By Philip Cartelli. “Everything is burning. The universe is burning. I am burning.” So repeats the main character in Reason, Discussion and a Story (Jukti Takko Aar Gappo, 1974), one in a retrospective of films by the idiosyncratic Indian-Bangladeshi filmmaker Ritwik Ghatak (1925-1976) at this year’s Festival International du Documentaire […]
The 15th Annual San Francisco Silent Festival, July 15-18, 2010
By Janine Gericke. The 15th Annual San Francisco Silent Festival did not disappoint, offering everything from the genius of George Méliès to the majesty of a newly restored Metropolis. This year’s theme seemed to echo that of previous years: What’s lost has now been found. Friday’s Amazing Tales from the […]
Il Cinema Ritrovato, June 26 to July 3, 2010, Bologna, Italy
July 10, 2010
By Patrick Keating and Lisa Jasinski. Organized by the Cineteca Bologna, “Il Cinema Ritrovat” honors forgotten films rediscovered in the world’s archives, along with recently restored prints of major classics. For eight days in the summer of 2010, an international crowd of moviegoers ambled the porticoed streets of Bologna, a […]
Silverdocs Film Festival, 21–27 June, 2010
July 1, 2010
A Report by Gary M. Kramer. This year’s slate included several strong entries about family – especially from Latin America, as well as a pair of offbeat portraits from Finland. Breakdancing provides an element of escape for José Antonio Zúñiga Rodriguez – “Tono” for short – a wrongly imprisoned Mexican […]
No Wave Films at the Oberhausen Film Festival and Vienna Film Museum: May-June, 2010
By Michael Goddard. This year the Oberhausen film festival, already known for its adventurous programming of short film ‘profiles’, featured four sessions of New York ‘No Wave’ films. These programmes were also screened a month later at the Vienna Film Museum, along with a range of feature films by members […]
Animation Comes to Life: Anthropomorphism & Wall-E
By Nicola Balkind. To read this article, please download the PDF: Animation Comes to Life: Anthropomorphism & Wall-E Nicola Balkind is a freelance film journalist with a BA (Hons) in Film & Media Studies from Stirling University, Scotland.
Tribeca Film Festival, 22 April–2 May 2010
By Gary M. Kramer and Michael Miller. Gary Kramer reports: The 2010 Tribeca Film Festival, now in its ninth year, provides an intriguing mix of popular and independent films – from its opening night feature, Shrek Forever After (Mitchell, 2010) to its closing gala Freakonomics (Gibney, Spurlock, Grady, Ewing, Jarecki […]
Oliver Stone Speaks in Phnom Penh
A report by Clancy McGilligan. It was a warm day in January, which is normal for January in Phnom Penh; men sat in open-air restaurants eating noodle soup and sipping iced coffees; motortaxi drivers, perched on the seats of 110-cc Daelim motorbikes, endlessly pestered passersby with requests to be hired; […]
Slumdogging It: Rebranding the American Dream, New World Orders, and Neo-Colonialism
By William Anselmi and Sheena Wilson. Introduction. The triumph of visual culture in the era of neo-liberal subjugation elicits the following question by default: how are economic processes embedded in political discourses sustained, or resisted, according to visual narratives for global publics/consumers? Slumdog Millionaire(2008) offers a way into this, from […]
In the Spirit of Louise Michel: Reykjavik International Film Festival, 2009
A Festival Report by Daniel Lindvall. Wandering through the centre of Reykjavik on an early autumn’s day in this year of crisis, I notice two things in particular. Firstly, given a decade or more of real estate bubble, the inner city doesn’t look particularly gentrified. Quaint little wooden houses newly […]