40th New York Film Festival (Sept. 27-Oct. 13, 2002)
“No reassurance and little escapism – just right for the current state of uncertainty” New York feels unsettled these days, an agitation reflected even at the venerable Film Festival, whose[…]
Author: Megan Ratner
Megan Ratner's work has appeared in Film Quarterly, Cineaste, Filmmaker, The New York Times, Film Comment, and Frieze. The 20th Bergamo Film Meeting: March 9-17, 2002
This fine Italian festival features wide variety, no polemics When Sandro Zambetti initiated this modest festival in 1982, he aimed to “make a difference at a practical level.” Invoking no[…]
The Burden of Dreams: Gianni Amelio’s The Way We Laughed
The rise and fall of two brothers in postwar Italy The winner of Venice’s Golden Lion, The Way We Laughed is the regret-filled story of two Sicilian brothers in Turin[…]
La Vie en Rage: Rampaging Women in Five French-Language Films: Les Voleurs; Regarde la Mer; Dreamlife of Angels; Rosetta; Baise-moi
The searing images of the September 11 attacks initially prompted literal references to action movies, the only place most viewers had ever seen fireballs that size. The planners of these[…]
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