36th Cinema Ritrovato Gets Covid in the Tail Roger Macy July 2022 Festival Reports Cinema Ritrovato had never gone away in 2020 and 2021 but now there was no online alternative and most festival-goers were back at the usual venues to a visibly packed week. Although there was a ‘last minute’ q...
The 22nd Nippon Connection Refuses to Age Roger Macy July 2022 Festival Reports The Japanese film festival in Frankfurt, Nippon Connection, kept going in ’20 and ’21 as a digital-only festival, so kept its easy number co-ordination – the 22nd Festival was at the end of May ’22. There was a...
35th Cinema Ritrovato Inhabits Bologna with Joy and Pride Roger Macy October 2021 Festival Reports When I wrote last year on Cinema Ritrovato that “it is by no means certain that we will have reached ‘post-COVID’ any time soon”, did I really have any inkling that we would all be in lock-downs for most of the...
The 34th Cinema Ritrovato Has Full Resuscitation under COVID Roger Macy October 2020 Festival Reports Bologna in 2020 was destined to be different, with COVID-19 still lapping around. Frankly, when I saw the postponement announcement, that was the last I expected to hear of the festival this year, receding into...
Protagonists and Perpetrators: The 13th Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival Roger Macy December 2013 Festival Reports Who is the author of a documentary film? This was just one question that arose repeatedly during the week of the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival. I’ll give it its full English name just that on...
