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“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-...
Italia Almirante-Manzini plays the painter Sofonisba in Cabiria (Giovanni Pastrone, 1914) Image courtesy of Museo Nazionale del Cinema di Torino

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...

Street Angel

David Sanjek
September 2009
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Lazybones

Darragh O’Donoghue
September 2009
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