The Surreal Feel: Luis Buñuel Various July 2000 Festival Reports Various appreciations (including by M. C. Zenner and Acquarello) of the genius of Buñuel.
Taboo, Porn and the Plain Bizarre – A Preview of Three American Documentaries Mim Whiting July 2000 Festival Reports Three documentaries, Wadd: The Life and Times of John C. Holmes, The Girl Next Door and Le Petomane: Fin-de-Siècle Fartiste uncovered.
Spotlight on 49th Melbourne International Film Festival: Daily Reports Various July 2000 Festival Reports During the festival, short reviews and other comments were posted on this page.
Spotlight on 49th Melbourne International Film Festival: Daily Reports: Part 2 Various July 2000 Festival Reports Compiled by Bill Mousoulis Reports posted between Thursday July 20 and Saturday July 29 Posted Saturday July 29 (Of Women and Magic, Branded to...
The St. Kilda Film Festival 2000 Awards Senses of Cinema June 2000 Festival Reports A list of the awards and their recipients at this year's St. Kilda Film Festival.
Visions – The Inaugural Sydney Asia Pacific Film Festival Michael Park June 2000 Festival Reports "It took the Mediterranean communities 30 years to make a mark on Australian culture, it does take time you know." Anonymous employee of the Depart...
24th Hong Kong International Film Festival Michael Campi June 2000 Festival Reports The 24th edition of the Hong Kong International Film Festival (HKIFF) unspooled from April 12 to 27, 2000. Since its beginnings, a quarter of a centur...
1st Jeonju International Film Festival Michael Campi June 2000 Festival Reports A few hours by bus or less than an hour by plane from Seoul, Jeonju is the latest South Korean provincial city to stage a major film festival. In the ...
St. Kilda Film Festival and Short Filmmaking in Australia… the Director’s Point of View: Interviewed – Nigel Buesst Nigel Buesst June 2000 Festival Reports (1) What were the beginnings of the St. Kilda Film Festival? Why that suburb? Mary-Lou Jelbart and a couple of buffs on the City of Port Phillip Coun...
43rd Annual San Francisco International Film Festival Jeff Lambert June 2000 Festival Reports April 20 to May 4, 2000 This year, San Francisco was Coppola ga-ga. Opening night saw Virgin Suicides (Sofia Coppola, 1999) consumed like jawbr...
St. Kilda Film Festival and Short Filmmaking in Australia… the Director’s Point of View: Interviewed – Lisa French Lisa French June 2000 Festival Reports (1) What year(s) were you festival director? 1991-1993. I followed Nigel Buesst. (2) What kind of activities did you do, or were you responsib...
Preview – 47th Sydney Film Festival Bill Mousoulis June 2000 Festival Reports June 9 - 23, 2000 As I write this, the Sydney Film Festival is a few days away from beginning. I have managed to catch one of the films to play at...
St. Kilda Film Festival and Short Filmmaking in Australia… the Director’s Point of View: Interviewed – Peter Kaufmann Peter Kaufmann June 2000 Festival Reports (1) What year(s) were you festival director? I was festival director in 1995 and 1997. (2) What kind of activities did you do, or were you respons...
Squeezing through the Portal: Dragons and Tigers at Vancouver Geoff Gardner June 2000 Festival Reports This prize at the Vancouver Film Festival helps introduce Asian films to the world.
St. Kilda Film Festival and Short Filmmaking in Australia… the Director’s Point of View: Interviewed – Judy Schreiber Judy Schreiber June 2000 Festival Reports (1) What year(s) were you festival director? 1996. (2) What kind of activities did you do, or were you responsible for, as festival director? Too...
St. Kilda Film Festival and Short Filmmaking in Australia… the Director’s Point of View: Interviewed – Paul Kalina and Diane Cook Diane Cook and Paul Kalina June 2000 Festival Reports (1) What year(s) were you festival director? 1998. (2) What kind of activities did you do, or were you responsible for, as festival director? It ...
St. Kilda Film Festival and Short Filmmaking in Australia… the Director’s Point of View: Interviewed – Paul Harris Paul Harris June 2000 Festival Reports (1) What year(s) were you festival director? 1999-2000. (2) What kind of activities did you do, or were you responsible for, as festival director?...
The St. Kilda Film Festival: Looking Back Nigel Buesst June 2000 Festival Reports Ex-festival director reminisces about the Good Old Days of the Festival.
Impressions of the 2000 St. Kilda Film Festival Fiona Villella June 2000 Festival Reports A discussion of what this year's festival offered and some general conclusions drawn.
A Sample of the St. Kilda Film Festival Reviewed I Fiona Villella June 2000 Festival Reports Capsule reviews and general discussion on select films screening in the Australian short film competition.
A Sample of the St. Kilda Film Festival Reviewed II Alex Keeble June 2000 Festival Reports Capsule reviews on select films screening in the Australian short film competition.
Fusion Reviewed Ben Zipper June 2000 Festival Reports A review of the Festival's digital, multimedia and performance-based presentation-package.
Restoration: A Personal Festival Highlight Ben Zipper June 2000 Festival Reports An appreciation of one of the Festival's more experimental offerings, Restoration.
8th Greek Film Festival Vicky Tsaconas and Bill Mousoulis May 2000 Festival Reports This festival was held recently in Melbourne, and featured a dozen new features from Greece. Two reports filed here.
19th International Istanbul Film Festival Hasan Ergen Özay May 2000 Festival Reports Held between 15 - 30 April, Hasan Özay saw 37 of the films on offer, and offers a paragraph review on every one of them. He revelled in the retrospective sessions (Bresson, Loach) but also discovered one of the new films to be "one of the best movies of all time".
French Film Festival Bill Mousoulis April 2000 Festival Reports Quick impressions of all 11 French films that played recently at Melbourne's Como Cinema.
10th Melbourne Queer Film & Video Festival Ben Zipper April 2000 Festival Reports An overview of this year's Queer film festival, with Ben Zipper lamenting the lack of truly daring films.
Eastern Connection II Bill Mousoulis March 2000 Festival Reports Asian cinema recently has been quite extraordinary - this is a quick report on this program that toured Australia recently.
