The Edinburgh International Film Festival opened it’s box office today, so I spent my lunch booking my summer holiday. 22 films, fairly miscellaneous – actually 18 films, two of their animated short film collections and two real-live people events…
Posted on 9th May, 2008 at 8:26pm in media and tagged with Bananaz, Dreams with Sharp Teeth, Edinburgh International Film Festival, Encounters at the End of the World, Faintheart, Fear(s) of the Dark, gratuitous Joss Whedon reference, Idiots and Angels, International Animation, McLaren Animation, Milky Way Liberation Front, Pixar rocks, Ray Harryhausen, Roger Deakins, Seamus McGarvey, Sleep Dealer, Standard Operating Procedure, Stone of Destiny, Strange Girls, The Bride Wore Black, The Fall, The Song of Sparrows, The Surprise Movie, Tiramisu, WALL-E, Warsaw Dark, yay!.
This was always going to be an indulgence, because I could probably quote reams of Henry V verbatim, particularly Olivier’s version. And having never seen it on the big screen, I found it impossible to resist.
Posted on 21st August, 2007 at 7:30pm in media and tagged with blatant propaganda, Edinburgh International Film Festival, gratuitous Joss Whedon reference, Henry V, Laurence Olivier, Shakespeare, sumptuous technicolor, we died at such a place.
