IN THIS CHARMED PART of northern Spain just next to the French border there are two official languages and the street signs reflect Castilian Spanish and Euskara, the Basque language. At this gem of a Festival the official publications are also bilingual and sometimes include English as a third language. On the streets the most common sound is Basque, considered to be the oldest existent language.

Interviewed at San Sebastian Film Festival
 

John Boorman has never been one to mince his words. His films cover a vast range of genres and subjects, but all contain emotional impact in the service of ideas. Boorman has a distinctive relationship to landscape and how a social milieu effects the individual. Unlike many Hollywood films, his [...]

Interviewed at AFI Film Festival

The lounge of the historic Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel seemed a fitting setting to interview the young German director about his cautionary new film THE LIVES OF OTHERS. It had just been screened in AFI FEST, but the story is an old one: political paranoia and suppression of civil liberties. The walls [...]

And the Award goes to…

In the 54th edition of the San Sebastian International Film Festival we saw an unusual coincidence of “dualism” … two grand prize winners and a few films that dealt with doubles and dual personalities.