Andy's Film Blog

So the 34th annual Cleveland International Film Festival is over, and as I finish my first year volunteering I must say that it was a truly ...

May 2010 Lamplighter Review  In a time when American comedies rely on gross-out gags and then expect us to care for infantile grown men, a h...

The Last Truck: Closing Of A GM Plant is the wonderful and heart-wrenching documentary short that was nominated for an Academy Award. I revi...

The Jury Awards worked the same way, except that they awarded more films. We were again shown seven shorts, and I was a little disappointed ...

This program was determined by audience vote and before the program, we were told what the top ten shorts were, informed that we would only ...

  The festival's late night showing tonight was a delgihtful, funny comedy from France, filmed with little figurines done entirely in st...

Well, today was the day it hit me. After watching hours of film and volunteering all week I was utterly exhausted. I had tickets to see a do...

Today the late show I caught after volunteering was a Slovenian film called A Call Girl. The film's editor who introduced the film said ...

Garbo: The Spy is a unique historical documentary in that it has a sense of humor, and in that instead of listening to old British historian...

When I was volunteering, I was told that the shorts programs were the most popular screenings at the festival. So, I was fortunate enough to...

I concluded my day by seeing Quest For Honor, a sixty minute documentary which was preceded by the wonderful Academy-Award winning documenta...

After two days of volunteering and seeing films I took a day off and was back today for a movie before and after my shift. I started the af...

The key moment of the film comes in the very beginning and is the same line everyone remembers. It is the moment when Virgil Tibbs asserts h...

The Graduate represents a triumph of film directing, a generation defining revolutionary film, and what many won't recognize as a misinf...

Since festival films are usually hit-or-miss, I thought why not taken in a couple of proven films that are shown as part of a retrospective ...

So the Cleveland International Film Festival has kicked off again and for the first time I have decided to volunteer, rather than just patro...