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10 articles from 2009
Fipresci: the unsung champions of the cinema scene
24 December 2009 4:44 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Those compiling their best of the year lists would do well to consult the roll-call of gong-winners handed out by an august band of international critics
Any perspicacious film festival-goer or festival-watcher will have noticed that one of the prizes awarded at most festivals, in addition to the Golden Palms, Golden Lions or Golden Leopards etc, is the Fipresci (Federation International de la Presse Cinematographic) – aka the international film critics' award. In principle, this should be the most prestigious and sought-after prize of all, because the juries are made up of professional film critics (usually five, each from a different country) who are paid to tell the public what is good or bad and why.
Unfortunately, the Fipresci prize does not carry with it any money but, in theory, it does help the film gain a distributor. However, on one occasion, I remember that a director, who had just won the Fipresci prize, »
- Ronald Bergan
Free Flick Fridays: Falling in Love
18 December 2009 2:00 AM, PST | TribecaFilm.com | See recent Tribeca Film news »
Falling in Love Dir. Ulu Grosbard (1984) Robert De Niro and Meryl Streep may be lighting up the multiplexes this holiday season with Everybody's Fine and It's Complicated, respectively, but you can skip the crowds and get your fix of two acting legends falling in love in this gem. Ulu Grosbard's (a Belgian who also directed De Niro in True Confessions and the Jennifer Jason Leigh film Georgia) forgotten find references such classics as David Lean's Brief Encounter and 'the bard of the suburbs,' John Cheever, in the story of Frank (De Niro) and Molly (Streep), two married people who bump into each other in front of Rizzoli's bookstore on Christmas Eve, three months after their first meeting on Metro North commuter rail. They continue to meet: riding the same train, arranging a covert lunch... Reuniting the two stars for the first time since The Deer Hunter, the »
The feelgood spin doctors | Mark Lawson
10 December 2009 4:57 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Bad times call for upbeat slogans, producers seem to think, no matter what the film is really about
These are feel-bad times in western economies, and two high-profile movies just released in the United States (due in Britain early next year) can be commended for reflecting this. In Up in the Air, George Clooney plays a chilly figure whose job is to fly around the Us as an industrial executioner, sacking employees at firms who are downsizing or, as the cute euphemism has it, "right-sizing". Equally tuned to the current mood is Everybody's Fine, starring Robert De Niro as a seriously ill widower who, when his children renege on their promises to visit him for Christmas, summons his dwindling energies for a bus tour to their doorsteps.
Although both films have good jokes in them, they are fundamentally bleak case studies of alienation. Clooney's character, Ryan Bingham, is emotionally cut »
- Mark Lawson
Brief Encounter – Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard – d: David Lean
26 November 2009 12:30 AM, PST | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Brief Encounter (1945) Direction: David Lean Screenplay: David Lean, Ronald Neame, Anthony Havelock-Allan; from Noel Coward’s play Still Life Cast: Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard, Stanley Holloway, Joyce Carey, Cyril Raymond Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard in Brief Encounter Synopsis: A married doctor (Trevor Howard) and a housewife (Celia Johnson) have an adulterous (platonic) affair. The Pros: Shadow-bathed, smoke-enshrouded railway stations (cinematography by Robert Krasker) to the strains of Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No. 2. David Lean’s delicate direction, and Lean, Ronald Neame, and Anthony Havelock-Allan’s sensitive adaptation of Noel Coward’s play Still Life. No Hollywood ending here, and no syrupy, cutesy moments, either. Best actress Oscar nominee and New York Film Critics winner Celia Johnson’s über-British performance as the sympathetic, adulterous, stiff-upper-lipped, and most sad-eyed housewife in all of England, and [...] »
- Andre Soares
A Single Man Gets Degayified Posters
24 November 2009 1:43 AM, PST | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Colin Firth, Julianne Moore in A Single Man, directed by Tom Ford What’s a "gay movie"? Brokeback Mountain? Midnight Cowboy? What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? Milk? Top Gun? Lukas Licks Lodz? Something directed by a gay man, say, The Philadelphia Story or Midnight or a couple of the biggest action blockbusters made in the last decade or so? Something written for the screen by a gay man, say, A Streetcar Named Desire or The Innocents? Something based on a book or play or short story or poem written by a gay man, say, Brief Encounter or In Cold Blood? Something starring a gay man, say, the 1925 Ben-Hur or Giant? If you think about it, the label "gay movie" is pretty meaningless. [...] »
- Andre Soares
A.C.T. Extends Its Brand-New 10Up Sale Program To All 2009/10 Subscription Season Productions
1 September 2009 3:55 PM, PDT | BroadwayWorld.com | See recent BroadwayWorld.com news »
American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) extended its brand-new 10Up sale program to all 2009?10 subscription season productions following the huge success of the 72-hour limited sale for the season opener, Brief Encounter. Over a 72-hour period, the 10Up program sold 330 tickets, selling out two performances? worth of second balcony tickets. A.C.T. now provides world-class theater to the Bay Area community at happy hour prices for every production of its highly anticipated 2009?10 subscription season with specially priced $10 second balcony tickets available to the first 10 performances of every mainstage production (excluding A Christmas Carol). Along with the discounted ticket price, for those 10 performances A.C.T.?s beautiful Sky Bar will open one hour before curtain with happy hour drink discounts on signature cocktails, beer, and wine, making A.C.T. the most affordable and fun entertainment option in the Bay Area. For more information and to purchase 10Up tickets, »
Rakesh Roshan, Anurag Basu decide to release Kites in December
23 June 2009 3:10 AM, PDT | BollywoodHungama | See recent BollywoodHungama news »
The seeming deadlock over the release of the much-hyped Kites is now over. Producer Rakesh Roshan and director Anurag Basu have agreed on how different the English and Hindi versions of the film would be. While the supposed steamy scenes would be the same in both versions, there would be separate voice-overs in Hindi and English, both done by Hrithik Roshan, whose love story the film chronicles in a style that would recall David Lean's Brief Encounter and K Balachander's Ek Dujje Ke Liye. Director Anurag Basu refutes the report that the steamy scenes in the two versions will be different in Hindi and English. "We can't cheat Hindi audiences. The so-called steamy scenes will be the same in both versions. The visuals will remain unchanged in both. There won't be anything radically different in the two versions because Hrithik and Barbara Mori speak English-Hindi and Spanish, respectively in both English and Hindi. »
- Subhash K. Jha
Rakesh Roshan, Anurag Basu decide to release Kites in December
23 June 2009 3:10 AM, PDT | BollywoodHungama | See recent BollywoodHungama news »
The seeming deadlock over the release of the much-hyped Kites is now over. Producer Rakesh Roshan and director Anurag Basu have agreed on how different the English and Hindi versions of the film would be. While the supposed steamy scenes would be the same in both versions, there would be separate voice-overs in Hindi and English, both done by Hrithik Roshan, whose love story the film chronicles in a style that would recall David Lean's Brief Encounter and K Balachander's Ek Dujje Ke Liye. Director Anurag Basu refutes the report that the steamy scenes in the two versions will be different in Hindi and English. "We can't cheat Hindi audiences. The so-called steamy scenes will be the same in both versions. The visuals will remain unchanged in both. There won't be anything radically different in the two versions because Hrithik and Barbara Mori speak English-Hindi and Spanish, respectively in both English and Hindi. »
- Subhash K. Jha
Rakesh Roshan-Anurag Basu Come To An Understanding : “Kites Will Release By December”
22 June 2009 4:20 AM, PDT | RealBollywood.com | See recent RealBollywood news »
By Subhash K Jha
The seeming deadlock over the release of the much-hyped Kites is now over.
Producer Rakesh Roshan and director Anurag Basu have agreed on how different the English and Hindi versions of the film would be.
While the supposed steamy scenes would would be the same in both versions there would be separate voice-overs in Hindi and English, both done by Hrithik Roshan whose love story the film chronicles in a style that would recall David Lean’s Brief Encounter and K Balachander’s . »
- realbollywood
DVD: Review: Hobson’s Choice
24 February 2009 10:00 PM, PST | avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news »
David Lean is best known for his epic late-period historical dramas exploring the psychological contradictions of outsized figures, like Lawrence Of Arabia, The Bridge On The River Kwai, and Doctor Zhivago. But his directorial career began with eminently British literary adaptations filmed on a smaller scale—Noël Coward’s This Happy Breed, Brief Encounter,and Blithe Spirit; Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist and Great Expectations; and an adaptation of Harold Brighouse’s perennially popular theatrical comedy Hobson’s Choice. Released in 1954, Hobson’s Choice is the last of Lean’s black-and-white films; the following year, he directed Summertime (also »
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10 articles from 2009
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