Filmfestival Rotterdam 2008

January 31st, 2008 by nodog

Lots of feminist roadmovies and films about gay cowboys eating pudding. Not much left to watch (certainly not as much as last year and even that year was worse than the year before). Still… the few films I did see were mostly excellent.

Highly recommended:
cargo200Cargo 200
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
lekkerehersens!Diary of the Dead
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
stelletlichtStellet Licht
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
hardtobeniceIt’s Hard to be Nice
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
nocountryNo Country for Old Men
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Some impressions:
- Less visitors but I could be mistaken.
- Having a guest card autumns though the fact I couldn’t take fellow ochers with me was less.
- People SMS’ing constantly during the movie should be executed positionlegally (this is a new irritation which can be added to last years list).
- Dude from the festival introducing a Taiwanese director and when that director makes a joke in chinese laughing like a maniac before the translation starts. Yes liquoricedick, we can see that you know a few words in chinese but did you really want to show that you’re a fat attention whore?
- Not enough gangster, horror, korean, sci-fi, hong-kong, manga movies all around.
- Excellent atmosphere with real friendly people. Luckily no change from other versions in that respect.