Welcome to 1982, one of the biggest years for number of science fiction films EVER! And an amazing number of good ones! In fact the next 5 titles being visited on the 101 Sci-Fi Movies list are all from 1982, and I saw all but one of them in the theater that year, and the…
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…
Come Drink With Me (1966) – King Hu Hu Jinquan
The next entry on the 101 Action Movies knows kung-fu, and is also the first Asian film to show up on the list. From the famous Shaw Brothers comes this dazzling combination of martial arts and sword work. It’s a fun ride, though looking at it with the eyes of the 21st century, I would…
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 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…
The Mind Reels 