As always when
I write about film festivals, it's not just the films but all the different people that make them so memorable.
Not exact matches
We've
written quite a lot
about the Michael Matthews directed South African western Five Fingers For Marseilles in these pages as the
film went on a wide spread and successful international
festival run.
Among a clutch of
films receiving their world premiere in the competition section of the
festival are The Dinner, which features Gere alongside Steve Coogan, Laura Linney and Rebecca Hall in a thriller
about two married couples who meet to discuss what to do
about a crime apparently committed by their children; and political fable The Party,
written and directed by Sally Potter, whose cast includes Scott Thomas, Patricia Clarkson, Emily Mortimer and Cillian Murphy.
She has served on
film panels for the Chicago Public Library, been a juror at
film festivals, and
writes about film for Naperville Magazine.
He will be
writing about the movies he's seeing, the trends he's observing and what it all means for an event that, along with the Venice and Telluride
film festivals, marks the official kickoff of the fall movie season.
Nate Parker
wrote, directed and stars in this drama
about slave rebellion leader Nat Turner, which sold for a record $ 17.5 m at this year's Sundance
film festival
Over the past two weeks, Hammer to Nail published five reviews I
wrote about films at the recent AFI DOCS
festival, plus a review of Misconception, which was released in select theaters on June 24, and a review of the recent Criterion Collection release of Clouds of Sils Maria on Blu - ray.
-- Every day, you have the opportunity to
write a critique
about a
film from the
festival program or short reviews of an event at the Berlinale Talents programme, and will discuss and review it with your fellow participants and
film critics.
With its imitations of Robert Bresson close - ups, pointless references to European political change, actors talking
about acting, junkies who are never seen doing drugs, «unexpected» pop songs, and deliberately obscured narrative (probably because — wait for it — it has the arc of a bad Victorian social novel), Schanelec's studious bore seems intended for an audience of people who
write film festival catalogue descriptions.
We first
wrote about the project way back in 2009, and the finished
film hit the
festival circuit to positive reviews in fall 2010.
He
wrote the screenplay for the
festival award - winning
film 3 Stories
About Evil (2008).