The 2009 Newport International Film Festival, which runs from June 3-7 in Newport, R.I., will open with Armando Iannuci's political satire "In the Loop" and present as its closing night film Pierre Marcel's "Tabarly," a documentary about yachtsman Eric Tabarly.
The five-day fest, under the new leadership of executive director Jennifer Maizel, artistic director Tom Hall and programmers Holly Herrick and Andrea van Beuren, will screen more than 90 U.S. and international features, documentaries and short films.
The narrative film lineup encompasses "(500) Days of Summer," "35 Shots of Rum," "Adam," "Bronson," "Children of Invention," "Entre Nos," "Humpday," "Kisses," "Moon," "Natural Causes," "Paris," "Quiet Chaos," "Still Walking," "That Evening Sun," "The Burning Plain" and "White on Rice."
In collaboration with the Museum of Modern Art, the fest also will offer a selection of films, "Archival Gotham: NYC on Film," from MoMA's annual exhibition "To Save and Project: The MoMA International Festival of Film Preservation.
The five-day fest, under the new leadership of executive director Jennifer Maizel, artistic director Tom Hall and programmers Holly Herrick and Andrea van Beuren, will screen more than 90 U.S. and international features, documentaries and short films.
The narrative film lineup encompasses "(500) Days of Summer," "35 Shots of Rum," "Adam," "Bronson," "Children of Invention," "Entre Nos," "Humpday," "Kisses," "Moon," "Natural Causes," "Paris," "Quiet Chaos," "Still Walking," "That Evening Sun," "The Burning Plain" and "White on Rice."
In collaboration with the Museum of Modern Art, the fest also will offer a selection of films, "Archival Gotham: NYC on Film," from MoMA's annual exhibition "To Save and Project: The MoMA International Festival of Film Preservation.
- 5/26/2009
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
A day following the announcement of the 81st Academy Awards' nominees, the French Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences have uncovered their official selections for the 34th Cesar Awards. On Friday, January 23, gangster movie "Mesrine" has been given ten nominations for the France's top awards, including Best Picture and Best Director for Jean-Francois Richet.
Apart from the two mentioned gongs, "Mesrine", which is the third highest grossing French film in 2008, also garnered a Best Actor nod for leading actor Vincent Cassel. It also collected two more counts in the category of Adapted Screenplay for Abdel Raouf Dafri and Jean-Francois Richet, and of Cinematography for Robert Gantz.
In the foreign film nominations, Sean Penn's "Into the Wild" and Paul Thomas Anderson's "There Will Be Blood" were put in competition with Bouli Lanners' "Eldorado", Matteo Garrone's "Gomorra", Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne's "Lorna's Silence", James Gray...
Apart from the two mentioned gongs, "Mesrine", which is the third highest grossing French film in 2008, also garnered a Best Actor nod for leading actor Vincent Cassel. It also collected two more counts in the category of Adapted Screenplay for Abdel Raouf Dafri and Jean-Francois Richet, and of Cinematography for Robert Gantz.
In the foreign film nominations, Sean Penn's "Into the Wild" and Paul Thomas Anderson's "There Will Be Blood" were put in competition with Bouli Lanners' "Eldorado", Matteo Garrone's "Gomorra", Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne's "Lorna's Silence", James Gray...
- 1/24/2009
- by AceShowbiz.com
- Aceshowbiz
I don't believe I have ever reported the nominees for the International Film Music Critics Association before, but in the spirit of covering more award season news than is probably necessary I figured, "What the hell?" The nominees listed below make up the fifth annual International Film Music Critics Association Awards for Excellence with Wall-e receiving the most nominations including Film Score of the Year, Best Score for an Animated Film, Best Film Composition (for "Define Dancing") and Composer of the Year for Thomas Newman. The other big nominee is Danny Elfman who received the most individual nominations this year with seven: Composer of the Year; Film Score of the Year and Best Documentary Score for Standard Operating Procedure; Best Drama Score for Milk; Best Action/Adventure Score and Best Individual Cue for Wanted ("Success Montage"); and Best Fantasy/Science Fiction Score for Hellboy II: The Golden Army. The International...
- 1/17/2009
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
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