By Janine Gericke. Nestled in the heart of Silicon Valley, Palo Alto is home to entrepreneurs and companies at the forefront of technology. The city delights in bringing new and exciting things to the public, so why not celebrate innovations in film as well? The first annual Palo Alto International Film Festival, September 29-October 2, showcased narrative feature […]
13th Tempo Documentary Festival
By Salomon Rogberg. Since the Tempo Documentary Festival’s inception thirteen years ago it has continually brought a wide range of fascinating documentaries to Stockholm each March. This year’s films targeted a wide range of tastes from the grimmest societal issues to unusual stories of inspiring people. There were difficult and […]
Noir City 10
February 25, 2012
Michael T. Toole delivers a list of highlights from the tenth Noir City festival, San Francisco’s Castro Theatre, January 20-29, 2012. For ten straight days, Noir City entertained and informed us to just how fun, disturbing and enthralling the noir genre can be, and boy was it! Stylish and sexy, […]
A Revolutionary Festival: 33rd International Festival of Mediterranean Cinema at Montpellier (October 21-29, 2011)
By Christiane Passevant translated by Neville Rigby. True to tradition, the 33rd International Festival of Mediterranean Cinema, CINEMED, fulfilled its role in revealing new cinematic talent, while also reflecting the new movements, revolts and revolutions around the wider Mediterranean. The great surprise of the year has been to evaluate how […]
EPFF6: Sixth European Psychoanalytic Film Festival, 3-6 November 2011
By Yun-hua Chen. Organised by The Institute of Psychoanalysis under the Honorary Presidency of Bernardo Bertolucci, the Sixth European Psychoanalytic Film Festival is a miniature film festival with the specific theme of “Border-Crossing: Migration Across National and Mental States”. It is curated by Andrea Sabbadini and hosted at BAFTA, London, […]
30th Vancouver International Film Festival
By James Udden. If the Vancouver International Film Festival is any guide, then the state of world film culture remains healthy – at least for now. Every film festival strives for an identity of sorts, but not all succeed. Vancouver manages to successfully nourish multiple identities over its two plus […]
55th BFI London Film Festival 12-27 October, 2011
By Deborah Allison. One of the strengths of the BFI London Film Festival has always been its accessibility. Although press and industry passes are available, it is designed mainly to cater to the film-going public. This ideology is reflected in its varied but unpretentious programming, which features strands calculated to […]
Take One Action Film Festival (19 September–2 October 2011)
By Yun-hua Chen. The Scotland-based Take One Action Film Festival strikingly distinguishes itself from other film festivals in terms of its clear focus on “people and movies that are changing the world” and its strong emphasis on audience participation. Instead of film aesthetics, the festival foregrounds significant issues such as […]
FID-Marseille: Festival International du Cinema, 6 July–11 July, 2011
By Philip Cartelli. Near the end of Philippe Grandrieux’s hyperbolic It May Be That Beauty Has Reinforced Our Resolve – Masao Adachi (Il se peut que la beauté ait renforcé notre resolution – Masao Adachi, 2011), screened in the international competition at this year’s FID, director Masao Adachi looks into […]
16th Annual San Francisco Silent Film Festival, July 14-17, 2011
By Janine Gericke. My fondness for silent film grows more every year because of the San Francisco Silent Film Festival. It is exciting to see these pieces of history projected onto a giant screen, especially one as storied and decadent as the Castro Theatre. This festival is populated by a […]