My Journal of the 2003 Cork Film Festival…
Cork, Ireland, October 12 through 19

Jumping the gun (festival films seen and reviewed prior to the festival)
The Butterfly Collector (short)
Love and Death on Long Island
Maze (short)
Meeting Che Guevara and the Man from Maybury Hill (short)
Night Train
Waterloo Dentures (short)
Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself

Monday 13 October
The Elephant Man
Dot the I
Carcan (Shackles) (short)
Kill Bill: Vol. 1

Tuesday 14 October
Nineteen Eighty-Four
Capturing the Friedmans
The Projectionist (short)
Salmer fra kjøkkenet (Kitchen Stories)

Wednesday 15 October
Love and Death on Long Island
It’s All About Love
Dortka Uhartea (Turtle Island) (short)
Les Invasions barbares (The Barbarian Invasions)

Thursday 16 October
Irish Shorts Program
Fast Film (short)
Wu jian dao (Infernal Affairs)
Headrush

Friday 17 October
Meeting Che Guevara and the Man from Maybury Hill (short)
Two Nudes Bathing (short)
Krapp’s Last Tape
Touching the Void
Cowboys and Angels

Saturday 18 October
Public interview with John Hurt
De Beste Går Først (United We Stand) (short)
Love Actually
Lock Up Your Sons and Daughters

Sunday 19 October
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (Chavez: Inside the Coup)
Thirteen
Mystics



My Commentaries

16 October 2003: This year’s Cork Film Festival is a Hurtful experience—and that’s a great and glorious thing [Love and Hurt in Cork]
23 October 2003: You can learn quite a bit about love, while sitting in a dark movie theater by yourself—especially in October in Cork [All you need is…]



Links to official film festival sites