Film Festivals Archives
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20th Philadelphia Film Festival – Race to the Bottom of the Earth
Surprisingly compelling considering it's basically one man talking into a video camera about frost bite, broken camping stoves, broken skies, whiteout conditions, and calling his wife each night with sometimes incoherent reports of the day.
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20th Annual Philadelphia Film Festival Coverage 2011 Part 3 of 3
Wikipedia: Colin Clark (9 October 1932 – 17 December 2002) was a British writer and filmmaker who specialized in films for cinema and television about the arts. He was the son of the art historian Lord Clark of Saltwood (Sir Kenneth Clark), and the younger brother of the Conservative politician and military historian Alan Clark, with whom he was not always on good terms.[1]Born in London, he was educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford. From 1951 to 1953 he did National Service as a pilot officer in the Royal Air Force.[2] Colin Clark’s first job on leaving university was as an assistant director on the film The Prince…
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20th Philadelphia Film Festival – BUTTER
When the butter committee feels Bob should bow out of this season to allow someone else a chance at the "Blue Bonnet" :-) I mean blue ribbons. Laura decides she's not about to let all her ambitions melt away and signs up to compete herself...
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20th Annual Philadelphia Film Festival Coverage 2011 Part 2 of 3
JEFF WHO LIVES AT HOME Family stuff and life in general is getting in the way of seeing as much as I want, and writing as much as I see. Which is why as great as it is to have a big film festival in your own backyard, it would be better to be here on vacation and experience all the films without so many interruptions. I was glad to make the second screening of Jeff, Who Lives at Home, particularly since the director was available for another Q & A. Well, co-director, this film is by another team of writer/director brothers. Not the Farrelly Bros. or the Coen Bros.…
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20th Philadelphia Film Festival – SHAME
by Le Anne Lindsay, Editor Michael Fassbender has a Dirk Diggler size schlong! And an Adonis rear-end. Beyond that, I don’t remember anything about the film Shame. Just kidding. Well, about the film’s resonance, not about Fassbender. In actuality, the film stayed with me for quite awhile. Seeing two people in so much pain with no clue how to get relief, yet basically from the outside, look as if they are managing the day in and out of life. Director Steve McQueen (Hunger), (why doesn’t he go by S. McQueen or use his middle name, Rodney or Stephen?) has created an intense character study of a sex addict without really…
