The 101 Sci-Fi Movies brings me yet another personal fave, and the lightest of the Star Trek films to be made. Leonard Nimoy takes the director’s chair as well as helping on the story front to make a commentary on the society of our times (in this case 1986, though it’s still relevant if not more…
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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 – 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 – 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 International Film Festival – Ginger & Rosa (Sally Potter)
The Bermuda International Film Festival kicks off this evening with the powerful film, Ginger & Rosa, which Sue got to take a look at during the Toronto International Film Festival. I’m very excited to be able to cover this festival, and am looking forward to stepping inside the Liberty Theater. I haven’t been in there…
The Mind Reels 