Festivals
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What makes a good casting director? Laura Rosenthal and the indefinable art
After a London Film Festival audience with the woman who helps Todd Haynes, Kelly Reichardt and Paolo Sorrentino pick their actors, Thirza Wakefield reflects on the lack of critical discourse around this elusive profession.
Wednesday 14 October 2015 -
The big-top blowout – Guy Maddin at the IMAX, London 2015
The mad magpie of Canadian cinema went down the rabbit hole at London’s biggest screen with The Forbidden Room, a pulsating extravaganza of mock movie reclamation. Virginie Selavy reports on our LFF Experimenta gala, and his ensuing LFF Connects talk.
Tuesday 13 October 2015 -
Three of the best at Camden 2015
Nick Pinkerton on three motley ethnographic missives – featuring rugby-playing Kiwi cowhands, roisterous Innuit YouTubers and public servants gone to seed in the Democratic Republic of Congo – at Maine’s festival safe harbour for cinematic documentaries.
Monday 12 October 2015 -
Radical Bristol 2015: back to the cinema of the future?
Four decades after Bristol hosted its inaugural festival of radical independent cinema – is it time for a second try, asks Tim Hayes?
Wednesday 7 October 2015 -
FrightFest 2015: Critics’ roundtable post-mortem
From crazy ladies and final girls to fables of confinement and madness and a resurgence of British grand guignol, this year’s London horror-film showcase had plenty to chew over – as Anton Bitel, Kim Newman and Virginie Selavy demonstrate.
Wednesday 30 September 2015 -
Missing believed garbled: Hitchcock’s first steps in film
Hitchcock scholars’ hopes were dashed at 2015’s British Silent Film Festival by the hand of historico-cinematic sabotage, reports Henry K. Miller.
Thursday 24 September 2015 -
FrightFest 2014 critics’ roundtable post-mortem
Anton Bitel, Kim Newman and Virginie Selavy discuss the highs and lows of FrightFest 2014, from Coherence to Altergeist and The Babadook.
Thursday 27 August 2015 -
From a primeval Steve Oram to Miike Takashi’s metacinematic kabuki adaptation and a docu-nightmare about sleep paralysis from the director of Room 237, this year’s horror fiesta is more stacked than ever. Anton Bitel previews nine of the best.
Wednesday 26 August 2015 -
Keeping our end up? Edinburgh 2015’s Best of British
For all the Edinburgh Film Festival’s serial changes of leadership, this year’s native showcase yet again struggled to find enough titles above the humdrum. Is this as good as it gets, asks Tim Hayes?
Monday 6 July 2015 -
A wrongfooting portrait of Bill Drummond’s post-KLF art life was the first of several likeable discoveries in what should have been the midweek lull of the Edinburgh Film Festival, reports Nick James.
Monday 6 July 2015
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