buffalo niagara film festival, drama, fantasy, film features, film festival, film reviews, musical/concert

BNFF11 REVIEW: The Beast Pageant [2010]

No Comments 08 April 2011

“Sometimes you gotta feed the serpent its own damn tail” The love child of David Lynch and Michel Gondry has been born in Rochester, NY and its name is The Beast Pageant. Screening at the Buffalo Niagara Film Festival, Albert Birney and Jon Moses’s film is obtuse, inventive, funny, and more than it appears on [...]

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buffalo niagara film festival, documentary, film features, film festival, film reviews, foreign

BNFF11 REVIEW: La vérité du ciel [The Truth of the Sky] [2008]

No Comments 08 April 2011

“He didn’t say goodbye to his mother” Wanting to bring his film La vérité du ciel [The Truth of the Sky] to the Buffalo Niagara Film Festival was an action of catharsis for Jim McSherry. His documentary short was shot fifteen years after the plane crash that altered the lives of many—including him—it is centered [...]

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buffalo niagara film festival, film features, film festival, film reviews, foreign, suspense/thriller

BNFF11 REVIEW: The Floating Shadow [2011]

No Comments 08 April 2011

“I’ll only bring you bad luck” Throw the preconceptions that China would be unwilling to fund a project with dark subject matter such as rape and murder in a contemporary, non-feudal way out the window. According to writer/director Jia Dong Shuo, as long as you have a unique idea to bring to artistic fruition, finances [...]

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