Exclusive: Following the recent conclusion of Star Trek: Picard on Paramount+, Otoy and Roddenberry Entertainment have unveiled the next evolution of the Roddenberry Archive, a multi-decade collaboration with the Gene Roddenberry Estate to capture Star Trek franchise architect Roddenberry’s lifetime of works for future generations, with holographic immersion and in the most historically accurate sense possible.
The largest-ever collection of iconic Star Trek digital archive works will be made available for free for the first time through a new web portal bridging the legacies of all three major eras of Roddenberry’s Star Trek, with help from stars William Shatner (Star Trek) and John de Lancie (Star Trek: The Next Generation), as well as showrunner, writer and EP Terry Matalas (Star Trek: Picard).
The web portal will allow fans to virtually explore the many dozens of evolutionary iterations of the famous Starship Enterprise bridge, across every epoch of Star Trek‘s history,...
The largest-ever collection of iconic Star Trek digital archive works will be made available for free for the first time through a new web portal bridging the legacies of all three major eras of Roddenberry’s Star Trek, with help from stars William Shatner (Star Trek) and John de Lancie (Star Trek: The Next Generation), as well as showrunner, writer and EP Terry Matalas (Star Trek: Picard).
The web portal will allow fans to virtually explore the many dozens of evolutionary iterations of the famous Starship Enterprise bridge, across every epoch of Star Trek‘s history,...
- 4/27/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Here’s a Great picture whose time has come — Theodore J. Flicker’s spy spoof is one of the smartest, funniest political satires ever, and probably James Coburn’s finest hour as an actor-producer. A high-class shrink knows too many Presidential secrets, making him an international espionage target in a giddy spy chase. Everything leads to an absurd-sounding Sci-fi conspiracy that’s quickly becoming a reality. Coburn’s hipster cred holds up well, abetted by a great lineup of talent, led by improv pioneers Godfrey Cambridge and Severn Darden.
The President’s Analyst
Blu-ray (Plays on Region A)
Viavision [Imprint] 42
1967 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 103 min. / Street Date May 26 or June 2, 2021 / Available from / 34.95 au
Starring: James Coburn, Godfrey Cambridge, Severn Darden, Joan Delaney, Pat Harrington, Barry McGuire, Jill Banner, Eduard Franz, Walter Burke, Will Geer, William Daniels, Joan Darling, Sheldon Collins, Arte Johnson, Kathleen Hughes.
Cinematography: William A. Fraker
Production Designer: Pato Guzman
Art Direction: Hal Pereira,...
The President’s Analyst
Blu-ray (Plays on Region A)
Viavision [Imprint] 42
1967 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 103 min. / Street Date May 26 or June 2, 2021 / Available from / 34.95 au
Starring: James Coburn, Godfrey Cambridge, Severn Darden, Joan Delaney, Pat Harrington, Barry McGuire, Jill Banner, Eduard Franz, Walter Burke, Will Geer, William Daniels, Joan Darling, Sheldon Collins, Arte Johnson, Kathleen Hughes.
Cinematography: William A. Fraker
Production Designer: Pato Guzman
Art Direction: Hal Pereira,...
- 6/8/2021
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Engel also co-founded UK distributor New Wave Films.
Art-house “trailblazer” Pamela Engel, known for co-founding distributor Artificial Eye and programming London cinemas including the Lumiere, Chelsea Cinema, Camden Plaza and the Renoir, has died aged 82.
A huge figure in the UK’s independent film business, Engel’s death has sparked messages of praise across the distribution and exhibition sectors.
Born Pamela Balfry in 1934, the UK executive started out in the late 1950s as a secretary for then Sight and Sound editor Penelope Houston.
She would go on to work as an assistant to Richard Roud at the London and New York Film Festivals before joining Derek Hill’s art-house venue Essential Cinema in the late 1960s.
Odyssey
Balfry and first husband Andi Engel established distributor Artificial Eye in 1976, thus “beginning an odyssey of distribution and exhibition unlikely ever to be surpassed,” in the words of former London Film Festival director Sheila Whitaker.
Despite separating...
Art-house “trailblazer” Pamela Engel, known for co-founding distributor Artificial Eye and programming London cinemas including the Lumiere, Chelsea Cinema, Camden Plaza and the Renoir, has died aged 82.
A huge figure in the UK’s independent film business, Engel’s death has sparked messages of praise across the distribution and exhibition sectors.
Born Pamela Balfry in 1934, the UK executive started out in the late 1950s as a secretary for then Sight and Sound editor Penelope Houston.
She would go on to work as an assistant to Richard Roud at the London and New York Film Festivals before joining Derek Hill’s art-house venue Essential Cinema in the late 1960s.
Odyssey
Balfry and first husband Andi Engel established distributor Artificial Eye in 1976, thus “beginning an odyssey of distribution and exhibition unlikely ever to be surpassed,” in the words of former London Film Festival director Sheila Whitaker.
Despite separating...
- 7/17/2017
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Director Patricio Guzman’s Cordillera among winners in industry strands.
The 32nd Guadalajara Film Festival (March 10-17), bookended by fierce criticism of Us president Donald Trump by local and international industry, has feted Everardo Gonzalez’s documentary Devil’s Freedom (La Libertad Del Diablo) with best Mexican feature, best Ibero-American documentary and best cinematography as well as the Mexican film critics trophy.
The feature, about violence in Mexico, is handled by Films Boutique and received its world premiere in Berlin earlier this year where it won an Amnesty International award.
Carlos Lechuga’s Santa And Andres, about political dissent in Cuba, was named best Ibero-American feature and also won best script.
Nicaraguan director Jose Maria Cabral’s prison drama Carpinteros (Woodpeckers) won best Ibero-American director in addition to best actor for Jean Jean.
Mexican debutant Sofia Gomez’s The Blue Years (Los Anios Azules), a coming of age drama, garnered five awards including best director, the Fipresci...
The 32nd Guadalajara Film Festival (March 10-17), bookended by fierce criticism of Us president Donald Trump by local and international industry, has feted Everardo Gonzalez’s documentary Devil’s Freedom (La Libertad Del Diablo) with best Mexican feature, best Ibero-American documentary and best cinematography as well as the Mexican film critics trophy.
The feature, about violence in Mexico, is handled by Films Boutique and received its world premiere in Berlin earlier this year where it won an Amnesty International award.
Carlos Lechuga’s Santa And Andres, about political dissent in Cuba, was named best Ibero-American feature and also won best script.
Nicaraguan director Jose Maria Cabral’s prison drama Carpinteros (Woodpeckers) won best Ibero-American director in addition to best actor for Jean Jean.
Mexican debutant Sofia Gomez’s The Blue Years (Los Anios Azules), a coming of age drama, garnered five awards including best director, the Fipresci...
- 3/17/2017
- by alexisgrivas@yahoo.com (Alexis Grivas)
- ScreenDaily
Cinema Eye has named 10 filmmakers and 20 films that have been voted as the top achievements in documentary filmmaking during the past 10 years. Founded in 2007 to “recognize and honor exemplary craft and innovation in nonfiction film,” Cinema Eye polled 110 members of the documentary community to determine the winning films and filmmakers just as the organization kicks off its tenth year.
Read More: Behind the Scenes of Cinema Eye’s Secret Field Trip for Nominees
Among the films chosen are Joshua Oppenheimer’s “The Act of Killing,” Laura Poitras’ Oscar-winning “Citizenfour” and Banksy’s “Exit Through the Gift Shop.” Poitras and Oppenheimer were both also named to the list of the top documentary filmmakers, joining Alex Gibney, Werner Herzog and Frederick Wiseman, who recently won an honorary Oscar and will be saluted at the annual Governors Awards on November 12.
“It’s fantastic that he is being recognized by the Academy for a...
Read More: Behind the Scenes of Cinema Eye’s Secret Field Trip for Nominees
Among the films chosen are Joshua Oppenheimer’s “The Act of Killing,” Laura Poitras’ Oscar-winning “Citizenfour” and Banksy’s “Exit Through the Gift Shop.” Poitras and Oppenheimer were both also named to the list of the top documentary filmmakers, joining Alex Gibney, Werner Herzog and Frederick Wiseman, who recently won an honorary Oscar and will be saluted at the annual Governors Awards on November 12.
“It’s fantastic that he is being recognized by the Academy for a...
- 9/21/2016
- by Graham Winfrey
- Indiewire
Werner Herzog, Alex Gibney, Laura Poitras and Steve James are among the most important documentary filmmakers of the last decade, according to a list announced on Wednesday by Cinema Eye, a New York-based organization devoted to recognizing the best in non-fiction filmmaking. The 10 Filmmakers/20 Films project was launched by Cinema Eye to celebrate the organization’s first decade of existence. The other filmmakers who made the list of the top documentary filmmakers of the last 10 years are Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady, Patricio Guzman, Kim Longinotto, Joshua Oppenheimer, Bill Ross and Turner Ross and Frederick Wiseman. The list was created.
- 9/21/2016
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
Plus: Jason Blum in CinemaCon honour
Chilean film-maker Patricio Guzman, who was due to attend Iff Panama to deliver a four-day documentary seminar, has had to return home suddenly to France.
Guzman was due to lead the seminar and conclude on the fifth day with a screening of his Berlinale 2015 Silver Bear winner The Pearl Button (El Botón de Nácar).
The festival, which kicks off on Thursday, is liaising with industry attendees who registered for the event.
Jason Blum will collect the CinemaCon Producer Of The Year Award in Las Vegas on April 14. The Blumhouse Productions founder’s credits include Paranormal Activity, Insidious and The Purge franchises, as well as Oscar winner Whiplash. The Purge: Election Year opens on July 1 and Ouija 2 on October 21, both through Universal. CinemaCon runs from April 11-14.Mary Steenburgen, Paul Reiser, Amber Heard, Wyatt Cenac, Dolly Wells, and Chace Crawford have joined Lake Bell and Ed Helms on comedy What’s...
Chilean film-maker Patricio Guzman, who was due to attend Iff Panama to deliver a four-day documentary seminar, has had to return home suddenly to France.
Guzman was due to lead the seminar and conclude on the fifth day with a screening of his Berlinale 2015 Silver Bear winner The Pearl Button (El Botón de Nácar).
The festival, which kicks off on Thursday, is liaising with industry attendees who registered for the event.
Jason Blum will collect the CinemaCon Producer Of The Year Award in Las Vegas on April 14. The Blumhouse Productions founder’s credits include Paranormal Activity, Insidious and The Purge franchises, as well as Oscar winner Whiplash. The Purge: Election Year opens on July 1 and Ouija 2 on October 21, both through Universal. CinemaCon runs from April 11-14.Mary Steenburgen, Paul Reiser, Amber Heard, Wyatt Cenac, Dolly Wells, and Chace Crawford have joined Lake Bell and Ed Helms on comedy What’s...
- 4/7/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
The first scores are in, and it’s Gianfranco Rosi’s documentary about the immigration crisis that leads.
Gianfranco Rosi’s Fire At Sea - his documentary about the migrant crisis set on the Mediterranean island of Lampedusa - is the early frontrunner on this year’s Berlinale Jury Grid, comrpised of scores from Screen’s jury of international critics.
The jury awarded it a combined score of 3.3 from a possible 4, a total only beaten at last year’s Berlinale by Andrew Haigh’s 45 Years and matched by Patricio Guzman’s The Pearl Button.
Five of the critics awarded Fire At Sea the maximum four-star rating, while Jan Schulz-Ojala bucked the trend by awarding the film a solitary star.
Screen’s review described the film as “shocking and intensely human”.
Elsewhere on the grid, there is currently a three-way tie for second place between Mohamed Ben Attia’s Hedi, Jeff Nichols’ [link...
Gianfranco Rosi’s Fire At Sea - his documentary about the migrant crisis set on the Mediterranean island of Lampedusa - is the early frontrunner on this year’s Berlinale Jury Grid, comrpised of scores from Screen’s jury of international critics.
The jury awarded it a combined score of 3.3 from a possible 4, a total only beaten at last year’s Berlinale by Andrew Haigh’s 45 Years and matched by Patricio Guzman’s The Pearl Button.
Five of the critics awarded Fire At Sea the maximum four-star rating, while Jan Schulz-Ojala bucked the trend by awarding the film a solitary star.
Screen’s review described the film as “shocking and intensely human”.
Elsewhere on the grid, there is currently a three-way tie for second place between Mohamed Ben Attia’s Hedi, Jeff Nichols’ [link...
- 2/14/2016
- ScreenDaily
This is a reprint of our interview with Pablo Larrain from the 2015 Berlin Film Festival. "The Club" opens in limited release on February 5th and will expand to more cities in the weeks ahead. If the biggest names in the recent Berlin Film Festival lineup largely disappointed with their shiny, starry films, there were more than a handful of filmmakers who totally justified, or exceeded, our prior fandom. Chief among these was Pablo Larrain, the Chilean director of "Post Mortem" and "No," who showed up almost unheralded with his latest film, "The Club" (A grade review here), which, along with Patricio Guzman's extraordinary "The Pearl Button" made this a banner Berlinale for Chile. "The Club" is a mordant, excoriating, bitter indictment of the culture of concealment in the Catholic Church, featuring no big stars, set in a depressed crummy seaside town, painted in drab colors and featuring quite possibly the most.
- 2/1/2016
- by Jessica Kiang
- The Playlist
Other winners at Brazilian festival include An, Pixadores, The Violin Teacher, Wrestlers.
Runar Runarsson’s Sparrows took the jury prize for best fiction at the São Paulo International Film Festival, which ended Nov 4. It also won the best screenplay prize for its writer/director Runarsson.
Sao Paulo’s New Directors Competition is for first and second features (Sparrows is Runarsson’s second after Volcano.)
Sparrows, an Iceland-Denmark-Croatia co-production, is about an Icelandic teenage boy who has to leave Reykjavik to go back to live in his remote hometown with his estranged father.
Sparrows premiered in Toronto and also won the Golden Shell in San Sebastian.
The jury gave an honorable mention to Jacek Lusinksi’s Polish feature Carte Blanche.
The audience award for best foreign fiction went to Japanese auteur Naomi Kawase’s An and for best foreign documentary to Amir Escandari’s Pixadores (Finland, Denmark, Sweden).
Audience awards for Brazilian films went to Sergio Machado’s The Violin...
Runar Runarsson’s Sparrows took the jury prize for best fiction at the São Paulo International Film Festival, which ended Nov 4. It also won the best screenplay prize for its writer/director Runarsson.
Sao Paulo’s New Directors Competition is for first and second features (Sparrows is Runarsson’s second after Volcano.)
Sparrows, an Iceland-Denmark-Croatia co-production, is about an Icelandic teenage boy who has to leave Reykjavik to go back to live in his remote hometown with his estranged father.
Sparrows premiered in Toronto and also won the Golden Shell in San Sebastian.
The jury gave an honorable mention to Jacek Lusinksi’s Polish feature Carte Blanche.
The audience award for best foreign fiction went to Japanese auteur Naomi Kawase’s An and for best foreign documentary to Amir Escandari’s Pixadores (Finland, Denmark, Sweden).
Audience awards for Brazilian films went to Sergio Machado’s The Violin...
- 11/8/2015
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
As Patricio Guzman’s latest documentary The Pearl Button, which premiered at the 2015 Berlin Film Festival, completes its festival circuit rounds, a comprehensive box set of the famed Chilean documentarian’s most iconic works arrives on DVD. One of the world’s most noted masters of the medium, Guzman’s works provide an invaluable framework of his country’s violent past following the socialist revolution and violent coup which resulted in seventeen years of a harsh and violent dictatorship under the rule of Augusto Pinochet. Beginning with the three part saga The Battle of Chile, this eight disc set includes all of his most notable major historical and political documentaries through 2011’s Nostalgia for the Light. Though the collection is not a complete account of Guzman’s filmography, it’s a thematic distillation of a country’s harrowing history, and Guzman’s footage evolves from an initial priceless account of...
- 10/7/2015
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
This week on Off The Shelf, Ryan is joined by Brian Saur to take a look at the new DVD and Blu-ray releases for the week of September 29th, 2015, and chat about some follow-up and home video news.
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Episode Links & Notes Follow-up Shirts Iron Giant Blu-ray Thunderbean’s Willie Whopper up for sale on Amazon News Agfa’s Something Weird Kickstarter Arrow Release Date Changes Hannibal Season 3 on December 8th Twilight Time October titles Up for Preorder Panic in the Year Zero (Kl Studio Classics) Dangerous Men (Drafthouse Films) X-Files Blu-ray Warner Archive’s October titles: Atom Ant, Wind Across The Everglades New Releases The Bear Black Coal, Thin Ice Christine The Connection Cinco De Mayo [Blu-ray] The Duke Of Burgundy Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films Five Films by Patricio Guzman Forbidden Zone Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Mermaid The Honeymoon Killers...
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Episode Links & Notes Follow-up Shirts Iron Giant Blu-ray Thunderbean’s Willie Whopper up for sale on Amazon News Agfa’s Something Weird Kickstarter Arrow Release Date Changes Hannibal Season 3 on December 8th Twilight Time October titles Up for Preorder Panic in the Year Zero (Kl Studio Classics) Dangerous Men (Drafthouse Films) X-Files Blu-ray Warner Archive’s October titles: Atom Ant, Wind Across The Everglades New Releases The Bear Black Coal, Thin Ice Christine The Connection Cinco De Mayo [Blu-ray] The Duke Of Burgundy Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films Five Films by Patricio Guzman Forbidden Zone Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Mermaid The Honeymoon Killers...
- 10/1/2015
- by Ryan Gallagher
- CriterionCast
Every film fan and their mother has a list of favorite or greatest films. AFI does a new one what seems like each week, and in an age of Buzzfeed writers with any sort of knowledge of film will try and draw every last hit out of their favorite films. However, few are quite as prestigious than the once a decade Sight and Sound list of greatest motion pictures. Doing both a narrative fiction and a documentary list, a filmmaker would be honored to have one of his or her works listed anywhere on any of these lists.
What about two in the top 20?
That’s the case for documentary filmmaker Patricio Guzman. A legendary Chilean auteur, Guzman is a staple of the art cinema circuit, with a handful of his films making the rounds at iconic festivals like Cannes (six of his films have debuted on the Croisette), and...
What about two in the top 20?
That’s the case for documentary filmmaker Patricio Guzman. A legendary Chilean auteur, Guzman is a staple of the art cinema circuit, with a handful of his films making the rounds at iconic festivals like Cannes (six of his films have debuted on the Croisette), and...
- 9/29/2015
- by Joshua Brunsting
- CriterionCast
In the nine consecutive years I’ve attended the Toronto International Film Festival, it remains an elusive monstrosity of an event. With its hundreds of offerings, it’s a gluttonous buffet for the committed cineaste, a playground of auteurs mixed with unknown quantities. Even after having attended Sundance and Cannes, navigating the selections still somehow feels like ‘catching up’ with entries from Berlin, Locarno, and the concurrent Venice. And, therefore, everyone’s Toronto experience is bound to seem a bit different, even as streamlined as the festival is as it remains one of the most press and public friendly film festivals in existence.
Of course, there’s always complaints (or questions) as to what doesn’t make an appearance at the festival, and we’re always subject to the tastes of various programmers. For instance, why exactly room could not have been made for Polish master Andrzej Zulawski’s first...
Of course, there’s always complaints (or questions) as to what doesn’t make an appearance at the festival, and we’re always subject to the tastes of various programmers. For instance, why exactly room could not have been made for Polish master Andrzej Zulawski’s first...
- 9/28/2015
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Art house distributor Kino Lorber has an outstanding lineup at Tiff 2015 that includes some of the most acclaimed international films of the year. Miguel Gomes' "Arabian Nights," which Volume 2 (The Desolate One) was just announced as Portugal's Oscar entry; Guatemala's "Ixcanul," which will also represent the Central American country at the Academy Awards; and Jafar Panahi's latest clandestine feature ,"Taxi," made under incredibly difficult conditions and winner of the Golden Bear at the Berlinale, are among their upcoming titles.
Take a look at when and where you can catch some of these films while you are at Tiff this week.
"Arabian Nights Trilogy" [Wavelengths]
A major hit at this year's Cannes, this epic, three-part contemporary fable by Portuguese auteur Miguel Gomes ( "Tabu" ) adopts the structure from "Arabian Nights" in order to explore Portugal's plunge into austery.
Directed by Miguel Gomes
Screening with Volume 1-3,
381 minutes
Screening Date:
9/19/15, Public Screening, 1pm, Jackman Hall
"Arabian Nights: Volume 1, The Restless One" [Wavelengths]
Directed by Miguel Gomes
North American Premiere, 125 minutes
Opens Dec. 4th in New York (Film Society of Lincoln Center)
Upcoming Screening:
9/19/15, Public Screening, 11:45am, Jackman Hall
"Arabian Nights: Volume 2, The Desolate One" [Wavelengths]
Directed by Miguel Gomes
North American Premiere, 131 minutes
Opens Dec. 11th in New York (Film Society of Lincoln Center)
Upcoming Screening:
9/19/15, Public Screening, 3pm, Jackman Hall
"Arabian Nights: Volume 3, The Enchanted One" [Wavelengths]
Directed by Miguel Gomes
American Premiere, 125 minutes
Opens Dec. 18th in New York (Film Society of Lincoln Center)
Upcoming Screenings:
9/14/15, P&I 1, 7:15pm, Scotiabank 6
9/16/15, Public Screening, 6:15pm, Jackman Hall
"Ixcanul" [Discovery]
In this dreamlike fusion of documentary and fable, two young, impoverished Mayan lovers escape from their servitude on a remote Guatemalan coffee plantation and attempt to make their way to the United States.
Directed by Jayro Bustamante
Canadian Premiere, 93 minutes
Upcoming Screenings:
9/16/15, Public Screening, 6:30pm, Tiff Bell Lightbox 2
9/18/15, Public Screening, 9:30am, Tiff Bell Lightbox 2
9/20/15, Public Screening, 9:30pm, Scotiabank 2
"Jafar Panahi's Taxi" [Masters]
Shooting almost entirely within a cab circling the streets of Tehran, the great director Jafar Panahi ( "Offside," "This Is Not a Film") offers a multilayered mosaic of life in today's Iran.
Directed by Jafar Panahi
Canadian Premiere, 82 minutes
Winner of the Golden Bear at the 2015 Berlin Film Festival
Opens Oct. 2nd in New York (IFC Center and Lincoln Plaza Cinemas)
Upcoming Screenings:
9/17/15, Public Screening, 5pm, Winter Garden Theatre
9/19/15, Public Screening, 3:30pm, Cinema 1
"Mountains May Depart" [Masters]
The new film from Mainland master Jia Zhangke ("A Touch of Sin") jumps from the recent past to the speculative near-future as it examines how China's economic boom has affected the bonds of family, tradition, and love.
Directed by Jia Zhangke
North American Premiere, approximately 131 minutes
Upcoming Screenings:
9/14/15, Public Screening, 9:30pm, Princess of Wales
9/15/15, Public Screening, 11:45am, Cinema 1
"The Forbidden Room" [Wavelengths]
Evan Johnson and Winnipeg’s wizard of the weird Guy Maddin ("My Winnipeg," "The Saddest Music in the World") plunge us into celluloid delirium with this mad, multi-narrative maze of phantasmal fables.
Directed by Guy Maddin and co-directed by Evan Johnson.
North American Premiere, 119 minutes
Opens Oct. 7th at New York's Film Forum.
Upcoming Screenings:
9/16/15, Public Screening, 9:15pm, Tiff Bell Lightbox 2
9/18/15, Public Screening, 3:15pm, Jackman Hall
"The Pearl Button" [Masters]
The great Chilean filmmaker Patricio Guzmán ("The Battle of Chile," "Nostalgia for the Light") chronicles the history of the indigenous peoples of Chilean Patagonia, whose decimation by colonial conquest prefigured the brutality of the Pinochet regime.
Directed by Patricio Guzman
North American Premiere, 82 minutes
Winner of the Silver Bear at the 2015 Berlin Film Festival
Opens Oct. 23rd in New York City (IFC Center and Lincoln Plaza Cinemas)
Upcoming Screenings:
9/13/15, Public Screening, 11:30am, Tiff Bell Lightbox 3
9/18/15, Public 3Screening, 3pm, Tiff Bell Lightbox 2...
Take a look at when and where you can catch some of these films while you are at Tiff this week.
"Arabian Nights Trilogy" [Wavelengths]
A major hit at this year's Cannes, this epic, three-part contemporary fable by Portuguese auteur Miguel Gomes ( "Tabu" ) adopts the structure from "Arabian Nights" in order to explore Portugal's plunge into austery.
Directed by Miguel Gomes
Screening with Volume 1-3,
381 minutes
Screening Date:
9/19/15, Public Screening, 1pm, Jackman Hall
"Arabian Nights: Volume 1, The Restless One" [Wavelengths]
Directed by Miguel Gomes
North American Premiere, 125 minutes
Opens Dec. 4th in New York (Film Society of Lincoln Center)
Upcoming Screening:
9/19/15, Public Screening, 11:45am, Jackman Hall
"Arabian Nights: Volume 2, The Desolate One" [Wavelengths]
Directed by Miguel Gomes
North American Premiere, 131 minutes
Opens Dec. 11th in New York (Film Society of Lincoln Center)
Upcoming Screening:
9/19/15, Public Screening, 3pm, Jackman Hall
"Arabian Nights: Volume 3, The Enchanted One" [Wavelengths]
Directed by Miguel Gomes
American Premiere, 125 minutes
Opens Dec. 18th in New York (Film Society of Lincoln Center)
Upcoming Screenings:
9/14/15, P&I 1, 7:15pm, Scotiabank 6
9/16/15, Public Screening, 6:15pm, Jackman Hall
"Ixcanul" [Discovery]
In this dreamlike fusion of documentary and fable, two young, impoverished Mayan lovers escape from their servitude on a remote Guatemalan coffee plantation and attempt to make their way to the United States.
Directed by Jayro Bustamante
Canadian Premiere, 93 minutes
Upcoming Screenings:
9/16/15, Public Screening, 6:30pm, Tiff Bell Lightbox 2
9/18/15, Public Screening, 9:30am, Tiff Bell Lightbox 2
9/20/15, Public Screening, 9:30pm, Scotiabank 2
"Jafar Panahi's Taxi" [Masters]
Shooting almost entirely within a cab circling the streets of Tehran, the great director Jafar Panahi ( "Offside," "This Is Not a Film") offers a multilayered mosaic of life in today's Iran.
Directed by Jafar Panahi
Canadian Premiere, 82 minutes
Winner of the Golden Bear at the 2015 Berlin Film Festival
Opens Oct. 2nd in New York (IFC Center and Lincoln Plaza Cinemas)
Upcoming Screenings:
9/17/15, Public Screening, 5pm, Winter Garden Theatre
9/19/15, Public Screening, 3:30pm, Cinema 1
"Mountains May Depart" [Masters]
The new film from Mainland master Jia Zhangke ("A Touch of Sin") jumps from the recent past to the speculative near-future as it examines how China's economic boom has affected the bonds of family, tradition, and love.
Directed by Jia Zhangke
North American Premiere, approximately 131 minutes
Upcoming Screenings:
9/14/15, Public Screening, 9:30pm, Princess of Wales
9/15/15, Public Screening, 11:45am, Cinema 1
"The Forbidden Room" [Wavelengths]
Evan Johnson and Winnipeg’s wizard of the weird Guy Maddin ("My Winnipeg," "The Saddest Music in the World") plunge us into celluloid delirium with this mad, multi-narrative maze of phantasmal fables.
Directed by Guy Maddin and co-directed by Evan Johnson.
North American Premiere, 119 minutes
Opens Oct. 7th at New York's Film Forum.
Upcoming Screenings:
9/16/15, Public Screening, 9:15pm, Tiff Bell Lightbox 2
9/18/15, Public Screening, 3:15pm, Jackman Hall
"The Pearl Button" [Masters]
The great Chilean filmmaker Patricio Guzmán ("The Battle of Chile," "Nostalgia for the Light") chronicles the history of the indigenous peoples of Chilean Patagonia, whose decimation by colonial conquest prefigured the brutality of the Pinochet regime.
Directed by Patricio Guzman
North American Premiere, 82 minutes
Winner of the Silver Bear at the 2015 Berlin Film Festival
Opens Oct. 23rd in New York City (IFC Center and Lincoln Plaza Cinemas)
Upcoming Screenings:
9/13/15, Public Screening, 11:30am, Tiff Bell Lightbox 3
9/18/15, Public 3Screening, 3pm, Tiff Bell Lightbox 2...
- 9/14/2015
- by Carlos Aguilar
- Sydney's Buzz
The Australian premiere of Cate Blanchett's Carol is set to headline this year's Adelaide Film Festival.
One-hundred and eighty films will screen at the Festival - including over 40 Australian films, and 24 South Australian films - with 51 countries represented at the Festival.
Some of films' biggest names, Julianne Moore, Michael Caine, Jane Fonda, Michael Keaton, Richard Roxburgh, Anthony Lapaglia and Rachel McAdams.
In its eleventh year, the 2015 Adelaide Film Festival will provide the best of local, Australian and internationally produced films, with an eclectic mix of cinema, television, art and the moving image . plus the one night only reunion of Festival ambassadors Margaret Pomeranz and David Stratton, as they host the Ultimate Quiz night.
The Festival will feature new work from Australian directors including Scott Hicks, Jocelyn Moorhouse, Matt Saville, Sue Brooks, Stephen Page, Matthew Bate, Meryl Tankard and Rosemary Myers.
It will also include work from international filmmakers Todd Haynes,...
One-hundred and eighty films will screen at the Festival - including over 40 Australian films, and 24 South Australian films - with 51 countries represented at the Festival.
Some of films' biggest names, Julianne Moore, Michael Caine, Jane Fonda, Michael Keaton, Richard Roxburgh, Anthony Lapaglia and Rachel McAdams.
In its eleventh year, the 2015 Adelaide Film Festival will provide the best of local, Australian and internationally produced films, with an eclectic mix of cinema, television, art and the moving image . plus the one night only reunion of Festival ambassadors Margaret Pomeranz and David Stratton, as they host the Ultimate Quiz night.
The Festival will feature new work from Australian directors including Scott Hicks, Jocelyn Moorhouse, Matt Saville, Sue Brooks, Stephen Page, Matthew Bate, Meryl Tankard and Rosemary Myers.
It will also include work from international filmmakers Todd Haynes,...
- 9/8/2015
- by Inside Film Correspondent
- IF.com.au
Hong Kong-based sales company Asian Shadows has picked up world rights (outside Greater China) to Tibetan director Pema Tseden’s Tharlo, which will receive its world premiere in Venice’s Orizzonti section.
Adapted from Pema Tseden’s novel, the film follows a 40-year-old Tibetan shepherd, who can recite Chairman Mao’s Little Red Book from memory, but whose quiet life changes when he is asked to go to the city to have his photo taken for his first ID card.
The film, which premieres in Venice on September 4, has also been selected for Busan’s Window on Asian Cinema section. It was produced by Beijing-based Heaven Pictures, which also produced Berlinale title River Road and Kaili Blues, which premiered in Locarno.
“Tharlo is typical of Tibetans of the present generation,” said Pema Tseden. “This is a story that shows them in a state of confusion, disorientation and desensitization. The film is in black-and-white as the ruggedness in the...
Adapted from Pema Tseden’s novel, the film follows a 40-year-old Tibetan shepherd, who can recite Chairman Mao’s Little Red Book from memory, but whose quiet life changes when he is asked to go to the city to have his photo taken for his first ID card.
The film, which premieres in Venice on September 4, has also been selected for Busan’s Window on Asian Cinema section. It was produced by Beijing-based Heaven Pictures, which also produced Berlinale title River Road and Kaili Blues, which premiered in Locarno.
“Tharlo is typical of Tibetans of the present generation,” said Pema Tseden. “This is a story that shows them in a state of confusion, disorientation and desensitization. The film is in black-and-white as the ruggedness in the...
- 9/2/2015
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
Sales veteran to debut in new role at Venice Film Festival.
Agathe Valentin has been appointed head of sales at Pyramide International, the sales arm of Paris-based auteur film production and distribution house Pyramide Films.
Valentin arrives from Les Films du Losange where she spent eight years rising to the position of head of sales and handling prestige auteur titles such as Michael Haneke’s Oscar-winning Amour and Stranger By The Lake.
“After eight years at Films du Losange, I felt ready for a new adventure and a fresh challenge,” Valentin told ScreenDaily.
She will make her first outing in her new role at the Venice Film Festival (Sept 2-12) with two festival titles: Early Winter and Montanha.
Australian Michael Rowe’s Early Winter, starring Paul Doucet as a security guard fighting to keep his marriage afloat opposite Suzanne Clement as his wife, will premiere internationally in Venice Days.
It marks an English-language debut for Rowe whose...
Agathe Valentin has been appointed head of sales at Pyramide International, the sales arm of Paris-based auteur film production and distribution house Pyramide Films.
Valentin arrives from Les Films du Losange where she spent eight years rising to the position of head of sales and handling prestige auteur titles such as Michael Haneke’s Oscar-winning Amour and Stranger By The Lake.
“After eight years at Films du Losange, I felt ready for a new adventure and a fresh challenge,” Valentin told ScreenDaily.
She will make her first outing in her new role at the Venice Film Festival (Sept 2-12) with two festival titles: Early Winter and Montanha.
Australian Michael Rowe’s Early Winter, starring Paul Doucet as a security guard fighting to keep his marriage afloat opposite Suzanne Clement as his wife, will premiere internationally in Venice Days.
It marks an English-language debut for Rowe whose...
- 8/26/2015
- ScreenDaily
Avishai Sivan’s religious drama wins Best Israeli Feature while Hotline scoops Van Leer award for Best Documentary.Scroll down for full list of winners
Avishai Sivan’s drama Tikkun has won Best Israeli Feature at the 32nd Jerusalem Film Festival, which held its awards ceremony last night [July 16] and closes on Sunday.
Tikkun, which follows a committed Hassidic student who begins to doubt himself after a life-changing experience, won the Haggiag Award for Best Israeli Feature Film, which comes with a $31,500 (Ils 120,000) prize.
The film also won the Anat Pirchi Award for Best Script, which comes with a $2,600 (Ils 10,000) prize, the Haggiag Award for Best Actor for lead Khalifa Natour, also accompanied by a $2,600 (Ils 10,000) prize, and the Van Leer Award for Best Cinematography, which scoops $2,400 (Ils 9,000).
The film was directed by Avishai Sivan and produced by Ronen Ben-Tal, Avishai Sivan, Moshe Edery and Leon Edery of Plan B Productions.
Tikkun will also...
Avishai Sivan’s drama Tikkun has won Best Israeli Feature at the 32nd Jerusalem Film Festival, which held its awards ceremony last night [July 16] and closes on Sunday.
Tikkun, which follows a committed Hassidic student who begins to doubt himself after a life-changing experience, won the Haggiag Award for Best Israeli Feature Film, which comes with a $31,500 (Ils 120,000) prize.
The film also won the Anat Pirchi Award for Best Script, which comes with a $2,600 (Ils 10,000) prize, the Haggiag Award for Best Actor for lead Khalifa Natour, also accompanied by a $2,600 (Ils 10,000) prize, and the Van Leer Award for Best Cinematography, which scoops $2,400 (Ils 9,000).
The film was directed by Avishai Sivan and produced by Ronen Ben-Tal, Avishai Sivan, Moshe Edery and Leon Edery of Plan B Productions.
Tikkun will also...
- 7/17/2015
- ScreenDaily
Neil Armfield.s Holding the Man, Simon Stone.s The Daughter, Jeremy Sims. Last Cab to Darwin and Jen Peedom.s feature doc Sherpa will have their world premieres at the Sydney Film Festival.
The festival program unveiled today includes 33 world premieres (including 22 shorts) and 135 Australian premieres (with 18 shorts) among 251 titles from 68 countries.
Among the other premieres will be Daina Reid.s The Secret River, Ruby Entertainment's. ABC-tv miniseries starring Oliver Jackson Cohen and Sarah Snook, and three Oz docs, Marc Eberle.s The Cambodian Space Project — Not Easy Rock .n. Roll, Steve Thomas. Freedom Stories and Lisa Nicol.s Wide Open Sky.
Festival director Nashen Moodley boasted. this year.s event will be far larger than 2014's when 183 films from 47 countries were screened, including 15 world premieres. The expansion is possible in part due to the addition of two new screening venues in Newtown and Liverpool.
As previously announced, Brendan Cowell...
The festival program unveiled today includes 33 world premieres (including 22 shorts) and 135 Australian premieres (with 18 shorts) among 251 titles from 68 countries.
Among the other premieres will be Daina Reid.s The Secret River, Ruby Entertainment's. ABC-tv miniseries starring Oliver Jackson Cohen and Sarah Snook, and three Oz docs, Marc Eberle.s The Cambodian Space Project — Not Easy Rock .n. Roll, Steve Thomas. Freedom Stories and Lisa Nicol.s Wide Open Sky.
Festival director Nashen Moodley boasted. this year.s event will be far larger than 2014's when 183 films from 47 countries were screened, including 15 world premieres. The expansion is possible in part due to the addition of two new screening venues in Newtown and Liverpool.
As previously announced, Brendan Cowell...
- 5/6/2015
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
If the biggest names in the recent Berlin Film Festival lineup largely disappointed with their shiny, starry films, there were more than a handful of filmmakers who totally justified, or exceeded, our prior fandom. Chief among these was Pablo Larrain, the Chilean director of "Post Mortem" and "No," who showed up almost unheralded with his latest film, "The Club" (A grade review here), which, along with Patricio Guzman's extraordinary "The Pearl Button" made this a banner Berlinale for Chile. "The Club" is a mordant, excoriating, bitter indictment of the culture of concealment in the Catholic Church, featuring no big stars, set in a depressed crummy seaside town, painted in drab colors and featuring quite possibly the most horrifically detailed and borderline-unlistenable tirade about clerical child sex abuse ever committed to film. Needless to say, it's absolutely terrific. With the film only having just premiered, we got to...
- 2/20/2015
- by Jessica Kiang
- The Playlist
Critics rank Andrew Haigh’s double Silver Bear winner the best film in competition at the Berlinale.Click here to download the Jury GridClick here to view the Jury Grid on Screen
Andrew Haigh’s 45 Years has topped the Screen Jury Grid at this year’s Berlin Film Festival (Feb 5-15), scoring 3.4 out of a possible 4.
The film, which explores the strain placed on an old married couple, saw co-stars Tom Courtenay and Charlotte Rampling pick up Silver Bear’s for best actor and best actress at the Berlinale awards ceremony on Saturday.
On the Jury Grid, 45 Years secured a rare ‘four star’ score from Screen’s hard to please critic Dan Fainaru.
It also saw off competition from the 18 other contenders scored by international critics for Screen.
Taxi, by dissident Iranian director Jafar Panahi, picked up the Golden Bear on Saturday and was ranked joint third on the grid with a score of 3.1, alongside Jayro Bustamante’s [link...
Andrew Haigh’s 45 Years has topped the Screen Jury Grid at this year’s Berlin Film Festival (Feb 5-15), scoring 3.4 out of a possible 4.
The film, which explores the strain placed on an old married couple, saw co-stars Tom Courtenay and Charlotte Rampling pick up Silver Bear’s for best actor and best actress at the Berlinale awards ceremony on Saturday.
On the Jury Grid, 45 Years secured a rare ‘four star’ score from Screen’s hard to please critic Dan Fainaru.
It also saw off competition from the 18 other contenders scored by international critics for Screen.
Taxi, by dissident Iranian director Jafar Panahi, picked up the Golden Bear on Saturday and was ranked joint third on the grid with a score of 3.1, alongside Jayro Bustamante’s [link...
- 2/16/2015
- ScreenDaily
The 65th annual Berlin International Film Festival has drawn to a close with Darren Aronofsky's jury settling on awards for films in competition. Jafar Panahi's "Taxi" walked away with top honors, while the "45 Years" duo of Tom Courtenay and Charlotte Rampling won acting honors. Following big lifts for films like "Boyhood" and "The Grand Budapest Hotel" at the 2014 edition, however, this year's fest didn't sound as loud a thunderclap. But the current Oscar season was still on the brain for reviewers who couldn't resist noting a film like "Victoria's" place in the wake of "Birdman" (the Sebastian Schipper heist thriller was filmed in one continuous take and picked up a prize Saturday for cinematography). Check out the full list of Berlinale winners below. Golden Bear (Best Film) Jafar Panahi, "Taxi" Silver Bear (Grand Jury Prize) Pablo Larrain, "El Club" Silver Bear (Best Director) Radu Jude, "Aferim!" Malgorzata Szumowska,...
- 2/14/2015
- by Kristopher Tapley
- Hitfix
With most of the Berlin Film Festival competition titles now screened, there are some standouts. But sentiment on the ground here is that it’s the out of competition titles that have clearer crossover appeal. That’s a switch from last year when the main section went user-friendly. In 2014, The Grand Budapest Hotel opened the festival to raves, and Boyhood won hearts a few days later. Ultimately, it was Chinese pic Black Coal, Thin Ice that was the top prize-winner, but Boyhood’s Richard Linklater was named Best Director, while Budapest Hotel scooped the Grand Jury Silver Bear. And just look where those films are now.
Among the competition films that are high on festgoers’ lists here thus far is Pablo Larrain’s exiled priests tale El Club. Larrain’s No was nominated for a Foreign Language Oscar in 2013 and this current film has a lot of people talking, although...
Among the competition films that are high on festgoers’ lists here thus far is Pablo Larrain’s exiled priests tale El Club. Larrain’s No was nominated for a Foreign Language Oscar in 2013 and this current film has a lot of people talking, although...
- 2/12/2015
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline
After scoring the world premiere of Wes Anderson’s “The Grand Budapest Hotel,” 2015’s most Oscar-nominated film bar “Birdman,” The Berlin Film Festival suddenly seems to have more clout and sway than usual. The festival already has a tremendous line-up that includes anticipated new films by Terrence Malick, Werner Herzog, Anton Corbijn, Jafar Panahi and more. Berlin announced the completion of their line-up today and there’s definitely a few more cherries to top it all off. As expected (he’s being feted by the festival), Wim Wenders’ 3D drama, “Every Thing Will Be Fine,” starring James Franco, Charlotte Gainsbourg and Rachel McAdams, will be part of the final line-up, but will play out of competition. Other key additions include two new unexpected films by Chilean auteurs, a documentary by Patricio Guzman titled “The Pearl Button” and a new surprise drama from Pablo Larraín (director of “No” starring Gael Garcia Bernal...
- 1/19/2015
- by Edward Davis
- The Playlist
The 2nd edition of the Urban Lens film festival will screen over 35 non-fiction films from India, South Africa, Peru, Chile, Colombia and Canada, in an attempt to engage with how the ‘city’ has found a cinematic expression in non-fiction films over a period of time.
The festival will be held from September 26-28, 2014 at the Indian Institute for Human Settlements (Iihs), Bangalore City campus. This year, the festival will also feature specially curated package of films from the Films Division archive, special screenings and a public talk. Entry to all films is free.
Each film that is part of this festival will explore different facets of what the city produces – whether political, social, economic or cultural. Deepa Dhanraj’s classic documentary film Kya Hua Is Shehar Ko looks at the communal riots of Hyderabad while Saba Dewan’s The Other Song chronicles the life of the singer Rasoolan Bai from...
The festival will be held from September 26-28, 2014 at the Indian Institute for Human Settlements (Iihs), Bangalore City campus. This year, the festival will also feature specially curated package of films from the Films Division archive, special screenings and a public talk. Entry to all films is free.
Each film that is part of this festival will explore different facets of what the city produces – whether political, social, economic or cultural. Deepa Dhanraj’s classic documentary film Kya Hua Is Shehar Ko looks at the communal riots of Hyderabad while Saba Dewan’s The Other Song chronicles the life of the singer Rasoolan Bai from...
- 9/23/2014
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
September 11 marked a very different occasion in Chile. It was 40 years ago that a CIA backed military operation ousted a democratically elected president and launched 17 years of fear and violence on the nation. Chilean artists only survived if they went in to exile and film schools were closed. Expression wasn't encouraged so it's incredible that today these Chilenos and Chilenas have a voice and have made such an impact on the international film landscape.
They came through the dictatorship and have an admiration and camaraderie with one another that inspires each other with an unbreakable bond. Today is Chilean Independence day and we wanted to ask these filmmakers who has inspired them. As a Chileno, I dedicate this to my mother.
Nicolas Lopez - Aftershock
Inspiration: Woody Allen, Alex de la Iglesia, Santiago Segura, Quentin Tarantino, Todd Solondz.
Sebastián Lelio - Gloria
Inspiration: John Cassavetes, Francois Truffaut, Raoul Ruiz, Pier Palo Pasolini, Roberto Rossellini.
Read SydneysBuzz interview with Sebastián Leilo Here
Alice Scherson - Il Futuro
Inspiration: Michelangelo Antonioni, Agnes Varda, Hal Hartley, Alfred Hitchcock, Raul Ruiz.
Marialy Rivas - Joven Y Alocada
Inspiration: Jean Luc Godard, Wim Wenders, Lars Von Trier, Alfred Hitchcock, Antonioni
“I'm going with the classics being cinema such a young art, no?”
Cristian Jimenez - Bonsai
Inspiration: Aki Kaurismaki, Nicholas Ray, Raúl Ruiz, Yasujiro Ozu, Jan Svankmajer
Che Sandoval - Te creís la más linda... (Pero erís la más puta)
Inspiration: Jim Jarmush, John Casavettes, Andrew Bujalsky, John Houston, Jean Luc Godard
Matias Lira - Drama
Inspiration: Werner Herzog, Luchino Visconti, John Cassavetes, David Lynch, Lars Von Trier (From Chile: Raul Ruiz, Andres Wood, Pablo Larrain, Ignacio Agüero, Patricio Guzman)
Rodrigo Marin - Zoologico
Inspiration: Ruben Ostlund, Ulrich Seidl, Yorghos Lanthimos, Cristian Jimenez, James Grey
Ernesto Diaz Espinoza – Santiago Violenta
Inspiration: Quentin Tarantino, Martin Scorsese, David Lynch, Takeshi Kitano, Alfred Hitchcock
Maria Jose San Martin – La Ducha
Inspiration: Woody Allen, Michael Haneke, Martin Rejim, Rodrigo Garcia, John Cassavetes
Another recent notable Chilean film is The Summer of Flying Fish by Marcela Said
Read Sydney's interview with Marcela Said during Tiff Here
Read our review for the film Here...
They came through the dictatorship and have an admiration and camaraderie with one another that inspires each other with an unbreakable bond. Today is Chilean Independence day and we wanted to ask these filmmakers who has inspired them. As a Chileno, I dedicate this to my mother.
Nicolas Lopez - Aftershock
Inspiration: Woody Allen, Alex de la Iglesia, Santiago Segura, Quentin Tarantino, Todd Solondz.
Sebastián Lelio - Gloria
Inspiration: John Cassavetes, Francois Truffaut, Raoul Ruiz, Pier Palo Pasolini, Roberto Rossellini.
Read SydneysBuzz interview with Sebastián Leilo Here
Alice Scherson - Il Futuro
Inspiration: Michelangelo Antonioni, Agnes Varda, Hal Hartley, Alfred Hitchcock, Raul Ruiz.
Marialy Rivas - Joven Y Alocada
Inspiration: Jean Luc Godard, Wim Wenders, Lars Von Trier, Alfred Hitchcock, Antonioni
“I'm going with the classics being cinema such a young art, no?”
Cristian Jimenez - Bonsai
Inspiration: Aki Kaurismaki, Nicholas Ray, Raúl Ruiz, Yasujiro Ozu, Jan Svankmajer
Che Sandoval - Te creís la más linda... (Pero erís la más puta)
Inspiration: Jim Jarmush, John Casavettes, Andrew Bujalsky, John Houston, Jean Luc Godard
Matias Lira - Drama
Inspiration: Werner Herzog, Luchino Visconti, John Cassavetes, David Lynch, Lars Von Trier (From Chile: Raul Ruiz, Andres Wood, Pablo Larrain, Ignacio Agüero, Patricio Guzman)
Rodrigo Marin - Zoologico
Inspiration: Ruben Ostlund, Ulrich Seidl, Yorghos Lanthimos, Cristian Jimenez, James Grey
Ernesto Diaz Espinoza – Santiago Violenta
Inspiration: Quentin Tarantino, Martin Scorsese, David Lynch, Takeshi Kitano, Alfred Hitchcock
Maria Jose San Martin – La Ducha
Inspiration: Woody Allen, Michael Haneke, Martin Rejim, Rodrigo Garcia, John Cassavetes
Another recent notable Chilean film is The Summer of Flying Fish by Marcela Said
Read Sydney's interview with Marcela Said during Tiff Here
Read our review for the film Here...
- 9/18/2013
- by Juan Caceres
- Sydney's Buzz
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced today the 276 members of the entertainment industry invited to join organization. The list includes actors, directors, documentarians, executives, film editors, producers and more. Of those listed below, those who accept the invitations will be the only additions to the Academy's membership in 2013. "These individuals are among the best filmmakers working in the industry today," said Academy President Hawk Koch in a press release. "Their talent and creativity have captured the imagination of audiences worldwide, and I am proud to welcome each of them to the Academy." Koch also told Variety, "In the past eight or nine years, each branch could only bring in X amount of members. There were people each branch would have liked to get in but couldn't. We asked them to be more inclusive of the best of the best, and each branch was excited, because they got...
- 6/28/2013
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
It’s Cuba! Where else would The Havana International Film Festival’s Opening and Closing Night take place except in The Karl Marx Theater? Opening with music by Cuba’s greatest salsa group, Los Van Van, the 34th edition is still headed by its founder and Fidel Castro’s teacher in Communism, Alfredo Guevara, who dedicated this edition to the new generation of filmmakers which represents the future of cinema. The 10 day festival showcased a broad range of new and not-so-new films from Cuba, Chile, Argentina, Venezuela, Dominican Republic, Costa Rica, Peru and fellow Caribbean nations, Trinidad & Tobago, Jamaica, Curacao and others whose cinema is being aided by their governments and whose youth is creating a new international cinema with the support of Europe and even, sometimes, Asia.
While this edition paid homage to the youth, also present and recalled were the members of the generations from the ‘60s like Aldo Francia, Chileans Miguel Littin, Patricio Guzman, Jorge Sanjines, Fernado Birri, Fernando Solano, Cacho Pallero, Santiago Alvarez, Glauber Roch, Carlos Diegues, Leon Hizsman, Juaquim Pedro, Tomas Guierrez Alea, Mario Handler, Walter Achugar and many others who in the years ‘67 and ‘68 were themselves inspired by such luminaries as Joris Ivens. Together they were the originators of the phenomenon El Cine de America Latina or New Latin American Cinema influenced mainly by Italian neorealism and other movements of social cinema. Its function was to go against U.S. models and to illuminate the troubled realities of Latin America in the hope of restoring cinema of the continent. Its key moment was the meeting of Latin American Cinema 1967 , which had its impetus in the Chilean Aldo Francia , the Cinema Club of Viña del Mar , the Cuban Alfredo Guevara, the Instituto Cubano de Arte e Industria Film (Icaic) and the Argentine Edgardo Pallero.
Illuminaries such as Annette Benning whose film The Kids are All Right was screening there and Hawk Koch, president of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, wrote fan letters to Fidel and Raoul and then mixed and caught up with the top critics and journalists of Latin America and festival participants in the gardens of the Hotel Nacional. Miguel Litten and spouse, the parents of Chile’s Christina Littin, one of Chile’s current top producer/ distributors, were often seen there. Their presence reminded me of Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s book Clandestine in Chile about the time when Miguel disguised himself to reenter Pinochet’s Chile from whence he had been exiled. So many stories of exile and return mark the modern history of Latin America.
The first day of the Havana festival was devoted to Eictv, the international film school that Gabriel Garcia Marquez founded in 1986 with his Nobel Prize money on land donated by Cuba. Today it is headed by Rafael Rosal who in his own country, Guatemala, set up the first infrastructure for a film industry – a film school, a film festival and production facilities.
Eictv has a student body from everywhere in Latin America, Europe and even from North America. Last year as the emissary for Woodbury University in Burbank CA, I brought them their first agreement with a U.S. institution and exchanges between students and staff have already begun, bringing TV documentary filmmaker Rolando Almirante for a second time to teach documentaries.
Eictv’s event at the Festival de Cine Nuevo en Habana is Nuevas Miradas, 12 chosen projects whose producers and directors present themselves to the industry and compete for three awards.
Coincidently with the lateness of this blog which I wrote from the Palm Springs International Film Festival -- some of Eictv’s staff’s and students’ films were among Psff’s 22 Latino projects vying for the Cine Latino Prize being offered by Festival Internacional de Cine en Guadalajara. This fact along shows a new unity of purpose among the Latino countries and their festivals (Cuba, Guadalajara and Palm Springs, which as part of the Coachella Valley, has the largest Latino population in the United States.) Among the 22 candidates for Psff’s Best Iberoamerican film were Clandestine Childhood (Argentina/ Brazil/Spain) by Benjamín Ávila, who was the coordinator of Fiction at Eictv and screenwriter Marcelo Muller also participated in Eictv; La Voz Dormida (España) of the emerging filmmaker Benito Zambrano, and 7 Boxes (Paraguay) co-directed by Juan Carlos Maneglia, a student in many of the workshops of Eictv. Eictv considers this exchange of ideas and talents as globally important.
The winners of Nuevas Miradas should be watched as one or several reach fruition. Last year The Visitor (Chile) won and has since raised the budget for a feature length film debut.
The projects, Un Viejo Traje, Moora Moora directed by Australian Rhiannon Stevens and produced by Chilean Esme Joffre, Tus padres volverán directed by Uruguayan Pablo Martínez and produced by Virginia Hinze, Cocodrilos tomando el sol, Cuerpos Celestes by Mexican director Lorena Padilla and producer Liliana Bravo, Revolución de las polleras by Bolivian director Sergio Estrada and producer Valeria Ponce received recognition and free software from Assimilate.
The documentary, Un Viejo Traje (aka The Old Suit), by Cuban director Damián Saínz (a student of Eictv) and producer Viana González received a $2,000 prize.
Fiction project, Cocodrilos tomando el sol, directed by Colombian Carlos Rojas and the Venezuelan producer Carolina Graterol, received a $1,000 prize and a course in directing at Eictv.
A film package for those interested in Cuban film programming
Ann Cross, a Scottish woman married to a Trinidadian is always in Havana. She programs the best selection of current Cuban features for U.K. distribution. This year she gave me this list of her favorites and many people concurred with her.
Y sin embargo (aka Nevertheless) by Rudy Mora also won the Beijing Film Festival prize which is surprising in that it is about school children challenging the school system, and challenging any systems in China (and perhaps in Cuba as well) is highly problematic. The child actors are exceptional. The type of burlesque comedy is typical of Cuba. Produced and Isa (international sales agent) is the Cuban government film group Icaic.
Irredemediablemente Juntos (aka Irredeemably Together) by Jorge Luis Sanchez Gonzalez is brave and challenging. Purportedly about classical music and Cuban music and the conflict between the two, it is really about race and the synthesis between black and white, Cuban and European Classical is reached in the story.
Cresciendo en la musica is about teaching music to children.
El sangre en la casa, en la escuela y en la calle (aka Blood in the House, in the School and in the Street) is a British-Cuban coproduction about Matanza, a town just outside of Havana where Cuban music roots are.
La piscine (aka The Swimming Pool) by Calvo Machado might not stand alone in the U.S. but would be good in a package.
Binchi by Eduardo Galano is about the 2 classes clashing in prison.
At the top of Ann’s list and on top of many others’ lists is Melaza.
What I saw and liked
It was also a time for me to catch up of Latin American cinema I have missed. My favorite was Chilean film Jueves a Domingo (aka from Thursday to Sunday) by Dominga Sotomayer. This road trip by a young couple and their 7 year old son and 11 year old daughter tells a story through the daughter’s eye of a loving family’s vacation and their father’s decision to move from Santiago to the countryside. We never know what he is getting away from (Pinochet?) but we see what is supposed to be a vacation transforms the family’s wholeness. The loving light touch of Sotomayer reminds me of Eric Rohmer’s four films of the seasons.
Lucie Malloy’s Una Noche was mobbed by the Cuban public wanting to see this film about two young defectors from Cuba; the police were called to break up the crowd and the overflow had a special screening set up. We hear that the young woman star who defected with her costar on the way to the Tribeca Film Festival and who landed up in Las Vegas is now in “exile mode” bewailing how she misses her family. La probrecita!! Yet another exile story. Had she waited a month, travel from Cuba would be legal. Una Noche is now here in Palm Springs as well, competitng for the Cine Latino Prize.
Other films I saw and liked
El Limpiador and Ombras were both without subtitles (as was Pablo Lorrain’s closing night film No) and so I could only watch a part of them. However I did see El Limpiador here in Palm Springs and was impressed with its simplicity and its authenticity and loving heart. A low tech take on a mysterious illness killing people in the Peruvian city of Lima, the film was simple, sometimes funny and in the end very satisfying.
A film which divided the audience neatly between men and women was the Brazilian feature Brecha Silencia (aka Breaching the Silence) about domestic violence from which 3 siblings barely escape. The subject of violence toward women was also the subject of a short which showed in every public screening. Called Ya No, this short Latin American backed PSA brings public awareness to the unacceptable violent behavior of men toward women often found in schools, in dating, and in homes.
Desde de Lucia playing in Palm Springs also takes on the subject of bullying, this time in a bourgeois Mexican school and centering on a teenage girl who has recently lost her mother.
Taken by Storm
The next segment of the festival was taken up with Trinidad + Tobago Film Festival (t+tff). Emilie Upszak, Artistic Director of t+tff, whom I had met in Havana last year through Icaic’s Luis Notario, and Bruce Paddington the founder and exec director of t+tff were in Havana with a delegation of filmmakers and their films. Since I had missed them all during the extraordinary experience I had at t+tff, I got to see Storm Saulter’s Better Mus Come which has been picked up by the new African Diaspora film distributor for U.S. Affrm (African-American Film Festival Releasing Movement).
Storm is Jamaican and took film courses at L.A. Film School, that large private film school on Sunset near Vine, across from the Arclight Theater, where many foreign students go and where many vets go seeking to learn filmmaking. Storm, however, had been making films since he was a kid using super 8mm and at the ripe old age of 27, he has since formed a collective in Jamaica called, the New Caribbean Cinema. His new fiction feature Better Mus Come screened at Trinidad + Tobago film festival and showed here in Havana as well. He will be announcing an international sales agent and a U.S. distributor very soon.
What fun and interesting days and evenings and nights I had with the t+tff folks.
We heard live music, I danced salsa with a Puerto Rican Actor/ Director who dances salsa and has a short in the festival.
Salsa in Havana seems to be losing steam. Reggaeton closes every dance event as the drunken, monotonous final act before going home. However in Jamaica it is transforming itself into Dancehall (what could be more sexual than that except for sex itself?). There is also Rumba, the traditional dance of Afro-Cubans. It is now taking new forms as the newest generation of Cuba takes the stage. Woodbury faculty, in Havana on a hosted tour with the Jose Marti Cultural Institute, led by my friend Cookie Fischer were invited to the top of the Lincoln Hotel on the night the world was to end (remember the Mayan calendar prediction?) and we danced the night away to the live music of Septeto Nacional a 70 year old group. Son was my dance of choice there. For those of you who want to see Cuba before the transition is over, now is the time. You can travel legally from L.A. and Miami, Mexico or anywhere else in the world with a general license. Take advantage of it Now as it is going to get more crowded with tourists. For us film folk, we get a privileged perch, so plan on next December taking in a week of films plus another week or two to see a country whose land and people are unique in Latin America and the Caribbean.
While this edition paid homage to the youth, also present and recalled were the members of the generations from the ‘60s like Aldo Francia, Chileans Miguel Littin, Patricio Guzman, Jorge Sanjines, Fernado Birri, Fernando Solano, Cacho Pallero, Santiago Alvarez, Glauber Roch, Carlos Diegues, Leon Hizsman, Juaquim Pedro, Tomas Guierrez Alea, Mario Handler, Walter Achugar and many others who in the years ‘67 and ‘68 were themselves inspired by such luminaries as Joris Ivens. Together they were the originators of the phenomenon El Cine de America Latina or New Latin American Cinema influenced mainly by Italian neorealism and other movements of social cinema. Its function was to go against U.S. models and to illuminate the troubled realities of Latin America in the hope of restoring cinema of the continent. Its key moment was the meeting of Latin American Cinema 1967 , which had its impetus in the Chilean Aldo Francia , the Cinema Club of Viña del Mar , the Cuban Alfredo Guevara, the Instituto Cubano de Arte e Industria Film (Icaic) and the Argentine Edgardo Pallero.
Illuminaries such as Annette Benning whose film The Kids are All Right was screening there and Hawk Koch, president of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, wrote fan letters to Fidel and Raoul and then mixed and caught up with the top critics and journalists of Latin America and festival participants in the gardens of the Hotel Nacional. Miguel Litten and spouse, the parents of Chile’s Christina Littin, one of Chile’s current top producer/ distributors, were often seen there. Their presence reminded me of Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s book Clandestine in Chile about the time when Miguel disguised himself to reenter Pinochet’s Chile from whence he had been exiled. So many stories of exile and return mark the modern history of Latin America.
The first day of the Havana festival was devoted to Eictv, the international film school that Gabriel Garcia Marquez founded in 1986 with his Nobel Prize money on land donated by Cuba. Today it is headed by Rafael Rosal who in his own country, Guatemala, set up the first infrastructure for a film industry – a film school, a film festival and production facilities.
Eictv has a student body from everywhere in Latin America, Europe and even from North America. Last year as the emissary for Woodbury University in Burbank CA, I brought them their first agreement with a U.S. institution and exchanges between students and staff have already begun, bringing TV documentary filmmaker Rolando Almirante for a second time to teach documentaries.
Eictv’s event at the Festival de Cine Nuevo en Habana is Nuevas Miradas, 12 chosen projects whose producers and directors present themselves to the industry and compete for three awards.
Coincidently with the lateness of this blog which I wrote from the Palm Springs International Film Festival -- some of Eictv’s staff’s and students’ films were among Psff’s 22 Latino projects vying for the Cine Latino Prize being offered by Festival Internacional de Cine en Guadalajara. This fact along shows a new unity of purpose among the Latino countries and their festivals (Cuba, Guadalajara and Palm Springs, which as part of the Coachella Valley, has the largest Latino population in the United States.) Among the 22 candidates for Psff’s Best Iberoamerican film were Clandestine Childhood (Argentina/ Brazil/Spain) by Benjamín Ávila, who was the coordinator of Fiction at Eictv and screenwriter Marcelo Muller also participated in Eictv; La Voz Dormida (España) of the emerging filmmaker Benito Zambrano, and 7 Boxes (Paraguay) co-directed by Juan Carlos Maneglia, a student in many of the workshops of Eictv. Eictv considers this exchange of ideas and talents as globally important.
The winners of Nuevas Miradas should be watched as one or several reach fruition. Last year The Visitor (Chile) won and has since raised the budget for a feature length film debut.
The projects, Un Viejo Traje, Moora Moora directed by Australian Rhiannon Stevens and produced by Chilean Esme Joffre, Tus padres volverán directed by Uruguayan Pablo Martínez and produced by Virginia Hinze, Cocodrilos tomando el sol, Cuerpos Celestes by Mexican director Lorena Padilla and producer Liliana Bravo, Revolución de las polleras by Bolivian director Sergio Estrada and producer Valeria Ponce received recognition and free software from Assimilate.
The documentary, Un Viejo Traje (aka The Old Suit), by Cuban director Damián Saínz (a student of Eictv) and producer Viana González received a $2,000 prize.
Fiction project, Cocodrilos tomando el sol, directed by Colombian Carlos Rojas and the Venezuelan producer Carolina Graterol, received a $1,000 prize and a course in directing at Eictv.
A film package for those interested in Cuban film programming
Ann Cross, a Scottish woman married to a Trinidadian is always in Havana. She programs the best selection of current Cuban features for U.K. distribution. This year she gave me this list of her favorites and many people concurred with her.
Y sin embargo (aka Nevertheless) by Rudy Mora also won the Beijing Film Festival prize which is surprising in that it is about school children challenging the school system, and challenging any systems in China (and perhaps in Cuba as well) is highly problematic. The child actors are exceptional. The type of burlesque comedy is typical of Cuba. Produced and Isa (international sales agent) is the Cuban government film group Icaic.
Irredemediablemente Juntos (aka Irredeemably Together) by Jorge Luis Sanchez Gonzalez is brave and challenging. Purportedly about classical music and Cuban music and the conflict between the two, it is really about race and the synthesis between black and white, Cuban and European Classical is reached in the story.
Cresciendo en la musica is about teaching music to children.
El sangre en la casa, en la escuela y en la calle (aka Blood in the House, in the School and in the Street) is a British-Cuban coproduction about Matanza, a town just outside of Havana where Cuban music roots are.
La piscine (aka The Swimming Pool) by Calvo Machado might not stand alone in the U.S. but would be good in a package.
Binchi by Eduardo Galano is about the 2 classes clashing in prison.
At the top of Ann’s list and on top of many others’ lists is Melaza.
What I saw and liked
It was also a time for me to catch up of Latin American cinema I have missed. My favorite was Chilean film Jueves a Domingo (aka from Thursday to Sunday) by Dominga Sotomayer. This road trip by a young couple and their 7 year old son and 11 year old daughter tells a story through the daughter’s eye of a loving family’s vacation and their father’s decision to move from Santiago to the countryside. We never know what he is getting away from (Pinochet?) but we see what is supposed to be a vacation transforms the family’s wholeness. The loving light touch of Sotomayer reminds me of Eric Rohmer’s four films of the seasons.
Lucie Malloy’s Una Noche was mobbed by the Cuban public wanting to see this film about two young defectors from Cuba; the police were called to break up the crowd and the overflow had a special screening set up. We hear that the young woman star who defected with her costar on the way to the Tribeca Film Festival and who landed up in Las Vegas is now in “exile mode” bewailing how she misses her family. La probrecita!! Yet another exile story. Had she waited a month, travel from Cuba would be legal. Una Noche is now here in Palm Springs as well, competitng for the Cine Latino Prize.
Other films I saw and liked
El Limpiador and Ombras were both without subtitles (as was Pablo Lorrain’s closing night film No) and so I could only watch a part of them. However I did see El Limpiador here in Palm Springs and was impressed with its simplicity and its authenticity and loving heart. A low tech take on a mysterious illness killing people in the Peruvian city of Lima, the film was simple, sometimes funny and in the end very satisfying.
A film which divided the audience neatly between men and women was the Brazilian feature Brecha Silencia (aka Breaching the Silence) about domestic violence from which 3 siblings barely escape. The subject of violence toward women was also the subject of a short which showed in every public screening. Called Ya No, this short Latin American backed PSA brings public awareness to the unacceptable violent behavior of men toward women often found in schools, in dating, and in homes.
Desde de Lucia playing in Palm Springs also takes on the subject of bullying, this time in a bourgeois Mexican school and centering on a teenage girl who has recently lost her mother.
Taken by Storm
The next segment of the festival was taken up with Trinidad + Tobago Film Festival (t+tff). Emilie Upszak, Artistic Director of t+tff, whom I had met in Havana last year through Icaic’s Luis Notario, and Bruce Paddington the founder and exec director of t+tff were in Havana with a delegation of filmmakers and their films. Since I had missed them all during the extraordinary experience I had at t+tff, I got to see Storm Saulter’s Better Mus Come which has been picked up by the new African Diaspora film distributor for U.S. Affrm (African-American Film Festival Releasing Movement).
Storm is Jamaican and took film courses at L.A. Film School, that large private film school on Sunset near Vine, across from the Arclight Theater, where many foreign students go and where many vets go seeking to learn filmmaking. Storm, however, had been making films since he was a kid using super 8mm and at the ripe old age of 27, he has since formed a collective in Jamaica called, the New Caribbean Cinema. His new fiction feature Better Mus Come screened at Trinidad + Tobago film festival and showed here in Havana as well. He will be announcing an international sales agent and a U.S. distributor very soon.
What fun and interesting days and evenings and nights I had with the t+tff folks.
We heard live music, I danced salsa with a Puerto Rican Actor/ Director who dances salsa and has a short in the festival.
Salsa in Havana seems to be losing steam. Reggaeton closes every dance event as the drunken, monotonous final act before going home. However in Jamaica it is transforming itself into Dancehall (what could be more sexual than that except for sex itself?). There is also Rumba, the traditional dance of Afro-Cubans. It is now taking new forms as the newest generation of Cuba takes the stage. Woodbury faculty, in Havana on a hosted tour with the Jose Marti Cultural Institute, led by my friend Cookie Fischer were invited to the top of the Lincoln Hotel on the night the world was to end (remember the Mayan calendar prediction?) and we danced the night away to the live music of Septeto Nacional a 70 year old group. Son was my dance of choice there. For those of you who want to see Cuba before the transition is over, now is the time. You can travel legally from L.A. and Miami, Mexico or anywhere else in the world with a general license. Take advantage of it Now as it is going to get more crowded with tourists. For us film folk, we get a privileged perch, so plan on next December taking in a week of films plus another week or two to see a country whose land and people are unique in Latin America and the Caribbean.
- 3/15/2013
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
The maiden edition of the Dharamshala International Film Festival will be held from 1st – 4th November.The film festival is an initiative of the Dharanshala based filmmakers Ritu Sarin and Tenzing Sonam.
Ritu Sarin and Tenzing Sonam run an independent film company and produce films mainly focusing on the subject of Tibet. Some of their films include, The Sun Behind the Clouds: Tibet’s Struggle for Freedom, The Thread of Karma, Dreaming Lhasa and Big Treasure Chest for Future Kids.
12 films to be screened at the festival are announced so far, more will be coming soon. Those lined-up are:
Miss Lovely
India. Directed by Ashim Ahluwalia. Two brothers, Vicky and Sonu Duggal, produce forbidden sex-horror films for India’s small-town picture houses in mid-1980s Bombay. Vicky is struggling to run the tabooed operation, while Sonu desires to produce a romantic film which he would call ‘Miss Lovely’.
The film...
Ritu Sarin and Tenzing Sonam run an independent film company and produce films mainly focusing on the subject of Tibet. Some of their films include, The Sun Behind the Clouds: Tibet’s Struggle for Freedom, The Thread of Karma, Dreaming Lhasa and Big Treasure Chest for Future Kids.
12 films to be screened at the festival are announced so far, more will be coming soon. Those lined-up are:
Miss Lovely
India. Directed by Ashim Ahluwalia. Two brothers, Vicky and Sonu Duggal, produce forbidden sex-horror films for India’s small-town picture houses in mid-1980s Bombay. Vicky is struggling to run the tabooed operation, while Sonu desires to produce a romantic film which he would call ‘Miss Lovely’.
The film...
- 9/22/2012
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Who wins the World Cinema Screenwriting Award at Sundance and accepts it with: “I don’t speak very well English, but I want to say thanks and have a lot of sex”? Marialy Rivas does. That’s how dope she is. Marialy is part of a new generation of Chilean filmmakers such as Pablo Larrain, Cristian Jimenez, Dominga Sotomayor and Alicia Scherson, that are a re-birth in the country’s cinema much like La Nouvelle Vague. It’s provocative, daring, exciting and it’s especially non conforming. Her feature debut, the hyperactive and sexy ‘Joven Y Alocada’ (‘Young And Wild’)(Isa: Elle Driver) had its New York premiere recently at NewFest.
LatinoBuzz:How can you best describe the wave of young daring filmmakers that are coming out of Chile? Where did it come from? And is it a result of a generation of artists that were born under the dictatorship?
Marialy Rivas:I think that we had great Chilean filmmakers during the 70's that where killed during the dictatorship, only a few like Raul Ruiz or Patricio Guzman survived but they were exiled or they move to other countries in fear for their lives. All Cinema Schools were closed. Somehow, after more than 20 years of democracy, finally there is a new wave of filmmakers able to reconnect with those voices that were erased from our lives. The support of the State through grants (that mostly seeks a strong art proposal), the fact that we are all first timers and that there is no "industry" in the country has two consequences that I guess are resulting in a good mix; in one hand we are very free because we have no proper training or the pressures to answer to any kind of industry standard and at the same time because our country is small and so far away we are very conscious that we have to have a loud and clear voice to speak to the world.
LatinoBuzz: Why film?
Marialy Rivas:Because I was never able to love anything else. When I was 7 years old I decided to become a filmmaker, it felt like a calling and I have pursued that calling my whole life. In retrospective I think it had a lot to do with the fact that my parents around that age kicked off the TV from the house so I started going to the movies, any kind of movies three times a weeks. I remember being 10 or 12 and going alone to watch an American blockbuster like "No Retreat, No Surrender" and the next day Andrey Tarkovskiy's ‘Offret’. It felt like a ritual, like something so personal and intimate that was only mine, it was like being in love.
LatinoBuzz:If you could re-make a film which is it and who do you cast?
Marialy Rivas:I would do Saló all over again with American indie stars like Carey Mulligan, Fassbender, Scarlett Johansson and Ryan Gosling so they get fully naked all together once and for all.
LatinoBuzz:If two filmmakers were lovers and named their child Marialy Rivas, who are they?
Marialy Rivas: I wish my dad was Godard and my mom Leni Riefenstahl (scary) or a fantastic mom can also be Gus Van Sant.
LatinoBuzz:What song describes you best?
MarialyRivas: A mash up between ‘Gracias a la Vida’ by Violeta Parra and ‘Erotica’ by Madonna.
LatinoBuzz: Is there a film from your childhood that you thought was great but in retrospect was so goddamn awful?
Marialy Rivas:I was in love with Footloose, the story of this guy rebelling against the town religious craziness just killed me. I watched again with a friend like a week ago and realized that it wasn’t as good as in my memory, specially the camera and the light work. I keep loving the story and the dance scenes though.
I also used to watch “The Sound of Music” once a week on my neighbors house, we did planed to make it as a musical with all the kids from the Neighborhood. That one I still love very much.
LatinoBuzz:When you make a film, are you thinking about receiving acceptance?
Marialy Rivas:I think the experience of cinema is not complete till it arrives to an audience, is the coronation of the experience; you are ultimately having a conversation with them. I moved to NY for a couple of years and I remember being in the middle of the street standing up between hundreds of people passing me by. I kept thinking, we are crossing each other for this split tiny second and never again, I felt like hugging each one of them. And there I thought, “I hope that when I make a movie I will be able to reach out to most of them.
Acceptance is not what I think about though, I fall in love with the stories, madly in love and I can't think or do anything else, but I do wanna connect with an audience at the end, to show them the beauty I saw in the story to begin with, to provoke them, to communicate with them in as many ways as possible.
LatinoBuzz:What was the happiest moment in your life?
Marialy Rivas: Uff, so many. I am a very happy person I must say. If I have to summarize I can recount three:
1. The first time I had sex.
2. When they called me from Cannes to tell me I was being selected in the official competition with my short film ‘Blokes’.
3. When I was driving home after my last birthday this April and this feeling of perfection suddenly hit me. It was like a state of grace. Nothing in particular triggered it, I wasn’t drunk or high, I just realized how wonderful my life was and I was so deeply grateful and in joy for it that I stay up till 10am looking at the ceiling crying and smiling (again I don’t drink or do drugs and I’m not a hippie either).
LatinoBuzz: Let’s say Pablo Neruda and Matilde invited you over to their home on La Isla Negra. Who’s your date and what wine do you take?
Marialy Rivas: I imagine taking a modern version of Amelia Earhart with the face and body of Greta Garbo (yes, I aim high) and Vino Navegado, a Chilean preparation of hot wine, orange, cinnamon and more, to be able to actually drink it.
LatinoBuzz: Five years from now people will people say about Marialy?
Marialy Rivas: Wow, I wish they were talking at least about two more movies that I have done. Ah! And: How hot and smart her wife is and such beautiful kids!
For info on ‘Joven Y Alocada’ visit: www.facebook.com/jovenyalocadalapelicula
Written by Juan Caceres and Vanessa Erazo, LatinoBuzz is a weekly feature on SydneysBuzz that highlights emerging and established Latino indie talent and upcoming trends in Latino film with the specific objective of presenting a broad range of Latino voices. Follow @LatinoBuzz on twitter.
LatinoBuzz:How can you best describe the wave of young daring filmmakers that are coming out of Chile? Where did it come from? And is it a result of a generation of artists that were born under the dictatorship?
Marialy Rivas:I think that we had great Chilean filmmakers during the 70's that where killed during the dictatorship, only a few like Raul Ruiz or Patricio Guzman survived but they were exiled or they move to other countries in fear for their lives. All Cinema Schools were closed. Somehow, after more than 20 years of democracy, finally there is a new wave of filmmakers able to reconnect with those voices that were erased from our lives. The support of the State through grants (that mostly seeks a strong art proposal), the fact that we are all first timers and that there is no "industry" in the country has two consequences that I guess are resulting in a good mix; in one hand we are very free because we have no proper training or the pressures to answer to any kind of industry standard and at the same time because our country is small and so far away we are very conscious that we have to have a loud and clear voice to speak to the world.
LatinoBuzz: Why film?
Marialy Rivas:Because I was never able to love anything else. When I was 7 years old I decided to become a filmmaker, it felt like a calling and I have pursued that calling my whole life. In retrospective I think it had a lot to do with the fact that my parents around that age kicked off the TV from the house so I started going to the movies, any kind of movies three times a weeks. I remember being 10 or 12 and going alone to watch an American blockbuster like "No Retreat, No Surrender" and the next day Andrey Tarkovskiy's ‘Offret’. It felt like a ritual, like something so personal and intimate that was only mine, it was like being in love.
LatinoBuzz:If you could re-make a film which is it and who do you cast?
Marialy Rivas:I would do Saló all over again with American indie stars like Carey Mulligan, Fassbender, Scarlett Johansson and Ryan Gosling so they get fully naked all together once and for all.
LatinoBuzz:If two filmmakers were lovers and named their child Marialy Rivas, who are they?
Marialy Rivas: I wish my dad was Godard and my mom Leni Riefenstahl (scary) or a fantastic mom can also be Gus Van Sant.
LatinoBuzz:What song describes you best?
MarialyRivas: A mash up between ‘Gracias a la Vida’ by Violeta Parra and ‘Erotica’ by Madonna.
LatinoBuzz: Is there a film from your childhood that you thought was great but in retrospect was so goddamn awful?
Marialy Rivas:I was in love with Footloose, the story of this guy rebelling against the town religious craziness just killed me. I watched again with a friend like a week ago and realized that it wasn’t as good as in my memory, specially the camera and the light work. I keep loving the story and the dance scenes though.
I also used to watch “The Sound of Music” once a week on my neighbors house, we did planed to make it as a musical with all the kids from the Neighborhood. That one I still love very much.
LatinoBuzz:When you make a film, are you thinking about receiving acceptance?
Marialy Rivas:I think the experience of cinema is not complete till it arrives to an audience, is the coronation of the experience; you are ultimately having a conversation with them. I moved to NY for a couple of years and I remember being in the middle of the street standing up between hundreds of people passing me by. I kept thinking, we are crossing each other for this split tiny second and never again, I felt like hugging each one of them. And there I thought, “I hope that when I make a movie I will be able to reach out to most of them.
Acceptance is not what I think about though, I fall in love with the stories, madly in love and I can't think or do anything else, but I do wanna connect with an audience at the end, to show them the beauty I saw in the story to begin with, to provoke them, to communicate with them in as many ways as possible.
LatinoBuzz:What was the happiest moment in your life?
Marialy Rivas: Uff, so many. I am a very happy person I must say. If I have to summarize I can recount three:
1. The first time I had sex.
2. When they called me from Cannes to tell me I was being selected in the official competition with my short film ‘Blokes’.
3. When I was driving home after my last birthday this April and this feeling of perfection suddenly hit me. It was like a state of grace. Nothing in particular triggered it, I wasn’t drunk or high, I just realized how wonderful my life was and I was so deeply grateful and in joy for it that I stay up till 10am looking at the ceiling crying and smiling (again I don’t drink or do drugs and I’m not a hippie either).
LatinoBuzz: Let’s say Pablo Neruda and Matilde invited you over to their home on La Isla Negra. Who’s your date and what wine do you take?
Marialy Rivas: I imagine taking a modern version of Amelia Earhart with the face and body of Greta Garbo (yes, I aim high) and Vino Navegado, a Chilean preparation of hot wine, orange, cinnamon and more, to be able to actually drink it.
LatinoBuzz: Five years from now people will people say about Marialy?
Marialy Rivas: Wow, I wish they were talking at least about two more movies that I have done. Ah! And: How hot and smart her wife is and such beautiful kids!
For info on ‘Joven Y Alocada’ visit: www.facebook.com/jovenyalocadalapelicula
Written by Juan Caceres and Vanessa Erazo, LatinoBuzz is a weekly feature on SydneysBuzz that highlights emerging and established Latino indie talent and upcoming trends in Latino film with the specific objective of presenting a broad range of Latino voices. Follow @LatinoBuzz on twitter.
- 8/8/2012
- by Juan Caceres
- Sydney's Buzz
Animated movie Continental Drift powers its way into England and Wales, while Magic Mike is a surprising mover and shaker
The winners
The dismal days of June's weak box office are now a fast-fading memory, as the market posts a second consecutive muscular frame, powered by the official arrival of Ice Age 4: Continental Drift in England and Wales. Thanks to four days of previews, the weekend's tally is an impressive £10.09m, although only £4.8m of that figure was earned over the Friday-to-Sunday period. The cumulative total is a nifty £13.05m. Comparisons with previous Ice Age movies – or with any film, for that matter – are almost impossible, such is the odd-shaped nature of the release, which saw it debut in Scotland, Ireland and Northern Ireland two weeks ahead of a preview-heavy England and Wales. Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs opened in July 2009 with £5.85m plus £1.79m in previews.
The winners
The dismal days of June's weak box office are now a fast-fading memory, as the market posts a second consecutive muscular frame, powered by the official arrival of Ice Age 4: Continental Drift in England and Wales. Thanks to four days of previews, the weekend's tally is an impressive £10.09m, although only £4.8m of that figure was earned over the Friday-to-Sunday period. The cumulative total is a nifty £13.05m. Comparisons with previous Ice Age movies – or with any film, for that matter – are almost impossible, such is the odd-shaped nature of the release, which saw it debut in Scotland, Ireland and Northern Ireland two weeks ahead of a preview-heavy England and Wales. Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs opened in July 2009 with £5.85m plus £1.79m in previews.
- 7/17/2012
- by Charles Gant
- The Guardian - Film News
Chilean documentary Nostalgia for the Light is a film of heart-stopping beauty and devastating horror. You wouldn't imagine the two could co-exist, but Patricio Guzman's film shows us a place where they do – in Chile's Atacama Desert. This is apparently the driest place on earth, the only expanse that, seen from space, registers as a patch of brown. Clear skies make it an ideal spot from which to observe the universe; it is also, however, where the Pinochet regime installed a vast concentration camp, and where thousands of its victims' bodies are buried to this day.
- 7/14/2012
- The Independent - Film
The Writers Guild of America (WGA) has unveiled the winners of their WGA Awards. Woody Allen won for "Midnight in Paris" in the Original Screenplay category, and Alexander Payne, Nat Faxos and Jim Rash won for "The Descendants" in the Adapted Screenplay category. Meanwhile, "Homeland" won Best New TV Series and ABC's "Modern Family" won Best Comedy TV Series. In the video game department, "Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception" won in the Video Game category. Check out the full list of nominees and winners (marked in red) from the film categories. Original Screenplay: * Midnight in Paris (Woody Allen) * 50/50 (Will Reiser) * Bridesmaids (Annie Mumolo, Kristen Wiig) * Win Win (Tom McCarthy, Joe Tiboni) * Young Adult (Diablo Cody) Adapted Screenplay: * The Descendants (Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon, Jim Rash) * The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Steven Zaillian) * The Help (Tate Taylor) * Hugo (John Logan) * Moneyball (Steven Zaillian, Aaron Sorkin) Documentary Screenplay: * Better This World (Katie Galloway,...
- 2/20/2012
- WorstPreviews.com
The Writers Guild of America (WGA) has unveiled the nominees for their upcoming WGA awards in the categories of original screenplay, adapted screenplay and documentary screenplay. Just like every year, plenty of films are not eligible for the awards. This time, "The Artist," "Beginners" and several others are not being considered. Check out the full list of the movies that made the cut below. The winners will be announced on February 19th, during simultaneous award ceremonies in Hollywood and New York. Original Screenplay: * 50/50 (Will Reiser) * Bridesmaids (Annie Mumolo, Kristen Wiig) * Midnight in Paris (Woody Allen) * Win Win (Tom McCarthy, Joe Tiboni) * Young Adult (Diablo Cody) Adapted Screenplay: * The Descendants (Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon, Jim Rash) * The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Steven Zaillian) * The Help (Tate Taylor) * Hugo (John Logan) * Moneyball (Steven Zaillian, Aaron Sorkin) Documentary Screenplay: * Better This World (Katie Galloway, Kelly Duane de la Vega) * If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front...
- 1/6/2012
- WorstPreviews.com
The best original screenplays of 2011, according to the Writers Guild of America, were comedies -- or at least spiked with healthy doses of humor.
You could argue whether Diablo Cody's "Young Adult" is really a comedy or a drama with some funny parts, but her WGA peers have judged it one of the best of the year. The other original screenplay nominees -- "50/50," "Bridesmaids," "Midnight in Paris" and "Win Win" -- also lean toward laughs.
The adapted screenplay nominees, on the other hand, are all dramas, including "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" and "The Help."
The full list of films nominated for the 2012 WGA Awards is below. The TV nominees, which were announced in December, are here.
Original screenplay
"50/50," written by Will Reiser
"Bridesmaids," written by Annie Mumolo and Kristen Wiig
"Midnight in Paris," written by Woody Allen
"Win Win," screenplay by Tom McCarthy, story by Tom McCarthy and Joe Tiboni
"Young Adult,...
You could argue whether Diablo Cody's "Young Adult" is really a comedy or a drama with some funny parts, but her WGA peers have judged it one of the best of the year. The other original screenplay nominees -- "50/50," "Bridesmaids," "Midnight in Paris" and "Win Win" -- also lean toward laughs.
The adapted screenplay nominees, on the other hand, are all dramas, including "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" and "The Help."
The full list of films nominated for the 2012 WGA Awards is below. The TV nominees, which were announced in December, are here.
Original screenplay
"50/50," written by Will Reiser
"Bridesmaids," written by Annie Mumolo and Kristen Wiig
"Midnight in Paris," written by Woody Allen
"Win Win," screenplay by Tom McCarthy, story by Tom McCarthy and Joe Tiboni
"Young Adult,...
- 1/5/2012
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
Pencils down!
The Writer's Guild of America has announced its nominees for the year's best screenplays, and Oscar dark horse "Bridesmaids" continues to pick up awards season steam after netting a nod for Best Original Screenplay.
Meanwhile, not unlike the director's films themselves, Woody Allen's "Midnight in Paris" keeps chugging with understated distinction among a playing field of more colorful candidates as it squares off against not just "Bridesmaids," but "50/50," "Win Win" and "Young Adult."
In general, this year's Original Screenplay competition seems largely comprised of up-and-comers, or at the very least, folks who are still largely outside the traditional Hollywood crowd.
"50/50" marks scribe Will Reiser's first produced screenplay, and even though Tom McCarthy contributed to the script for "Up" and previously wrote and directed his first two features, "Win Win" is an art house rather than commercial triumph. At the same time, the independent circuit is where...
The Writer's Guild of America has announced its nominees for the year's best screenplays, and Oscar dark horse "Bridesmaids" continues to pick up awards season steam after netting a nod for Best Original Screenplay.
Meanwhile, not unlike the director's films themselves, Woody Allen's "Midnight in Paris" keeps chugging with understated distinction among a playing field of more colorful candidates as it squares off against not just "Bridesmaids," but "50/50," "Win Win" and "Young Adult."
In general, this year's Original Screenplay competition seems largely comprised of up-and-comers, or at the very least, folks who are still largely outside the traditional Hollywood crowd.
"50/50" marks scribe Will Reiser's first produced screenplay, and even though Tom McCarthy contributed to the script for "Up" and previously wrote and directed his first two features, "Win Win" is an art house rather than commercial triumph. At the same time, the independent circuit is where...
- 1/5/2012
- by Todd Gilchrist
- NextMovie
The Writers Guild of America (WGA) announced their nominations for outstanding achievement in writing for the screen during 2011 today and comedies ruled the day in the Original Screenplay category and I don't see many surprises in the Original Screenplay category, though these nominations should always be looked at with one thing in mind... The WGA only recognizes screenplays written by WGA members or under productions that are signatories to the guild's Minimum Basic Agreement. What does that mean? Well, as Kris Tapley at HitFix indicated back in early December, screenplays in the original category that didn't qualify for consideration included The Artist, Beginners, The Iron Lady, The Lady, Like Crazy, Margin Call, Martha Marcy May Marlene, Melancholia, Rango, Shame and Take Shelter. As for adapted contenders, scripts for Albert Nobbs, Carnage, Drive, Jane Eyre, My Week with Marilyn, Sarah's Key, The Skin I Live In and Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy were all ineligible for nomination.
- 1/5/2012
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Patricio Guzman’s Nostaligia for the Light, a documentary about Chile’s Atacama Desert, where astronomers go to gaze at the sky while women sift through the sand for evidence of loved ones murdered by the Pinochet regime, took top honors at the International Documentary Association’s 2011 Ida Documentary Awards on Friday night. Photos: Gotham Awards 2011 Red Carpet Arrivals At the ceremony held at the DGA Theatre and hosted by filmmakers Tiffany Schlain, Josh Fox and Eddie Schmidt, the prize for best short was given to Sara Nesson’s Poster Girl, the portrait of an Iraq War vet. Nesson and producer Mitchell
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- 12/3/2011
- by Gregg Kilday
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
There are so many well-made, well-lauded documentaries this year, that the finalists for the International Documentary Association awards aren't even on the Oscar shortlist of fifteen. Thus Chilean filmmaker Patricio Guzman's "Nostalgia for the Light" won Best Feature at the 2011 Ida Documentary Awards Friday night, beating out terrorist thriller "Better This World," end-of-life drama "How to Die in Oregon," "The Redemption of General Butt Naked," and "Tiniest Place." "Nostalgia for the Light" also won Best Documentary at the Cinema Tropical Awards Thursday night in New York, and is nominated for the Cinema Eye Awards....
- 12/3/2011
- Thompson on Hollywood
"Nostalgia for the Light," Chilean director Patricio Guzman's documentary that mixes celestial exploration with families searching for the remains of victims of the Pinochet regime, has been named Best Feature of 2011 by the International Documentary Association. The award was handed out on Friday night at the Ida Awards ceremony, which took place at the Directors Guild in West Hollywood. Typically, given a year in which there are no clear frontrunners in the documentary awards race, Guzman's film did not make the shortlist in the Oscars doc category. Also read: More Confusion: Only...
- 12/3/2011
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
Texas is known for some great film festivals. apart from SXSW and Fantastic Fest, both held in Austin – Houston also hosts some wonderful events. Among them is the Cinema Arts Festival. This year’s line-up is extremely strong, with titles that include Pina, David Cronenberg’s A Dangerous Method, The Artist and the World Premiere of Art Car: The Movie. Sadly we do not have any contributors over in Houston, but I did feel the need to quickly promote the festival. Here is the press release.
Houston – Now in its third year, Cinema Arts Festival Houston, which runs from November 9 to 13, 2011 will bring an ambitious program of films by and about artists to the vibrant Texas city known internationally for its dynamic art scene. From painting and dance to classical music and multimedia work, this edition will also include appearances by directors, actors, musicians, and special tributes to Ethan Hawke and documentary master Patricio Guzman.
Houston – Now in its third year, Cinema Arts Festival Houston, which runs from November 9 to 13, 2011 will bring an ambitious program of films by and about artists to the vibrant Texas city known internationally for its dynamic art scene. From painting and dance to classical music and multimedia work, this edition will also include appearances by directors, actors, musicians, and special tributes to Ethan Hawke and documentary master Patricio Guzman.
- 10/31/2011
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
A foursome of Sundance titles (Position Among the Stars, The Interrupters, Hell and Back Again and Senna) and a trio of titles that were launched at Tribeca (Clio Bernard’s The Arbor), Cannes 2010 (Patricio Guzman’s Nostalgia for the Light) and SXSW (Tristan Patterson’s Dragonslayer) lead the noms with four a piece for this year's five edition of the Cinema Eye Honors -- the annual awards group that honors docu films in directing, editing, design and production tech categories. The noms were announced at Sheffield Doc/Fest, and the winners of the 5th Annual Cinema Eye Honors will be announced on January 11, 2012. In the mean time you can check out their spiffy 2012 site to see the honored titles and see the huge list of contributors that help with the process -- worth noting the eligibility rules ensure quality over quantity. For a title to be considered it must have:...
- 10/27/2011
- IONCINEMA.com
The 2012 Cinema Eye Honors nominations, announced Wednesday in London, were dominated by Tristan Patterson's skateboard doc Dragonslayer, Danfung Dennis’ Afghan embed adventure Hell and Back Again, Patricio Guzman's Nostalgia for the Light, dramatic car racing doc Senna, Clio Bernard's audacious The Arbor, the third installment of the Indonesian family trilogy Position Among the Stars, and Steve James' The Interrupters. Both Senna and Life in a Day were cited in the editing category, while Errol Morris's Tabloid and James Marsh's HBO look at a 70s chimp, Project Nim, landed nominations in graphic design and animation. The Cinema Eye committee of international fest programmers culled 33 films from 12 countries. The awards will be announced on January 12 at the Museum of the Moving Image in ...
- 10/26/2011
- Thompson on Hollywood
(Nostalgia For The Light is now available on DVD and Blu-ray thanks to Icarus Films. It opened theatrically in New York City on March 18, 2011. Visit the film’s official page at the distributor’s site to learn more.)
Writing about masterpieces is always difficult, yet in the case of Patricio Guzman’s Nostalgia For The Light, it’s almost crippling. On the one hand, there is enough information and emotion contained within this film’s 90 minutes to justify several thick, glowing texts of appreciation. It’s not merely that Guzman guides us on a journey that tackles just about every grand issue known to man: astronomy, ecology, geology, history, government corruption, personal loss, memory, time. It’s that he does it with such seeming effortlessness. As a filmmaker, as a film lover, as an ordinary human being, I find the cumulative impact of what Guzman has accomplished with this profound...
Writing about masterpieces is always difficult, yet in the case of Patricio Guzman’s Nostalgia For The Light, it’s almost crippling. On the one hand, there is enough information and emotion contained within this film’s 90 minutes to justify several thick, glowing texts of appreciation. It’s not merely that Guzman guides us on a journey that tackles just about every grand issue known to man: astronomy, ecology, geology, history, government corruption, personal loss, memory, time. It’s that he does it with such seeming effortlessness. As a filmmaker, as a film lover, as an ordinary human being, I find the cumulative impact of what Guzman has accomplished with this profound...
- 9/15/2011
- by Michael Tully
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
This week gives us few potentially watchable flicks but nothing great. It’s mid-march, which means nothing will be very exciting (to be fair, the noteworthy Greenberg did come out same time last year, but there’s a particularly large amount of mediocrity going on. If you want a decent dramedy that has something for everyone, Win Win, starring Paul Giamatti, is probably your best bet. For stoner and geek crowds, Paul might give you a laugh, and if you’re in New York, definitely check out docs Nostalgia for the Light or Bill Cunningham, New York which opened at the Film Forum on Wednesday. U.S Indie The Music Never Stopped - Jim Kohlberg - Roadside This father son pic based on a case study by Oliver Sacks was the first major film to be acquired at Sundance this past January. We say this will be "a sentimental father-son...
- 3/19/2011
- IONCINEMA.com
The 7th annual Boulder International Film Festival unveiled its 54 film lineup, including the event's opener, Morgan Neville's musical documentary "Troubadours," which recently world premiered at Sundance. Highlights of the slate include Jarreth Mertz's Ghana set documentary, "An African Election;" Chilean filmmaker Patricio Guzman's award-winning "Nostalgia for the Light;" and Gilles Paquet-Brenner's French drama "Sarah's Key," starring Kristin Scott Thomas. In addition to the films on hand, Biff will also ...
- 2/9/2011
- Indiewire
This year’s BigPond Adelaide Film Festival will present 20 world premieres of new Australian works, and a total of 48 local features and shorts.
The 12 films competing for the International Award for Best Feature Film have also been announced: Four Times (Italy, dir: Michelangelo Frammartino); Here I Am (Australia, dir: Beck Cole); Tuesday After Christmas (Romania, dir: Radu Muntean); Incendies (Canada,dir:: Denis Villeneuve); Meek’s Cutoff (USA, dir: Kelly Reichardt); Mysteries of Lisbon (Portugal, dir: Raoul Ruiz); Nostalgia For the Light (Chile, dir: Patricio Guzman); October (Peru, dir: Daniel Vega Vidal and Diego Vega Vidal); Piano in a Factory (China, dir: Zhang Meng); Shut Up Little Man! An Audio Misadventure (Australia, dir: Matt Bate); Whisper with the Wind (Iraq, dir: Shahram Alidi); and Year Without a Summer (Malaysia, dir: Tan Chui Mui).
The films will be judged by Julietta Sichel (jury president/Karlovy Vary Film Festival), Pierre Rissient (Cannes), Hossein...
The 12 films competing for the International Award for Best Feature Film have also been announced: Four Times (Italy, dir: Michelangelo Frammartino); Here I Am (Australia, dir: Beck Cole); Tuesday After Christmas (Romania, dir: Radu Muntean); Incendies (Canada,dir:: Denis Villeneuve); Meek’s Cutoff (USA, dir: Kelly Reichardt); Mysteries of Lisbon (Portugal, dir: Raoul Ruiz); Nostalgia For the Light (Chile, dir: Patricio Guzman); October (Peru, dir: Daniel Vega Vidal and Diego Vega Vidal); Piano in a Factory (China, dir: Zhang Meng); Shut Up Little Man! An Audio Misadventure (Australia, dir: Matt Bate); Whisper with the Wind (Iraq, dir: Shahram Alidi); and Year Without a Summer (Malaysia, dir: Tan Chui Mui).
The films will be judged by Julietta Sichel (jury president/Karlovy Vary Film Festival), Pierre Rissient (Cannes), Hossein...
- 1/28/2011
- by Miguel Gonzalez
- Encore Magazine
The Ghost Writer, directed by Roman Polanski, won six awards at the 2010 European Film Awards, held tonight in Tallinn, Estonia.
The film won awards for best film, best director, best screenplay, best actor, best production design, and best composer. I really enjoyed the film. Pierce Brosnan and Ewan McGregor were great in this film. I was surprised to find out that all of the shots that took place in the house were actually filmed on a sound stage.
See below for a complete listing of this year's winners.
European Film 2010
The Ghost Writer, France/Germany/Uk
Directed By Roman Polanski
Written By Robert Harris & Roman Polanski
Produced By Robert Benmussa, Alain Sarde & Roman Polanski
European Director 2010
Roman Polanski For The Ghost Writer
European Actress 2010
Sylvie Testud In Lourdes
European Actor 2010
Ewan McGregor In The Ghost Writer
European Screenwriter 2010
Robert Harris & Roman Polanski For The Ghost Writer
Carlo Di Palma...
The film won awards for best film, best director, best screenplay, best actor, best production design, and best composer. I really enjoyed the film. Pierce Brosnan and Ewan McGregor were great in this film. I was surprised to find out that all of the shots that took place in the house were actually filmed on a sound stage.
See below for a complete listing of this year's winners.
European Film 2010
The Ghost Writer, France/Germany/Uk
Directed By Roman Polanski
Written By Robert Harris & Roman Polanski
Produced By Robert Benmussa, Alain Sarde & Roman Polanski
European Director 2010
Roman Polanski For The Ghost Writer
European Actress 2010
Sylvie Testud In Lourdes
European Actor 2010
Ewan McGregor In The Ghost Writer
European Screenwriter 2010
Robert Harris & Roman Polanski For The Ghost Writer
Carlo Di Palma...
- 12/4/2010
- by Tiberius
- GeekTyrant
It’s been five years since an American film topped the annual poll of venerable British film mag Sight & Sound, but now in 2010 The Social Network has earned the rare distinction, for an American studio film, becoming listed as the best film of the year.
According to Guy Lodge at incontention.com, the full lists are only available in the print magazine right now, but will be online Dec. 7. Alsoworth mentioning is that this year’s Best Picture list is a Top 12, due to numerous ties.
1. The Social Network (David Fincher)
2. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
3. Another Year (Mike Leigh)
4. Carlos (Olivier Assayas)
5. The Arbor (Clio Barnard)
6. Winter’s Bone (Debra Granik)
6. I Am Love (Luca Guadagnino)
8. The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu (Andrei Ujica)
8. Film Socialisme (Jean-Luc Godard)
8. Nostalgia for the Light (Patricio Guzman)
8. Poetry (Lee Chang-dong)
8. A Prophet (Jacques Audiard)
The Social Network, received...
According to Guy Lodge at incontention.com, the full lists are only available in the print magazine right now, but will be online Dec. 7. Alsoworth mentioning is that this year’s Best Picture list is a Top 12, due to numerous ties.
1. The Social Network (David Fincher)
2. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
3. Another Year (Mike Leigh)
4. Carlos (Olivier Assayas)
5. The Arbor (Clio Barnard)
6. Winter’s Bone (Debra Granik)
6. I Am Love (Luca Guadagnino)
8. The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu (Andrei Ujica)
8. Film Socialisme (Jean-Luc Godard)
8. Nostalgia for the Light (Patricio Guzman)
8. Poetry (Lee Chang-dong)
8. A Prophet (Jacques Audiard)
The Social Network, received...
- 11/30/2010
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
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