WASHDAYS
With a glamorous award ceremony the Rushes Soho Shorts Festival celebrates the very best of short films. The awards in overall eight categories were presented by Sadie Frost (DRACULA) and others. The britspotting programmers are curious wether the british and irish winning shorts deliver what they promise.
In the newcomer category Destiny Ekaragha wins with TIGHT [...]

AN ENGLISHMAN IN NEW YORK
Richard Laxton’s AN ENGLISHMAN IN NEW YORK is dedicated to the life of british eccentric, author and entertainer Quentin Crisp. It will be screened on the first day of the Galway Film Fleadh as part of the queer strand Out on Film tomorrow at 10pm.
London 1975, Quentin Crisp (John Hurt) is [...]

MOON
The jury have decided upon the winners of Edinburgh International Film Festivals. Once again the britspotting team had the right nose when presenting several of this year’s winning features and short films in the twelve competition categories…
MOON directed by David Bowie’s son, Duncan Jones, scooped the Michael Powell Award for Best New British Feature Film. MOON [...]

THE QUEEN
From today the Filmfest München dedicates its retrospective to British cult director Stephen Frears. According to the motto “From a Laundrette to Buckingham Palace” 19 of his works will be shown.
Not only his famous and successful films like Oscar winning THE QUEEN, DANGEROUS LIASONS or HIGH FIDELITY but also his less known works will [...]

MY LAST FIVE GIRLFRIENDS
The answer to the question ‘what factors contribute to the demise or survival of a modern relationship’ might be given in Julian Kemp’s new film MY LAST FIVE GIRLFRIENDS. It will be screened tomorrow at 7.45 pm at the Edinburgh International Film Festival (2nd Screening: 26th of june 4.30 pm).
The centre of [...]