My Journal of the 2007 Cork Film Festival…
Cork, Ireland, October 14 through 21
Jumping the queue (festival films seen and reviewed prior to the festival)
Buskers (short) – Tribute to Filmbase
The Magnificent Seven – Drive-In Movies program
Poitín – Archive Gala
Rounders – John Dahl Tribute
Tonight Is Cancelled
The Truman Show – Through the Looking Glass Youth Programme
Sunday 14 October
It’ll Always Be 11:16 (short)
No Country for Old Men
Monday 15 October
Indigènes (Days of Glory)
The 11th Hour
Tuesday 16 October
In the Shadow of the Moon
The Killing of John Lennon
Catch Fish (short)
The Savages
Wednesday 17 October
The Nines
Uitverkocht (Sold Out) (short)
4 luni, 3 saptamani si 2 zile (4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days)
Thursday 18 October
Prête-moi ta main (I Do: How to Get Married and Stay Single)
Szabadság, szerelem (Children of Glory)
Zoo
Friday 19 October
Fade to Black
Soft (short)
You Kill Me
Botched
Saturday 20 October
Public Interview with John Dahl
Chansons d’amour (Love Songs)
Szalontüd (Tripe and Onions) (short)
Boy A
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Sunday 21 October
8 Great Shorts program:
Le Scaphandre et le papillon (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly)
Frankie (short)
Se, jie (Lust, Caution)
My Commentaries
18 October 2007: Watching global warming movies in a coastal city, prone to flooding, makes me want to have another cerveza [¡Saludos de Cork!]
25 October 2007: Just because a movie is really, really good doesn’t mean that it’s going to make you feel really, really good [Feelings]
Links to official film festival sites