By Alex Deleon The Midnight Sun Film Festival w (known in Finland as Sodankylän elokuvajuhlat) as founded in 1986 by Finnish filmmakers, e.g. the Kaurismäki brothers, and the Municipality of...

By Alex Deleon, <filmfestivals.com>   25 films so far ... Not counting. Shorts! Bergamo, Wed. day 5: Five films. Three Jancsos. one dismal Anna Karina, and one magnificent doc on Soviet...

Zoe Saldana -vs- Nina Simone By Alex Delon <filmfestivals.com> Actress Zoe Saldana  who will be interpreting the late Jazz legend Nina Simone on screen in a new biopic to be released in...

Alex Deleon, <filmfestivals.com> Downtown Bergamo, a city with heart   One if the really good things about Bergamo, which justifies calling it a Film MEETING rather than a film festival, is the...

Alex Deleon, <filmfestivals.com>   The main event of the day was a  champagne fueled Press conference with iconic Nouvelle Vague actress Anna Karina. Her once mellifluous voice now has a slight...

The 34th Bergamo Film Meeting closed out an eleven day run on a rainy Sunday, March 13, with two Jancsò classics, "The Roundup" and "Red and White" to wind up a nearly full retrosoective of the great...

Four Jancsós today: two winners, two losers. And a rousing conference with his widow and long term editor, Zsuzsa Csákány. 1. 9:30AM Fényes Szélek (Venti Lucenti, or The Confrontation,...

Alex Deleon, <filmfestivals.com> This is an all European film festival with no American junkfood and surprizes every day.    Chantal Akerman, 1950 ~ 2015   Tuesday, day 4 was an unbroken...

By Alex Deleon, Bergamo, Italy Beautiful small town. No frills festival. No red carpets, no hullabaloo. Just terrific films all day long at two xlnt venues. Everything centralized within short...

The 20th edition of this specialized festival in north-western France (March 21-- April 01, 2007) was a bit of a disappointment this year in terms of competition films and visiting personalities, at...