Author Genevieve Yue

Despite the attention given to the Toronto International Film Festival, the Images Festival may be the city’s most ambitious, if not in scale, then in programming, which ranges across film, video, expanded proj...

Has Rotterdam gotten too big? In its 40th year, and under an “XL” banner that included forty new locations to augment the festival’s eight already sizable venues, the answer, at least geographically, might be y...

Meticulously researched, Olivier Assayas’ film is both a complex factual reconstruction of an era and a deconstruction of the myths attendant to the political climate of the time.

  21 January – 1 February 2009 Pouring out of Rotterdam’s late-night screenings into the chilly streets, it was hard to miss the giant screen projections on the sides of the city’s tallest skyscraper...

6-7 October 2007 Standing outside the Walter Reade Theater in between screenings at this year’s Views from the Avant-Garde, P. Adams Sitney recounted how the filmmaker Harry Smith, in a stream of expleti...

January 24 – February 4, 2007 In a festival as large and as diverse as Rotterdam, it's often hard to choose what to see – aside from word-of-mouth recommendations and personal preference, selecting films...

January 25–February 5, 2006 In the shadow of Rotterdam’s better-known attractions – the VPRO Tiger Competition for new filmmakers, the flurry of CineMart deals, celebrity guests and hundreds of world pre...

b. December 24, 1922, Semeniskiai, Lithuania d. January 23, 2019, New York City, United States Filmography Select Bibliography Articles in Senses Web Resources It is for this art and from this art t...

Ken Jacobs was feeling uneasy. In the sleek Pathé theatre he stood a few feet from the microphone and looked up at the full audience before him, his hands clasped together. Moments before, Simon Field, Rott...

14-16 November, 2003 It was the last night of the Festival, and after an impressive program of Gregory Markopoulos films and Jean Genet's rare and masterful Un Chant d'Amour (1950), it was hard to imagin...

Yue looks at the late '60s, early '70s moment when cinema and video intermingled in the gallery space; in particular, she examines Anthony McCall's Line Describing a Cone and Bruce Nauman's Live-Taped Video Corridor as exemplars.

22 January - 2 February 2003 In his introduction to the program guide, Simon Field sets out an ambitious agenda for the Rotterdam Film Festival. Borrowing from the name of the recurring Festival debates ...

Fighting US imperialism at Bangkok.