High Anxiety: The 41st Hong Kong International Film Festival Nicholas Godfrey June 2017 Festival Reports The 41st Hong Kong International Film Festival (HKIFF) was launched amidst political turmoil and much soul searching about the state of the local film industry. While tales of the declining fortunes of Hong Kon...
Pop Provocation: A tour of the outer limits of the New Hollywood Nicholas Godfrey July 2016 Feature Articles “It’s a movie for kids, they’re not going to dig it, man!” Peter Tork, Head The story is, by now, familiar. Amidst dwindling cinema attendance and the migration of the mass audience to television, Hollywood’s...
In the Shadow of the Giant: the 37th Hong Kong International Film Festival Nicholas Godfrey June 2013 Festival Reports One of the last big film festivals, running at 17 days, the Hong Kong International Film Festival offers the hardy filmgoer plenty of opportunities to race back and forth across the fragrant harbour by ferry, s...
The Long Game: Conversations with Independent Iconoclasts Roger Corman, George A. Romero, and Charles Burnett Nicholas Godfrey November 2012 Book Reviews The ongoing University of Mississippi Press Conversations with Filmmakers series compiles carefully curated, career-spanning interviews with notable directors. These three recent installments, on Roger Corm...
Textures of Memory, Images in Flux: The 2012 Melbourne International Film Festival Nicholas Godfrey September 2012 Festival Reports At first blush, it seems difficult to pin-down what this year’s Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) was trying to be: with an international programme borrowing heavily from Cannes and Venice, a good po...
