This year’s festival boasted 19 features, 11 shorts, a fragment of an otherwise lost film, and more.
For its 27th edition, the festival presented 20 features and six short films over five days.
The 26th San Francisco Silent Film Festival was another joyous gathering of silent cinema.
I Wish is a truly benevolent vision of childhood.
Sauna on Moon is less a classic narrative than snapshots of a life in progress.
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.
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?