Jack's Berlinale Diary #3
“There comes a point at a festival where you just tell yourself to quit whilst you’re ahead. And who takes their boyfriend to a rubbish tip to make out?!”
Category Archives: Festival Coverage
Jack's Berlinale Diary #2
“Time is precious and culturally-loaded with far more cinematic delicacies to try at a film festival. It’s bloomin’ marvellous!”
Jack's Berlinale Diary #1
Three days into the Berlinale Film Festival, Jack Toye dives straight into the action.
Japanese Cinema and Encounters
“It only happens in the movies”? There are certain things that only happen in Japanese movies, writes Noel Megahey at the Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme.
Font's Othello
Anthony Davis spoke to Hammudi Al-Rahmoun Font about his entertaining and provocative Catalan adaptation of OTHELLO, screened at CFF2014
Witching and Bitching
Álex de la Iglesia returns to the mayhem and excess of his cinematic roots with WITCHING AND BITCHING.
Winter Sleep
A former actor turned hotelier, Aydin casts himself as a Shakespearean figure in his own life story. Rebecca Naughten reviews WINTER SLEEP.
Ferpect Crime
Rafael is a master salesman who aspires to the lifestyle that he sells: sharp clothes, fast cars, and beautiful women. Rebecca Naughten reviews FERPECT CRIME.
The Last Circus
Álex de la Iglesia’s black comedy looks at the divisions embedded within Spain and the damage each side does to the other, as manifested in the Civil War.
Margarita, with a straw
Shonali Boses’s stereotype-busting, coming-of-age feature is a sensitive arthouse tale with a unique cross-cultural appeal, writes Jack Toye.