Movies that restore your faith in cinema, and audiences
David from Vancouver: One of the pleasures of film festivals is the enthusiasm you pick up from the audiences. Queueing for a screening, you can talk with people about what they’ve seen or expect to...
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Revenge of the ROW
Sun Spots. DB here: Watching Congress on C-SPAN makes you realize that the dead outnumber the living. Likewise, going to a film festival like Vancouver’s drives home to you how many movies there are...
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Another dispatch from Vancouver
Kristin here: Surviving Life (Czech Republic; dir. Jan Švankmajer, 2010) I became a fan of Švankmajer’s work back in 1988, when I saw Alice, his first feature. David and I gradually explored his...
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Venues and visions
Vitrine outside future quarters of the Film Society of Lincoln Center (detail). DB here: During our month in NYC, we didn’t visit only art museums (although KT was at the Met a great deal). We also,...
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VIFF 2013 finale: The Bold and the Beautiful, sometimes together
Gebo and the Shadow (2012). DB here: I’m a little late catching up with our viewings at the Vancouver International Film Festival this year (it ended on the 11th), but I did want to signal some of the...
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Il Cinema Ritrovato: A final entry
The courtyard outside the Cineteca di Bologna, during Il Cinema Ritrovato. DB here: Some initial figures are in, and they’re fairly stupendous. There were about 85,000 admissions to all screenings of...
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Il Cinema Ritrovato: More and more
Il Cinema Ritrovato Book Fair (photograph Margherita Caprilli). Kristin here: I mentioned in my entry on the African thread at this year’s Il Cinema Ritrovato that I filled in blank spaces in my...
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