Down and Out in Helsinki and Tokyo: Aki Kaurismäki and Akira Kurosawa’s Humanist Tales Marc Saint-Cyr June 2014 Feature Articles Of all the evils that have challenged and tormented humanity throughout the long road of history, poverty is among the most terrible. The degree to which it can confine, limit, and crush its chosen victims can ...
Along the Tiger Path: The 42nd International Film Festival Rotterdam Marc Saint-Cyr March 2013 Festival Reports Early on in the 2013 edition of the International Film Festival Rotterdam, at about the third or fourth appearance of its distinctive, looming tiger logo that preceded every screening, I began to feel fairly co...
The Kids Are Not All Right: Fanny and Alexander Thirty Years Later Marc Saint-Cyr December 2012 Feature Articles As an elaborately constructed, compulsively watchable piece of large-scale fiction made for the screen, Fanny och Alexander (Fanny and Alexander) is an achievement with few equals even in this new golden era of...
Together We Stand: Supporting and Celebrating Japanese Cinema at the 11th Nippon Connection Film Festival Marc Saint-Cyr June 2011 Festival Reports Following the terrible events that rocked Japan on March 11th and onwards, the organisers of Nippon Connection were faced with a difficult decision: whether to hold the Frankfurt-based Japanese film festival th...
