Film Festivals
Vancouver International Film Festival 2007—Part 2
... And the new problems
By David Walsh, November 1, 2007
This is the second in a series of articles on the recent Vancouver International Film Festival (September 27 - October 12)
Vancouver International Film Festival 2007—Part 1
The “new seriousness” in cinema...
By David Walsh, October 27, 2007
This is the first in a series of articles on the recent Vancouver International Film Festival (September 27-October 12)
Toronto International Film Festival 2007—Part 5
The lives of two overlooked women
By Joanne Laurier, October 4, 2007
This is the fifth and final article in a series devoted to the recent Toronto film festival (September 6-15).
Toronto International Film Festival 2007—Part 4
A remarkable film about the Iraq war
By David Walsh, October 2, 2007
This is the fourth of a series of articles devoted to the recent Toronto film festival (September 6-15).
Toronto International Film Festival 2007—Part 3
Compassion toward the most despised and other matters
By Joanne Laurier, September 29, 2007
This is the third of a series of articles devoted to the recent Toronto film festival (September 6-15).
Toronto International Film Festival 2007—Part 2
Urgency about human matters
By David Walsh, September 26, 2007
This is the second of a series of articles devoted to the recent Toronto film festival (September 6-15).
Toronto International Film Festival 2007—Part 1
The world is so poorly understood—or is it?
By David Walsh, September 22, 2007
This is the first of a series of articles devoted to the recent Toronto film festival (September 6-15).
Edinburgh Film Festival: Solitary fragments or part of social experience?
By Steve James, September 4, 2007
Blind Mountain by Li Yang, Blackbird by Adam Rapp, Solitary Fragments by Jaime Rosales
Edinburgh Film Festival: Two antiwar films
Beaufort by Joseph Cedar and Extraordinary Rendition by Jim Threapleton
By Steve James, September 3, 2007
The 61st Edinburgh International Film Festival held between 15 and 25 August featured over 150 new films, documentaries, animations and shorts. Some of these, on widely varying matters and from all ov...
54th Sydney Film Festival—Part 7
John Huston: a prolific filmmaker with some brilliant works
By Richard Phillips, August 7, 2007
This is the last in a series of articles on the 2007 Sydney Film Festival, held June 8-24. Part 1 appeared on July 4, Part 2 on July 10, Part 3 on July 11, Part 4 on July 12, Part 5 on July 24 and Par...
54th Sydney Film Festival—Part 6
Turkish films: mostly serious but lacking lasting impact
By Ismet Redzovic, August 6, 2007
This is the sixth in a series of articles on the 2007 Sydney Film Festival, held June 8-24. Part 1 appeared on July 4, Part 2 on July 10, Part 3 on July 11, Part 4 on July 12 and Part 5 on July 24.
Sydney Film Festival
“I’m interested in a documentary and fiction hybrid”: filmmaker Kriv Stenders speaks with WSWS
By Richard Phillips, July 24, 2007
Filmmaker Kriv Stenders graduated from the Australian Film, Television and Radio School (AFTRS) in 1989 with a major in cinematography. Like many of his fellow graduates, Stenders shot and directed mu...
