Film festivals have a curious way of either dulling one’s critical faculties or provoking them to an impolite degree. I almost never walk out of a screening under normal circumstances; at a festival, while compressing five-odd films into one day, it’s almost life-affirming to do so. Such was the case yesterday, halfway through “Caterpillar,” a […]
BERLIN: ‘Please Give,’ ‘Red Hill,’ ‘Submarino’
Posted by Guy Lodge · 10:00 am · February 16th, 2010
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Berlin bound
Posted by Guy Lodge · 7:17 pm · February 11th, 2010
In a couple of hours, I’ll be packing my bags, donning my warmest and most ridiculous-looking puffa jacket and catching a crack-of-dawn flight to the German capital. The occasion, of course: the 60th Berlin International Film Festival. I’ve been to Berlin before — and was thoroughly enamored of it — though this will be my […]
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Anthony Dod Mantle — it is time
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 11:47 am · November 9th, 2008
I don’t generally throw myself full force behind a contender with the kind of FYC spirit I’m about to project. We all have our favorites and we all hope this person or that will finally get the recognition deserved, but it’s a different thing to full on advocate. But today, I just can’t help myself. […]