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Film Festival, Live Action

IFFR2011: Bleak Night

Another astonishing Korean debut on the International Film Festival Rotterdam’s Tiger Awards line-up was Bleak Night, written, edited and directed by the

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IFFR2011: End of Animal

Tales of the apocalypse are often told in epic gravitas and loud explosions, yet a recent trend of filmmaking has searched for strategies to dig under our skin

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IFFR 2011: Love Addiction

Love Addiction, alternatively titled Fuyu no Kemono which means ‘Winter’s Beast’ in Japanese, throws four characters with conflicting personalities into

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IFFR2011: The Journals of Musan

The Tiger Awards Competition line-up showcased an impressive array of world cinema feature-length debuts (and some second features), but none of these

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IFFR2011: Poetry

When Yang Mija, performed with exquisite passion by veteran actress Yun Jung-hee, begins attending a local poetry class to attend to her late-life ennui, she

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The Fighter

In the genre of sport movies, the boxing movie is king, the undisputed champion. In fact nowhere are the recurring themes of sport movies more prevalent or

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Somewhere

When your dad’s a world famous director, your cousin’s Nicolas Cage and you’ve starred in The Godfather movies, it’s not surprising

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Monsters

Making a short film featuring eye-catching visual effects seems to be the way to get yourself noticed in recent years. South African Neill Blomkamp was carving

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LSFF2011: Landscapes

It’s a real shame I didn’t have more time to attend screenings at this year’s London Short Film Festival. This, my third and final screening, was

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Dog Pound DVD

After successfully turning the très beau Vincent Cassel into a gurning, maleficent yokel in the teens dropping like flies horror flick Sheitan,

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LSFF2011: Family Affairs

One thing I forgot to mention on my last London Short Film Festival review was the surprising standard of films I saw. I mean, not that I expected to see

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LSFF2011: Fucked Up Love

Last weekend the 8th London Short Film Festival hit the capital’s various screening venues and bars. Returning for its biggest year yet, having had well

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