Festival Director Should Think Again After Snub to Israeli

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SHANE Danielsen, the outgoing artistic director of the Edinburgh International Film Festival, is comfortable with conflict: he once head-butted a fellow critic. In what he later described as "my John Prescott moment", he was accused by a Dutch Barry Norman of hogging a round-the-table interview with Courtney Love; when words failed, he opted for a swift "Glasgow kiss".

This took place at the Berlin Film Festival. At the Venice Film Festival, he stopped using his head and opted instead for his fists. When I once asked him about the time when he allegedly lamped someone for chatting up his ex-girlfriend, he replied: "The Venice one ... I don't even want to talk about that one. Look ... oh God ... a little conflict is inevitable in all human relations. I certainly don't want to be seen as the enforcer of the festival circuit. I want to try and be known as the soldier-poet of the film festivals."

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Festival Director Should Think Again After Snub to Israeli

The reason for raising Mr Danielsen's previous behaviour is to illustrate the fact that he is a passionate man who, on occasion, acts before he thinks. Despite his e...

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