MY VENICE 74 HIGHLIGHTS         Alex Deleon  Annette Bening jury president was regal at the closing ceremony In a sense everybody sees a different festival...

  by Alex Deleon   The 2017 Venice Film Festival was so overwhelmingly dominated by Hollywood films and personalities that it was to all intents and purposes an American festival that...

Venice Highlights by Alex Deleon MY VENICE HIGHLIGHTS         Alex Deleon      Annette Bening jury president was regal at the closing...

George Clooney has outdone himself with SUBURBICON, a superb satire of middle American suburbia in 1959. Actor Matt Damon and director George Clooney are all smiles at Venice...

Action and suspense: A hapless New York advertising executive is mistaken for a government agent by a group of foreign spies.   Asking which is the best Hitchcock is something like asking which is...

by Alex Deleon   Winning film director Sanal Kumar Sasidharan expressing his surprise and gratitude as Jury president High Hudson looks on   The Awards accorded by the International jury at...

by  Alex Delonian,  <Filmfestivals.com> NOTE: Armenian Genocide denial is the act of denying the planned systematic genocide  of 1.5 million Armenians during World War I, conducted by the Ottoman...

By Alex Deleon      The peak film of the Yerevan week was without a doubt "Le Cercle Rouge", the 1970 all star masterpiece gangland thriller by Jean-Pierre Melville.  Less well know than his younger...

by Alex Delonian With Artsine Balahyan, Yerevan TV Channel One Monday, the first Full Day of the fest, was quite remarkable. Balmy weather, not too hot, I hit a morning press conference for...

The 14 edition of the Golden Apricot (Vosge Dziran) International Film Festival GAIFF is off and running in Yerevan, the serenely beautiful capital of Armenia.       The Apricots have been duly...