A Week in the Dark: The 57th BFI London Film Festival
The nights draw closer and the official end of British summertime approaches, which times perfectly with the arrival of the BFI’s 57th London Film Festival. This time of year never fails to excite me, particularly with a programme that ever widens with a delicious celluloid chocolate box to pick and choose from. I proclaim myself...
Being a Tarantinophile – A Cinematic Obsession
I’ll always remember when we first met. The setting was the shabby living room of my friend’s house, cat hairs rolling like tumbleweed over carpeted floors, the stale scent of cigarettes clinging to soft furnishings due to the smoke curling through the air from the continual glow of her mother’s Silk Cut. 2 guys face...
Being Anti-Social: a movie-going mission at London Film Festival 2012
The BFI London Film Festival is an incredible excitement-inducing highlight in my calendar. This year marks its 56th run and appallingly I’ve only been attending the past four. A pity. Had I discovered it sooner, I may have been privy to many more (yet to be seen) motion treasures that seem to join a personal film-purgatory; a...