Encounters · 2008
Among the films screening this year are:
11 films · 11 reviews
To make a film that is touchingly beautiful at the same time as dealing with very bad things is a remarkable achievement.
(Country: Iceland; Year: 2008; Director: Rúnar Rúnarsson; Writer: Rúnar Rúnarsson; Stars: Atli Óskar Fjalarsson , Hera Hilmarsdóttir , Sigurður Jakob Helgason , Þórunn Jakobsdóttir) , Official site
This could have been a hatchet job... but McCormack’s film digs a lot deeper than that.
(Country: UK; Year: 2008; Director: Conor McCormack)
Inquisitive and bright children of all ages will surely love the lusciously produced and imaginative animation.
(Country: UK, Northern Ireland; Year: 2007; Director: John McCloskey; Writer: John McCloskey; Stars: Narrated by Bernard Hill)
The animation is exquisitely timed for terrific comic impact.
(Country: UK; Year: 2007; Director: Felix Massie; Writer: Felix Massie; Stars: Scott Johnson)
Utterly bonkers but brimming with ingenuity.
(Country: US; Year: 2008; Director: Alex Budovsky; Stars: n/a) , Trailer
Penfold and Hearn keep their camera close, hugging tight to the emotional depth provided by Harris and Wareing.
(Country: UK; Year: 2008; Director: Sam Hearn, Richard Penfold; Writer: Penfold Richard; Stars: Kierston Wareing, Johnny Harris, Joe Siffleet)
The art direction is simultaneously gorgeous (beautiful lighting and well-crafted sets), yet lumpen, curved and ugly, as though exorcised from an exaggerated Expressionistic dream.
(Country: Canada; Year: 2007; Director: Chris Lavis, Maciek Szczerbowski; Writer: Chris Lavis, Maciek Szczerbowski) , Official site
The technique is interesting and it's fantastical, Alice In Wonderland style imagery is a match for the track.
(Country: UK; Year: 2003; Director: Chris Hopewell; Writer: Chris Hopewell)
It is hard to imagine three minutes that could leave you gripped so hard with so little.
(Country: UK; Year: 2008; Director: Jamie Stone, Anders Jedenfors)
Full of gleeful anachronisms... brilliant.
(Country: Canada; Year: 2007; Director: Claude Cloutier; Writer: Claude Cloutier) , Official site
As a sample of guerrilla film-making it is accomplished, in that the passengers seem completely unaware that their stories are being documented.
(Country: Poland; Year: 2005; Director: Maciej Cuske)
59th New York Film Festival early bird highlights Futura, Jane By Charlotte, James Baldwin: From Another Place and The Velvet Underground
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