Articles Wanted

FAFR would like to have pieces that don't fit the usual forms; even short pieces can work if they don't feel incomplete.  Many of the suggestions here may be a bit obscure (that's why they need to be covered) so don't hesitate to suggest anything better-known or that you particularly want to write about.  From time to time I may also have tapes for review if you can't think of anything else.  Also, please let me know if you're fluent in any language other than English.  Please e-mail ideas & proposals.

Writers guidelines are available, rambling through specific info about formats, lengths, languages, etc but also more general thoughts.

General

• film festival reports
• letters/notes from countries or cities
• theatres and the filmgoing experience in other countries
• running a festival or video company
• organizing programmes or retrospectives
• a director's work outside familiar fields (documentaries, video, TV, shorts)
• industrial/scientific use of film
• the state of subtitling and dubbing

Directors

Genres/Trends

• banlieue films
• Eastern European partisan films
• beginner's guide to giallo
• collectively authored films
• propaganda
• found-footage films
• faked documentaries

Actors/Performers

• Ruan Ling Yu
• Stellan Skarsgård
• Nicholas Hope
• Faye Wong
• need suggestions

Others

• Kyle Cooper, title sequence designer
• Japanese cinematographer (name to come)
• critics
• archivists

Films

• Sergei Eisenstein: Mexican Fantasy  (Oleg Kovalov, 1998, Russia)
• Hands / Palms (Artur Aristakisyav, 1993, Russia)
• The Bandit / Eskiya (Yavuz Turgal, 1996, Turkey)
• Dance of Dust (Abolfazl Jalil, 1991 released 1997?, Iran)
• Bootleg Film (Masahiro Kobayashi 1998)
• God's Got My Number / Dieu Seul Me Voit (Bruno Podalydes 1998)
• John Huston's War Stories (Midge Mackenzie 1998)
• The Journey (Ali-Reza Raissian 1995)
• Vigo: A Passion for Life (Julien Temple 1998)
• The Filmmaker of the Amazon (Aurélio Michiles, 1997, Brazil)

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