tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16398571.post5534733363802661086..comments2023-10-30T11:57:26.749+01:00Comments on SCREENVILLE: Festival pundits (spoiled brats)Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16398571.post-19860597149861970412011-12-13T10:33:36.694+01:002011-12-13T10:33:36.694+01:00"I avoided reading reviews or learning too mu..."I avoided reading reviews or learning too much about the picture, so I was able to form my own opinion of [The Artist]…and I enjoyed it very much. <br /><br />Since then, I’ve spoken to several film-buff friends who came away from the film feeling disappointed. I can understand why: at this point it’s been praised to the skies, and people—especially old-movie aficionados—are going to see itHarryTuttlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10721542203087536185noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16398571.post-17784847728297721272011-12-07T23:18:45.666+01:002011-12-07T23:18:45.666+01:00Speaking of importing foreign curators... In other...Speaking of importing foreign curators... In other news, <a href="http://screenville.blogspot.com/2011/04/fonction-dun-festival-boyer.html" rel="nofollow">Frédéric Boyer</a> (former director of the Cannes Quinzaine des Réalisateurs, briefly) is invited to curate the <a href="http://www.tribecafilm.com/news-features/blog/134610868.html" rel="nofollow">Tribeca festival in New York</a>! Irony.HarryTuttlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10721542203087536185noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16398571.post-43935437175800002582011-12-07T22:58:43.323+01:002011-12-07T22:58:43.323+01:00"[..] with the print issue of Cinema Scope 48..."[..] with the print issue of Cinema Scope 48 featuring reviews and interviews for films that aren’t exclusively showing at TIFF, but also premiering at Venice, New York, Vancouver, and many other stops on the road to being downloaded in pirated fan-subtitled versions. [..]<br /> As I type with fingers crossed, I think it might turn out to be the best festival package in the Toronto-based HarryTuttlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10721542203087536185noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16398571.post-32575313646811854412011-11-24T22:29:31.567+01:002011-11-24T22:29:31.567+01:00"[..] This issue of Film comment marks the pu..."[..] This issue of Film comment marks the publication of a story on something close to my heart. Indeed, it's a subject that sheds a little light on how I cultivated my movie passion and by extansion how I wound up sitting here writing this editorial. That subject is : movie novelization.<br />There, I've said it.<br />Now begins not a sentimental journey but a mortifying tale of HarryTuttlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10721542203087536185noreply@blogger.com