Chinese Visual Festival Report
Hiu Chan speaks to Tibetan director Pema Tsedan at the fourth annual Chinese Visual Festival.
Category Archives: Festival Coverage
Divergent
Jeremiah Humphreys, a long time fan of Veronica Roth’s “Divergent” novel, looks at Neil Burger’s adaptation, which screened at Norwich Film Festival.
Frank
FRANK is an entertaining and comical trip with a poignant thread running through it about the inner torment that can provide musical inspiration. Alison Hicks at Sundance London.
Love & Engineering
LOVE & ENGINEERING, premiering at Tribeca Film Festival, does a disservice to both despite sparks of humour and engagement, writes Jim Ross
Boulevard
Engaging performances and strong direction allow BOULEVARD to overcome its more cliched elements, writes Jim Ross from Tribeca Film Festival
Every Secret Thing
Although engaging and well-acted, EVERY SECRET THING lacks the visual imagination to take it up a level. Jim Ross writes from Tribeca.
Night Moves
NIGHT MOVES grips the audience with ever-increasing tension, according to Jim Ross at Tribeca Film Festival.
Belfast Film Festival 2014
If one of the roles of a good film festival is to restore your faith in cinema, the Belfast Film Festival does just that, writes Noel Megahey.
Borgman
Noel Megahey wonders whether Warmerdam’s modern-day troglodyte is a Lynchian icon of subconscious furies, or a Haneke-like threat to middle-class complacency…
Visitors
Reggio follows up his QATSI trilogy with a celebration of the beauty of the world, laced with a warning about the danger of losing touch with nature and with our very souls.