I just wanted to take a quick moment to recognize that this is the 5th anniversary of The Mind Reels (!). We started small, and didn’t start doing daily posts until January or February of our first year. Since then, every single day there has been a post, where we share thoughts, memories, and review…
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Tim’s Thirteen of 2013
So ends 2013, just like that! What a year! We have continued to grow and do so much here at The Mind Reels, and we’re hoping for an even bigger year next year! So I decided to throw together a list of the movies I most enjoyed this year, the ones that got to me,…
Bermuda International Film Festival – The Hunt – Thomas Vinterberg
This afternoon BIFF gave us what is bound to be a controversial film at Liberty Theater, The Hunt. In a role that garnered him the Best Actor Prize at Cannes Mads Mikkelsen (Casino Royale, The Door, tv’s Hannibal) plays Lucas a friendly daycare worker. The kids he looks after and the town love and respect…
Bermuda International Film Festival – The Attack – Ziad Doueiri
The Bermuda International Film Festival screened The Attack last night, a gripping drama about a Palestinian doctor working in Israel. Dr. Amin Jaafari (Ali Suliman) is an Arab working in a Jewish world, he’s a prominent and successful surgeon, has a beautiful wife, and friends. But when a suicide bomb claims the lives of 17…
Bermuda International Film Festival – The Network – Eva Orner
Screening last night at the Liberty Theater (seat A8 yet again) for the Bermuda International Film Festival was a brilliant documentary that had only screened at SXSW previously. The Network follows the first media group blossoming and developing during the continued growing pains that fill its home country, Afghanistan. The Mohseni family returned to their…
Bermuda International Film Festival – Brooklyn Castle – Katie Dellamaggiore
Brooklyn Castle screens this morning and tomorrow morning at the Liberty Theater in Hamilton Bermuda as a presentation of the Bermuda International Film Festival. I was very fortunate to get a look at this film last year during Toronto’s Hot Docs, and loved it, it not only examines the beauty of the game of chess,…
Bermuda International Film Festival – Unfinished Song (aka Song For Marion)- Paul Andrew Williams
This film, the festival’s centerpiece, marks the midway point of the festival, and it seemed to be a good turn out for it. I wandered back into the Liberty Theater last night, and quickly settled into a seat I’m quickly beginning to see as mine – A8 (that’s odd… I just realized my seat on…
Bermuda International Film Festival – Stories We Tell – Sarah Polley
It makes an odd kind of sense to me that I came all the way to Bermuda for BIFF to see a Canadian film. Having grown up here between the years of 84 to 89 the entire trip has been awash in memories of my own, and the own story of my life, which as…
Bermuda International Film Festival – Beyond the Hills – Cristian Mungiu
There’s a reason this film won the best screenplay prize at Cannes and the two leads shared the best actress prize and the audience at Liberty Theater in Hamilton, Bermuda found out why Sunday afternoon as it made an appearance at the Bermuda International Film Festival. It’s a brilliant adaptation of Tatiana Nicolescu Bran’s non-fiction…
Bermuda International Film Festival – In The Hour of Victory – Lucinda Spurling, Andrew Kirkpatrick
This was one of the films I was most intent on seeing when I first toyed with the idea of coming to the Bermuda International Film Festival. Based on the book of the same name, it chronicles through his own letters to his wife Faith Bower, Bermuda-born Major Toby Smith’s service in World War II….
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