Optimism James Lattimer May 2021 What Will Become of Cinema? Postcards for the Future In the summer of 2021, I will buy a bike several kilos lighter than my present one. Every weekend, we will leave the city on the RegionalBahn, whose bicycle carriage will be almost empty. We will undertake leng...
What Is It?: The 27th FID Festival International de Cinéma Marseille James Lattimer September 2016 Festival Reports If the success of a festival is measured by all the many places its films end up, then the Festival International de Cinéma Marseille, or FIDMarseille for short, has been on a major upswing of late. While only ...
The Walls of the Bestiary: The 53rd Viennale James Lattimer December 2015 Festival Reports Perhaps the most difficult thing about having a good reputation is the need to maintain it. There’s scarcely a festival more exalted for the quality of its programming than the Viennale, an intimate utopia of p...
Between Chez Papy’s and Donut Time: The 6th La Roche-Sur-Yon International Film Festival James Lattimer December 2015 Festival Reports La Roche-Sur-Yon feels like an unlikely place for any festival at all, let alone the pleasingly eclectic one it’s been granted. This small town was given its grid-like layout by Napoleon at the beginning of the...