Dealing with the past, and present, at the 29th Sarajevo Film Festival Randy Malamud November 2023 Festival Reports Crowds erupted in the narrow streets outside Sarajevo’s stately National Theatre as security guards cleared a space for someone unexpected – though we had a pretty good inkling who it was – pulling up to the re...
Dispatch from Reykjavík: Hot Films at a Cool Festival Randy Malamud January 2020 Festival Reports At Reykjavík International Film Festival’s 16th edition, strong opening and closing feature films – End of Sentence and Parasite – bookended a program where, in between, my top picks were all documentaries: an ...
In Stockholm, Bergman is (Literally) on the Money Randy Malamud December 2018 Festival Reports A movie ticket with popcorn in Stockholm costs about 200 kroner, and if you pay cash you’ll notice that the 200 kroner bill features Ingmar Bergman’s handsome profile, alongside a smaller image of the director ...
Confronting Austrian history at the Diagonale: Making Up for Lost Time Randy Malamud June 2018 Festival Reports If Austrian film is less renowned than some other European cinema, still, it is a valuable and eclectic duchy of its own, and the Diagonale Festival of Austrian Film impressively curates and promotes this small...
