cannot contain my excitement for the London Film Festival
I’m hyperventilating from the array of overwhelming movie awesomeness before me.
BFI
London photo of the day: have dinner with James Bond
He’s on the placemats at the BFI cafe on Southbank.
question of the day: How could TV be more experimental?
In what other ways, beyond breaking the fourth wall, could TV do something different? Or is stuff like this simply too arty for mainstream TV audiences? Why isn’t there room, on a hundred-plus channels, for something more arty?
question of the day: Of all the films you’ve ever seen, which one would you consider the greatest?
I want to know what you think makes a movie great, and how your personal greatest film impacted your determination of what makes for great cinema in general.
watch it: holiday clips from the BFI archives
A taste of what you can find through the BFI’s new Screen Archive UK, a sort of search engine for discovering Britain’s cinematic heritage…
got my accreditation for the London Film Festival
This will be my first LFF, and as the natives say here, I’m chuffed.
question of the day: How would great female filmmakers describe their work in ways comparable to the machismo of male filmmakers?
The male dominance of filmmaking sometimes smacks at you from a direction you weren’t expecting.
question of the day: Must “great” films be commercial?
I think it’s certainly true that a great film can also be a commercial film. I’m just not sure that that’s always the case. What do you think?
omg: Ray Harryhausen feted at BFI on his 90th birthday; is he available to work?
I’ve just come from enduring some truly cold and deeply unmoving CGI FX in The Last Airbender. Sterile, inorganic, lifeless… I haven’t seen anything so lackluster since Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. And Jonah Hex. And Clash of the Titans. And Alice in Wonderland. And — oh yeah — last night, when I … more…
watch it: “Old London Street Scenes (1903)”
More old, old stuff from the archives of the British Film Institute: Neat-o.
