PART II ~ Festivals since 2004 A quantum leap forward occurred in my film critical career in 2004 when surfing the internet I discovered the website www.filmfestivals.com.  I submitted the...

 Adventures on the Film Festival Circuit on and behind the Scenes by a roving film festivaleer      Alex Deleon (Herman Pevner) (filmfestivals.com) The very first film festival I ever attended...

BOOK INTRO to -- "Filmfestivals.com ~ Adventures in the Film Festival Trade by Alex Deleon (Herman Pevner)    Preface (Forward) "Everybody has heard of glamorous film festivals such as Cannes...

  Saturday’s morning discussion at the Kitisenranta School featured Spanish director Carlos Saura who talked about his long and varied career with interviewer Timo Malmi. Saura often...

Sunday night, 22::00  PM ~~ Getaway Day  The festival is finally winding down.  walked out of Bonello's NOCTURAMA - after a half hour of solid boredom and Finnish subtitles...

Hyvä päiva good böddy --  Mais oui-- filmnüttöö certainly qualifies as a new Finnish neolojism -- redundancy intentiönnäl -- as long as you döbble dot every väwel in sight except I and E it can...

by Alexei Deleon   The first film I saw on day one of five at Sodankyla was Wajda's final film, made when he was ninety and released last year just before his death. It paints an...

by Alex Deleon   The Midnight Sun Film Festival takes place  in the Lappland village of Sodankylä on the Arctic Circle in northern Finland during the longest days of the year in the Middle of...

      The big film of Day 4, saturday here, was the Yves St Laurent film by French "auteur" directeur Bernard Bonello entitled SAINT LAUTENT.  My internal jury is still out on...

Summary: Highly overrated minor film that won the guilty conscience Oscar of 2017 *** This review may contain spoilers *** I finally caught up with this year's Questionable Oscar winner, "Black...