“Pordenone Trembles”: The 32nd Giornate del Cinema Muto Daniel Fairfax December 2013 Festival Reports On arrival in Pordenone, the city is very much as I expect it: a nondescript small town in northern Italy, centred on its vibrant piazza, with an architectural mixture of 19th century apartment blocks, Fascist-...
New Old Visions: The 27th Giornate del Cinema Muto Brigitta Wagner March 2009 Festival Reports 4-11 October 2008 Pordenone, Italy: A student of mine recently referred to silent films as “movies without speaking”. When I screened two silents in two consecutive weeks, his classmates groaned, “Anothe...