Festival Reports
Zhang Yuan’s Seventeen Years and Crazy English and Thai film Nang Nak
A preview of three of the fascinating Asian films in the program
Contemporary French Cinema Reviewed
French critics for Libération shed light on some of the "their" films screening at
The Surreal Feel: Luis Buñuel
Various appreciations (including by M. C. Zenner and Acquarello) of the genius of Buñuel
Taboo, Porn and the Plain Bizarre – A Preview of Three American Documentaries
Three documentaries, Wadd: The Life and Times of John C. Holmes, The Girl Next Door and Le Petomane: Fin-de-Siècle Fartiste uncovered
24th Hong Kong International Film Festival
The 24th edition of the Hong Kong International Film Festival (HKIFF) unspooled from April 12 to 27, 2000. Since its beginnings, a quarter of a
St. Kilda Film Festival and Short Filmmaking in Australia… the Director’s Point of View: Interviewed – Paul Kalina and Diane Cook
(1) What year(s) were you festival director? 1998. (2) What kind of activities did you do, or were you responsible for, as festival director? It
1st Jeonju International Film Festival
A few hours by bus or less than an hour by plane from Seoul, Jeonju is the latest South Korean provincial city to stage a
St. Kilda Film Festival and Short Filmmaking in Australia… the Director’s Point of View: Interviewed – Nigel Buesst
(1) What were the beginnings of the St. Kilda Film Festival? Why that suburb? Mary-Lou Jelbart and a couple of buffs on the City of
Fusion Reviewed
A review of the Festival's digital, multimedia and performance-based presentation-package
43rd Annual San Francisco International Film Festival
April 20 to May 4, 2000 This year, San Francisco was Coppola ga-ga. Opening night saw Virgin Suicides (Sofia Coppola, 1999) consumed like jawbreakers stuffed