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Author Neil Young

Neil Young

Neil Young is a journalist, curator, filmmaker and actor from Sunderland, UK, based in Vienna, Austria. A professional critic since 2000, he has contributed to many international outlets including Sight & Sound, The Hollywood Reporter, Screen International, Little White Lies, Modern Times Review and MUBI Notebook. He works in consultation and/or programming capacities for several film festivals including the Viennale and Vienna Shorts (Austria). His feature-length directorial debut Rihaction premiered at the Diagonale festival in Graz, Austria in 2019 and he has since completed several other films of various lengths which have been screened internationally. His acting roles include in Joanna Hogg's The Souvenir (2019) and Paul Poet's Soldier Monika (2024).

HOODLUM TIME: Lillian Hellman in San Sebastián

Neil Young
November 2025
Festival Reports
In ocean-lapped spots like San Sebastián on Spain's Atlantic coast, the tide turns twice a day. In the wider world, the process can take rather longer. The second half of September 2025 —  during which perio...

Strategies of Tension, or, Il Brivido Del Proibito the ‘Violent Italy: Italian Crime Films’ retrospective at the 72nd San Sebastián International Film Festival

Neil Young
November 2024
Festival Reports
With an acknowledgement of thanks to Fabrizio Fogliato On 25 September 1967, a Milan bank-heist went violently, tragically awry: as the escaping robbers exchanged gunfire with police in a high-speed car chas...

DON’T FORGET THE STRUGGLE, DON’T FORGET THE STREETS: DOK Leipzig 2023

Neil Young
January 2024
Festival Reports
Does protest work? Can cinema make a difference?  These were the two questions implicitly posed by "Film and Protest: Popular Uprisings in the Cold War," the retrospective of the 66th DOK Leipzig — more fo...

BABY, THE RAIN MUST FALL … on the Claude Sautet retrospective at the 70th San Sebastian International Film Festival

Neil Young
January 2023
Festival Reports
Only a tiny handful of film festivals have ever made it to their 70th edition, but celebrations when Spain's leading such event — at San Sebastian, the upscale, seaside jewel of the Basque Country — reached thi...

Shock of the New: A Report From the 3rd CPH PIX

Neil Young
June 2011
Festival Reports
He put his face between her breasts. "We don't know how long it will be before Reptilicus is sighted over Copenhagen, but until he is, let's make every moment count. – Reptilicus (1961), a novel by 'Dean Owen'...

Ship Without a Rudder: The 39th International Film Festival Rotterdam

Neil Young
April 2010
Festival Reports
February 1, 2004: A delegation of members of the Steamship Rotterdam Foundation visited the ex-SS ROTTERDAM in Freeport, Grand Bahama. They reported that the ship's overall condition to be reasonable, both the ...

Edinburgh in Darkness and Light: The Edinburgh International Film Festival

Neil Young
September 2009
Festival Reports

Our Beloved Month of October (or, Do the Hurch-Lurch!): The 46th Viennale – Vienna International Film Festival

Neil Young
April 2009
Festival Reports
  17-29 October 2008 “The ideal form of government, Karl Valentin said, is anarchy – with a strong anarchist in charge.” Thus the philosophy of Hans Hurch – starken Anarchen an der Spitze of the Vien...
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Roads of Excess, Roads of Access: The 5th IndieLisboa

Neil Young
August 2008
Festival Reports
24 April – 4 May 2008 Rather appropriate that a festival run by three directors should have three names. Officially, it’s the Festival Internacional de Cinema Independente. For short, IndieLisboa. Among ...

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