Theda Bara’s Eyes: The 40th Chicago International Film Festival, Part 2
Angelopoulos to Zhu: “This is an artistic film. You wouldn’t like it.”
Category: Festivals & Awards
The Verve Is Back: The New York Film Festival 2004
This year’s fest features a wealth of winners and a few flops
Exploitation & Erotica · Festivals & Awards
Where Kink Is King: The 2004 CineKink Festival
Won’t you be my pony boy?
Directors · Experimental & Underground · Festivals & Awards
“Too Busy Making Work!” Honoring Michael Snow at the 2004 Thessaloniki Film Festival
Painter, photographer, sculptor, composer, musician and here, seminal experimental filmmaker
Together Again in the Dark: The 2003 Chicago International Film Festival
The crowd has a thousand eyes
57th International Film Festival in Edinburgh
Not the best of times, not the worst of times
The 2003 Montréal World Film Festival
A world-class city offers a world-class fest despite some troubling backstory
The 2003 New York Film Festival
This year’s NYFF is a decidedly mixed bag of tricks
Documentaries · Festivals & Awards · LGBT & Queer · Uncategorized
Put the Camera on Us! Documentaries at the 2003 San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival
Reality cinema celebrates homos of this year and yesteryear
Tongues Untied: Art, Politics, and Business Collide at Oscar’s 75th
It’s contagious even Oscar dissented.
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[…]
38th Chicago International Film Festival (2002)
“The Scandals of 2002” “There is no more universal experience than sitting in a darkened theater, watching the magic of the movies.” So says Richard M. Daley, mayor of Chicago.[…]
Keeping It Real: Documentaries in the San Francisco International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, 2002
Dykes and trannies get more than their usual screen time this year, thank goddess Documentaries are the heart of the Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, not only because they’re often[…]
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 Victoria Independent Film and Video Festival: February 2002
An engaging mix of cinema – two-thirds of it Canadian – visits the Great White North’s “postcard village on steroids” The Victoria Independent Film and Video Festival, now in its[…]
The Belfort International Film Festival: France 2001
Identity politics, urban terror, and Bulle Ogier distinguish this festival from some of its more pretentious peers When you think French film festival, you automatically think Cannes or even Deauville.[…]
Uncertainty and Change: The 42nd Thessaloniki International Film Festival 2001
The fest’s focus on New Argentine cinema is especially timely in light of the country’s dire economic situation “This new generation [of Argentine filmmakers] has found a more authentic way[…]
San Francisco’s Berlin and Beyond Festival 2002
Despite the American juggernaut, Germany and its neighbors continue to make good regional cinema So much of American culture, but particularly the movies, has been shaped over the decades by[…]
37th Chicago International Film Festival (2001)
“It’s so twenty-first century!” Was it coincidence that at least five festival films featured insistent cell-phone ringing onscreen, mocking transgressors in the audience? Actually, such acoustic violations were not a[…]
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