Between Seeing and Memory: A Report on the 62nd Venice Film Festival Saul Symonds February 2006 Festival Reports August 31–September 10, 2005 The day after the 62nd Venice Film Festival has ended (and only hours after leaving the closing night party, which took place in the splendid gardens of the Hotel Des Bains),...
The Age of Enlightenment: Anxiety? Revolution! The Explosion of World Cinema in the Sixties by Peter Cowie Saul Symonds February 2005 Book Reviews If the word “revolution” in Peter Cowie's title functions to hint at the complete artistic and expressive renewal that filmmaking began to undergo during the '50s, and more drastically, the '60s, then the excla...
A Certain Kind of Semiological Infinity and Excess: The 51st Sydney Film Festival Saul Symonds July 2004 Festival Reports Film has always involved a certain materiality and a certain immateriality, a certain technology and a certain semiology. And a film festival reflects this on a larger scale: it is a total fact that always ...
