The Gleaners and Varda: The 2013 AFI FEST & American Film Market Bérénice Reynaud March 2014 Festival Reports Agnès Varda in Californialand A blonde walks in the street, sporting fashionable sunglasses; the image is in black and white, yet has a very contemporary feel. Maybe it’s the elegant physical freedom with whic...
The Youth of Others: The 2012 AFI FEST & American Film Market (AFM) Bérénice Reynaud March 2013 Festival Reports It is always ‘before the Revolution’ for us, sons of the bourgeoisie. – Bernardo Bertolucci, Prima della rivoluzione (1964) Invited as Guest Artistic Director by the 2012 AFI FEST presented by Audi, Bernardo ...
Alice in Wonder-Mall and Wonder-Beach: The AFI/Fest and American Film Market Bérénice Reynaud March 2012 Festival Reports Your fearless film critic, Alice, was getting ready to cover the new edition of the AFI Fest which, this year again, was Presented by Audi and offering free tickets to the audiences – the former explaining the ...
A Question of Scale: The 2010 AFI FEST / American Film Market Bérénice Reynaud May 2011 Festival Reports Two important figures of the cinephilic landscape left Los Angeles in 2010. One was Rose Kuo, who since 2007 had assumed the direction of the AFI Film Festival; the other was Scott Foundas, film editor of The L...
Mapping Yin and Yang in the Post-Modern Urban Sprawl: The 2008 AFI Fest/American Film Market Bérénice Reynaud April 2009 Festival Reports AFI: 30 October–9 November 2008 AFM: 5–12 November 2008 Sprawlin’ thru Do cities have the film festivals they deserve? Or rather, what happens to the classical notion of cinéphilie in a sprawling...
