Nov 04, 2009

PORDENONE, Italy -- While some of the world's proudest film festivals tremble under the economic lash that has robbed them of sponsorship and public, there is one that hasn't skipped a beat: the timeless Pordenone Silent Film Festival, which celebrated its 28th year Oct. 3-10, attracting the same die-hard audiences as ever before. It is considered the year's principal rendezvous for film archivists, who come from Los Angeles, Peru, South Africa and New Zealand to this small town in...More