After the Surge: The 2009 Melbourne International Film Festival
“An alternative agenda for the festival might be: what can we make of modernism?”
Category: Festivals & Awards
Bucking the Tide: The 2009 New York Film Festival
This year’s strong, idiosyncratic line-up reminds us that moviegoing can still be more than “a museum experience”
No Transcendence: Cannes Film Festival 2009
“It’s becoming more and more rare that a fresh, original film gets into the Cannes competition.”
Screening Hong Kong: The 33rd Hong Kong International Film Festival
One of the world’s largest cinema events is also one of the most ambitious
The View from Here: Middle Eastern Cinema at the 49th Thessaloniki International Film Festival
“What happens when the gaze is returned?”
Deep and Wide: The 2008 American Film Institute Festival
A sampling of the best of the fest’s international offerings
Music in the Making: Highlights from the 2008 Melbourne International Film Festival
“The surprise musical number can represent a facile avoidance of complexity, a moment of true strangeness, or a way of harmonizing existing, underlying themes.”
Festivals & Awards · LGBT & Queer
Queer Angles: The 2008 Portland Lesbian and Gay Film Festival
Feisty orthodox Jewish dykes, globe-trotting ladyboys, fascistic Armani queens you know, the gang
Festivals & Awards · LGBT & Queer
What’s Up, QDoc? Portland’s 2008 Queer Documentary Festival
Seeing queer lives from the U.S. and Canada to South Africa and Iran
Getting Better All the Time: The 2008 Tribeca Film Festival
But lose the red carpet
Directors · Documentaries · Festivals & Awards · Interviews
What’s Up, Docs? Nonstandard Operating Procedures in Recent Documentaries, and Interviews with Patricio Henriquez and Doug Pray
“Why didn’t you just stick to the truth?”
Directors · Festivals & Awards · Interviews
From a Line of Ancestors: Talking with Doris Dörrie and Natasha Arthy
“We in the West trample on them.”
Festivals & Awards · Writers & Critics
Twenty-One Years in the Midday Sun: Revisiting Roger Ebert’s Cannes
Here’s lookin’ at you, Roger
Plus Ça Change: The 2008 Rendez-vous with French Cinema
Gingerly moving out of the 20th century, not quite into the 21st
Notes from the Tribeca Film Festival Underground
This Tribeca Film Festival is on, and I live on 12th St. and 2nd Ave, across the street from one and a block away from another theaters at which it[…]
Tickets to the Dark Side: The 43rd Chicago International Film Festival
“We will see whose heart is sharpest!”
Documentaries · Festivals & Awards · War
Onward and Inward: On the 2007 Thessaloniki International Film Festival
“Each work limns a moral dilemma that has no discernible answer.”
Safety First: The 45th New York Film Festival
The 2007 NYFF’s more cautious than courageous this year For a long time, the New York Film Festival was the inarguable heavyweight in town, practically on a direct feed from[…]
How Did History Happen? The 2007 Melbourne International Film Festival
“Each stranger is a figure of seemingly infinite potential, pinned down to a changing series of points.” Given that the new director of the Melbourne International Film Festival, Richard Moore,[…]
Movin’ On Up: The 2007 Tribeca Film Festival
From neighborhood festival to NYC player There’s no denying the buzz of New York’s Tribeca Film Festival, a 12-day extravaganza spread out among 13 venues. Out in force at the[…]
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