Open AccessVienna 2003
Author(s) -
Ron Holloway
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
kinema
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2562-5764
pISSN - 1192-6252
DOI - 10.15353/kinema.vi.1082
Subject(s) - drama , art history , regret , schedule , art , performance art , attendance , history , visual arts , media studies , management , sociology , law , political science , computer science , machine learning , economics
VIENNA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2003 Right from the start, V'03 - The 2003 Vienna International Film Festival (17-29 October 2003) - was something special. An extra day had to be added onto the schedule to accommodate the run on tickets - 5,000 more sold than last year, for an overall attendance of 75,200. Altogether, "a nearly historic number of visitors," said festival director Hans Hurch at the close of the Viennale. To my regret, I arrived a day too late to see John Ford's Bucking Broadway (1917), a "Cheyenne Harry" Carey five-reeler found three years ago by chance in the archive of the Cinémathèque Française under the title Far West Drama. It was the sixth of 26 films made with Harry Carey and featured a rescue scene with a posse of cowboys ride down Broadway. But I did make in time to see Erich von Stroheim's silent classic The Merry...