Andrew Currie

Tag: Bermuda

  • BIFF 2009, Day 1: An Evening with Crack Whores

    Don’t mean to be glib here — this was the inescapable theme of the first two screenings I saw at the 12th annual Bermuda Film Festival. The first of the two, the Bahamian Rain, was clearly anticipated by fellow Caribbeans — there was a waiting list to get into the small venue where it was…

  • Nokia to the Rescue on AC 943

    Now that I’m officially a Nokia Ambassador I’m happy to report that my trusty E61i more than proved it’s worth on my three-hour return trip home to Toronto from Bermuda yesterday. Seated beside me on that flight was a kid on his first flight ever — and he was travelling alone! I felt bad for…

  • BIFF 2008 Day 9

    Featuring interviews with comedians, filmmakers and fellow artists, Born Dead, Still Weird is a thoughtful portrait of a veteran cartoonist whose modern gothic perspective on society has fostered and influenced many, as well as an entertaining chronicle of an artist still at work. Replace “thoughtful” with “mediocre” and “entertaining” with “plodding” and you’ve got my…

  • BIFF 2008 Day 8

    Truth and Reconciliation is over. Modern South Africa is about sex and hanging out, hook-ups and ganja. Or in other words I’ve wasted my life, and should have been a stand-up comic in Johannesburg. At any rate Bunny Chow, which took the Toronto Film Festival by storm in 2006, also won the hearts and minds…

  • BIFF 2008 Day 7

    This is a story about a love that grows where there is no more love – and about a town that tries to destroy the beauty that it cannot have for itself. Can a town be wonderful again? Well if it can’t be then the producers of this film have no right calling it Wonderful…