Film reviews, TV reviews and tales of film making and festivals
Films often get into film festivals just because they originate from uncommon places. Exotic locales and languages get much more leeway from festival directors. But even taking this law of film festivals into account, I still […]
Recently premiered at the Prince Charles Cinema in Leicester Square, A Sicilian Dream features Francesco da Mosto and Alain de Cadenet exploring the history of the Targa Florio, a Sicilian car race that started in […]
Part 1 One of the strands of films shown at the London Film Festival was entitled Laugh. I thought if I watched the films in it I might laugh; was I wrong to come to […]
Le Mans is the world’s greatest motor-race, cars racing around the Circuit de la Sarthe in Northern France for a full 24 hours. It is also the name of a self-indulgent film from Steve McQueen. The […]