2008 San Diego Film Festival Coverage: Part 2 of 2

Oh how time flies when one’s life is full of schoolwork and screenings. I managed to post two reviews over the past week, but I never wrote about my second and final day at this year’s San Diego Film Festival. As I had predicted, it was indeed better than the first. Unfortunately, the movies I saw were still far from what would desire from a larger-market film festival. [Read more]

2008 San Diego Film Festival Coverage: Part 1 of 2

I always make a concerted effort each year to attend the San Diego Film Festival, mainly because it feels like my duty as a San Diego native to foster the “growing” program. And yet, each year I attend, I can’t help but feel like the selection is getting more and more intolerable. Rarely do programmers book foreign films or experimental features. It seems as though SDFF is stuck in commercial-territory, although I don’t know why given the fact that it seems less commercially successful with each passing festival. My first day at the event this year was Friday–I had to skip out on Thursday given my now out-of-town academic obligations–and not a single showing I attended was even close to being sold out. [Read more]