All Comment articles – Page 9
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CommentToronto: such lofty heights
While the huge programme is a challenge for industry, this festival offers more great new films in one place than any other.
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CommentLife in Venice
Venice might have been sans Clooney this year, but there are plenty of reasons why this festival is still vital.
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CommentBirdman soars for Fox Searchlight… and Venice
COMMENT: A year after Gravity wowed Venice, Birdman could be in flight for a similar path to awards glory - especially for Michael Keaton.
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CommentFestivals in the digital age
COMMENT: The nature of film premieres in the internet age means Telluride can’t exist in a vacuum.
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CommentWhy Telluride can't exist in a bubble
Toronto changes its Telluride policy on world premieres, in a smart move that reflects the digital age we live in.
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CommentFilm4's Kosse hire: commercial isn’t a dirty word
New Film4 boss is hailed as smart and enthusiastic; and if he can connect more UK films to audiences across the globe, that’s surely a good thing.
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CommentLocarno: the personal touch
In the same way they say dogs can look like their owners, film festivals can take on the temperament of their artistic director.
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CommentIs boycotting the answer in Israel?
Palestinian directors refused to show their films at the Jerusalem Film Festival last week in protest at Israeli treatment of Palestinians. Is it the right approach?
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CommentWhen film can’t be business as usual
The disturbing experience of attending a film festival in a conflict zone; and how filmmakers can get their voices heard politically.
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CommentNigerian producers building distribution networks
Peter Gerard, director of audience development and content operations at Vimeo and inventor of Distrify, explains why.
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CommentDéjà vu at the US box office
Edge of Tomorrow looks set to be the first casualty of the “normal” pattern of the summer at the US box office says Jeremy Kay.
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CommentCannes Competition blog: actresses shine in Sils Maria; Leviathan wows
FINAL UPDATE: Critic Finn Halligan offers reactions to Cannes 2014 Competition films as they screened.
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CommentHow Imax can help Interstellar
There was an air of quiet optimism among theatre owners at CinemaCon last week, writes Jeremy Kay.
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CommentFilling Tessa Ross's big shoes
As the film industry loses Tessa Ross to the theatre world, Channel 4 has to be very careful in its hires, Wendy Mitchell argues.
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CommentIn celebration of African cinema
Nana Ocran, lead researcher on June Givanni’s Pan African Cinema Archive, reflects on the history and heritage of African cinema in the UK, around the African diaspora and on the African continent itself.
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CommentUK needs to serve changing audiences
Lord Puttnam, President of Film Distributors’ Association (FDA) in the UK, looks at the big changes happening in the film value chain.
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CommentAuto enrolment - an issue that cannot be ignored
Auto enrolment into a pension scheme create particular issues for the film industry.
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CommentOscars 2014: No huge surprises, but smart choices
COMMENT: It was an Oscars without many surprises, but that’s not to say that AMPAS voters didn’t make a few bold decisions.
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CommentShould BAFTAs be broadcast live?
Is the BAFTA ceremony’s near two-hour UK TV time delay out of step with a growing desire for immediacy?