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Salient. Newspaper of the Victoria University Students' Association. Vol 42 No. 18. July 30 1979

Best of the fest

Best of the fest

A selection of films from this year's festival is being screened over the next couple of months downtown at the Paramount and in Brooklyn at the Penthouse. That's good news, because some of these films are excellent, and some had their only festival screenings booked out. Also, 1900 and Interiors get repeat seasons of a week, and these two films should be compulsive and compulsory viewing for anyone interested in movies, or even just a good night's entertainment. Watch the Evening Post for details.

I managed to see roughly three-quarters of the films offered in the festival programme this year, and almost all of them were worthwhile. But just as there were a couple of total duds — Larry Clark's Passing Through and George Rose's The Sadness of the Post-Intellectual Art Critic — there was a small group of films so excellent that they stood out head and shoulders above the rest:
  • Alain Resnais' Providence
  • Alan Rudolph's Remember My Name
  • and Claude Miller's That Sweet Sickness

followed closely by:

Benoit Jacquot's The Close Children Wim Wenders' The American Friend and Rainer Werner Fassbinder's In A Year Of 13 Moons.

Of these films, both Providence and Remember My Name will be shown for a week at the Paramount or Penthouse.