This year, for the first time, I have a website to post these review on, and rather than making everyone wait for the very last review (usually early in October), I will post them here in bunches as I complete them.  Later in the fall, I will collect all of the reviews together into their usual format as a PDF.

This section contains an introduction and reviews of the following films:

• The Wind That Shakes the Barley
• The Lives of Others
• Lights in the Dusk
• The Prisoner or: How I Planned to Kill Tony Blair
• Brand Upon the Brain!

That covers my first two days at the Festival.  I will post more reviews in two-day batches in the coming weeks. Continue reading →