London 2005

Man Push Cart

The 49th edition of the BFI London Film Festival opened with The Constant Gardener and closed with Good Night, And Good Luck. Somewhere in between there were 371 screenings, comprising 180 feature films and 130 shorts from 55 countries. This is the UK's largest public film event. And it was the USA/Iran co-production Man Push Cart, the second feature from Ramin Bahrani, (following Strangers), that received the International Critics' Prize. Details of the prize

Reports

No Direction Home. A Pakistani immigrant in America. Love. Despair. Hope. A film that, as Essam Zakarea writes, "manages to get into the deep sadness of living in the dark side of life." Read more.
Plotless Wonders. Karsten Kastelan is judge, jury and executioner in his biting report, a criticism of, and lament for, the current state World and European cinema.
Down the Rabbit Hole. "This is not a film that is easy to describe since even an attempt to do so seems to subscribe to its wonderful craziness," writes George Perry, who, nonetheless, attempts to describe his very strange trip into the colour-soaked rabbit-hole of Citizen Dog.