Dispatch from Reykjavík: Hot Films at a Cool Festival Randy Malamud January 2020 Festival Reports Issue 93 At Reykjavík International Film Festival’s 16th edition, strong opening and closing feature films – End of Sentence and Parasite – bookended a program where, in between, my top picks were all...
In Stockholm, Bergman is (Literally) on the Money Randy Malamud December 2018 Festival Reports Issue 89 A movie ticket with popcorn in Stockholm costs about 200 kroner, and if you pay cash you’ll notice that the 200 kroner bill features Ingmar Bergman’s handsome profile, alongside a smaller image of the...
Confronting Austrian history at the Diagonale: Making Up for Lost Time Randy Malamud June 2018 Festival Reports Issue 87 If Austrian film is less renowned than some other European cinema, still, it is a valuable and eclectic duchy of its own, and the Diagonale Festival of Austrian Film impressively curates and promotes this...
