Does anyone use these staff lists and make notes? Are you swayed by these choices? If so then please tweet "Cos Ant told me to watch these @timpson @nzff" with a link to your list. I will choose a winner from the 1000s of tweets that are surely to come. Obviously having programmed an entire section (Incredibly Strange) it'd be easy for me to simply list the nine films that I programmed within that and be done with this STAFF PICK thing. For a once in a lifetime cinema experience though, I would highly recommend a film I produced called The Greasy Strangler, this is the film that my wife forbids any of her friends and family to see.
Okay back to this bloody STAFF PICK list - taking the easy road is not always the right road, so I'm going to go off my usual path and venture into the rest of the festival and recommend films that fell out of my programming comfort zone but did indeed provide me with immense viewing pleasure over the past year(s). All of these come with my trademarked 100% good time guarantee even when the subject matter may not be so pleasant.
