by Neil Young | Jun 27, 2023 | Film
Postcard From The 36th Midnight Sun Film Festival, Sodankyla, Finland, June 14th-18th 2023 Saturday has become Sunday, it’s 1am in Sodankylä, northern Finland, and Tarmo Marjamaa clambers out of a ketchup-red, East German, visibly 1980s-vintage Wartburg 353... 
by Neil Young | Oct 1, 2022 | Film, Uncategorized
“One must fight to get to the top, especially if one starts at the bottom.”― Franz Kafka, The Castle Few of the world’s film-events can merit the description “Kafkaesque” more than the Film Noir Festival, whose 10th edition took place in the tiny... 
by Neil Young | Jul 10, 2022 | Film
A postcard from the first Evia Film Project, 15-19 June 2022 Among Greek islands, Evia is second in size only to Crete, more than double the size of the next largest, Lesbos, and nearly triple the size of the fourth-largest, Rhodes. But while everybody knows at least... 
by Neil Young | Jan 11, 2020 | Film
The Grotesque Popcorn Marathon continues to be a popular fixture on the penultimate night of the Seville European Film Festival “Ex-hu-mac-ion! Ex-hu-mac-ion! Ex-hu-mac-ion!” The Spanish audience in Seville’s Teatro de la Alameda picks up the... 
by Neil Young | Nov 28, 2019 | Film
Neil Young reports from the Gijón International Film Festival in Spain Gijón is a city of cinema, haunted by the ghosts of cinemas past. In 1963, when it first hosted the event now known as the Festival Internacional de Cine de Gijón (FICX for short)—for two decades a... 