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Category Archives: Film Festivals

April 17, 2012 Terracottadammerung 2012

by Spank The Monkey Mostly Film’s coverage of the 2011 Terracotta Far East Film Festival contained more than its fair share of drama. Aside from the concentrated dose of Asian cinema that Joey Leung and his programming team reliably deliver, there was also the element of jeopardy which came out of my watching 11 movies in [...]

April 3, 2012 The 2012 Kinoteka Polish Film Festival

by Clare Dean This year, the Kinoteka Polish Film Festival celebrated its 10th anniversary in style with an eclectic line-up covering film, music and visual art across nine venues in London, Edinburgh and Belfast.  Over the course of a fortnight, 19 features screened along with a selection of short films, an exhibition of Krzysztof Kieslowski’s [...]

February 2, 2012 If My Calculations Are Correct, Part Three

by Ricky Young With seven films outstanding in our look-back at the 1983 BBC2 sci-fi season, should we perhaps turn from our never-ending vigilance against external dangers (such as wrenches and communists), and instead take some time to contemplate the monster that is Man himself? What lessons can we learn about our nature via these [...]

January 31, 2012 Going Loco at the BFI Southbank

by Phil Concannon January is a dismal month. Grey skies, biting winds and post-Christmas debts tend to darken the mood for the majority of us, but this weekend LoCo – a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to supporting comedy filmmaking – did its best to raise spirits with the inaugural LoCo Comedy Film Festival at the BFI [...]

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December 2, 2011 If My Calculations Are Correct, Part Two

by Ricky Young If this look-back at the 1983 BBC2 science-fiction season has a theme, it’s that if you’re a simple God-fearing man (or, to a lesser extent, woman), just trying to make his way in the world in the shadow of that first cracked atom, then whatever you do, for heaven’s sake give scientists [...]

December 1, 2011 onedotzero adventures in motion festival 11

onedotzero’s remit is to promote and showcase global digital culture and innovation in motion. Its 15th outing has just closed at the BFI Southbank. It was a festival of screenings, music events, installations, training and round tables on processes such as projection-mapping. The work in this festival that could mostly be described as film, as [...]

November 1, 2011 London Film Festival 2011 – The Italian Job

Concetta Sidoti rounds up our LFF11 coverage with a special report on the Italian films that played at the festival For a couple of years, the most interesting Italian films in the London film festival have been about outsiders moving in – often ex-communitari (non-EU migrants) and clandestini (illegal migrants) – and the uneasy welcome [...]

October 31, 2011 London Film Festival 2011 – the Afterparty

Indy Datta And so it’s over for another year. I think I’ve banged on myself quite enough over the last couple of weeks, so I want to largely hand this wrapup piece over to our other contributors, and also to some regular MostlyFilm Contributors who weren’t able to chip in during our daily reports. There [...]

October 28, 2011 London Film Festival 2011 – Day 16

The Deep Blue Sea  (Terence Davies, 2011) Terence Davies’ The Deep Blue Sea is a quiet, delicate end to an odd London Film Festival. Based on a play by Terence Rattigan, it’s a period-set drama of doomed romance, which will evoke memories of Neil Jordan’s End of the Affair and Todd Haynes’ Far From Heaven [...]

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October 27, 2011 London Film Festival 2011 – Day 15

Target (Alexander Zeldovich, 2011) Have you ever been cornered at a family gathering by an 8 year old boy, high on Mr Kipling, Coca-Cola and Ben 10, who wants to tell you a great science fiction story he’s just made up? Have you struggled to stop your eyes from glazing over while he introduces a [...]

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