Festival Dispatch
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Santa Barbara International Film Festival Caught in a Crossroads: Can It Remain Relevant?
Nearly 30 years after its inception, the Santa Barbara International Film Festival finds itself at a crossroads. Having wrapped its 11-day run last weekend, the 28th edition of the SBIFF presented a characteristically eclectic assortment of nearly 200 films, a half-dozen movie star tributes and a qu...
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FESTIVALS: True/False 2012, Day Four: Destroy Your Safe and Happy Lives
The movies I saw on the last day of True/False continued to intersect with the other movies I've seen this weekend. The festival taken as a whole functions as a kind of mosaic, in which the individual pieces add up to a larger whole. This is the first year I've really noticed this, even...
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Berlin Fest Reviews: From Period Opener 'Farewell My Queen' to Demented Nazis on the Moon
The Berlin Film Festival got off to a more than respectable start with “Farewell My Queen,” Benoit Jacquot’s smart, elegantly mounted costume drama about the court of Versailles as it’s about to be swept away by the French revolution.
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Meet the Slamdance Film Festival Programmers
We all know how Slamdance began when its founders' projects were rejected from the 1995 edition of the Sundance Film Festival. Some 18 years later, it's received the offhand blessing from Sundance founder Robert Redford (who has said he "wishes them well") and become an significant...
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Basking in French Cinema Now 2011: from Bachelor Days to Screen Illusion
San Francisco Francophile Meredith Brody reports on the city’s 2011 French Cinema Now.
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Now What? NYFF Chairman Richard Peña Looks Forward and Back as He Enters His Final Year
On Monday, less than 24 hours after the conclusion of the 49th edition of the New York Film Festival, Richard Peña sat in the conference room at the Film Society of Lincoln Center and considered his past and his future.
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HAMPTONS FEST DISPATCH | David Bailey Recalls "Warhol" Censorship In 1973
The 1973 British television documentary "Warhol," directed by photographer David Bailey, starts off with the definition of an understatement: According to scrawling text at the beginning, Andy Warhol and his close-knit team of collaborators "do not think and work in a conventional way." The proceedi...
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NYFF DISPATCH | Ken Jacobs, George Kuchar and Digital 3-D Kick Off Views from the Avant Garde
"There are some situations that leave you utterly speechless," says one of the committed performers in Wim Wenders' fine 3-D dance movie "Pina," screening this week at the New York Film Festival. But that assertion could just as easily apply to the other 3-D event at this year's festival, the transc...
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Practical Advice From Béla Tarr: A Dispatch From Reykjavik
Judging by statements made by Hungarian filmmaker Béla Tarr at the 8th annual Reykjavik Film Festival, the filmmaker lives for contradiction.
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Samurais, Cyborgs and Blood: Why Fantastic Fest Had a Great Seventh Year
Forget about the boxing, the beer, "Human Centipede II" and Elijah Wood. Fantastic Fest, which wrapped its seventh year with a screening of Morgan Spurlock's documentary "Comic Con: Episode IV -- A Fan's Hope," had a lot of great movies to go accompany the fun (a fan's hope, indeed). While my person...
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