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LONDON FILM FESTIVAL 2011 (12-27 Oct)

London Film Festival 2011 (c) British Film Institute 2011

Bernie (2011)
LFF 11 - NFT
Verdict - Comedy and ethics of murder
Kong Curling [Curling King] (2011)
LFF 11 - NFT
Verdict - [review being prepared]

Official Site - www.bfi.org.uk/lff/


RAINDANCE FILM FESTIVAL 2011 (28 Sept to 9 Oct)

Raindance Film Festival 2011 (c) Raindance 2011

Another Earth (2011)
RFF 11 - Cineworld Haymarket
Verdict - (review being prepared)

Opening Night Gala Screening and After-Party

About Raindance Film Festival 2011

Official Site - www.raindance.co.uk


LONDON FILM FESTIVAL 2010 (13-28 Oct)

London Film Festival 2010 (c) British Film Institute 2010

The American (2010)
LFF 10 - NFT
Verdict - Guns, drama - and love?
Blue Valentine (2010)
LFF 10 - NFT
Verdict - Searing destructive endgame of love
Des Hommes Et Des Dieux (2010) (Of Gods And Men)
LFF 10 - NFT
Verdict - Intimate and inspired
It's Kind Of A Funny Story (2010)
LFF 10 - NFT
Verdict - Gentle, profound, unforgettable
Loong Boonmee Raleuk Chat (2010) Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
LFF 10 - NFT
Verdict - Love beyond life and death
Mine Vaganti (2010) (Loose Cannons)
LFF 10 - NFT
Verdict - Special kind of heartbreaking magic
The Nine Muses (2010)
LFF 10 - NFT
Verdict - Great photography; ponderous, pretentious film
Patagonia (2010)
LFF 10 - NFT
Verdict - Wales at home and abroad
El Ambulante (2010) (The Peddler)
LFF 10 - NFT
Verdict - Warm-hearted delight
Sensation (2010)
LFF 10 - NFT
Verdict - A tale of two losers

Press Launch - Full Report

Official Site - www.bfi.org.uk/lff/


DUBLIN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2010, 16-25 FEB

Dublin Film Festival 2010

Reviews:

Meeting Room (2010)
Verdict - Driven to vigilantism
Promise And Unrest (2010)
Verdict - Family effect of migrant work
Ehky ya Scheherazade (2009, Scheherazade, Tell Me A Story)
Verdict - Oppressed women's stories

Official Site - www.jdiff.com


LONDON FILM FESTIVAL 2009 (14-29 Oct)

London Film Festival 2009 (c) British Film Institute 2009

Ander (2009)
LFF 09 - NFT
Verdict - Delightfully-told, subtle, heart-touching

Press Launch - Full Report

Official Site - www.bfi.org.uk/lff/


DUBLIN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2009, 12-22 FEB

Dublin Film Festival 2009

Reviews:

American Teen (2008)
Verdict - Defying teen stereotypes
Lasair 4 Premiere (3 Short Films)
Finscéal Pháidí (Paddy's story)
Douglas Hide
Tóg Mise Leat (Take Me With You)
Verdict - 3 short films
Today Is Better Than Two Tomorrows (2008)
Verdict - Lao boy-monks documentary

Official Site - www.jdiff.com


NORTHERN LIGHTS FILM FESTIVAL 2008, 30 Nov to 6 Dec

British Film Institute

Año uña (2007)
Verdict - Moving still images
Better Things (2008)
Verdict - Alienation in rural England
Captain Abu Raed (2007)
Verdict: Love unlimited
Cochochi (2007)
Verdict: Elegiac journey
Comeback (2008)
Verdict - Attempting to recapture life
Cook County (2008)
Verdict - Tragedy off beaten track
¿Dónde están sus historias? (2007)
(Where are their stories?)
Verdict: Beauty and abuse
Sleep Furiously (2008)
Verdict - Fading rural life
Three Short Films
Flickr Wall - The Shoe Tree - Home
Verdict - 3 short films
The Wrecking Crew (2008)
Verdict - Origins of pop classics

Features:

Peter Andrews - The Northern Lights Film Festival 2008


LONDON FILM FESTIVAL 2008 (15-30 Oct)

British Film Institute

Afterschool (2008)
LFF 08 - NFT
Verdict - School, pornography, drugs, death
Awaydays (2008)
LFF 08 - NFT
Verdict - Violence, joy, love and class
La Belle Personne (2008)
LFF 08 - NFT
Verdict - Love, passion, schoolteachers, pupils
Divizionz (2008)
LFF 08 - NFT
Verdict - Conflicts at the city's edge
Frost/Nixon (2008)
LFF 08 - Odeon Leicester Square
Verdict - Powerful ambitions collide
Goodbye Solo (2008)
LFF 08 - NFT
Verdict - Last days in a life
Il Divo (2008)
LFF 08 - NFT
Il Divo - The Extraordinary Life of Giulio Andreotti
Verdict - Astonishing
Lønsj (2008)
Cold Lunch (English title)
LFF 08 - NFT
Verdict - Power manipulation, poignancy, humour, relationships
Rachel Getting Married (2008)
LFF 08 - NFT
Verdict - Rachel's wedding and problem sister
Shifty (2008)
LFF 08 - NFT
Verdict - Two friends and reality
Slepe Lásky (2008)
Blind Loves
LFF 08 - NFT
Verdict - Warm, gentle looks at love

Press Launch - Full Report

Official Site


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LONDON FILM FESTIVAL 2007 (17 Oct to 1 Nov)

British Film Institute

Black White + Gray (2007)
A Portrait of Sam Wagstaff and Robert Mapplethorpe
LFF 07 - NFT
Verdict - Curator, collector, artist
Funny Games (2007)
LFF 07 - NFT
Verdict - Rivetting story of unrelenting cruelty
Ladrones (2007)
Thieves
LFF 07 - NFT
Verdict - Finding the way home
Naalu Pennungal (2007)
Four Women
LFF 07 - NFT
Verdict - Four vignettes of rural life
La Question Humaine (2007)
Heartbeat Detector
LFF 07 - NFT
Verdict - Jumbled fable of corporate focus
Unrelated (2007)
LFF 07 - NFT
Verdict - Lyrical revelation of emotions
Zoo
LFF 07 - NFT
Verdict - Mr Ed comes from behind

LFF Press Launch

LFF Official Site


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LONDON FILM FESTIVAL 2006

London Film Festival Launch

The Boss Of It All
London Film Festival 06
Verdict - Crisp office and theatre satire
Ghosts
London Film Festival 06 - Odeon West End/Ritzy
Verdict - Drowning of lives - and dreams
The Last King Of Scotland
London Film Festival 06
Verdict - That hideous strength
One To One
London Film Festival 06 - NFT2
Verdict - Idealism and reality
Vierka, or The Mystery of Family B’s Disappearance
London Film Festival 06 - NFT3
Verdict - Culture clash fades prodigy
Winky's Horse
London Film Festival 06 - NFT2
Verdict - Enchanting tear-jerker


Fringe Report

FILM REVIEWS 2002 TO PRESENT

Itsoseng
Film
London - September 08
Verdict - Rural South African township collapse
The Half Naked Truth (1932)
Film
London - August 08
Verdict - Scam, scam, scam
Cambridge Shorts
Short Films: - Everything But - The Appointment - Not In My Back Yard - Esther's Funeral - Bali Beyond The Bomb
Edinburgh - August 08
Verdict - Short films
Stoned
Film - Nov 05
Verdict - Scandalised, shaken and stoned
Festival
Film – Aug 05
Verdict - Inside Edinburgh Fringe
Blueberry
Film - June 05
Verdict - French cult Western trip movie
Kontroll
Film - Sept 04
Verdict - Drama (and laughs) underground
The Naked
Golasy (2002)
Film - Sept 04
Verdict - Soviet legacy satire
In Casablanca Angels Don't Fly
A Casablanca Les Anges Ne Volent Pas (2003)
Film - Sept 04
Verdict - Broken dreams
Monster
Film - May 04
Verdict - Hooker kills tricks
Rififi
(Du Rififi Chez Les Hommes (1955))
Film - May 05
Verdict - Striking morality tale
The Home Coming
Film - Ghana - April 04
Verdict - He thought he had a house in Africa
The Passion Of The Christ
Film - April 04
Verdict - Last hours of Jesus
Jewish/catholic/Palestinian reviews
The Passion Of The Christ
Film - April 04
Verdict - Last hours of Jesus
Reviewed by Cecilia Holmes
Dark Hunter
Film - Mar 04
Verdict - Spinal Tap of Blair Witch
Elephant
Film - Mar 04
Verdict - Hypnotic school slaughter
Jack: A Lad's Tale
Film - London - Feb 04
Verdict - Braying toff seeks come-uppance
The Scene Of The Crime
Film - London - Dec 03
Verdict - Short detective thriller
Rogue Element
Film - London - Nov 03
Verdict: Interrogation of rogue agent
The Clouds
Film - London - Sep/Oct 03
Verdict: Thriller with a dash of comedy
The Modernista
Film - London - Sep/Oct 03
Verdict: Quite simply - a masterpiece
Obsessive
Film - London - Sep/Oct 03
Verdict: Sensual and witty
Take It Now
Film - London - Sep/Oct 03
Verdict: Charming comic delight
Eddie's Sticky End
Film - London - Sep 03
Verdict - Werewolf comedy
Dance All Night
Film - May 03
Verdict: Gentle, compelling and engaging comedy
Mirror Mirror
Film - May 03
Verdict: Sharp fragment of intriguing suspense
Bing Films - Indie Rock Videos
Who Stole The Weekend
May B1 Day
The Last Thing I Broke
London - January 03
Verdict - Atmospheric Rock Narratives
Rococo 55
London - to December 02
Verdict: Clever focus on time and sexual desire
Fung Mu Meets the TV Detective
London - November 02
Verdict - Cross-dressing spectacled sleuth wins love and qualified sausage victory
Making Juice
London - November 02 - 10-minute film
Verdict: Hilarious Sci-Fi spoof


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EDINBURGH (Various, 2002 to date)

Edinburgh International Film Festival Official Site

Edinburgh International Film Festival Launch 2004
London - Hospital
Edinburgh - EIFF 04
Verdict - Rachael's bosom heaved
Edinburgh - The National 48 Hour Film Challenge 2003
Edinburgh 03 - The Cameo
First Day Report and Paul Trijbits Interview
Young Adam
Edinburgh 03 - Film - UGC7
Verdict: Death, sex and custard
Danny
Edinburgh - August 02
Verdict - Compelling drama of patient and psychiatrist


Fringe Report

FILM ARTICLES (2002 to date, latest first)

John Park - Blank Slate UK 08-09 at BAFTA - 28 October 2009

Kevin Gillette - Film - The View From Dallas - September 2009

Paulette James - Paulette In Cannes 2009

Kevin Gillette - Film - The View From Dallas - April 09

Kevin Gillette - Film - The View From Dallas - January 08

Sara Pascoe - Stellar Network's Open Page

Kevin Gillette - Film - The View From Dallas - September 07

Kevin Gillette - Film - The View From Dallas - June 07

Jason Korsner reports from Hollywood

London Film Festival Launch - Sept 06

Tom Wontner - Tom in Cannes 05

Anneka Svenska - Cannes 05 Social Diary

Johnnie Oddball - Cannes 05 Film Challenge

Rachael Booth - Rachael in Cannes 05

Sándor Csányi. FRA05 Best Actor, Film. Party and Interview

Johnnie Oddball - Paris Film Challenge 04

Jason Korsner in Cannes 04

Johnny Oddball - BritSpotting 48-Hour Film Challenge, Berlin 04

Bob Hoskins - My Favourite Film

Dark Hunter - How To Shoot A Feature Film For £7.50

How To Shoot A TV Commercial

National 48 Hour Film Challenge 2003
- Edinburgh: Start of Challenge & Paul Trijbits Interview


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INTERVIEWS (2003 to date)

ADRIANA GARZA - Film Producer & Actor

CHRISTOPH ENGLERT - Filmmaker

REBECCA GWYNNE - Film Director

KAY PANABAKER - Actor

KATINA MEDINA MORA - Film Director

JOHNNIE ODDBALL - New British Film Icon

MICHAEL SARNE - Cult Director and Pop Star

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Fringe Report (c) Fringe Report 2002-2011

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