Author Nicholas Godfrey

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...

“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...

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 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...

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...