To the Distant Insider: A Local’s Guide to the 2005 Adelaide Film Festival Thomas Redwood April 2005 Festival Reports February 18–March 3, 2005 In the second of his two programmed lectures at the Mercury Cinema, special guest film scholar David Bordwell descri...
The Festival with No Limits: Rotterdam International Film Festival Paolo Bertolin April 2005 Festival Reports January 26–February 6, 2005 Critics, film journalists and cinephiles tend to describe the Rotterdam International Film Festival (IFFR) as a cu...
Images for a Post-Wall Reality: New German Films at the 55th Berlin Film Festival Marco Abel April 2005 Festival Reports February 10–20, 2005 One of the remarkable aspects of the state of contemporary film discourse on world cinema is that one of its traditional pilla...
Home Delivery: The 1st Annual Boulder International Film Festival Brad Weismann April 2005 Festival Reports February 17–20, 2005 “My dad's got a projection system!” “My dad's got a couple of comfortable venues!” “My dad's got a Web page!” “Let's p...
Shades of Globalisation: The 24th Sundance Film Festival Bérénice Reynaud April 2005 Festival Reports January 20–30, 2005 It is nobody's secret. Sundance 2005 was an honest year, but not a great one. The most salient feature was the decision to ...
Nationalism for the Main Course: Bangkok International Film Festival Brandon Wee April 2005 Festival Reports January 13–24, 2005 At the time of this writing, two domestic events of historical significance have recently come to pass in Thailand. The lat...
What is to be Done: The 5th Calgary International Film Festival Lee Hill February 2005 Festival Reports September 24–October 3, 2004 Calgary is easily Canada's most contrarian city. It is the fastest growing city in Canada and goes to almost absur...
Free, Radical: The 49th Cork Film Festival Maximilian Le Cain February 2005 Festival Reports October 10–17, 2004 Like any substantial film festival, the Cork program presents an imposingly dense block of cinema out of which each viewer...
Hell, Purgatory and Heaven: Surviving the 48th London Film Festival George Clark February 2005 Festival Reports October 20–November 4, 2004 Subtitles allow viewers to believe that they are in some way in their own country. But for this film it's annoying b...
Minimalism and Maximalism: The 42nd New York Film Festival Jared Rapfogel February 2005 Festival Reports October 1–17, 2004 The venerable, 42 year-old New York Film Festival is no longer the only game in town, with the Tribeca Film Festival stealin...
New Polish Cinema: The 29th Polish Feature Film Festival in Gdynia Renata Murawska February 2005 Festival Reports September 13–18, 2004 Define Polish films? Angst-ridden pictures of a dark world in which any colour other than grey is out of place. Judging...
An Anthropological Perspective: The 29th Toronto International Film Festival Brandon Wee February 2005 Festival Reports September 9–18, 2004 In the title of Jia Zhangke's latest film, The World (2004), the noun refers figuratively in one instance to its setting ...
Cinema For/Against the Lure of Images: The 23rd Vancouver International Film Festival Bérénice Reynaud February 2005 Festival Reports September 23–October 8, 2004 A few years ago, one of my then-colleagues at Cahiers du cinéma, Marc Chevry, launched a stimulating series of a...
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 Venic...
Images from Afar: AFI Los Angeles International Film Festival Bérénice Reynaud February 2005 Festival Reports November 4–14, 2004 In spite of making “an effort” in the direction of world cinema, the American Film Institute (AFI) Festival still remains a...
Screening History: 12th Biennial Conference of the Film and History Association of Australia and New Zealand Fincina Hopgood February 2005 Festival Reports Canberra, Australia, December 2–5, 2004 2004 has been a turbulent year in the 20-year history of ScreenSound Australia, the National Screen and...
“Rouch Isn’t Here, He Has Left”: A Report on Building Bridges: The Cinema of Jean Rouch Ian Mundell February 2005 Festival Reports Conference report French Institute, London, October 5–14, 2004 When Jean Rouch died in February 2004, at the age of 86, he had completed arou...
Returning to Cinematic Roots: The 7th queerDOC Festival Fiona White February 2005 Festival Reports September 9–12, 2004 Valhalla Cinema, Sydney The change of venue for this year's queerDOC festival, the international documentary film festi...
Agit Pop: The 52nd San Sebastián International Film Festival Violeta Kovacsics February 2005 Festival Reports September 17–25, 2004 As the largest film festival in Spain, the San Sebastián International Film Festival is well-placed to represent Spanish ...
Bleak Optimism: Balkan film at the 45th Thessaloniki International Film Festival Andrew James Horton February 2005 Festival Reports November 19–28, 2004 Even before the 1990s, the Balkans was infamous for inter-ethnic tensions, and the word Balkanisation was a derogatory t...
“A Work of Art is a Promise of Hope”: A Report on the 42nd Viennale Pepita Hesselberth February 2005 Festival Reports October 15–27, 2004 Film festivals (…) work on more than one level: we are given – and not just through the documentaries – insights into other ...
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, i...
Aspects of Change: The 58th Edinburgh International Film Festival George Clark October 2004 Festival Reports All film festivals are somewhat outside of culture. They operate to test films on a prospective market, to showcase films from underexposed countr...
A Report on the 53rd Melbourne International Film Festival Rolando Caputo October 2004 Festival Reports On the opening day of the 53rd Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) I find myself watching Abbas Kiarostami's 10 on Ten (2004). While not ...
Inner Turbulence: The 4th New York Korean Film Festival Christopher Bourne October 2004 Festival Reports Film scholar Gilberto Perez, in his brilliant work The Material Ghost: Films and their Medium, expresses as well as anyone I've read the physical ...
Gde Mama? (“Where’s Mother?”): Russian Resurrection Film Festival Helen Grace October 2004 Festival Reports Even though they record moments which may never appear in the film, production stills are strangely powerful instruments, constructing in retrospe...
A Report on the 13th Brisbane International Film Festival Jim Knox October 2004 Festival Reports The cultural horizons are less narrowly diminished than when I covered the first Brisbane International Film Festival (as a then-time local, for F...
Midnight at the Oasis: The 9th Cinematexas International Short Film Festival Ioannis Mookas October 2004 Festival Reports From the wide span of the Congress Avenue bridge in Austin, it was possible to mark the autumn equinox this September by gazing up that long avenu...
Daily Reports from the 53rd Melbourne International Film Festival Various July 2004 Festival Reports • Festival Wrap-Up • Friday 6 August • Thursday 5 August • Wednesday 4 August • Monday 2 August • Sunday 1 August • Thursday 29 July • ...
A Certain Kind of Semiological Infinity and Excess: The 51st Sydney Film Festival Saul Symonds July 2004 Festival Reports Film has always involved a certain materiality and a certain immateriality, a certain technology and a certain semiology. And a film festival refl...
Dying at a Film Festival: The 6th Udine Far East Film Festival Brandon Wee July 2004 Festival Reports Every year since 1999, a festival in a northern Italian town has played host to a week's worth of the most popular films from East Asia. Although ...
Readjusting Perspective: The 57th Cannes Film Festival Christoph Huber July 2004 Festival Reports There is general consensus that the 2004 Cannes Film Festival represented a return to form after last year's rather miserable outing (although it ...
For the Love of Cinema: The 28th Hong Kong International Film Festival Janice Tong July 2004 Festival Reports It is recorded in an article titled “La vie utile des vues cinématographiques” in La Nature in 1897 that the effective life-span of a frame of fil...
Riders on the Storm: The 15th Human Rights Watch International Film Festival Ioannis Mookas July 2004 Festival Reports Uppermost on everyone's agenda right now, in New York as in the rest of the U.S., is purging our government of the malignancy that has subsumed it...
Taking Off: The 47th San Francisco International Film Festival Brian Darr July 2004 Festival Reports An international film festival can be likened to an airplane trip around the world, only instead of stopping to get out of the cabin and sightsee,...
Social Engagement: The 21st St Kilda Film Festival Kyle Weise July 2004 Festival Reports Most immediately apparent in the selection of short films that I attended at this year's St Kilda Film Festival was the sombre, and even tragic, t...
