Just back from EIFF ... where things really started to ramp up towards the end of our stay! Having found it difficult to meet folk at the start by the end we were finding it hard to find time to watch films ...
We enjoyed a particularly surreal 'directors' dinner with a mixed bag of foreign film makers and producers, the charming Festival director Shane Danielsen ("no I REALLY liked your uniforms") and an elderly gentleman with, initially, a mystery identity. Karen and I arrived early for the meal to find him as the only other guest, we warmly introduced ourselves but he failed to mention his name. Now this being the festival it was pretty obvious he was a cinema hero the question was which one! Both of us fished about until Karen took the bull by the horns and asked his name ... it turned out to be Jack Cardiff the DOP for many classics including the Red Shoes and A Matter of Life and Death. His recollections, jumbled in with the multi-lingual-babble about lots of films we hadn't seen made for a really confusing but enjoyable evening. The team from Tsotsi were our favourites ... sadly their final screening was on at the same time as ours but we wish them well for the audience awards, unlikely as they are to topple the mighty "Buffy-fan" votes for Serenity.
