Kd Davison’s profile of avant garde filmmaker Jonas Mekas has its UK premiere today at London Film Festival.
Documentary sales outfit Dogwoof has acquired Kd Davison’s Fragments Of Paradise for world sales, excluding North America.
A portrait of the ‘godfather’ of avant garde cinema Jonas Mekas, Fragments Of Paradise won the best documentary prize last month in the Venice Film Festival’s Classics section. It recently had its North American premiere at Telluride and has its UK premiere today (October 7) at the BFI London Film Festival, where it will screen as part of the Documentary Competition
Fragments Of...
Documentary sales outfit Dogwoof has acquired Kd Davison’s Fragments Of Paradise for world sales, excluding North America.
A portrait of the ‘godfather’ of avant garde cinema Jonas Mekas, Fragments Of Paradise won the best documentary prize last month in the Venice Film Festival’s Classics section. It recently had its North American premiere at Telluride and has its UK premiere today (October 7) at the BFI London Film Festival, where it will screen as part of the Documentary Competition
Fragments Of...
- 10/7/2022
- by Tim Dams
- ScreenDaily
Panorama Europe Film Festival has announced 16 films to be showcased from May 29-June 14 in New York.
The festival, which will take place at the Museum Of The Moving Image and the Bohemian National Hall, champions European filmmaking.
Opening weekend will include two screenings. Polish film Gods by Lukasz Palkowski chronicles the life of the Polish surgeon who performed his country’s first heart transplant.
Iris Elezi’s Albanian feature Bota (The World) explores the troubling time in the country’s Communist past.
Bas Devos’ award-winning film Violet (pictured) will screen as the closing night feature. The Belgian film tells the emotional story of a teen who witnessed his friend’s murder and played in New Directors/New Films earlier this year.
The programme also features Panos H Koutras’s multiple-award winning Greek film Xenia, Ignas Jonynas’s The Gambler starring Oona Mekas and French film Breathe (Respire) by Mélanie Laurent.
The festival...
The festival, which will take place at the Museum Of The Moving Image and the Bohemian National Hall, champions European filmmaking.
Opening weekend will include two screenings. Polish film Gods by Lukasz Palkowski chronicles the life of the Polish surgeon who performed his country’s first heart transplant.
Iris Elezi’s Albanian feature Bota (The World) explores the troubling time in the country’s Communist past.
Bas Devos’ award-winning film Violet (pictured) will screen as the closing night feature. The Belgian film tells the emotional story of a teen who witnessed his friend’s murder and played in New Directors/New Films earlier this year.
The programme also features Panos H Koutras’s multiple-award winning Greek film Xenia, Ignas Jonynas’s The Gambler starring Oona Mekas and French film Breathe (Respire) by Mélanie Laurent.
The festival...
- 4/30/2015
- ScreenDaily
Director: Onur Tukel Writer: Onur Tukel Starring: Onur Tukel, Jennifer Prediger, Darrill Rosen, Randy Gambill, Josephine Decker, Oona Mekas, Lawrence Michael Levine, Dustin Guy Defa, Adam Schartoff, Heddy Lahmann, Theresa Lu, Jamie Dobie, Thomas J. Buchmueller In a Richard Linklater-esque move, writer-director Onur Tukel uses himself as the vehicle to deliver us into the narrative of Richard's Wedding. We are introduced to Tukel's character -- Tuna -- as he meets up with Alex (Jennifer Prediger). Together the two friends embark upon a journey from Brooklyn into Manhattan and for the next 14 minutes we are treated to a breathless barrage of rapid fire dialogue akin to the screenplays of David Mamet, Woody Allen, Richard Linklater and Neil Labute. This is where Tukel sets the tone for his film, and it is a tone that some (many) will find offensive, borderline racist, self-absorbed, pretentious, negative, cynical, showboating and shocking -- the...
- 6/1/2012
- by Don Simpson
- SmellsLikeScreenSpirit
Chicago – The beauty of indie filmmaker Miranda July lies in her ability to create substance and mystery out of the most mundane everyday circumstances. Ms. July wrote, directed and stars in the symbolically rich new film “The Future,” and nurtures the concept of “the relationship” into another realm.
Forging a stunning commentary on the mendacity of couplehood, July uses doses of intense fantasy and starkly cruel reality to light the dark corners of the interrelating human race. It also can be argued that this film is nothing more than survival mechanisms at work, and that the fantasy elements involved are merely represented to propagate the good fortune of getting to the next sunset.
Sophie (July) and Jason (Hamish Linklater) are a thirtysomething couple that have been together for four years. They have their internet and their rituals, including indulging in a pretend game that has Jason stopping time. Their lives...
Forging a stunning commentary on the mendacity of couplehood, July uses doses of intense fantasy and starkly cruel reality to light the dark corners of the interrelating human race. It also can be argued that this film is nothing more than survival mechanisms at work, and that the fantasy elements involved are merely represented to propagate the good fortune of getting to the next sunset.
Sophie (July) and Jason (Hamish Linklater) are a thirtysomething couple that have been together for four years. They have their internet and their rituals, including indulging in a pretend game that has Jason stopping time. Their lives...
- 8/5/2011
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Seminal avant garde filmmaker and retired Bard College professor Adolfas Mekas, who co-founded Film Culture magazine with his brother and fellow filmmaker Jonas Mekas in 1955 and taught at Bard for 33 years, died this morning from an unexpected heart problem. He was 85. The news was confirmed by Mekas' niece, actress Oona Mekas. "He was a warm, funny, loving, great man," Oona Mekas wrote in a message sent to ...
- 5/31/2011
- Indiewire
Dec. 4
8:00 p.m.
Millennium Film Workshop
66 East 4th St.
New York, New York 10003
Hosted by: Film-Makers’ Cooperative
Once again, the Millennium Film Workshop is hosting its annual December benefit screening and party to help benefit its fellow cinema institution, the Film-Makers’ Cooperative.
The Coop had a rough 2009 after being kicked out of its longtime home at the Clocktower Gallery, but soon settled nicely into its new location at 475 Park Ave. thanks solely to the generosity of real estate maven Charles S. Cohen.
While hopefully serious disastrous situations like that aren’t regular occurances, small cultural organizations these days need as much help as they can get, so if you’re in NYC think about going to support this phenomenal, scrappy and important institution.
I don’t have specific titles of films that will be screening at this event, there will be a program of recent films and videos deposited...
8:00 p.m.
Millennium Film Workshop
66 East 4th St.
New York, New York 10003
Hosted by: Film-Makers’ Cooperative
Once again, the Millennium Film Workshop is hosting its annual December benefit screening and party to help benefit its fellow cinema institution, the Film-Makers’ Cooperative.
The Coop had a rough 2009 after being kicked out of its longtime home at the Clocktower Gallery, but soon settled nicely into its new location at 475 Park Ave. thanks solely to the generosity of real estate maven Charles S. Cohen.
While hopefully serious disastrous situations like that aren’t regular occurances, small cultural organizations these days need as much help as they can get, so if you’re in NYC think about going to support this phenomenal, scrappy and important institution.
I don’t have specific titles of films that will be screening at this event, there will be a program of recent films and videos deposited...
- 12/3/2010
- by screenings
- Underground Film Journal
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