American Nightmare: The Baying of Pigs: Reflections on the New American Horror Movie Jack Sargeant July 2001 Festival Reports Sargeant is once again knee deep in the horror of humanity.
Fusion Reviewed Ben Zipper June 2001 Festival Reports Fusion Session 3 Friday 1 June 10.30pm - midnight The St. Kilda Film Festival again provided a window (three sessions wide by 1.5 hours per s...
St. Kilda Tales: Notes on Fifty Films Jake Wilson June 2001 Festival Reports Intro The following are various ideas and impressions from the ten screenings I attended at the 2001 St. Kilda Film Festival. It is, of course, impos...
A Sample of the 2001 St. Kilda Film Festival Reviewed Kieran Galvin June 2001 Festival Reports Overview My first St. Kilda Film Festival was a real eye opener. I saw 89 shorts, 82 of which I review. I was buoyed by the diversity but dismayed ...
“Monologue is my preferred means of discourse.” A Bricolage Interview with Richard Wolstencroft in absentia Cerise Howard June 2001 Festival Reports Richard Wolstencroft is the director of the Melbourne Underground Film Festival, aka MUFF, commencing its second annual season in 2001 from July 5-1...
In New York – A Report on the New Directors/New Films Festival Marion Lee June 2001 Festival Reports March 23 - April 8 2001 Day One - interior: airport check-in queue It is not that early and Andy and I are not that seedy but we are going to Ne...
The 25th Hong Kong International Film Festival – A Report Lisa Roosen-Runge June 2001 Festival Reports (April 6 to 21 2001) www.hkiff.org.hk Anatomy Class (ZUNG So-yun, 2000) Bird Land (HUANG Min-Chen, 2000) Boli Shaonu/Glass Tears (Carol LA...
A Century of Chinese Cinema: The 25th Hong Kong International Film Festival… and Beyond Frank Bren June 2001 Festival Reports (April 6-21 2001) In 1975, Jacques Tati presented his film Parade (1974) at the London International Film Festival. It was a low budget, video-shot...
The 48th Sydney Film Festival – A Preview Needeya Islam June 2001 Festival Reports (June 8-22, 2001) As the weather finally turns cold after six months of summer, the 48th Sydney Film Festival is poised to begin. This year's p...
The 14th Singapore International Film Festival – A Report Nazir Keshvani June 2001 Festival Reports Apr 11-28 2001 In 1991, when the Singapore International Film Festival (SIFF) introduced the Silver Screen Award for the Best Asian Feature Fi...
Report on the 4th Bermuda International Film Festival David Sterritt June 2001 Festival Reports (April 20-26 2001) www.bermudafilmfest.com Quite apart from the movies it presented, the 4th annual Bermuda International Film Festival had ...
The 43rd San Francisco International Film Festival – A Report Jeff Lambert June 2001 Festival Reports April 19 - May 3 2001 This year the San Francisco International Film Festival said good-bye to its creative director of 19 years, Peter Scarlet...
The 54th Cannes Film Festival Mark Thomas June 2001 Festival Reports 9-20 May 2001 All my adult life, I have adored spending hours quietly in the dark, indulging and enriching my emotions, feeling life expand, no...
A Matter of Mood? A Report on the 9th Greek Film Festival Vicky Tsaconas June 2001 Festival Reports (Melbourne 19 - 29 April 2001) Most of the films I saw at this year's Greek Film Festival were comedies. This does not reflect the range of fil...
A Sample of the 2001 St. Kilda Film Festival Reviewed Fiona Villella June 2001 Festival Reports Introduction This year's St. Kilda Film Festival was another massive event. Whilst the bulk of its program was devoted to Australian short films, t...
Media City 7: International Festival of Film and Video – A Report Michael Zryd April 2001 Festival Reports (14-17 February 2001, Windsor, Ontario, Canada) Media City is a buried treasure in the world of experimental/avant-garde film and video art f...
The 11th Melbourne Queer Film Festival Reviewed Sally Browning April 2001 Festival Reports (March 15 - 25, 2001) The Astor theatre had never looked so colourful as on the night when the 11th Melbourne Queer Film Festival hit our shore...
A Report on the 51st Berlin International Film Festival – in Particular The 31st International Forum of New Cinema Tom Zubrycki April 2001 Festival Reports (7-18 February, 2001) The 'International Forum of New Cinema' is an independent section of the Berlin International Film Festival dedicated to ...
The 13th ClermontFerrand International Short Film Festival Jo Kennedy April 2001 Festival Reports (January 26 - February 3, 2001) festival site ClermontFerrand sits in the centre of France four hours south of Paris. It's the site of the Cl...
The 30th Rotterdam International Film Festival – 18 Films Spotlighted Christoph Huber February 2001 Festival Reports Film festivals usually take place in a realm of their own. You fear intensely you might miss something that will never surface again or you're so ...
30th Rotterdam International Film Festival Bree McKilligan February 2001 Festival Reports The Rotterdam International Film Festival 2001, which ran from 24 January to 2 February, celebrated its 30th birthday with a mammoth 502 films in ...
Report from Sundance Maria San Filippo February 2001 Festival Reports Celebrating its 20th anniversary, the 2001 Sundance Film Festival was blessedly low on buzz, hype, and Hollywood power players. The threat of union ...
The 5th Newcastle Film Festival Andrew Slattery February 2001 Festival Reports The 5th Newcastle Film Festival (NFF) was held from the 17th to the 19th of November 2000 with filmmaking seminars, international short films and the ...
The Jewish Film Festival… Brings them in, and Shows How to Bring it off Freda Freiberg December 2000 Festival Reports Freda explores the program of the annual Jewish Film Festival and its continued success.
Outsider Cinema – Observations on the 41st Thessaloniki International Film Festival Cleo Cacoulidis December 2000 Festival Reports Cleo reflects on a festival to be proud of.
To Market, To Market George Papadopoulos December 2000 Festival Reports George recently returned from two of the biggest annual film markets in London and Milan.
19th Vancouver International Film Festival Report Lisa Roosen-Runge November 2000 Festival Reports Lisa revels in the Asian section offered at Vancouver.
38th New York Film Festival Report Jared Rapfogel November 2000 Festival Reports Rapfogel reflects on an intense festival experience.
Toronto 2000: A Film Festival Diary Girish Shambu November 2000 Festival Reports A slice of the biggest film festival here offered, with great discussions on individual films.
Japanese Cinema at MIFF 2000 Freda Freiberg September 2000 Festival Reports Freda Freiberg reviews the Suzuki retrospective and the Japanese films that played at the Festival.
For Love or Money? The 49th Melbourne International Film Festival Reviewed Fiona Villella September 2000 Festival Reports The highs and lows of this year's blockbuster festival discussed.
Iranian Cinema at MIFF 2000 Ben Zipper September 2000 Festival Reports Ben Zipper provides an overview of Iranian films that played at the Festival.
Why the "Best of the Fest" May Never Get a Theatrical Release George Papadopoulos September 2000 Festival Reports The distributor's perspective: an intriguing account into why cutting-edge world cinema rarely makes it onto our local screens.
Above the Underground: A Report on the 7th Annual Chicago Underground Film Festival and an Interview with Guest of Honor Alejandro Jodorowsky Gabe Klinger September 2000 Festival Reports The Chicago Underground Film Festival ran from 18-24 August; Senses' Chicago-correspondent and youngest contributor Gabe Klinger provides a report.
The Australian DIY Feature: A Burning Future Michael Helms September 2000 Festival Reports A review of the 1st Melbourne Underground Film Festival.
53rd Locarno International Film Festival Reviewed Stephanie Bunbury September 2000 Festival Reports Amidst the visual splendour of Switzerland, Stephanie Bunbury managed to focus on the films playing at the 53rd Locarno International Film Festival which ran from 2-12 August. One of which was Fruit Chan's new one.