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...
by Neil Young | Sep 11, 2019 | Film
Concorto Comes of Age The biggest, industry-oriented of the world’s film-festivals are often described as having a “hothouse” atmosphere—how ironic, then, that one of the most casual, laid-back and non-materialistic celebrations of cinematic art,...
by Neil Young | Nov 24, 2018 | Film
Postcards from CinéfestOZ, Western Australia, 2018 White sand, white surf: at midnight under the bright full moon of late August I stood alone on a West Australia beach, watching the pale water lap the even paler shore, my shadow a sharply-outlined black silhouette...
