And so, we come to the end. Not of my coverage, mind you, but certainly the festival. It’s been an amazing, exhausting time. Over six days, I saw twenty feature films (with ties to thirteen different countries and five by...
My constantly-shuffled schedule finally caught up with me, and a slot that was reserved for The Turin Horse opened up (don’t get me wrong, I’d watch it again in a heartbeat), and I got to see the Duplass brothers’ latest...
One of the great pleasures of a film festival is getting to see some of the biggest movies of the year play alongside the smallest. AFI Fest, to their credit, has a section called “Breakthrough,” which spotlights films they discovered...
Today was a day I shall long remember. As one of the artistic directors (whose name I did not record) admitted as he introduced today’s 12:30 screening, there are few giants of cinema left, but Bela Tarr must certainly be...
Although I’m a fairly introverted person in a lot of ways, I have no shyness about telling people at the movies to mind their manners. Talk above a whisper? I’ll say something. Kick my seat? I’ll say something. Pull out...
Preparing oneself for the inevitability of not being able to see everything is key to attending any film festival. The first round of disappointment comes at the scheduling phase, at which point you realize that three things you’re dying to...
When people think back over the first big day of AFI Fest (the first day was technically yesterday, but only J. Edgar screened then, and your humble reporter was unable to get a seat), they’ll probably remember the rain. The...
