Explaining Mabelescence: The 3rd Amsterdam Filmmuseum Biennale Jay Weissberg August 2007 Festival Reports 11-15 April 2007 In whatever epoch of the picture business Mabel Normand had entered, she would have been the biggest star in it. – Adela Rogers St. Johns (1) Seventy-seven years after Mabel Normand’s de...
Singing with a Purpose: Wartime Propaganda and Other Themes: The 19th Cinema Ritrovato Jay Weissberg October 2005 Festival Reports July 2–9, 2005 Few, if any, film festivals can match the extraordinary range of material on offer at Bologna's Cinema Ritrovato, now in its 19th year as the leading showcase for film restoration. From ...
Lido Days (and Livid Nights): The 60th Venice Film Festival Jay Weissberg February 2005 Festival Reports September 1–11, 2004 Despite fears that Marco Müller's overt wooing of Hollywood glamour would undercut the artistic mission of the 2004 Venice Film Festival, there were enough auteurist names and festi...
The 23rd Pordenone Silent Film Festival: A Consideration Jay Weissberg February 2005 Festival Reports October 9–16, 2004 If festival director David Robinson's annual opening night greeting “Welcome home!” seems a bit corny to non-participants, it comes as a bright fillip to an audience accustomed to clea...
An Endless Number of Great Deeds: Film Front Weimar: Representations of the First World War in German Films of the Weimar Period (1919-1933) by Bernadette Kester Jay Weissberg April 2004 Book Reviews As a concept, this war will surely only ever be portrayed in the arts as a time-dictated, great and insanely bloody event… (1) – Gerrit Engelke As the focus of scholarship has shifted from the acknowledged wo...
Report on the 22nd Pordenone Silent Film Festival Jay Weissberg December 2003 Festival Reports What astonishes at the Pordenone Silent Film Festival (Le Giornate del Cinema Muto), which takes place annually in northern Italy, is not just the richness of 35-odd years of silent cinema but the way it re...
