Interviews
Hossein Amini on Writing
and Indeed, Being a Writer
On a cold January evening in Guildford, I sit down to launch a Zoom call with award-winning, BAFTA-nominated, Oscar-nominated writer Hossein Amini. He answers
...Percy Manthey on ZIPWHARF
CIFF 24: In Review
Percy Manthey’s ZIPWHARF cannot be described. At least not well. I know this because I wrote its copy for the festival. I said something about London and shallow aspirations and e-cigarettes and rot and that’s fair but Leon and I spent about three hours in the Half Moon reciting lines from the film in a delirious (but uproarious) game of remember-when-this-happened. No other film has possessed us like this
...Interview With Man Who Slept Through Film
CIFF 24: In Review
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...Tim Carlier on Paco
CIFF 24: In Review
Tim Carlier’s Paco wanders with sound recordist Manny as he drifts through Adelaide, Australia (as Leon muses, like a leaf—but perhaps more like a freelancer) in search of a lost radio mic. The film had its UK premiere on the second night of the 3rd Clapham International Film Festival.
Tim stays in the cinema for a while and talks to everyone. Sam liked the soundtrack, Tim tells him to listen to The Empty Threats. Tim follows me outside. I apologise for bringing him outside
...Jamie Flatters on Shoulders
CIFF 24: In Review
Jamie Flatters' Shoulders sits in the wilderness with eight young men as they watch for invasion. Armed with nothing but sticks, they’re left to unravel. Its world premiere was on the opening night of the 3rd Clapham International Film Festival.
I catch Jamie in the hubbub of Venn Street after Shoulders’ premiere. Our conversation has moments of pause as he fields well-wishers and rolls a cigarette
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