Author Archives: SMW
Coverage of the Edinburgh International Film Festival 2011 for The List
I’m just back from covering the 2011 Edinburgh International Film Festival for The List’s website. I saw 36,000 movies, walked 58,000 miles back and forth between the venues and generally had myself a time. Here is the proof – eight … Continue reading
Blogging for the The List at the Edinburgh International Film Festival 2011
I’ve been at the Edinburgh International Film Festival since the start of last week, blogging for The List. You can see the results here (with all the other List coverage, including the work of the estimable Paul Gallagher, my fellow List … Continue reading
Senna Programme Note for GFT
Asif Kapadia’s Senna (2010) is playing at GFT until 16th June and I was asked to provide the programme note (those A4 handouts you get at a screening). GFT’s intention behind these things is to “enhance the film viewing experience … Continue reading
Movie Rip-Offs: A User’s Guide – Détournement and Dub Parodies
“Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It holds tight an author’s phrase, uses his expressions, eliminates a false idea, and replaces it with just the right idea.” Comte de Lautréamont (Isidore Ducasse), Poésies II (1870). “Ideas improve. The meaning of … Continue reading
Coverage of the Glasgow Film Festival 2011
Last month, I was an official blogger for the Glasgow Film Festival 2011, a great excuse to take in films, events and gigs and write about them with a free hand, albeit unpaid. Prior to the start of the festival, … Continue reading
Physical Impossibility 