Cambridge Film Festival 2011 Preview
The 2011 Cambridge Film Festival starts on September 15th, here are some of the highlights of the festival I’m going to see and the films I’m due to review for the festival magazine, TAKE ONE
CFF 2010 Daily Review: Dirt
Daniel Fawcett’s Dirt is a heartfelt look at a young person’s difficulty fitting in with the adult world and a wish to recapture that childhood feeling of being ‘free’. The film follows Miles, running from an unsatisfying life and dead-end job, after he encounters Francis – an unconventional man who prefers to produce art by ‘living creatively’ – and goes to spend time on his run-down boat.
CFF 2010 Daily Review: The Trip
This was originally written for the Cambridge Film Festival 2010 Daily and posted on the website, a link to which can be found here. However, I can’t account for how long that link survives so I’ve reposted it here. —— This improvised comedy, aside from raising many a laugh, brings up interesting questions about how [...]
CFF 2010 Daily Review: You, The Living
This was originally written for the Cambridge Film Festival 2010 Daily and posted on the website, a link to which can be found here. However, I can’t account for how long that link survives so I’ve reposted it here. —— Every so often, you watch a film so strikingly different from anything else you have [...]
CFF 2010 Daily Review: Art of the Mid-Length
I originally reviewed The Art of the Mid-Length for Cambridge Film Festival Daily, the version of which is in here somewhere, but my review was, quite frankly, uninformative bollocks. I found it simply impossible to properly review four extended shorts (about 25 minutes each) in 250 words – try properly summarising and reviewing four episodes [...]
