Minari trailer
Keeping with tradition, I will be posting a trailer a day until the festival
Author: gffreviews
The GFF21 programme is launched!
Got my picks! 4 films a day, and I get to see everything I want. This year is going to be a little different from previous years, as expected. Obviously everything is online, but also there’s not as much adherence to the different strands as usual. Frightfest will be running, as will Country Focus –…
GFF21 to be online only
Well, cuntpunt 2021. The lockdown means no cinemas will be open in time for the festival. Kinda thought this might happen but today it was confirmed – https://glasgowfilm.org/latest/news/glasgow-film-festival-responds-to-lockdown-restrictions-update-to-festival-plans The downsides are obvious. The festival isn’t just the films, it’s the people, the atmosphere, the venues. I love pelting along Sauchiehall Street trying to get from…
Possessor
The first scene of this movie is of a woman searching with her fingertips along her scalp for a small scab, through which she then pushes what looks like an audio jack into her skull. As she twiddles a dial on the attached contraption, she looks in the mirror and her face cycles through from…
GFF21 – How’s it gonna work?
So 2020 was an absolutely shitty year for pretty much everyone. Thank fuck it’s on its road out finally. GFF20 managed to go ahead unscathed, but the GFT who run the festival had to shut for the majority of the year, and that effected them financially in a massive way. Luckily Glasgow Film, which runs…
8
While ostensibly a horror, because the mystery is explained early on and the main villain is so sympathetic, you could also see 8 as a supernatural drama. Set in 1970s South Africa, Mary is an orphan living with her aunt and uncle, as they move back to their family farm. There she meets Lazarus, a…
Poppie Nongena
Poppie Nongena is about a woman, who finds out the week before Christmas that she has now been deemed an illegal immigrant in the country of her birth. The film is set 1970s apartheid South Africa, when the Bantu Homelands Citizenship Act deported black South Africans to territories the government had assigned to each ethnicity.…
Kmedeus
I wanna go to Sao Vicente, it looks amazing chill. Also weird. A place where everyone is an artist, everyone has a passion, everyone is creative. People are never introduced as storekeeper, but storekeeper/cinephile, their engagement with and contribution to the cultural life of the island is acknowledged and validated. Kmedeus is a film memorialising…
How To Steal A Country
How To Steal A Country is a documentary on the Gupta state capture scandal that ended Jacob Zuma’s presidency. I remember hearing about the state corruption reports at the time, but watching this, it was so much worse than I remember. Apparently almost 1 trillion rand was funnelled out of public coffers under Zuma’s tenure.…
The Psychosis of Whiteness
The Psychosis of Whiteness is a film essay analysing the movies Amistad, Belle, and Amazing Grace for how they create a false narrative around transatlantic slavery, in which white people are the central protagonists acting as saviours to agency-less black people, in order to propagate and perpetuate the myths and delusions around those historic crimes,…