Rehearsal’
Courtney Hope Thérond has routinely proven herself a cunning filmmaker, one who can deliver the rawness of intimate human interaction in a closed space. Her…
More Essential London Film Festival Coverage from Paddy Mulholland at Screen on Screen
Since squatting himself somewhere in the basement of Vue to participate in our London Film Festival podcast, Paddy Mulholland, like so many other LFFers down…
Filmotomy Podcast 90: Live From the London Film Festival
As the London Film Festival land in the thick of it, Filmotomy’s 90th podcast jumps into the event to see what’s shaking. Stuck at home…
LFF Review: The Peanut Butter Falcon
“Friends are the family you chose”. Only six words but so much truth behind them. It’s not only applicable for each one of us but…
LFF Review: The Lodge / Tremors / The Whistlers
For me, the biggest surprise of the London Film Festival thus far hasn’t been something I’ve seen on a cinema screen, but something I’ve discovered…
LFF Review: Synchronic
They always say that when death comes close, we finally understand what’s important in our lives and what isn’t. However, until that finite moment, we…
FemmeFilmFest Interview: In Full Bloom director Maegan Houang
I spoke to Maegan Houang, the filmmaker behind the gorgeous, moving short film, In Full Bloom. The film was in competition at the 4th Femme…
