An early review of David Cronenberg's first novel, Consumed, has gone up at Film International. Also in today's roundup of news and views: Adrian Martin on Leslie Cheung in Wong Kar-wai's Days of Being Wild (1990), a Midnight Eye interview with Ayumi Sakamoto (Forma), James Marsh on F.W. Murnau's Faust (1926), Jonathan Rosenbaum on David Bordwell on Carl Theodor Dreyer, John Woo's tribute to Patrick Lung Kong, Sophia Takal (Green) on The Expendables 3 and more reviews of Ted Hope's new memoir. » - David Hudson...
- 8/18/2014
- Fandor: Keyframe
An early review of David Cronenberg's first novel, Consumed, has gone up at Film International. Also in today's roundup of news and views: Adrian Martin on Leslie Cheung in Wong Kar-wai's Days of Being Wild (1990), a Midnight Eye interview with Ayumi Sakamoto (Forma), James Marsh on F.W. Murnau's Faust (1926), Jonathan Rosenbaum on David Bordwell on Carl Theodor Dreyer, John Woo's tribute to Patrick Lung Kong, Sophia Takal (Green) on The Expendables 3 and more reviews of Ted Hope's new memoir. » - David Hudson...
- 8/18/2014
- Keyframe
Sudabeh Mortezai’s Macondo won the Firebird Award in the Young Cinema Competition of this year’s Hong Kong International Film Festival (Hkiff), while Tetsuichiro Tsuta’s The Tale Of Iya took the Jury Prize.
The jury praised Macondo, an Austrian drama centring on an 11-year-old Chechnyan refugee, for its “simplicity and humanity [which] show great sensitivity to universal human problems”. Ayumi Sakamoto’s Forma received a special mention in the Young Cinema Competition.
The Firebird Award in the Documentary Competition went to Farida Pacha’s My Name Is Salt, while the Jury Prize went to Gu Tao’s The Last Moose Of Aoluguya and Bernard Bloch’s Meat And Milk received a special mention.
Hu Wei’s The Butter Lamp, about Tibetan nomads, won the Firebird Award in the Short Film Competition. The Jury Prize went to Leo Woodhead’s Cold Snap, while Janie Geiser’s Kriminalistik won the Internet Audience Award and Reka Bucsi’s [link...
The jury praised Macondo, an Austrian drama centring on an 11-year-old Chechnyan refugee, for its “simplicity and humanity [which] show great sensitivity to universal human problems”. Ayumi Sakamoto’s Forma received a special mention in the Young Cinema Competition.
The Firebird Award in the Documentary Competition went to Farida Pacha’s My Name Is Salt, while the Jury Prize went to Gu Tao’s The Last Moose Of Aoluguya and Bernard Bloch’s Meat And Milk received a special mention.
Hu Wei’s The Butter Lamp, about Tibetan nomads, won the Firebird Award in the Short Film Competition. The Jury Prize went to Leo Woodhead’s Cold Snap, while Janie Geiser’s Kriminalistik won the Internet Audience Award and Reka Bucsi’s [link...
- 4/8/2014
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
The Hong Kong International Film Festival (Hkiff) will screen the world premiere of Adam Wong’s Icac Investigators 2014 - Better Tomorrow, which has Dante Lam on board as consultant director, on March 26.
The festival is collaborating for the first time with Hong Kong’s Independent Commission Against Corruption (Icac), which celebrates its 40th anniversary this year. Founded in 1974, the organisation helped clean up corruption in Hong Kong, and also provides the backdrop of a crime thriller, Z Storm, currently being produced by Hong Kong’s Pegasus Motion Pictures.
Wong’s Better Tomorrow is a 65-minute film that will be broadcast as part of Icac’s 2014 TV programming. Scripted by Cheung Fei-fan and starring Liu Kai-chi, Venus Wong and Eddie Law, it follows a university graduate who joins the Icac and finds herself stuck in a dull clerical position before she is transferred to a major corruption case.
Hkiff will also showcase a selection of Icac’s TV drama...
The festival is collaborating for the first time with Hong Kong’s Independent Commission Against Corruption (Icac), which celebrates its 40th anniversary this year. Founded in 1974, the organisation helped clean up corruption in Hong Kong, and also provides the backdrop of a crime thriller, Z Storm, currently being produced by Hong Kong’s Pegasus Motion Pictures.
Wong’s Better Tomorrow is a 65-minute film that will be broadcast as part of Icac’s 2014 TV programming. Scripted by Cheung Fei-fan and starring Liu Kai-chi, Venus Wong and Eddie Law, it follows a university graduate who joins the Icac and finds herself stuck in a dull clerical position before she is transferred to a major corruption case.
Hkiff will also showcase a selection of Icac’s TV drama...
- 2/24/2014
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
The Hong Kong International Film Festival (Hkiff) will screen the world premiere of Adam Wong’s Icac Investigators 2014 - Better Tomorrow, which has Dante Lam on board as consultant director, on March 26.
The festival is collaborating for the first time with Hong Kong’s Independent Commission Against Corruption (Icac), which celebrates its 40th anniversary this year. Founded in 1974, the organisation helped clean up corruption in Hong Kong, and also provides the backdrop of a crime thriller, Z Storm, currently being produced by Hong Kong’s Pegasus Motion Pictures.
Wong’s Better Tomorrow is a 65-minute film that will be broadcast as part of Icac’s 2014 TV programming. Scripted by Cheung Fei-fan and starring Liu Kai-chi, Venus Wong and Eddie Law, it follows a university graduate who joins the Icac and finds herself stuck in a dull clerical position before she is transferred to a major corruption case.
Hkiff will also showcase a selection of Icac’s TV drama...
The festival is collaborating for the first time with Hong Kong’s Independent Commission Against Corruption (Icac), which celebrates its 40th anniversary this year. Founded in 1974, the organisation helped clean up corruption in Hong Kong, and also provides the backdrop of a crime thriller, Z Storm, currently being produced by Hong Kong’s Pegasus Motion Pictures.
Wong’s Better Tomorrow is a 65-minute film that will be broadcast as part of Icac’s 2014 TV programming. Scripted by Cheung Fei-fan and starring Liu Kai-chi, Venus Wong and Eddie Law, it follows a university graduate who joins the Icac and finds herself stuck in a dull clerical position before she is transferred to a major corruption case.
Hkiff will also showcase a selection of Icac’s TV drama...
- 2/24/2014
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
The 64th Berlinale ends today, and the awards have been announced!
In Competition
Golden Bear – Black Coal, Thin Ice, directed by Diao Yi'nan
Grand Jury Prize – The Grand Budapest Hotel, directed by Wes Anderson
Alfred Bauer Prize – Life of Riley, directed by Alain Resnais
Best Director – Richard Linklater, Boyhood
Best Actor – Liao Fan, Black Coal, Thin Ice
Best Actress – Haru Kuroki, The Little House
Best Screenplay – Anna Brüggemann & Dietrich Brüggemann, Stations of the Cross
Outstanding Artistic Contribution – Cinematographer Zeng Jian, Blind Massage
Teddy Awards
Best Feature Film – The Way He Looks, directed by Daniel Ribeiro
Jury Award – Pierrot Lunaire, directed by Bruce Labruce
Best Documentary – The Circle, directed by Stefan Haupt
Best First Feature
Best First Feature – Gueros, directed by Alonso Ruizpalacios
Fipresci
Fipresci Prize (Competition) – Life of Riley, directed by Alain Resnais
Fipresci Prize (Panorama) – The Way He Looks, directed by Daniel Ribeiro
Fipresci Prize (Forum) – Forma, directed by...
In Competition
Golden Bear – Black Coal, Thin Ice, directed by Diao Yi'nan
Grand Jury Prize – The Grand Budapest Hotel, directed by Wes Anderson
Alfred Bauer Prize – Life of Riley, directed by Alain Resnais
Best Director – Richard Linklater, Boyhood
Best Actor – Liao Fan, Black Coal, Thin Ice
Best Actress – Haru Kuroki, The Little House
Best Screenplay – Anna Brüggemann & Dietrich Brüggemann, Stations of the Cross
Outstanding Artistic Contribution – Cinematographer Zeng Jian, Blind Massage
Teddy Awards
Best Feature Film – The Way He Looks, directed by Daniel Ribeiro
Jury Award – Pierrot Lunaire, directed by Bruce Labruce
Best Documentary – The Circle, directed by Stefan Haupt
Best First Feature
Best First Feature – Gueros, directed by Alonso Ruizpalacios
Fipresci
Fipresci Prize (Competition) – Life of Riley, directed by Alain Resnais
Fipresci Prize (Panorama) – The Way He Looks, directed by Daniel Ribeiro
Fipresci Prize (Forum) – Forma, directed by...
- 2/16/2014
- by Notebook
- MUBI
Veteran French director Alain Resnais’ latest feature Life Of Riley (Aimer, Boire et Chanter) has received the Fipresci International Critics Prize as the Best Film in the 64th Berlinale’s Competition.
The jury of international critics gave their prize for the Best Film in Panorama to Brazilian film-maker Daniel Ribiero’s The Way He Looks.
Ribeiro’s film has been picked up from Films Boutique by Salzgeber & Co. Medien for German theatrical release.
Meanwhile, the Fipresci Prize for the Best Film in Forum was presented to Japanese first-time director Ayumi Sakamoto’s Forma.
A jury statement said: “We admired the film’s minimalism and simple story, which were effective. Forma is well-written, directed and acted.”
It marks the first time a debut feature by a Japanese film-maker has been awarded the Fipresci prize at the Berlinale. Forma will next screen in the Hong Kong International Film Festival’s Young Cinema Competition (March 24 - April 7).
The jury comprised...
The jury of international critics gave their prize for the Best Film in Panorama to Brazilian film-maker Daniel Ribiero’s The Way He Looks.
Ribeiro’s film has been picked up from Films Boutique by Salzgeber & Co. Medien for German theatrical release.
Meanwhile, the Fipresci Prize for the Best Film in Forum was presented to Japanese first-time director Ayumi Sakamoto’s Forma.
A jury statement said: “We admired the film’s minimalism and simple story, which were effective. Forma is well-written, directed and acted.”
It marks the first time a debut feature by a Japanese film-maker has been awarded the Fipresci prize at the Berlinale. Forma will next screen in the Hong Kong International Film Festival’s Young Cinema Competition (March 24 - April 7).
The jury comprised...
- 2/14/2014
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Above: Rinko Kikuchi in Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter
The lineup for this year's Forum section has been unveiled (minus the special screenings which will be announced soon), providing "an overview of independent, artistic filmmaking with a disregard for convention, screening 28 world and eight international premieres from every single continent."
The Airstrip (Heinz Emighol), Germany - World Premiere
Al doilea joc (The Second Game) (Corneliu Porumboiu), Romania - World Premiere
Le beau danger (René Frölke), Germany / Italy - World Premiere
Butter on the Latch (Josephine Decker), USA - World Premiere
Casse (Scrap Yard) (Nadège Trebal), France - International Premiere
Castanha (Davi Pretto), Brasil - World Premiere
Cheol-ae-kum (A Dream of Iron) (Kelvin Kyung Kun Park), Republic of Korea / USA - World Premiere
Chilla (40 Days of Silence) (Saodat Ismailova), Uzbekistan / Tajikistan / Netherlands / Germany / France - World Premiere
The Darkside (Warwick Thornton), Australia - International Premiere
L’enlèvement de Michel Houellebecq (The Kidnapping...
The lineup for this year's Forum section has been unveiled (minus the special screenings which will be announced soon), providing "an overview of independent, artistic filmmaking with a disregard for convention, screening 28 world and eight international premieres from every single continent."
The Airstrip (Heinz Emighol), Germany - World Premiere
Al doilea joc (The Second Game) (Corneliu Porumboiu), Romania - World Premiere
Le beau danger (René Frölke), Germany / Italy - World Premiere
Butter on the Latch (Josephine Decker), USA - World Premiere
Casse (Scrap Yard) (Nadège Trebal), France - International Premiere
Castanha (Davi Pretto), Brasil - World Premiere
Cheol-ae-kum (A Dream of Iron) (Kelvin Kyung Kun Park), Republic of Korea / USA - World Premiere
Chilla (40 Days of Silence) (Saodat Ismailova), Uzbekistan / Tajikistan / Netherlands / Germany / France - World Premiere
The Darkside (Warwick Thornton), Australia - International Premiere
L’enlèvement de Michel Houellebecq (The Kidnapping...
- 1/16/2014
- by Notebook
- MUBI
The Berlinale’s Forum line-up includes new films from Corneliu Porumboiu, Denis Côté and Guillaume Nicloux.
The strand will include 28 world premieres and eight international premieres from every continent.
Porumboiu’s Al Doilea Joc (The Second Game) follows a football match between top Romanian teams Dinamo and Steau and the experience of the director’s father who refereed the game.
In L’enlèvement de Michel Houellebecq (The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq), French director Guillaume Nicloux has brawny gangsters kidnap controversial writer Michel Houellebecq, where he is held captive for days in a house outside Paris.
Canadian director Cote was last year nominated for the Golden Bear for Vic + Flo Saw a Bear.
Ken Jacobs’ The Guests is an expanded one-minute film turned into a 70-minute black-and-white silent film in 3D.
The strand’s Special Screenings will be announced soon.
Forum
Wp = World premiere, IP = International premiere
The Airstrip by Heinz Emigholz, Germany - Wp[p...
The strand will include 28 world premieres and eight international premieres from every continent.
Porumboiu’s Al Doilea Joc (The Second Game) follows a football match between top Romanian teams Dinamo and Steau and the experience of the director’s father who refereed the game.
In L’enlèvement de Michel Houellebecq (The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq), French director Guillaume Nicloux has brawny gangsters kidnap controversial writer Michel Houellebecq, where he is held captive for days in a house outside Paris.
Canadian director Cote was last year nominated for the Golden Bear for Vic + Flo Saw a Bear.
Ken Jacobs’ The Guests is an expanded one-minute film turned into a 70-minute black-and-white silent film in 3D.
The strand’s Special Screenings will be announced soon.
Forum
Wp = World premiere, IP = International premiere
The Airstrip by Heinz Emigholz, Germany - Wp[p...
- 1/16/2014
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Other winners include Iran’s Bending the Rules while Iceland’s Benedikt Erlingsson wins best director for Of Horses and Men.Scroll down for full list of winners
The 26th Tokyo International Film Festival (Tiff) has closed with the Tokyo Sakura Grand Prix going to Lukas Moodysson’s Swedish film We Are The Best!.
The film, which debuted at Venice and received its Asian premiere in Tokyo, is about a young punk band in the 1980s. TrustNordisk has so far sold the film to more than 50 territories including the Us, UK, Australia, France, Benelux and Italy.
The award includes a prize of $50,000 for director Moodysson and producer Lars Jønsson.
Behnam Behzadi’s Bending the Rules, a drama about a young Iranian theatre troupe trying to make it out of the country to perform overseas, won the $20,000 Special Jury Prize.
Tiff’s $10,000 Audience Award went to Lee Ju-hyoung’s Korean film Red Family, written and produced...
The 26th Tokyo International Film Festival (Tiff) has closed with the Tokyo Sakura Grand Prix going to Lukas Moodysson’s Swedish film We Are The Best!.
The film, which debuted at Venice and received its Asian premiere in Tokyo, is about a young punk band in the 1980s. TrustNordisk has so far sold the film to more than 50 territories including the Us, UK, Australia, France, Benelux and Italy.
The award includes a prize of $50,000 for director Moodysson and producer Lars Jønsson.
Behnam Behzadi’s Bending the Rules, a drama about a young Iranian theatre troupe trying to make it out of the country to perform overseas, won the $20,000 Special Jury Prize.
Tiff’s $10,000 Audience Award went to Lee Ju-hyoung’s Korean film Red Family, written and produced...
- 10/25/2013
- by hjnoh2007@gmail.com (Jean Noh)
- ScreenDaily
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