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.”
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Angelopoulos to Zhu: “This is an artistic film. You wouldn’t like it.”
From Akerman to Zhu
This year’s fest features a wealth of winners and a few flops
Exploitation & Erotica · Festivals & Awards
Won’t you be my pony boy?
Directors · Experimental & Underground · Festivals & Awards
Painter, photographer, sculptor, composer, musician and here, seminal experimental filmmaker
The crowd has a thousand eyes
Not the best of times, not the worst of times
A world-class city offers a world-class fest despite some troubling backstory
This year’s NYFF is a decidedly mixed bag of tricks
Documentaries · Festivals & Awards · LGBT & Queer · Uncategorized
Reality cinema celebrates homos of this year and yesteryear
It’s contagious even Oscar dissented.
“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[…]
“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.[…]
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[…]
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[…]
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[…]
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.[…]
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[…]
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[…]
“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[…]
