Festival Reports
Cinema, Time Regained: The 13th Jeonju International Film Festival
Growing up in Korea, I knew Jeonju as an historic city famed for its local culture, including manual paper-making and exceptional food. My unashamedly touristic
Retrieving the Cinema’s Past: The 26th Cinema Ritrovato
For over a quarter of a century Bologna has been celebrating the rediscovery and recovery of lost and forgotten films. Its Cinema Ritrovato festival revels
Shifting Focus: The 36th Hong Kong International Film Festival
The Hong Kong International Film Festival keeps on changing pretty radically every year because… well, Hong Kong changes pretty radically as it is buffeted by
“Ah! The cruelty of Cannes!”: The 65th Cannes Film Festival 2012
On the first weekend of this year’s Cannes, the heavens opened with a ferocity and persistence rare for the Côte d’Azur, dousing the red carpet
Dispatch from the Rockies: The 9th Big Sky Documentary Film Festival
Cultivated by a committed group of documentary filmmakers in Missoula, Montana, the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival has established itself as a serious cultural asset
Unlikely Heroes: The 31st Sundance Film Festival and the 20th Pan African Film and Arts Festival
As many had expected, Benh Zeitlin’s first feature, Beasts of the Southern Wild, won The Grand Jury Prize, as well The Excellence in Cinematography Award
Raiders of the Lost Archive: the 6th Bangkok Experimental Film Festival
The biennial Bangkok Experimental Film Festival had its sixth incarnation from 24 January to 5 February 2012 with a focus on the archive as inspiration
“The Cinema Leads Me There”: the 41st International Film Festival Rotterdam
Ugly city, beautiful cinema. It strikes me that the world’s major film festivals are opposed in nature to the cities that host them. Take Berlin.
Grand Finales: The International Forum of New Cinema at the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival
Berlin was particularly icy this February; even discounting the gusts of wind that howled across Potsdamer Platz in the evenings, temperatures dropped below -20 °C.
Alice in Wonder-Mall and Wonder-Beach: The AFI/Fest and American Film Market
Your fearless film critic, Alice, was getting ready to cover the new edition of the AFI Fest which, this year again, was Presented by Audi