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…
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Bermuda and Back Again: A Happy Hobbit’s Return Home and a Film Festival Part 5
I was kind of glad for the rain today, as I learned even if you can go home, some things you’ll find are irreparably changed and it can shake you a bit. So I’m not saying there were some tears in rain today, but I’m not denying it either. I went down Somerset and Dockyard…
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 and Back Again: A Happy Hobbit’s Return Home and a Film Festival Part 4
I’ve been cruising round the island on my rented scooter, and I have to tell you, it took me a couple days to get back into the groove of the thing. I used to bomb around the island on my moped, taking the curves and corners at speed, or at least that’s the way I…
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….
ReelWorld Film Fest: Cairo 678 – Mohamed Diab
Every so often, I deliberately choose to do something that I know is going to frighten, upset or otherwise unsettle me, but I usually do it anyway. Call it challenge, call it growth…call it stupid, if you want. But I do it. Most often, this pushing of myself comes in the form of a book…
Bermuda International Film Festival – The Act of Killing – Joshua Oppenheime
The second film to be screened at BIFF was a documentary that proved to be a tough watch. To clarify, it’s not a bad film at all, its just the subject matter is particularly harsh. It was also the first film I’d seen in the Liberty Theater since I left in 89, and I took…
Bermuda and Back: A Happy Hobbit’s Return Home and a Film Festival Part 3
Goslings Wine cellar was the location yesterday evening for a meet and greet of the people and sponsors behind the Bermuda International Film Festival before the opening night presentation of Ginger & Rosa. Festival VIPs meet and mingle, there is laughter and shop being talked about equally. Bermuda has, in its time, perfected the art…
ReelWorld Film Festival: Sunset Stories – Ernesto Foronda and Silas Howard
Sunset Stories is a refreshing mix of several different genres of film, which manages to encapsulate bits of everything, without ever becoming too much of one thing. It’s first and foremost a comedy (a dark comedy, given the subject matter), but it’s evident from the very start that it’s also full of heart. There’s…
