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A chilly wind is whipping around Chapala Street, and Roger Durling-the well-known and charismatic director of the Santa Barbara International Film Festival-is dodging distractions in the office by walking briskly to a nearby coffeehouse while trying to explain the latest twists in the organism he heads. Part of his challenge in this, his fourth year at the helm, was to respond to the twin sisters of huge acclaim and street-level dissonance regarding last year’s festival.
Someday, someone will make a compelling story about the tragic inhumanity of the slave trade and the dishonor it brought on presumably civilized societies from an insider’s perspective rather than the angle of white male policy makers.
We may not have Hollywood to attract the world’s top filmmakers
(thank god), but we do have the Santa Barbara International Film
Festival to help retain them.
In this final installment of Josef Woodard’s SBIFF ‘007 blog, he delivers a report from the Composer’s Panel, always one of the critic’s faves. Plus, see reviews of Hounddog, Offside, Paprika, The Glamorous Life of Sachiko Hanai, and every other film he’s seen over the past 11 days.
He’s tall. He’s a two-time Grammy
winner. And as far as we know, Will Smith has no official opinion
on antidepressants.
On Wednesday morning, January 3, the Santa Barbara International Film Festival unveiled its slate for the 22nd annual affair, this year running from Thursday, January 25 to Sunday, February 4. The fest’s flamboyant director Roger Durling promised, “This is the best film festival that this town has ever seen.” The full list of films is included inside.
Josef Woodard explores how film is what really drives this festival, especially those films from abroad, which offer glimpses into life that are distinct from our American filmmaking roots. Here, he reviews Blessed by Fire, Ten Canoes, and Golden Door.
If Helen Mirren, this year’s SBIFF
honoree for outstanding performance, also wins the 2007 Oscar for
best actress, it will be in no small measure due to what is surely
the year’s most peculiar action sequence.
It is nearly impossible to group together the vast collection of
Spanish films in a single category.
Take away the hype and glitz, and the real meat of SBIFF is and
has always been the strength and breadth of its films.
