A Cube Of Sugar
In A CUBE OF SUGAR, screening twice at CFF2012, you get to see a more humane and rounded view of Iranian society. It provides a vivid and moving portrait of family life, writes Mike O’Brien.
In A CUBE OF SUGAR, screening twice at CFF2012, you get to see a more humane and rounded view of Iranian society. It provides a vivid and moving portrait of family life, writes Mike O’Brien.
THE TEMPTATION OF ST TONY, screening at the Cambridge Film Festival twice, is fresh, bold, stimulating and deliberately provocative, writes Mike O’Brien
All seems to be going to plan for Janne until his carefree, excessive behaviour causes a tragic accident in AVALON … and Axel Petersen’s Scandinavian thriller is not a film of redemption, warns Will Hellbent-Audio.
Rosy Hunt speaks to Richard Heslop about his film FRANK, screening at the Cambridge Film Festival on September 19th, and his career. “I was not a happy bunny when I started writing FRANK – I used it as a kind of therapy to exorcise my demons.”
Lovers of Bacon, Bergman and John Cage will deeply appreciate Max Weinman’s APSIS. Rosy Hunt spoke to the director of this remarkable short.
Against a backdrop of generally stale modern horror releases you’ll find Alfred Hitchcock’s PSYCHO fresher, wittier and more unsettling than ever at this year’s Cambridge Film Festival, writes Patrick Fowler.
THE FUNERAL is showing as part of the TO RUST section of ShortFusion. A mixture of Peter Greenaway and Samuel Beckett, but with thoroughly South Korean style, writes Rosy Hunt.
It sounds like something rented from a store with no windows (if you know what we mean) but Fredrik Gertten’s documentary is an illuminating film, dealing with issues of free speech and a free press.
TAKE ONE recommends the minimal but moving performance from Ohad Knoller as YOSSI, in Eytan Fox’s story of bittersweet romance in the grotesque resort of Eilat in Israel.
Ahead of the shorts programme TO CELEBRATE, Jim Ross speaks to Rehana Khan, the director of DAYS OF AWE – one of the highlights of the shorts at the Cambridge Film Festival.