“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-...
A Moviegoer’s Lament, or a Report on Recine, Rio de Janeiro’s International Festival of Archival Cinema Shari Kizirian December 2011 Festival Reports Recine, the International Festival of Archival Cinema, is the stuff a cinephile’s dreams are made of. Its slate bulges with beloved classics, premiering restorations, and a host of new films competing for p...
Hawksian Girls Meet Weimar Cinema at 25th Cinema Ritrovato Federico Passi October 2011 Festival Reports In the crowded calendar of film festivals Bologna’s Cinema Ritrovato stands out for being one of the very few which persistently investigates cinema’s lesser-known history. Strategically set between the end of ...
Open Your Ears: The Sound of Music, Talking, and Foley at the 3rd Annual Jornada Brasileira de Cinema Silencioso Shari Kizirian December 2009 Festival Reports Before American and European motion pictures took over Brazilian movie screens in 1911, domestic cinema was enjoying a bela época. Dominated by actualités and newsreels as most early cinemas were, Brazilian cin...
