The 2022 BFI London Film Festival (“LFF) was my first back in-person since 2019. These are my notes and observations about the films. These aren’t full blown reviews because I’m no film expert. Last year’s online selection was dire, super depressing themes – and I like depressing films – and no Italian films – deadly…
documentaries
Are animal documentaries educational or speciesist?
Animal documentaries feel like a scam we don’t even think about as a scam anymore. They’re rationalised as educational and, arguably, they can be. Often, they’re ghoulish displays of supreme speciesism. On the one hand We often have scenes of natural behaviour from eating, including predation, to mating, nesting and taking care of young. At…
Notes from the 62nd BFI London Film Festival 2018
These are my notes from this year’s LFF. They were written either immediately after my seeing the film or shortly thereafter. I am not a film reviewer, so these are more impressions than full-blown reviews. One of the themes I noticed this year was the increase in stories about women and made by women. Good…
My Notes from London Film Festival 2017
I love film. I am not a critic or an expert; I don’t recall all the names or know all the facts. I am a spectator. I love the stories, the experience, the new worlds, the different realities. The London Film Festival is a sort of holiday for me and I look forward to those…
