Carell wrestles with drama in Cannes contender Foxcatcher 23 May 20147 January 2015Jason Korsner In Knocked Up, Kathryn Heigl’s character is commended for the rare achievement of managing to make Steve Carell look like an ass-hole. Capote [...]
BFI’s pride at best of British in Cannes 21 May 201421 May 2014Jason Korsner BFI staff posing in “Pits and Perverts” T-shirts to promote Pride, closing the Directors Fortnight at Cannes 2014 On Monday over lunch, the [...]
How New Wave was François Truffaut’s cinema? 28 April 201428 April 2014Husam Sam Asi In its 18th edition, Colcoa (City of Lights, City of Angels) Film Festival, which is considered the biggest French film festival outside of [...]
What is buzzing in the 30th Sundance Film Festival? 26 January 201426 January 2014Husam Sam Asi Every year, tens of thousands of filmmakers, film lovers, buyers, executives and party goers flock to Park City in Utah, braving the subzero [...]
Record LFF ticket sales but who’ll remember 2013? 24 October 201324 October 2013Jason Korsner The BFI has hailed the success of Clare Stewart’s second London Film Festival at the helm, with last year’s record audience attendance being [...]
Toronto Film Festival ignites the race to the Oscars 15 September 20139 October 2013Husam Sam Asi In the last few years, The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) has increasingly become more of a barometer for Oscar contenders than a [...]
Lebanese and Iranian Directors take the spotlight at the Jerusalem Film Festival. 13 July 201316 July 2013Husam Sam Asi The Jerusalem Film Festival, held at the Cinematheque, a modern four-story building built into a hill overlooking the walls of the old city, [...]
Documentaries reign at the Edinburgh Film Festival 28 June 201329 June 2013Jason Korsner Highlighting the increasing prominence of international co-productions, the 67th Edinburgh International Film Festival has awarded it’s Best International Film prize to a UK-based [...]
How Cannes helps the underdogs 5 June 20136 June 2013Jason Korsner With Cannes 2013 over, the festival award winners are slowly receding into the memories of those who were fortunate enough to see them, [...]
Cannes shows Redford has lost nothing 30 May 20136 November 2013Jason Korsner Anyone who’s seen last year’s Oscar-winning Life of Pi, might feel that they’ve done someone trying to survive against the odds on a [...]