Lights, Camera, Filmfest DC
City Paper's guide to the 12th Annual Washington, D.C., International Film Festival
Cover Story
It's always difficult to judge a film festival by its capsule reviews, so characterizing the 12th Annual Washington, D.C., International Film Festival in advance is a tricky proposition. But Washington City Paper's critics have previewed a higher proportion of films (or film programs) this time than in any previous year—36 of them, prompting a rash conjecture: This may the best Filmfest yet.
To be sure, the selection includes many well-meaning but rather dull films from around the globe, typical second-rate Filmfest fare like the Czech Republic's Dead Beetle, Argentina's Sin Querer, Brazil's Little Book of Love, and Germany's Lea—and that's not a complete list. Indeed, City Paper reviewers Arion Berger, Jessica Barrow Dawson, Mark Jenkins, Dave Nuttycombe, Joel E. Siegel, and Virginia Vitzthum couldn't conjure much enthusiasm for most of the films from Germany, one of this year's two featured countries. The new generation of mainstream German movies is prospering at the box office, but then so does a lot of assembly-line American product. Of the previewed German films, only Wintersleepers is recommended. The most interesting German entry will almost certainly be the one from aging New German Cinema veteran Werner Herzog: The unpreviewed Little Dieter Needs to Fly is a documentary about a German boy who survived American bombings of World War II only to fly for the U.S. (and be shot down) over Southeast Asia during the '60s.... Continued 
Issue of Apr. 24 - 30, 1998
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