From the Letters pages of the Sydney Morning Herald…
In the spirit of White Whine and Stuff White People Like, Bruce Hulbert of Lilyfield writes into the Sydney Morning Herald with some gold!
It is disappointing to hear that the Sydney Film Festival is being truncated to 12 days from last year’s 19 (“Splice of life - film festival drops a week”, March 30).
I can understand there may be sponsorship problems but for the chief executive, Mark Sarfaty, to cite the other major reason as reports of viewer fatigue last year seems to miss the point.
Talk about wimps.
This is a film festival. The opportunity to watch too many films is why many people go. And as for the idea that the festival needs “to benefit from the extra focus on the arts in the city” generated by the new concurrent Vivid Sydney festival, reducing your offering from 175 to 120 films probably isn’t your greatest strategy.
