Well, I fell ill for pretty much half the festival, so only 16 films this year. It is what it is.
Favourite film of the festival – Four Mothers
Least favourite film of the festival – Mr K
It was a big ole milestone with Allison retiring. It won’t be the same without her.
Tonight GFF25 starts! Are you ready?
I know I’ve been quiet all year, but that’s what happens when you are broke and disabled as fuck. Now I am up and raring to go for GFF25. Gonna stick with last year’s spoon management strategy, that worked well. Buzzed for the Opening Gala film!
So, that was GFF24. How was it for you? I know I saw 15 movies instead of my usual 40+ but I stayed much more in my energy levels and I think I saw the ones I was most excited about.
Best of the festival for me was definitely the Gestures of Memory: After the Archive strand. That was just a fascinating set of films. In fact I might say Scenes of Extraction was my favourite film of the festival. It was just so beautiful, insightful and articulate about what it was trying to say.
My big thumbs down goes to The Teacher, which is a shame, because it’s a really important topic, but that movie was unsit-throughable.
Let’s see what GFF25 has to offer! Until then, bye!
Hey, so you can probably tell I haven’t been as active reviewing films recently. And I’m usually chatty about the GFF coming up way earlier than this.
The TLDR is I’ve been spoonless as fuck, and will likely continue to be, and as such I am gonna be reviewing far fewer films than usual this year.
I have held off on posting anything, because I honestly wasn’t sure I could even do the festival this year. But then a friend suggested to me, “Hey, why not just do the film festival like a normal person?” You know, instead of trying to see several dozen film, which would be categorically impossible given my energy levels, I could, you know, just see a couple of films, like a regular cinema-goer.
So that’s what’s happening. I’m going, but expect fewer reviews.
Well, my plans for the GSFF went to shit. Fell ill. Totally put me on my arse. Am still on my arse to be honest, and it looks like it’s gonna take a while to get back on full power. Might be afk for a bit. Will return eventually but need a break the now to rest up.
Well, that’s me emerged from my post-festival coma. Paced myself a lot better this year, didn’t go quite so bananas, only 33 films.
Best film – Amerikatsi
Worst film – Sanctuary
For my post-Covid derth of spoons, still reasonably pleased with what I got done.
Got my tickets and am ready for the Opening Gala!
Looking forward to this madness at the GFF23
Got all my tickets for GFF23!
Got my Closing Gala tickets! This year it is Polite Society, which looks awesome, about a kickass lass who uses her skills as a stuntwoman-in-training to rescue her sister from the peril of marrying an eejit. Looks so much fun!
The entire programme was launched at midnight and I had all my picks firmed up for about 2am. Which is a great improvement for me, organisation-wise. So much good stuff, cannae wait!