Neil Young's Film Lounge

added link to Hollywood Reporter review of BITE THE DUST

favourites: LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON (Palme d’Or); Isaac (Best Actor); Bejo (Best Actress)

Does puritanical filmmaking that seeks to nullify genre necessarily exclude a sense of joy at the very fact of cinema? Or was it just that this particular program lacked humour? We saw many films that were good and clever and engaged with the medium, but few that made us want to hug it.

just about every other high-profile international film festival claims to offer as wide a compass as possible, and more is not necessarily better. Now in its tenth year, though, IndieLisboa’s continuing expansion might indeed be a simple “no” in the face of rapidly diminishing arts funding – and to my eye, attendances seemed defiantly and encouragingly high.

you meet directors whose films are screening the following day, say, and whose personable manner promotes the work better than any programme description ever could