Alex Deleon has a great news to share: the birth of his latest book, a fest traveller's odyssey...
"Witty, bold and ferocious, extremely well documented ...take a walk on the wild side of festivals...and enjoy the experience and the learning from Alex Deleon: a man with many hats and a festival head. !"
Bruno Chatelin Filmfestivals.com
Contact Publisher, Sam Sloan by email. samsloan@gmail.com book reference: The ISBN number is 4-87187-051-0
First Festival, San Francisco 1975, 1
Filmex '77, Los Angeles, 1
Homage to Hitchcock with Princess Grace, 4
A Cigar with Sam Fuller, 6
Lights Out in Venice, 9
Manila '83 -- Vanity of Vanities, 11
Cannes '83, Merry Christmas Mister Lawrence, 19
Midnight Curtain Call at Cannes, 21
Looking for Fassbinder and finding Divine, 22
Pesaro 1984, Mad Dog Miccighe, 28
Blazing Sun in Berlin, a City divided by a wall, 23
An aborted visit to East Berlin, 37
Spandau. a virtual visit to the last Nazi prison, 40
Godard hits town with a vengeance, 42
Raquel Welch in Tokyo, 43
The French film festival of Laguna Beach that never happened, 48
Meeting with a Hungarian Millionaire, 50
Traveling with a Nordic Amazon, 53
Coitus Interruptus at the Thermal hotel, 59
The Polish film school at "Woodge", 60
Gdynia '93, The annual review of Polish feature films, 68
A Polish delegate to an Egyptian film festival, 70
An impulse journey through the Middle East, 72
Magyar Film Szemle 1994, with three legendary directors, 79
First festival of the Midnight Sun, 82
Tango in Toronto, 86
The Barbican Yiddish Retrospective, 89
A tribute to Joseph Green and Molly Picon, 93
Mamele, (Little Mother), 101
Edward G. Ulmer -- The Poet of Poverty Row, 104
The Singing Blacksmith, 107
Maurice Schwartz, the definitive non-fiddling fiddler, 110
Dybbuk -- The Jewish Exorcist, 111
Black people speaking Yiddish, 116
The Jewish King Lear, 117
Sodankyla 1997, Return to the Festival of the Midnight Sun, 121
Gdynia '97: You'll die laughing from this picture!, 123
Sylvia Kristel in Latvia, 127
Bollywood in Budapest, 129
Berlin 2000, star power in a new Location
Mr. Death: The logic of the insane can sound Compelling, 138
Karlovy Vary, 2000: The back alley confrontation that never happened. 140
The Red Shoes Revisited, 142
Watching. 9/11 at a posh Polish hotel, 153
Hitler's Secretary, A sensation at Berlin 2002, 147
16.06.2019 | ALEX FARBA's blog
Cat. : PEOPLE