As I flipped through the book Dekalog 3: On Film Festivals (1) on my flight to Argentina, the unofficial testimony for BAFICI – the Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente – as paradigmatic among international film festivals confirms, if confirmation is needed, that it’s an essential destination for the cinephile, be they director, critic, [...]
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Jay Kuehner is a Seattle-based writer who contributes regularly to Cinema Scope magazine and Green Cine.
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At a slot in the 53rd San Francisco International Film Festival program called Porchlight: True Stories From the Frontiers of International Filmmaking, directors took the stage in variety show style to divulge in what are typically humiliations of the job (boasting rarely makes for good stories). The event didn’t cause the expected sparks to fly, [...]
En la Ciudad de Sylvia/Dans la ville de Sylvie/In the City of Sylvia (2007 Spain 84 mins) Prod Co: Château-Rouge Productions/Eddie Saeta S.A./Televisió de Catalunya/Televisión Española Prod: Luis Miñarro, Gaëlle Jones Dir, Scr: José Luis Guerín Phot: Natasha Braier Ed: Núria Esquerra Art Dir: Maite Sánchez Balcells Cast: Pilar López de Ayala, Xavier Lafitte, Laurence [...]
25 September – 10 October 2008 “Radishes are genius…” Such are the first words, uttered by a vivacious grandmother reigning over the kitchen at a family reunion, in Aruitemo, Aruitemo (Still Walking), Kore-eda Hirokazu’s latest, surprising domestic drama. Simply stated, offhanded, the comment nonetheless consolidates the film’s abiding concerns of generational conflict and familial dependence [...]
24 April – 4 May 2008 In the State of Cinema Address at the 51st San Francisco Film Festival, delivered annually by a prominent figure ”to address complex issues facing contemporary cinema”, this year’s honoree Kevin Kelley, technocrat of Wired magazine, essentially fed the notion of film as we know it to the silicon wolves. [...]
8–20 April 2008 Midway through the 10th edition of the Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente (BAFICI), an acrid, ashen fog shrouded the city. “Humo!” cried my cab driver indignantly, an affable, septuagenarian driver who’d probably spent the better part of his life tucked into a bucket seat watching the world unfold through a [...]
20 April – 4 May 2006 “San Francisco’s in a tough position” tells me the editor of a major American film magazine, at a festival reception in honour of Guy Maddin, or Werner Herzog, I can’t remember. His point, common wisdom among critics and industry alike, is that the festival is seasonally relegated to diminutive [...]
