Strategies of Tension, or, Il Brivido Del Proibito the ‘Violent Italy: Italian Crime Films’ retrospective at the 72nd San Sebastián International Film Festival Neil Young November 2024 Festival Reports With an acknowledgement of thanks to Fabrizio Fogliato On 25 September 1967, a Milan bank-heist went violently, tragically awry: as the escaping robbers exchanged gunfire with police in a high-speed car chas...
DON’T FORGET THE STRUGGLE, DON’T FORGET THE STREETS: DOK Leipzig 2023 Neil Young January 2024 Festival Reports Does protest work? Can cinema make a difference? These were the two questions implicitly posed by "Film and Protest: Popular Uprisings in the Cold War," the retrospective of the 66th DOK Leipzig — more fo...
BABY, THE RAIN MUST FALL … on the Claude Sautet retrospective at the 70th San Sebastian International Film Festival Neil Young January 2023 Festival Reports Only a tiny handful of film festivals have ever made it to their 70th edition, but celebrations when Spain's leading such event — at San Sebastian, the upscale, seaside jewel of the Basque Country — reached thi...
Shock of the New: A Report From the 3rd CPH PIX Neil Young June 2011 Festival Reports He put his face between her breasts. "We don't know how long it will be before Reptilicus is sighted over Copenhagen, but until he is, let's make every moment count. – Reptilicus (1961), a novel by 'Dean Owen'...
Ship Without a Rudder: The 39th International Film Festival Rotterdam Neil Young April 2010 Festival Reports February 1, 2004: A delegation of members of the Steamship Rotterdam Foundation visited the ex-SS ROTTERDAM in Freeport, Grand Bahama. They reported that the ship's overall condition to be reasonable, both the ...
Edinburgh in Darkness and Light: The Edinburgh International Film Festival Neil Young September 2009 Festival Reports
Our Beloved Month of October (or, Do the Hurch-Lurch!): The 46th Viennale – Vienna International Film Festival Neil Young April 2009 Festival Reports 17-29 October 2008 “The ideal form of government, Karl Valentin said, is anarchy – with a strong anarchist in charge.” Thus the philosophy of Hans Hurch – starken Anarchen an der Spitze of the Vien...
Roads of Excess, Roads of Access: The 5th IndieLisboa Neil Young August 2008 Festival Reports 24 April – 4 May 2008 Rather appropriate that a festival run by three directors should have three names. Officially, it’s the Festival Internacional de Cinema Independente. For short, IndieLisboa. Among ...