Take One’s writers decide upon the best Feature, Documentary, Short and (non-Cambridge) Festival from their experiences on the festival circuit in calendar year 2011.
Ann Linden attended Framing Pictures, a free monthly event held at the Northwest Film Forum in Seattle, which offers an opportunity to discuss cinema with several of Seattle’s prominent film critics.
“Much a like a great mix tape, where each song sounds like a classic.” Mike Boyd reviews the opening night of Norwich Film Festival 2012.
While young, the Norwich Film Festival boasts such a broad spectrum of genres and methods of filmmaking, and the judges themselves, like Bernard Hill, represent many aspects of the industry – bringing together the experienced and the new talent in a fantastic programme over the course of the two weekends.
Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s police procedural story is a beautifully composed film, featuring some great filmmaking. It may be a hard film to love, though, says Jim Ross.
Loreta Gandolfi spoke to Luc Dardenne at the Cambridge Arts Picture House before the screening of his latest film THE KID WITH A BIKE.
It’s a brave man who would dare try to breathe new life in to this most flogged of horses. But who better to take on the challenge than someone who grew up with the genre and knows it inside out? Gavin Midgley reviews Dexter Fletcher’s contemplative crime thriller WILD BILL.
A look at the accusations of box-office smash THE HUNGER GAMES being derivative. Whilst it has other small problems, they don’t matter and the end result is a decent film standing on the shoulders of giants, says Jim Ross