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Screen or scream? Fight or flight? Penny Woolcock and Ross McElwee on the perils of festivals
As they prepare for work-in-progress screenings at the Otherfield Film Festival on a farm in Suffolk, filmmakers Penny Woolcock and Ross McElwee remember the kinds of festival experience they’d like to get away from.
Friday 8 July 2016 -
Geoff Andrew remembers the private side of the late Abbas Kiarostami.
Wednesday 6 July 2016 -
Vic Pratt remembers the director of The Wicker Man, an indefatigable creative communicator and joker.
Tuesday 5 July 2016 -
The most celebrated of Iranian filmmakers, Abbas Kiarostami expanded the frame of documentary and narrative fiction forms in human dramas that resonated with international audiences, writes Ehsan Koshbakht.
Tuesday 5 July 2016 -
Tom Charity on the Oscar-winning writer-director of The Deer Hunter and Heaven’s Gate: an artist whose extravagance served to shut the door on Hollywood’s 1970s golden age.
Tuesday 5 July 2016 -
Home of the weak: Out of the Past and four ways of framing film noir
How can we define films noir? Are they really all about fatalism, and gynophobia – or could the richest of them actually hint at what it means to lose the rat race, asks Brad Stevens?
Thursday 30 June 2016 -
Look back in wonder: FLARE 2016 critics’ roundtable
On its thirtieth anniversary, the erstwhile London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival had plenty to reflect on, from biopics and revionist histories and rereleases to the new places queer cinema is going. Claire Kurylowski, Sophie Mayer and Ben Walters share notes in this podcast.
Monday 20 June 2016 -
Warland of hypnosis and knowledge: Ukraine in the mirror
“Divided in mind” as well as in identity, Ukrainians get to see themselves on screen at their DocuDays film festival, which has valiantly nurtured a media-savvy audience over the past 14 years. This year, of course, provided plenty to open eyes and minds, reports Eero Tammi.
Monday 20 June 2016 -
After three years in the hinterlands and a year off to take stock, the premiere US indie showcase finally popped up in the heart of the capital with a hit-and-miss taster programme of premieres and talks. So what kind of outreach is this, asks Simran Hans?
Thursday 16 June 2016 -
The rise of female documentary makers in Mexico
Mexico may not be the easiest country in which to be a woman, and its cinema’s pecking order is as macho as most. But at this year’s Ambulante documentary festival, six female-directed finds show the country’s subordinate sex finding its voice, reports Neil Young.
Friday 10 June 2016
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