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One For The Books: 35th Cleveland Film Fest Roundup

The 35th Cleveland International Film Festival has come to close. It was a year marked by record attendance and a host of fantabulously crafted cinema, including the akronlife sponsored "If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle," which won in its category! more

Apr 8, 2011 4:53 PM (330) Area Blog

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3 Shotgun Reviews from the Cleveland Film Festival

The CIFF is a booming success with a great film selection, record attendance and a handful of awesome. Here's a quick look at three films that have made the cut! more

Mar 28, 2011 12:30 AM (330) Area Blog

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CIFF: Van Diemen's Land - a moment of silence please.

I can't believe that just happened...at least that's what I said at the end of this utterly engrossing film. more

Mar 31, 2010 5:26 PM (330) Area Blog

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CIFF: The Best of Times

This simple, humorous and heartwarming film will be one of the unsung heroes of the film festival. more

Mar 31, 2010 5:20 PM (330) Area Blog

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CIFF: Small Crime - a viewing pleasure

This late addition to the list of films I intended to watch was stuffed with fun-nosity. A pleasure to watch. more

Mar 30, 2010 4:39 PM (330) Area Blog

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CIFF: The Good Heart - A palpitation.

Don't know if I just expected a lot more from this film than I was given, but I was dissatisfied at best. Cynicism comes naturally to some of us. more

Mar 30, 2010 3:24 PM (330) Area Blog

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CIFF: The Girl - subtle and simple

Picture "Home Alone" meets "My Girl" ... in a dark alley and subsequently beats the daylights out of it, nurses it back to health and sends it on a trip to Sweden. more

Mar 25, 2010 4:43 PM (330) Area Blog

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CIFF - Black Box. Don't go looking for it.

If the Cleveland International Film Festival crashed into Lake Erie tonight, this is not the black box you should go looking for. Leave it buried. more

Mar 23, 2010 4:53 PM (330) Area Blog

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CIFF Smorgasbord

The Shorts Programs are living up to expectation and even exceeding it. Both animated and live action shorts have been solid. more

Mar 23, 2010 2:37 PM (330) Area Blog

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CIFF - Lourdes

Don't consider the differences in Asian cinema and Austro-Franco-Germanic cinema. more

Mar 23, 2010 12:44 PM (330) Area Blog

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CIFF: Trailerpark & Independent Shorts program 3

A sizable day if you count each of the shorts as a separate film; but a good set of films it was! more

Mar 22, 2010 1:00 AM (330) Area Blog

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Cleveland International Film Festival Night Two

"Accident." Enough said. more

Mar 20, 2010 2:26 AM (330) Area Blog

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Excitement for the Cleveland International Film Festival has numbed my toes

Ten days of film festival bliss begins this evening with "TiMER" more

Mar 18, 2010 11:31 AM (330) Area Blog

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Cleveland International Film Festival - You Must Do This!

The 34th annual Cleveland Film Festival is returning to Cleveland this week. Hundreds of films just begging to be seen...by you. If you're not going, I have nothing to say to you. Get your pen and pad of paper ready...Let's Go! more

Mar 15, 2010 5:35 PM (330) Area Blog

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