For its 27th edition, the festival presented 20 features and six short films over five days.
San Francisco Silent Film Festival 2023: One Last Silent Movie Party at the Castro Theatre?
The 26th San Francisco Silent Film Festival was another joyous gathering of silent cinema.
I Wish is a truly benevolent vision of childhood.
Vancouver International Film Festival 2011: The Color Wheel, Mr. Tree, & Sauna on Moon
Sauna on Moon is less a classic narrative than snapshots of a life in progress.
Vancouver International Film Festival 2011: Tyrannosaur, The Skin I Live In, The Day He Arrives, & More
Emphasis, as always, will be on the “Dragons and Tigers” program of over 40 features (plus compilations, mid-length films and shorts) from Asia.
Silent cinema was uniquely suited to shooting in extreme conditions.
There is a defining contradiction at the center of Mr. Fix-It.
Pina Menichelli is the very ideal of the diva in Il Fuoco
The biggest film history news of 2010 was without a doubt the discovery of Upstream.
Norwegian Wood is a film suffused in melancholia and disconnection.
This is not a film that has been close to universally seen, which makes its appearance here all the more notable.
Part of the pleasure of Na’s film is that it never actually feels plotted as it unfolds.
Mohammad Rasoulof anticipated his own fate.
Seattle International Film Festival 2011: Neptune Renovations and Mysteries of Lisbon
Raúl Ruiz’s Mysteries of Lisbon is a film of exquisite elegance.
3 is about the possibility for opening up to the possibility of experiences beyond the socially proscribed norms.
Opening night arrived with one of the least memorable films of recent memory.
I bring my VIFF 2010 Dragons and Tigers coverage to a close with short takes on a few films.
The shadow of the 2008 Tangshan earthquake falls over Aftershock.
Why isn’t Lee Chang-dong considered in the same company as Hong Sang-soo or Bong Joon-ho or Park Chan-wook?
The film has a queasy sensibility that has less to do with the gory remains than the twisted psychology on display.