One of my favorite
things about film festivals is being able to interact with and pick the brains of the talented filmmakers behind great films you've just discovered.
The best
thing about film festivals is the discovery of films that would have gone overlooked in any other setting.
Not exact matches
No surprise, perhaps, as Denis's
film is the sort of
thing usually discussed as a «minor,» the appellation usually applied to movies
about love and intimacy, topics of almost universal relevance, as opposed to «major» works that indulge in the overblown oversimplification of barely understood historical periods, interminable «sculpting with time,» or the espousal of revolutionary creeds to well - heeled
film festival audiences who know in their secret hearts that they will never in their lives participate in a violent uprising of any kind.
Indeed, Leigh's own capsule description of his
film, published in the Cannes
film festival catalog, sounds like the sort of
thing Jack Valenti might have come up with for an after - dinner speech: «Secrets and Lies is
about roots and identity, the ever - changing images we all have of ourselves and each other, and our compulsive need to reaffirm constantly who and what we are, and where we come from.
The only movie that I saw at two different
film festivals in 2013 and wanted to go back for more, Cheap Thrills isn't so much a horror
film about people doing horrific
things to one another so much as how far people are willing to go to bring horrific
things upon themselves.
Today was a day for
films about people stirring
things up in their families and communities, and
about British
films stirring
things up here at the
festival.
If there is one
thing we love
about film festivals, it's the fact we get to discover
films that we might not usually get...
You can hear these
things about virtually any
film at a
festival — elbow - jabbing marketplaces for audience attention where, if your work doesn't have a timely hook, you may as well be dead.
South By Southwest 2013 is just around the corner and there's quite a lot of online buzz
about it... What started out as a small
festival back in 1987 is now a giant mega-conference catering to lovers of music,
film and all -
things - interactive.