- The Circus is Over -- Until Next Time
- A Conversation with Australian Director Geoffrey Smith
- Double Bill Leads to Interview
- Time-out for Halloween in London
- City of .... Does Not Add Up
- Honoring the Pooches
- Affleck Film Out, "Clockwork" Still Going
- Harmony Korine Sits for an Interview in London
- Brick Lane Dodges Controversy
- What is London Without the Palace?
- "In Prison" Takes the Highlight
- Celluloid Relates to Reality
- Making the Film Rounds in London
- Anamaria Marinca
- Lions for Lambs Premieres
Making the Film Rounds in London
October 23, 2007 11:47 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)
A few good films, a few otherwise
Tuesday saw a handful of smaller features take over the festival. The low key British thriller Jetsam, which is premiering at the festival, is managing to sell out at every showing.
The story goes that a woman is washed up on the Kent coast and is immediately attacked and chased by a man who washes up beside her. Meanwhile the events that led up to this are slowly fleshed out through flashbacks. Box Office has yet to have a chance to sample it, but it is said to be an extremely promising piece of work from first time director Simon Welsford.
Box Office caught up with the Argentine micro budget UPA! An Argentine Film, the latter half of which translates as Una Pelicule Argentina, from which the film takes its initials. The film stars Santiago Giralt, Camila Toker and Tamae Garateguy, who co-wrote and co-directed it. This is the story of the disastrous attempts of three young Argentines to make a pretentious art house film, which isn’t really about anything in particular.
While the film has its comedic moments it is overlong and lacks any real narrative drive. The conceit of the film, that some micro budget filmmakers are making a film about a film being made badly on a micro budget, severely lacks the wit that its makers suppose it has, and ended up being rather disappointing.
On Monday night, the festival screened A Walk into the Sea: Danny Williams and the Warhol Factory, the story of how Danny Williams joined the Warhol Factory in 1965, before disappearing without a trace in 1966.
On Tuesday, as a companion piece, the festival screened a series of the films that Danny Williams made at the Factory, including Harold Stevenson Part 1 and Part 2 and the World Premiere of Velvet Underground and The Velvet Underground Eat Lunch.
There was also the unusual Indonesian road movie 3 Days to Forever, in which two cousins scandalise Islamic Indonesia, whilst driving a dinner service to a family wedding. This film was in its uncut form for the festival.
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