Wrapping Full Frame.

"By almost all accounts, Full Frame's 10th anniversary was a smashing success," writes Neil Morris. "Yet, the record turnout does not jibe with the feeling of many perennial attendees that there was a perceptible drop in the energy level at this year's festival." Also in the Independent Weekly, Fiona Morgan: "The selection of frameset films included everything from tedious, personal video journals to virally popular humor to serious international reporting."

"Despite the Full Frame's growing number of world premieres, market action remains minimal here, which helps explain the unusual sense of calm at this festival, one where academics and activists outnumber autograph-seekers 10 to one, and where legendary documentarians can be seen lining up alongside ordinary folks for both film and food," writes Rob Nelson in the Voice, where he describes a few choice offerings, including one hand-picked by DA Pennebaker, "La vie commence demain, an obscure French intellectual primer from 1950 in which the likes of Picasso and Jean-Paul Sartre appear eminently approachable to our host, a film noirish tough guy who scratches his head and shows up on the Parisian doorsteps of various implausibly gracious geniuses." Also: What Enron director Alex Gibney's been up to.

Posted by dwhudson at April 19, 2007 3:21 PM