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One of film’s most respected critics and journalists,Gerald Pratley is head of the Ontario Film Theatre, and has had the longest-running radio program on film in North America for -the CBC. He has written books on John Frankenheimer and Otto Preminger, and is now working on a volume on David Lean. The entire world of film is his landscape; each month he will point out some of its more interesting features.
With the closing of London’s festival of the “‘best pictures’ from this year’s international events, another long film festival season has come to an end. As usual, all kinds of questions are being asked, criticism given, and dark prophecies made about next year. Two facts are very clear: first that all festivals in large cities are in severe financial difficulties; and second, the point and purpose of, and need for, film festivals in certain cities is very much in doubt.
Film festivals serve two main purposes (outside of being tourist attractions for the places in which they are held): to discover interesting new work from individuals and countries, which has not found a place in the international commercial scheme of film distribution and exhibition, and to bring to the cities and countries in which the festivals are held those films which might otherwise never be seen due to commercial, economic and cultural conditions — not forgetting (as in Australia) severe censorship laws.
Some festivals are considered important because of the stature of the cities in which they are held: New York, London, San Francisco; yet these cities are so well served with all kinds of films that there are very few shown at these festivals which are not
_ likely to open there sooner or later. _As some of them appeal to small au
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