Tag Archives: FIN 2018

#FIN2018 reviews — The Bookshop, Under The Silver Lake

September 21, 2018 flawintheiris

The final day of the 2018 festival comes with mixed feelings. I'm exhausted, and picked up a cold on my way, but had a great week nonetheless. Big props to the organizers and programmers for bringing together a great collection of films. I especially enjoyed the quality of the documentaries this year, and while I… Read More

#FIN2018 reviews — Shoplifters, Sharkwater: Extinction, Cold War

September 20, 2018 flawintheiris

Shoplifters Beloved Japanese filmmaker Hirokazu Koreeda's newest drama won the Palme d'Or at Cannes this summer, and it's not hard to see why. The story of an impoverished family living in the margins in Tokyo—an elderly woman, an adult couple, a younger woman, and a boy—who take in a mistreated little girl is told with… Read More

#FIN2018 and the LENS ME YOUR EARS podcast!

September 19, 2018 flawintheiris

Stephen Cooke and I got together on Monday to discuss FIN Atlantic International Film Festival in midstream on LENS ME YOUR EARS, our film podcast, including a number of the titles I mentioned here, like Love, Scott, plus others that Stephen has seen that I missed due to the Screenwriting Program I was in at… Read More

#FIN2018 reviews — Mandy night at the movies, Colette, What They Had

September 18, 2018 flawintheiris

Though I'd seen it before on a screener, I poked my head into the first Extreme Screening of the festival on Monday, Mandy. I really just wanted to see some of those visuals on the big screen, and get a sense of the audience reactions, but I found couldn't leave. I got there just at… Read More

#FIN2018 reviews — The Guilty, Bad Reputation

September 17, 2018 flawintheiris

That enormous wooshing sound you may have heard around 3:30 on Sunday afternoon was my exhalation of relief for having survived the Script Development Program Pitch Session. All my fellow workshop participants were terrific, and people say I did OK. It's all a bit of a blur right now. Then I went to see a… Read More

#FIN2018 reviews — Anthropocene: The Human Epoch, Hopeless Romantic, Halloween Party

September 15, 2018 flawintheiris

Anthropocene: The Human Epoch It's been something, watching Jennifer Baichwal and Edward Burtynsky meld their visual storytelling from Manufactured Landscapes (2006) to Watermark (2013) to this, completing the trilogy with cinematographer Nicholas de Pencier, an observation of the sublime beauty and horror of human industry. This final film is simply about the nightmare of there being… Read More

#FIN2018 — What I’ve seen in advance from FIN Atlantic International Film Festival

September 13, 2018 flawintheiris

I don't know about you, but for me that summer went by waaay too quickly. The arrival of September does come with a consolation—the film festival. As I always say, it's Christmas for film lovers. This year's a little different for me. From the full-disclosure department: I am one of the fortunate few to be… Read More

#FIN2018 — Top 20 Most Wanted at the Atlantic International Film Festival

September 9, 2018 flawintheiris

It's begun again, the crazy days leading up to FIN Atlantic International Film Festival. I've even gotten used to calling it FIN. Only took a year or so. I'm busy preparing coverage for various venues—more detail on that in the days to come—and watching as many advance screeners as I can get my hands on.… Read More