International Animation 1
A good selection here (better overall quality than the McLaren selection).
Strange Girls
Cheerfully lo-fi Z-movie.
Cinematographers everywhere
Roger Deakins & Seamus McGarvey: In Conversation – I should really have been taking notes, but we’ve already established this isn’t a good idea in the dark.
Stone of Destiny
Ah, they can take our rocks, but they’ll never take our freedom.
Tiramisu
I don’t know that I have much to add to my tweet on this – Tiramisu is cute but insubstantial.
The Song of Sparrows. And Ostriches.
A gentle, picaresque film from Iran, from director Majid Majidi.
Animated miscellany
Just trying to make sense of my notes on the short animated films (I’m trying not to type ‘animated shorts’) from the first selection up for the McLaren Award (the award is for best British animation, and (but?) is voted for by the EIFF audience, which in this case was distinctly small). Mostly I’m getting [...]
Gearing up for EIFF 2008
Not that this requires a great deal from me, as it’s not as if I still had to post my reviews of the films I saw last year.
Not that I’m obsessed or anything…
I’ve been surreptitiously updating the site to include my reviews of the films I saw at last years EIFF, and got slightly distracted by the vast number of cinema tickets I’ve accumulated.