Scribbles and Ramblings

This weekend marks the launch of the inaugural Calgary Arab Film Festival . In the last few years, quite a few different film festivals hav...

A very healthy haul of 5, listed once again in order of preference: Ain't No Tomorrows (2008, directed by Yuki Tanada) Original titl...

A spotlight on German Cinema featuring 5 very different films listed in order of preference: Everyone Else (2009, director Maren Ade) A...

It has been a vintage year for Turkish cinema. The year started off with the Rotterdam Film Festival having a wonderful spotlight on Young ...

Day 9: Saturday, Oct 3 Oct 3 was all about achieving a personal record of seeing 7 films in a single day. Originally, I had planned on se...

Day 6: Wednesday, Sept 30 The 10 film Maverick competition kicked off on September 30 with 4 screenings, followed by a further 4 on Thursd...

Chacun son cinéma is a collection of short films that were commissioned to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Cannes film festival. In m...

Day 2: Saturday, Sept 26 Tetro (2009, USA, Francis Ford Coppola) Family again. But this time the family does not deal with the mafia bu...

The 10th edition of CIFF ended up being the best programmed year in the festival’s history. I managed to catch 22 films over 9 days as...

The festival is over and my slow return to normality can begin. Unlike previous years, I was unable to maintain a daily log of films that I ...

Day One, Friday Sept 25 There are plenty of titles that hover in the big world of film festivals. But it often seems that...

This is not a dream I booked our Parisian hotel (Hotel de France) because of its reasonable price and close proximity to the Gare de Lyon tr...

The 2 day stay in Venice and attending the film festival became a microcosm of life in general, a life which consists of many...