Festivals
31 - 40 of 456
-
Wild wonder inside and out at Alchemy 2019
New creative director Michael Pattison encouraged audiences to “embrace the strange” at this invigorating festival where the experiences counted for as much as the work, reports Ben Nicholson.
Wednesday 5 June 2019 -
What should have won the 2019 Cannes Palme d’Or?
It wasn’t to be the second year a female director won Cannes’s top prize, but our contributors certainly fancied it as much as Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite. Isabel Stevens introduces thoughts from ten of our contributors.
Saturday 25 May 2019 -
Genre and disorder at Cannes 2019: a midway round-up
Halfway through this year’s festival, B-movie upgrades and distillations of societal collapse have run riot, with Mati Diop’s Atlantics and Céline Sciamma’s Portrait of a Lady on Fire likely candidates for awards, says Nick James.
Monday 20 May 2019 -
-
Should we stay or should we go? Three grounded escapes at Sci-Fi-London 2019
A trio of interior indie sci-fi excursions in this year’s genre showcase spin existential quests from the wreckage of our present-day home, says Anton Bitel.
Tuesday 14 May 2019 -
Fostering a new Scottish cinema at Glasgow Short Film Festival 2019
At the quietly radical Glasgow Short Film Festival, local filmmaking talent was in rude health, which augurs well for the future of the national industry, reports Jamie Dunn.
Thursday 4 April 2019 -
Seven silent self-willed heroines at HippFest 2019
As a corrective to the stereotype of women in silent cinema as invariably passive and helpless, Falkirk’s go-get Hippodrome Silent Film Festival this year showcased an international spectrum of female protagonists young and old, reports Pamela Hutchinson.
Thursday 4 April 2019 -
Dreaming an altered future at True/False 2019
Columbia, Missouri’s brilliantly irregular gem of a festival was especially provocative this year, dissolving boundaries and asking challenging questions, not just about the documentary form but about art, activism and our collective agency, writes Sophie Brown.
Thursday 14 March 2019 -
Clermont-Ferrand 2019: seven of the best short films
The programme at the world’s biggest short film festival reflect the event itself – eclectic, and somewhat anarchic. Laurence Boyce rounds up some of the best of this annual state-of-the-art snapshot.
Wednesday 13 March 2019 -
Glasgow Film Festival 2019: a vital antidote to one-size cinema
This year’s programme was about more than just big-ticket premieres, offering local filmgoers precious access to word-of-mouth independent movies – an opportunity all the more welcome amidst the current battles over distribution models and windows, reports Rebecca Harrison.
Wednesday 13 March 2019
31 - 40 of 456
Facebook
Twitter
Instagram
YouTube