GO NATIONAL : Bradford Film Festival 2006

Published on: December 8th, 2005

new reviews from the festival :

Mar 5 : O Lucky Man! (1973)   7/10
Mar 7 : Cat People (1982)   5/10
Mar 8 : Tropic of Cancer (2004)   9/10
Mar 9 : Kes (1969)   8/10
Mar 14 : The Wedding (2004) 8/10
Mar 15 : des Morts (1980) 5/10
Mar 18 : Excavating Taylor Mead (2005) 7/10
Mar 18 : Army of Happiness (2004 short) 9/10
Mar 18 : Champion (2005/6) 6/10

(NY-programmed films seen before the event are listed below)


Programmed by N.Y. for Bradford Film Festival 2006:

*   Based on a True Story (Net) Cinefile
*   Boys Like Sexy Legs, Girls Like Ice Cream (Slo [Slovenia]) Slovenian Fokus
*   Buzz (Ger/Gre) Cinefile
*   Champion (USA) Cinefile
*   The Chef (Swe) International Features
*   Days and Hours (Bos) International Features
>  Drum Bun (Swi) International Features
*   Edgar G Ulmer – The Man Off Screen (Aut) Cinefile
*   Excavating Taylor Mead (USA) Cinefile
*   Eyes Full of Water (Slo) Slovenian Fokus
*   Going Through Splat (USA) Cinefile
*   Gravehopping (Slo) Slovenian Fokus
*   Here and There (Slo) Slovenian Fokus
*   Horst Buchholz – My Papa (Ger) Cinefile
*   Kim Novak Never Swam in Genesaret's Lake (Swe) International Features
*   Lost (USA)  International Features
>   Murk (Den)  International Features
*   Netto (Ger)   International Features
*   New World (Aut)  International Documentaries
*   No Place Nowhere (Chl)   International Documentaries
*   One Long Winter Without Fire (Fr/Swi) International Features
*   Our America (Swi)   International Documentaries
*   People of Saladillo (Arg) Cinefile
*   Peterka – Year of Decision (Slo) Slovenian Fokus
*   Reel Paradise (USA) Cinefile
*   Solidarity, Solidarity (Pol) International Features/Documentaries
*   Suburbs (Slo) Slovenian Fokus
*   The Third (Pol) International Features
*   Tour de Force (Bel) International Documentaries
>   Tropic of Cancer (Mex)  International Documentaries
*   The Wedding (Pol) International Features
*   The Wind Blows Round (Ity)  International Features

nb : Among the selection criteria for the compilation of the above list was a Jigsaw Lounge rating of at least 6/10.


More details on visiting Bradford can be found here. 

 

 

 

 

Provisional list of selected titles organised by section:
(subject to alteration, addition and subtraction!)
^ = UK premiere

NEW FEATURES:
from Bosnia – Days and Hours
from Denmark – Murk
from France – One Long Winter Without Fire
from Germany – Netto
from Italy – The Wind Blows Round
from Poland – The Third^ and The Wedding
from Sweden – The Chef^ and Kim Novak Never Swam In Genesaret's Lake^
from Switzerland – Drum Bun^
from the USA – Lost^

NEW DOCUMENTARIES
New World^ (Austria)
No Place Nowhere^ (Chile)
Our America^ (Austria)
Solidarity, Solidarity^ (Poland – compendium contains some fiction shorts)
Tour de Force (Luxembourg)
Tropic of Cancer^ (Mexico)

SLOVENIA FOKUS : THE CURRENT SCENE
Boys Like Sexy Legs, Girls Like Ice Cream^^ (world premiere)
Bullet Avoids the Fool^
Eyes Full of Water
Gravehopping
Here and There^
Peterka : Year of Decision
Suburbs

CINEFILE : NEW DOCUMENTARIES ON CINEMA
Based on a True Story
    (the facts behind Dog Day Afternoon)
Buzz^
    (scriptwriter A I Bezzerides: Kiss Me Deadly; They Drive By Night)
Excavating Taylor Mead
    (legendary underground-movie star and Warhol collaborator)
Edgar G Ulmer : The Man Off Screen^
    ('King of the B Movies' including Detour; The Black Cat)
Going Through Splat : The Life and Work of Stewart Stern^
    (scriptwriter : Rebel Without a Cause, Rachel Rachel, Sibyl etc)
Horst Buchholz : My Papa 
    (German star of The Magnificent Seven and Life Is Beautiful)
People of Saladillo^
    (remarkable story of small-town film-makers in Argentina)
Reel Paradise^
    (American indie-movie promoter decamps to run Fijian island cinema)

 

 

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