Ron Holloway
Theologian, film historian and film journalist
Country of origin:
USA
*26. November 1933 in Peoria, Illinois; † 16. December 2009, Berlin
Link: Obituary on Ron Holloway
Articles
Film critic Ron Holloway reviews the panorama of the 58th Festival de Cannes 2005.
No other European festival is better positioned than Cottbus to measure the depth and range of the current film revival in Central and Eastern Europe. Abetted by the smart programming skill of festival director Roland Rust, the 14th FilmFestival Cottbus (2-6 November 2004) – aka the 14th Festival of East European Cinema – was again a must-visit event for critics, cineastes, and fest directors interested in keeping apace with the hundred or more important productions released annually in filmlands stretching from the former German Democratic Republic to Kazakhstan in Central Asia.
Ron Holloway reports on a film seminar organised by INTERFILM, WACC and SIGNIS in Iasi, Romania, with the support of the Metropolitan of Moldova and Bukovina. The event took place as part of the series "Europa eine Seele geben - Giving a Soul to Europe".
Some highly plausible reasons were given by the organizer of the 24th Moscow International Film Festival (21-30 June, 2002) for scaling down the budget to approximately half of last year's 3 million rubles. Since a blowout festival is planned for the 25th anniversary in 2003, the 24th outing was stylized as a modest showcase of better things to come.
Viewed from the critical side, the 55th Cannes International Film Festival will unfortunately be remembered by critics and professionals for its faulty jury decisions, judges Ron Holloway at the beginning of his extensive report about the Cannes film festival 2002.
For the 3rd Motovun Film Festival (31 July to 4 August 2001), director Boris T. Matic and artistic director Rajko Grlic had to expand the festival’s modest facilities to accommodate an overflow crowd of circa 30,000 by opening an adjunct open-air venue on a schoolyard.
Festivals
08.11.2000 to 19.11.2000
Mannheim and Heidelberg
27.10.1998 to 01.11.1998
Leipzig