First things first – about the title (Ford v Ferrari) – I guess the title swap is designed to avoid any American audience confusion with the Steve McQueen (the actor) film from 1971 – Le Mans. Regardless, for this Yank, this film will sit in my memory as Le Mans ‘66 since I saw this at this year’s London Film Festival.
Onto my thoughts under the cut –
[Read more…]Initially, the plan was to include my adventures at my first BFI London Film Festival as part of a wrap up of what turned out to be a rather eventful October. But I changed my mind. So, over this and the next few posts, I will lay out some of the hits (and misses) from the films that I saw.
First, let me share a summary of my general impressions of the festival overall.
Unfortunately this year, my time at Tribeca was rather short. I therefore had to be strategic in how I mapped out my screenings.
One tactic that I used was to pack in a few of the Tribeca Shorts programming blocks into my viewing schedule. Here are the highlights.
Of the three programming blocks I watch, I have to say the most rewarding to watch was Down to Earth. The films in this collection were a series of Sci-Fi oriented short films, running no more than 30 minutes in length. The overall quality of each of the films was consistent and in keeping in with the theme.
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