Set Fire to the Stars
We are used to seeing Elijah Wood as a Hobbit or a hooligan, but a professor of poetry is quite something else, writes Jack Toye at the Edinburgh Film Fest.
Category Archives: Festival Coverage
Life May Be
Two greats of contemporary world cinema collide in the epistolary LIFE MAY BE, which premiered at Edinburgh International Film Festival. Jack Toye reviews.
Cannes Diary: Day 6
Final Cannes diary entry: In which Jack bids a fond farewell to Cannes.
Cannes Diary: Day 5
Day 5: In which Jack muses that the breakdown of society would be a terrible and tragic thing… but at least you wouldn’t get jostled in the street by boors with halitosis.
Cannes Diary: Day 4
Day 4: In which Jack steps through the looking glass, gets a “fitty” ticket upgrade and hangs out with Pedro Almodóvar.
Cannes Diary: Day 3
Day Three: In which Jack discovers a great new film by CFF favourite Celine Sciamma, falls for a Scandi short and then falls asleep in a screening.
NFF SHORTS
Jeremiah Humphreys reviews some of the shorts screened at the Norwich Film Festival this year.
Cannes Diary: Day 2
Day Two: In which Jack loiters with Capote on the French Riviera, takes in some short films and meets a brace of Iraqi filmmakers.
Cannes Diary 2014
Day One at Cannes Film Festival: In which Jack pops his TGV cherry, fends off French queues and goes to an English pub by mistake.
Chinese Visual Festival Report
Hiu Chan speaks to Tibetan director Pema Tsedan at the fourth annual Chinese Visual Festival.