By Cleaver Patterson. Horror that derives from the everyday and mundane is frequently one of the most disturbing types, particularly if it falls under the guise of a holiday—whether its an innocent weekend away, an annual excursion or a trip to your seaside bolt-hole in order to escape the city […]
Film4 Frightfest 2013 | Day 3
August 29, 2013
By Cleaver Patterson. Crime and man’s inhumanity to man, in one form or another, has frequently proved prime fodder for thrillers and horror films. Two shown on the festival’s third day were perfect examples of this. Though they could not have been more different in subject matter, these films showcased […]
Film4 Frightfest 2013 | Day 2
August 28, 2013
By Cleaver Patterson. Horror films are a funny old business. Even those which fall within this field can be as different as day from night, and those that appeal to one fan may not to another. The films which made up the festival’s first full day programm–including an exclusive screening […]
Film4 FrightFest 2013 | Day 1
August 27, 2013
By Cleaver Patterson. London’s Leicester Square may have been a washout on Thursday night, but that did not stop the annual FILM4 FrightFest festival getting off to a suitably gruesome start, after the four men (Paul McEvoy, Ian Rattray, Alan Jones and Greg Day) who lay claim to this festival […]
FILM4 FrightFest 2013 | Returning to London’s Empire Cinema this August
August 6, 2013
By Cleaver Patterson. Running during the August bank holiday weekend each year at the Empire Cinema in London’s Leicester Square, the FILM4 FrightFest has now become a regular fixture on the annual horror film festival circuit. The event, celebrating its fourteenth anniversary this year, will be the biggest yet featuring […]
Film Scratches Blog #4
By Liza Palmer, Review Section Editor. The long-awaited call for reviews is finally here. Film International is actively seeking reviews for publication online or in print (at our discretion) of the following books and DVDs: Books Bollywood: Gods, Glamour and Gossip, Kush Varia (Wallflower) — TAKEN The Cinema of Michael […]
Secret City (2012)
By Anthony Killick. On November 28, 2012, Secret City, a new feature-length documentary about the City of London and the Corporation that runs it, was screened in Venezuela’s Bolivar Hall in London. As a postgraduate student and member of the production team I have, over the past year, gained insight […]
UK’s largest and most popular Spanish & Latin American Film Festival ¡Viva! returns to Cornerhouse 8 – 24 March 2013
November 19, 2012
Cornerhouse is pleased to announce ¡Viva!, its annual, internationally acclaimed Spanish & Latin American Film Festival. Celebrating the most outstanding contributions in new cinema from a wide range of countries, the 2013 Festival programme will showcase significant world premieres and previews alongside high calibre feature films, short films and documentaries. […]
An Introduction to Film Africa 2012
By Basia Lewandowska Cummings, Programme Associate. In a year when cultural institutions of all kinds have felt under direct attack, building the size and scope of an African film festival in London has been no easy task. With funding cuts, and an increasingly rampant rhetoric of ‘necessity’ and ‘efficiency’, the […]
CFP: Music & the Moving Image VIII
October 24, 2012
MUSIC & THE MOVING IMAGE VIII Conference at NYU Steinhardt: May 31-June 2, 2013 CALL FOR PAPERS The annual conference, Music and the Moving Image, encourages submissions from scholars and practitioners that explore the relationship between music, sound, and the entire universe of moving images (film, TV, video games, mobile […]