TABU (DIR. MIGUEL GOMES, PORTUGAL, 2012) – REVIEW
The past is a foreign country. Never has novelist L P Hartley’s famous utterance been so relevant as it is to Miguel Gomes’ latest film, Tabu. Except this time, we are crossing continents in search of...
View ArticleTOP TEN FILMS OF 2012 – ROB ARNOTT (CONTRIBUTING EDITOR)
1) ONCE UPON A TIME IN ANATOLIA (DIR. NURI BILGE CEYLAN, TURKEY) While Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s previous offerings left this viewer a little apathetic, his new film adds a new found steeliness to bring to...
View ArticleADVENTURES IN FILM | BERLINALE TALENT CAMPUS 2013: A PERSONAL ROUND-UP
On the 7th of Febuary (and with more than a hint of excitement) I boarded a flight from London Heathrow to Berlin’s Tegel airport, to attend the Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale) for the...
View ArticleADVENTURES IN FILM | CANNES 2013
For me 2013 has become ‘the year of the film festival.’ In February I attended my first big international film festival, the Berlinale, as part of the Berlinale Talent Campus. Bitten by the festival...
View ArticleCARTAGENA’S 56TH INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: THE RENAISSANCE OF...
The jubilant “¡que viva Chile!” producer Patricio Escala shouted as he and director Gabriele Osorio received the Oscar for best animated short film was probably one of this year’s ceremony’s most...
View ArticleVENEZIA 2016 | LES BEAUX JOURS D’ARANJUEZ (DIR. WIM WENDERS, FRANCE, 2016) –...
Once upon a time Chuang Chou dreamt he was a butterfly, but when he awoke he could no longer tell whether he was then a man dreaming he was a butterfly, or whether he was now a butterfly, dreaming to...
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