jared-rapfogel
Shadows on the Pier: The 48th Thessaloniki Film Festival
16 – 25 November 2007 Thessaloniki may be an ancient city, but much of its history has been effaced by time, war and relentless modern
Festival Perché: The 5th Tribeca Film Festival
April 25–May 7, 2006 Founded in 2002 in the wake of the WTC attack as a way of celebrating and reinvigorating its neighbourhood, the Tribeca
Stop Motion: Transformation and Stasis at the NYFF’s Views from the Avant-Garde
October 1–2, 2005 Packed tightly into two demanding, marathon-like days, this year’s annual New York Film Festival component Views from the Avant-Garde featured a record
Lakes in Lower Manhattan: The 4th Annual Tribeca Film Festival
April 19–May 1, 2005 It’s hard to describe New York as a film-festival-starved town, with the 41 year-old New York Film Festival towering most visibly
Minimalism and Maximalism: The 42nd New York Film Festival
October 1–17, 2004 The venerable, 42 year-old New York Film Festival is no longer the only game in town, with the Tribeca Film Festival stealing
“Do I Exist?”: The Unbearable Blankness of Being in Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Bright Future
More comprehensible than the prolific Kurosawa's previous efforts, this story of an unlikely friendship between a hopeless youth, an older man and a jellyfish is
New York Film Festival 2003 – A Report
Please note: discussions of individual films reveal plot details. Year after year I find myself frustrated by the New York Film Festival’s extreme selectivity, its
Jennifer Dworkin Interviewed
In this conversational yet rigorous interview, Dworkin discusses the techniques and overall experience of working on Love and Diane, a landmark in contemporary documentary that,
Central Asian Films
Jared delights in films from this region of the world, in particular, their humility, insight and complexity in grasping a reality much harsher then that
A Report of Dreams of a Nation – A Palestinian Film Festival
January 24-27, 2003, NYC http://www.dreamsofanation.org In New York City, a town largely defined by the presence of so many ethnic and national identities, the Palestinian