Pordenone revisited

More on the festival!

The website has been updated, showing some of the goodies in store for us at this year's Giornate.

I found that several films on the ever-popular character of Sherlock Holmes are going to be shown, the earliest of these from 1909. There are quite a few to choose from.

There are also some early Technicolor films; a few offerings from Carl Theodor Dreyer; an Asta Nielsen retrospective; and more!

It's always sheer joy to go to the Giornate, quickly replace by sheer exhaustion after a day or two, when we have all been sitting, rapt, in a dark room all day, eating high-calorie food at nearby restaurants, staying up late at night and getting up early the next morning. This quickly leads to vertical naps in the screening rooms. It's a rare day when you don't hear someone snoring during at least one movie (one year, someone got in a good one right when the accompanist trailed off; the room was silent for a split second, and then a snore punctuated the screening).

It happens every year. We can't see all the movies we want to see, but by God, we try.