Mubi has unveiled their February 2024 lineup, featuring Roy Andersson’s little-seen 1991 short World of Glory, Nicole Holofcener’s Lovely & Amazing starring Catherine Keener with an early Jake Gyllenhaal performance, and special Black History Month selections: Spike Lee’s Red Hook Summer, Kasi Lemmon’s Eve’s Bayou, Carl Franklin’s One False Move, and more.
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American Movie, directed by Christopher Smith | Festival Focus: Sundance
Pieces of April, directed by Peter Hedges | Festival Focus: Sundance
The Blair Witch Project, directed by Daniel Myrick, Eduardo Sánchez | Festival Focus: Sundance
But I’m a Cheerleader, directed by Jamie Babbit | Festival Focus: Sundance
Secretary, directed by Steven Shainberg | Festival Focus: Sundance
Medicine for Melancholy directed by Barry Jenkins | First Films First
Antiviral, directed by Brandon Cronenberg | First Films First
Shithouse, directed by Cooper Raiff | First Films First
Age of Panic,...
Check out the lineup below, including recently added January titles, and get 30 days free here.
Just-Added
American Movie, directed by Christopher Smith | Festival Focus: Sundance
Pieces of April, directed by Peter Hedges | Festival Focus: Sundance
The Blair Witch Project, directed by Daniel Myrick, Eduardo Sánchez | Festival Focus: Sundance
But I’m a Cheerleader, directed by Jamie Babbit | Festival Focus: Sundance
Secretary, directed by Steven Shainberg | Festival Focus: Sundance
Medicine for Melancholy directed by Barry Jenkins | First Films First
Antiviral, directed by Brandon Cronenberg | First Films First
Shithouse, directed by Cooper Raiff | First Films First
Age of Panic,...
- 1/25/2024
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Wolschlager was a member of the European and Austrian Film Academies and the project commission of the Austrian Film Institute.
Austrian producer, screenwriter and educator Ursula Wolschlager died on September 26 in Vienna at the age of 52, after suffering from an illness.
Wolschlager has collaborated with filmmakers including Barbara Albert, Ruth Beckermann, Nathalie Borgers, Christian Frosch, Michael Glawogger, Bakhtiar Khodoynazarov, Marie Kreutzer, Tina Leisch, Tony Pemberton and Kirill Serebrennikov.
Alongside Robert Buchschwenter, she founded the script development and later also film production company Witcraft Scenario in 2008. She was also a mentor at the Diverse Stories script development programme, a founding member...
Austrian producer, screenwriter and educator Ursula Wolschlager died on September 26 in Vienna at the age of 52, after suffering from an illness.
Wolschlager has collaborated with filmmakers including Barbara Albert, Ruth Beckermann, Nathalie Borgers, Christian Frosch, Michael Glawogger, Bakhtiar Khodoynazarov, Marie Kreutzer, Tina Leisch, Tony Pemberton and Kirill Serebrennikov.
Alongside Robert Buchschwenter, she founded the script development and later also film production company Witcraft Scenario in 2008. She was also a mentor at the Diverse Stories script development programme, a founding member...
- 9/29/2021
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
A few weeks before TIFF 2020, actor-turned-helmer Michelle Latimer is missing the cooler climes of Thunder Bay, on Lake Superior, where she grew up.
But the hottest ticket in Toronto can’t skip town before her rare premiere double-header.
In 2008, Latimer, who is of Algonquin, Metis and French heritage, left a busy acting career and has (mostly) worked behind the camera directing docs and series, notably, Viceland’s eight-parter “Rise,” about Indigenous-led resistance movements, which included an extended episode about the Standing Rock occupation protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline. In January 2020, Latimer was the inaugural artist-in-residence at the Sundance Institute Screenwriting Labs. She’s currently developing a dramatic feature based on the true story of Canada’s only female dangerous offender, in collaboration with Sienna Films.
This week, Latimer is one of a handful of directors attending their physically distanced in-cinema premieres. Hers include feature doc “Inconvenient Indian” (National Film Board...
But the hottest ticket in Toronto can’t skip town before her rare premiere double-header.
In 2008, Latimer, who is of Algonquin, Metis and French heritage, left a busy acting career and has (mostly) worked behind the camera directing docs and series, notably, Viceland’s eight-parter “Rise,” about Indigenous-led resistance movements, which included an extended episode about the Standing Rock occupation protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline. In January 2020, Latimer was the inaugural artist-in-residence at the Sundance Institute Screenwriting Labs. She’s currently developing a dramatic feature based on the true story of Canada’s only female dangerous offender, in collaboration with Sienna Films.
This week, Latimer is one of a handful of directors attending their physically distanced in-cinema premieres. Hers include feature doc “Inconvenient Indian” (National Film Board...
- 9/11/2020
- by Jennie Punter
- Variety Film + TV
Locarno Review: Ben Russell’s Hypnotic Mining Documentary ‘Good Luck’ Shows Two Sides of a Tough Gig
There is a symbol at the beginning, middle and end of Good Luck. It is a simple geometric circle with a horizontal line evenly separating top from bottom. Does it represent above ground and below; Northern and Southern Hemispheres; Ying and Yang; daylight and darkness? It could be any one of these or all of them at once. Shot in 2016, this visually stunning, obliquely political, and rather extensive ode to the hardest of graft is built to offer the viewer the otherworldly experience of first going down the shaft of a state-run copper mine in Serbia and, in the second half, that of illegally digging for gold under the Surinamese sun.
It is the latest work of documentary filmmaker Ben Russell and — as with much of the Massachusetts native’s work — is a meditative beast at the best of times. Russell shoots entirely with 16mm film stock, which must have...
It is the latest work of documentary filmmaker Ben Russell and — as with much of the Massachusetts native’s work — is a meditative beast at the best of times. Russell shoots entirely with 16mm film stock, which must have...
- 8/16/2017
- by Rory O'Connor
- The Film Stage
The Sisyphean task of making charcoal in the Congolese countryside and then carrying it in overstuffed bags on an overloaded bicycle to a city that’s a three-day walk away is the subject of the documentary Makala, from French director Emmanuel Gras (Bovines). This Critics’ Week entry follows the production of the coal by protagonist Kabwita Kasongo and then his endlessly long push of his bike, before he finally arrives at his destination, where he can sell his wares for a very meager profit. Less a lost chapter from Michael Glawogger’s gold standard in the genre, the cinematic masterpiece Workingman’s Death,...
- 5/24/2017
- by Boyd van Hoeij
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
UntitledIt’s not common that you find yourself having a moment of sudden comprehension and even illumination, almost like finding an inner peace: a sense of quiet and tranquil meditation that allows you to qualm your more restless moments regarding the value and importance of the things that you hold dear. In this case, I’m talking about cinema, and in particular, documentary cinema, the kind of which has always been the sole focus of the Art of the Real festival since 2014, and this year’s edition (April 20th - May 2nd) with over 25 screenings that combine short and feature length non-fiction films at New York’s Film Society of Lincoln Center.Along with new films from established directors like Jem Cohen and Michael Glawogger, this year features spotlights on Chinese documentary cinema, Latin American documentary hybrids (with a particular spot for Chilean cinema), the late Brazilian master director Andrea Tonacci...
- 4/20/2017
- MUBI
Jen Peedom's Mountain.
Mountain, the latest documentary from Sherpa director Jen Peedom, will screen at this year.s Sydney Film Festival..
The festival, now in its 64th year, today announced 28 films ahead of the full program launch in May..
Mountain, which features a score by Richard Tognetti.performed by the Australian Chamber Orchestra, explores the history of people's fascination with mountains and why they risk their lives for them. The film is written by Robert MacFarlane, author of.Mountains of the Mind,.and saw Peedom reunite with Renan Ozturk, Sherpa's main altitude cinematographer.
Other local fare includes.That.s Not Me, from Melbourne husband and wife duo Gregory Erdstein (director-writer) and Alice Foulcher (star and writer-producer). The indie comedy has already screened in the States, with Sff marking its Australian premiere..
Hollie Fifer.s controversial docoThe Opposition.will also screen after being suppressed by a court order last year.
Mountain, the latest documentary from Sherpa director Jen Peedom, will screen at this year.s Sydney Film Festival..
The festival, now in its 64th year, today announced 28 films ahead of the full program launch in May..
Mountain, which features a score by Richard Tognetti.performed by the Australian Chamber Orchestra, explores the history of people's fascination with mountains and why they risk their lives for them. The film is written by Robert MacFarlane, author of.Mountains of the Mind,.and saw Peedom reunite with Renan Ozturk, Sherpa's main altitude cinematographer.
Other local fare includes.That.s Not Me, from Melbourne husband and wife duo Gregory Erdstein (director-writer) and Alice Foulcher (star and writer-producer). The indie comedy has already screened in the States, with Sff marking its Australian premiere..
Hollie Fifer.s controversial docoThe Opposition.will also screen after being suppressed by a court order last year.
- 4/4/2017
- by Jackie Keast
- IF.com.au
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveriesNEWS© Bronx (Paris). Photo: Claudia Cardinale © Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche/Getty ImagesThe Cannes Film Festival has released the vibrant poster for their 70th edition. Beautiful, definitely, but how much longer are they going to rely on their glorious past rather than pointing to the present and future?We are excited to announce a collaboration with the Filmadrid festival in Spain to bring you films from their new section, The Video Essay, this June. Submissions are now open, so for video essayists new and experienced we encourage you to send in your work for consideration. Those selected will be screened both at the festival in Madrid and on the Notebook.Recommended VIEWINGWe adored Terence Davies' by turns witty and austere Emily Dickinson biopic A Quiet Passion when it premiered last year at the Berlinale. With its U.S. release coming soon, we finally have a local trailer.
- 3/29/2017
- MUBI
The Film Society of Lincoln Center has today announced the fourth edition of Art of the Real, their essential showcase for boundary-pushing nonfiction film, scheduled to take place April 20 – May 2. Billed as “a survey of the most vital and innovative voices in nonfiction and hybrid filmmaking,” this year’s showcase features an eclectic, globe-spanning host of discoveries, including seven North American premieres and eight U.S. premieres.
“In our fourth year we’ve put an emphasis on placing works by first-time and emerging filmmakers alongside established names, with the aim to highlight the experimentation happening across generations, and to trace a new trajectory of documentary art that points to its promising future,” said Film Society of Lincoln Center Programmer at Large Rachael Rakes, who organized the festival with Director of Programming Dennis Lim.
The Opening Night selection is the New York premiere of Theo Anthony’s “Rat Film,” which has...
“In our fourth year we’ve put an emphasis on placing works by first-time and emerging filmmakers alongside established names, with the aim to highlight the experimentation happening across generations, and to trace a new trajectory of documentary art that points to its promising future,” said Film Society of Lincoln Center Programmer at Large Rachael Rakes, who organized the festival with Director of Programming Dennis Lim.
The Opening Night selection is the New York premiere of Theo Anthony’s “Rat Film,” which has...
- 3/20/2017
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Below you will find our favorite films of the 2017 Berlin International Film Festival, as well as an index of our coverage.Awardstop PICKSGiovanni Marchini CamiaI.On the Beach at Night AloneII.Bright NightsIII.Ulysses in the Subway, The Other Side of Hope, The Party, El Mar La Mar, Railway Sleepers, UntitledYaron DahanI.El Mar La MarII.The Other Side of HopeHave a Nice DayIII.On Body and SoulCOVERAGEGiovanni Marchini CamiaRead | How Political Is the Berlinale?: On Berlin's Critics' Week and Étienne Comar's DjangoRead | Family Dinners and Parisian Hotels: On Oren Moverman's The Dinner and Neïl Beloufa's OccidentalRead | Getting Better—and Funnier: On Aki Kaurismäki's The Other Side of Hope and Sally Potter's The PartyRead | Chromesthetic Delirium and Documentary Spontaneity: On Marc Downie, Paul Kaiser, Flo Jacobs & Ken Jacobs' Ulysses in the Subway and Michael Glawogger & Monika Willi's UntitledYaron DahanRead | Elemental Poetics: On J.
- 3/6/2017
- MUBI
Untitled. © Lotus-FilmA pretty amazing aspect of the Berlinale is that a lot of the festival venues are multiplexes usually devoted to blockbusters, meaning that smaller films from the sidebars are often screened in theaters with gigantic screens and state-of-the-art sound systems. It’s in one such cinema that I got to experience the chromesthetic delirium of Ulysses in the Subway by Marc Downie, Paul Kaiser, Flo Jacobs and Ken Jacobs. And, let me tell you, it was mind-blowing. Describing the film is about as difficult as describing a drug trip—indeed, watching Ulysses in the Subway is what it might be like if you were to drop acid and ride around the New York subway with your eyes closed. With the intention of visualizing sound, the four artists took an audio recording Ken Jacobs made of a long subway ride home (Jacobs used the same recording in live performances of...
- 2/17/2017
- MUBI
Following up last month’s Sundance Film Festival, the next major cinema event of the year kicks off this with Berlinale 2017. Ahead of our coverage, a trio of trailers for three of our most-anticipated premieres have now arrived. First up, following the fantastic drama Gloria, Sebastian Lelio is back with A Fantastic Woman. Produced by Pablo Larraín and Maren Ade, it follows, newcomer Daniela Vega as a trans woman who fights for her identity. Next up, Agnieszka Holland is back with her first film in six years, Spoor. Following a woman living in a town where crimes are discovered, she believes she knows the murderer, but she must convince everyone else.
Then we have a film not so much we’re anticipating, but we’re curious about. After his Hollywood face-plant known as The Tourist, The Lives of Other director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck is back with the post-wwii drama Werk ohne Autor.
Then we have a film not so much we’re anticipating, but we’re curious about. After his Hollywood face-plant known as The Tourist, The Lives of Other director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck is back with the post-wwii drama Werk ohne Autor.
- 2/6/2017
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Highlighting the economies of migrant workers from Nepal, India, Ghana, and Kenya living and working in Qatar as the country prepares for the 2022 FIFA World Cup, Adam Sobel’s The Workers Cup highlights the ambitions and dreams of men caught in a form of contract slavery. Working twelve-hour days, seven days a week, a select group of men from the Umm Salal labor camp — a prison-like arrangement of temporary housing–– are chosen to play in The Workers Cup, a tournament sponsored by the same committee organizing the 2022 World Cup.
The men, who are often out of sight and out of mind, are given a voice by American filmmaker Sobel. Quite miraculously, he is permitted to have intimate access to the workers, creating an striking portrait of one team, playing for construction firm Gcc (Gulf Contracting Company). The tournament proves to be rather heartbreaking, especially for Kenneth, a 21-year-old Ghanan with dreams of playing professional football.
The men, who are often out of sight and out of mind, are given a voice by American filmmaker Sobel. Quite miraculously, he is permitted to have intimate access to the workers, creating an striking portrait of one team, playing for construction firm Gcc (Gulf Contracting Company). The tournament proves to be rather heartbreaking, especially for Kenneth, a 21-year-old Ghanan with dreams of playing professional football.
- 1/23/2017
- by John Fink
- The Film Stage
Sally Potter's The PartyThe titles for the 67th Berlin International Film Festival are being announced in anticipation of the event running February 9 - 19, 2017. We will update the program as new films are revealed.COMPETITIONOn Body and Soul (Ildiko Enyedi, Hungary)Ana, mon amour (Călin Peter Netzer, Romania / Germany France)Beuys (Andres Veiel, Germany)Colo (Teresa Villaverde, Portugal / France)The Dinner (Oren Moverman, USA)Félicité (Alain Gomis, France / Senegal / Belgium / Germany / Lebanon)The Party (Sally Potter, UK)Spoor (Agnieszka Holland, Poland / Germany/ Czech Republic / Sweden / Slovak Republic)The Other Side of Hope (Aki Kaurismäki, Finland)A Fantastic Woman (Sebastián Lelio, Chile / German / USA / Spain)Berlinale SPECIALThe Queen of Spain (Fernando Trueba, Spain)The Young Karl Marx (Raoul Peck, France / Germany / Belgium)Last Days in Havana (Fernando Pérez, Cuba / Spain)PANORAMAVazante (Daniela Thomas, Brazil/Portugal)I Am Not Your Negro (Raoul Peck, France/USA/Belgium/Switzerland)The Wound (John Trengove, South Africa/Germany/Netherlands/France)Politics,...
- 12/22/2016
- MUBI
The Berlin International Film Festival has revealed the first 11 titles in its Panorama section, including Raoul Peck’s “I Am Not Your Negro,” the James Schamus-produced “Casting JonBenet” and Daniela Thomas’ “Vazante.” John Trengrove’s “The Wound” will open the section.
Read More: 5 Exciting Films in the 2017 Berlin Film Festival Competition Lineup
The festival says two prominent themes have emerged among the films. The first involves “Reclaiming Black History” or “a fresh historically reflective approach to the history of black people in North America, South America and Africa”; and the second is “Europa Europa,” or “how progressive forces might best defend themselves in light of a zeitgeist that makes it seem as if yesterday never went away.”
The Panorama titles are listed below with synopses and divided by theme. The festival will run from February 9 through 17.
In Focus: Reclaiming Black History
“Vazante” (Daniela Thomas, Brazil/Portugal); with Adriano Carvalho,...
Read More: 5 Exciting Films in the 2017 Berlin Film Festival Competition Lineup
The festival says two prominent themes have emerged among the films. The first involves “Reclaiming Black History” or “a fresh historically reflective approach to the history of black people in North America, South America and Africa”; and the second is “Europa Europa,” or “how progressive forces might best defend themselves in light of a zeitgeist that makes it seem as if yesterday never went away.”
The Panorama titles are listed below with synopses and divided by theme. The festival will run from February 9 through 17.
In Focus: Reclaiming Black History
“Vazante” (Daniela Thomas, Brazil/Portugal); with Adriano Carvalho,...
- 12/20/2016
- by Vikram Murthi
- Indiewire
South African-set The Wound, directed by John Trengove, set to kick off this year’s Panorama main programme.
The Berlin Film Festival (9-19 February) has announced the first 11 films for its Panorama strand.
The films have been grouped according to two themes - ‘Reclaiming Black History’ and ‘Europa Europa’.
The Wound, directed by John Trengove, opens this year’s Panorama main programme. Set in South Africa, it revolves around a Johannesburg businessman who takes his 17-year-old son to the circumcision ceremony of his old tribe.
The complete list of films announced so far are:
In Focus: Reclaiming Black History
The Wound (South Africa/Germany/Netherlands/France)
Dir. John Trengove
European premiere
I Am Not Your Negro (France / USA / Belgium / Switzerland)
Dir. Raoul Peck
European premiere
Vazante (Brazil / Portugal)
Dir. Daniela Thomas
World premiere
Europa Europa
Politics, Instructions Manual (Spain)
Dir. Fernando León de Aranoa
European premiere
Fighting Through the Night (Canada)
Dir. Sylvain L’Espérance...
The Berlin Film Festival (9-19 February) has announced the first 11 films for its Panorama strand.
The films have been grouped according to two themes - ‘Reclaiming Black History’ and ‘Europa Europa’.
The Wound, directed by John Trengove, opens this year’s Panorama main programme. Set in South Africa, it revolves around a Johannesburg businessman who takes his 17-year-old son to the circumcision ceremony of his old tribe.
The complete list of films announced so far are:
In Focus: Reclaiming Black History
The Wound (South Africa/Germany/Netherlands/France)
Dir. John Trengove
European premiere
I Am Not Your Negro (France / USA / Belgium / Switzerland)
Dir. Raoul Peck
European premiere
Vazante (Brazil / Portugal)
Dir. Daniela Thomas
World premiere
Europa Europa
Politics, Instructions Manual (Spain)
Dir. Fernando León de Aranoa
European premiere
Fighting Through the Night (Canada)
Dir. Sylvain L’Espérance...
- 12/20/2016
- ScreenDaily
Documentary from Australian war artist George Gittoes centres on street kids in Afghanistan.
Tel Aviv-based sales company Cinephil has acquired the worldwide right to George Gittoes’ Snow Monkey ahead of its international premiere in competition at Idfa (International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam) (Nov 18-29).
The film is a portrait of daily life in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, where art activist Gittoes recruited gangs of war-damaged children to shoot local, Pashto-style films - vibrant, colorful and infused with the violence they experience on a daily basis.
Gittoes will return to Idfa, which runs Nov 18-29, having previously screened Miscreants of Taliwood, shot in Peshawar with Taliban-besieged filmmakers, some of which have helped create Snow Monkey.
Cinephil MD Philippa Kowarsky negotiated the deal with producers Gittoes and Lizzette Atkins of Unicorn Films.
Executive producers are Norway’s Torstein Grude and Bjarte Mørner Tveit for Piraya Film.
Kowarsky said the film “offers an unprecedented understanding of the lives of the people of Jalalabad...
Tel Aviv-based sales company Cinephil has acquired the worldwide right to George Gittoes’ Snow Monkey ahead of its international premiere in competition at Idfa (International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam) (Nov 18-29).
The film is a portrait of daily life in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, where art activist Gittoes recruited gangs of war-damaged children to shoot local, Pashto-style films - vibrant, colorful and infused with the violence they experience on a daily basis.
Gittoes will return to Idfa, which runs Nov 18-29, having previously screened Miscreants of Taliwood, shot in Peshawar with Taliban-besieged filmmakers, some of which have helped create Snow Monkey.
Cinephil MD Philippa Kowarsky negotiated the deal with producers Gittoes and Lizzette Atkins of Unicorn Films.
Executive producers are Norway’s Torstein Grude and Bjarte Mørner Tveit for Piraya Film.
Kowarsky said the film “offers an unprecedented understanding of the lives of the people of Jalalabad...
- 11/10/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
An angry satire, Thank You For Bombing, the latest film from Barbara Eder (Inside America) takes dead aim upon the industry of journalism in war zones. No one is sacred in Eder’s eyes as she satirizes the veteran reporter haunted by demons of the past, a pretty young correspondent who will do anything for a story, and a rouge reporter in search of a war. The waiting is the hardest part and they kill the time in a number of ways from Zumba to opioids.
Told in the three symmetrical stories that intersect in the film’s third act, the first finds an Austrian reporter, Ewald (Erwin Steinhauser) on his way to Afghanistan. Capturing a ghost of his past he discovers a man, now flying under a German passport that may or may not have been involved murder of his cameraman in Bosnia. Apparently this is not the first episode for Ewald,...
Told in the three symmetrical stories that intersect in the film’s third act, the first finds an Austrian reporter, Ewald (Erwin Steinhauser) on his way to Afghanistan. Capturing a ghost of his past he discovers a man, now flying under a German passport that may or may not have been involved murder of his cameraman in Bosnia. Apparently this is not the first episode for Ewald,...
- 9/24/2015
- by John Fink
- The Film Stage
Arriving in limited release this weekend before expanding wide in early October, Denis Villeneuve‘s Sicario is a strong start to the fall season. The drama surrounding the drug battle at the U.S.-Mexico border might not get any points for subtlety, but Villeneuve amplifies the tension of every scene with help from cinematographer Roger Deakins outdoing himself with every shot.
If it’s not coming to your city this weekend, or if you’re simply in the mood for some similarly themed films, we’ve rounded up eight titles that are well worth watching before seeing Sicario. Rather than including past work from Villeneuve (Prisoners and Enemy make for worthy primers) or proof that Emily Blunt makes an excellent heroine (see: Edge of Tomorrow and Looper), the selections aim to cover a thematic crossroads. Check them out below and let us know your thoughts in the comments.
Cartel Land...
If it’s not coming to your city this weekend, or if you’re simply in the mood for some similarly themed films, we’ve rounded up eight titles that are well worth watching before seeing Sicario. Rather than including past work from Villeneuve (Prisoners and Enemy make for worthy primers) or proof that Emily Blunt makes an excellent heroine (see: Edge of Tomorrow and Looper), the selections aim to cover a thematic crossroads. Check them out below and let us know your thoughts in the comments.
Cartel Land...
- 9/16/2015
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
At Hammer to Nail, Evan Louison notes that the films in the BAMcinématek series The Vertigo Effect run the gamut of bewildering dreams, questionable memories, false identity, secret plots, and murder. From the schlock (Basic Instinct, Mulholland Drive) to the interstitial (Sans Soleil), it’s easy to see how this one replaced Citizen Kane at the top of the heap a few years back." More goings on: Catherine Deneuve, Eric Rohmer, Stan Brakhage and Preston Sturges in New York, Hou Hsiao-hsien in Chicago, Thom Andersen in Los Angeles, Robert Siodmak in London, Michelangelo Antonioni in Paris and Michael Glawogger in Vienna. » - David Hudson...
- 4/19/2015
- Fandor: Keyframe
At Hammer to Nail, Evan Louison notes that the films in the BAMcinématek series The Vertigo Effect run the gamut of bewildering dreams, questionable memories, false identity, secret plots, and murder. From the schlock (Basic Instinct, Mulholland Drive) to the interstitial (Sans Soleil), it’s easy to see how this one replaced Citizen Kane at the top of the heap a few years back." More goings on: Catherine Deneuve, Eric Rohmer, Stan Brakhage and Preston Sturges in New York, Hou Hsiao-hsien in Chicago, Thom Andersen in Los Angeles, Robert Siodmak in London, Michelangelo Antonioni in Paris and Michael Glawogger in Vienna. » - David Hudson...
- 4/19/2015
- Keyframe
With today's round of essays, the fifth issue of Lola, edited by Adrian Martin and Girish Shambu, is now complete. Among the new additions are pieces on Blade Runner, Claude Lanzmann's The Last of the Unjust and Shane Carruth's Upstream Color. Also in today's roundup: Nadia Awad on Jean-Luc Godard and the evolution of Palestinian filmmaking, Locarno artistic director Carlo Chatrian on Sam Peckinpah, Italo Calvino's memories of cinema-going, celebrations of Akira Kurosawa's 105th birthday, Chris Randle on Dennis Hopper's Catchfire with Jodie Foster, Neil Young and Bob Dylan, Abel Ferrara's war of words with IFC and Wild Bunch, a first viewing of Michael Glawogger's final film—and more. » - David Hudson...
- 3/23/2015
- Keyframe
With today's round of essays, the fifth issue of Lola, edited by Adrian Martin and Girish Shambu, is now complete. Among the new additions are pieces on Blade Runner, Claude Lanzmann's The Last of the Unjust and Shane Carruth's Upstream Color. Also in today's roundup: Nadia Awad on Jean-Luc Godard and the evolution of Palestinian filmmaking, Locarno artistic director Carlo Chatrian on Sam Peckinpah, Italo Calvino's memories of cinema-going, celebrations of Akira Kurosawa's 105th birthday, Chris Randle on Dennis Hopper's Catchfire with Jodie Foster, Neil Young and Bob Dylan, Abel Ferrara's war of words with IFC and Wild Bunch, a first viewing of Michael Glawogger's final film—and more. » - David Hudson...
- 3/23/2015
- Fandor: Keyframe
With today's round of essays, the fifth issue of Lola, edited by Adrian Martin and Girish Shambu, is now complete. Among the new additions are pieces on Blade Runner, Claude Lanzmann's The Last of the Unjust and Shane Carruth's Upstream Color. Also in today's roundup: Nadia Awad on Jean-Luc Godard and the evolution of Palestinian filmmaking, Locarno artistic director Carlo Chatrian on Sam Peckinpah, Italo Calvino's memories of cinema-going, celebrations of Akira Kurosawa's 105th birthday, Chris Randle on Dennis Hopper's Catchfire with Jodie Foster, Neil Young and Bob Dylan, Abel Ferrara's war of words with IFC and Wild Bunch, a first viewing of Michael Glawogger's final film—and more. » - David Hudson...
- 3/23/2015
- Fandor: Keyframe
With today's round of essays, the fifth issue of Lola, edited by Adrian Martin and Girish Shambu, is now complete. Among the new additions are pieces on Blade Runner, Claude Lanzmann's The Last of the Unjust and Shane Carruth's Upstream Color. Also in today's roundup: Nadia Awad on Jean-Luc Godard and the evolution of Palestinian filmmaking, Locarno artistic director Carlo Chatrian on Sam Peckinpah, Italo Calvino's memories of cinema-going, celebrations of Akira Kurosawa's 105th birthday, Chris Randle on Dennis Hopper's Catchfire with Jodie Foster, Neil Young and Bob Dylan, Abel Ferrara's war of words with IFC and Wild Bunch, a first viewing of Michael Glawogger's final film—and more. » - David Hudson...
- 3/23/2015
- Keyframe
Jonathan Rosenbaum's posted the introduction to his 2004 book, Essential Cinema: On the Necessity of Film Canons as well as his list of 1,000 Favorites. Also in today's roundup of news and views: The new Film Quarterly features a dossier on Richard Linklater, Cahiers du Cinéma on Martin Scorsese in the 80s, Peter Cowie's memories of François Truffaut, Chris Cagle on Michael Glawogger's Workingman's Death, Jake Cole on Eric Rohmer's The Marquise of O, J. Hoberman on Jean Renoir’s A Day in the Country and Billy Wilder's Kiss Me, Stupid, Artforum and the New York Times on Shirley Yamaguchi and Setsuko Hara—and more. » - David Hudson...
- 3/21/2015
- Keyframe
Jonathan Rosenbaum's posted the introduction to his 2004 book, Essential Cinema: On the Necessity of Film Canons as well as his list of 1,000 Favorites. Also in today's roundup of news and views: The new Film Quarterly features a dossier on Richard Linklater, Cahiers du Cinéma on Martin Scorsese in the 80s, Peter Cowie's memories of François Truffaut, Chris Cagle on Michael Glawogger's Workingman's Death, Jake Cole on Eric Rohmer's The Marquise of O, J. Hoberman on Jean Renoir’s A Day in the Country and Billy Wilder's Kiss Me, Stupid, Artforum and the New York Times on Shirley Yamaguchi and Setsuko Hara—and more. » - David Hudson...
- 3/21/2015
- Fandor: Keyframe
Jonathan Rosenbaum's posted the introduction to his 2004 book, Essential Cinema: On the Necessity of Film Canons as well as his list of 1,000 Favorites. Also in today's roundup of news and views: The new Film Quarterly features a dossier on Richard Linklater, Cahiers du Cinéma on Martin Scorsese in the 80s, Peter Cowie's memories of François Truffaut, Chris Cagle on Michael Glawogger's Workingman's Death, Jake Cole on Eric Rohmer's The Marquise of O, J. Hoberman on Jean Renoir’s A Day in the Country and Billy Wilder's Kiss Me, Stupid, Artforum and the New York Times on Shirley Yamaguchi and Setsuko Hara—and more. » - David Hudson...
- 3/21/2015
- Fandor: Keyframe
Jonathan Rosenbaum's posted the introduction to his 2004 book, Essential Cinema: On the Necessity of Film Canons as well as his list of 1,000 Favorites. Also in today's roundup of news and views: The new Film Quarterly features a dossier on Richard Linklater, Cahiers du Cinéma on Martin Scorsese in the 80s, Peter Cowie's memories of François Truffaut, Chris Cagle on Michael Glawogger's Workingman's Death, Jake Cole on Eric Rohmer's The Marquise of O, J. Hoberman on Jean Renoir’s A Day in the Country and Billy Wilder's Kiss Me, Stupid, Artforum and the New York Times on Shirley Yamaguchi and Setsuko Hara—and more. » - David Hudson...
- 3/21/2015
- Keyframe
Cinema's fascination with labor can be traced to the art form's very beginning: The Lumière brothers' first film, Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory (1895), shows men and women, lunch pails in hand, streaming out of a warehouse. The imprint of this 45-second-long actualité is evident in myriad works, whether fact or fiction, that focus on the daily grind: from Charlie Chaplin's slapstick Modern Times (1936) to George Abbott and Stanley Donen's 1957 movie musical The Pajama Game (which Jean-Luc Godard, whose films from the 1960s often riffed on Marx's theories of alienated labor, hailed as "the first left-wing operetta") to Michael Glawogger's Workingman's Death (2005), a globe-spanning documentary on some of the worst jobs...
- 1/14/2015
- Village Voice
★★★☆☆When six world renowned filmmakers - including Robert Redford and the late Austrian director Michael Glawogger - were asked to make short films for a television series about pioneering buildings of cultural influence, the results were never going to be boring. Cathedrals of Culture's (2014) six 30-minute segments - gathered here as one film - are nothing if not thought provoking. The selection of buildings chosen for inclusion may seem a little odd. Though one can appreciate the presence of the Pompidou Centre - Paris' famous hub for the arts, co-designed by the 1970s architectural enfant terrible Richard Rogers - that of Norway's Halden Prison may seem a little more obscure. Is it really a cultural centre?...
- 11/13/2014
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
The 27th Tokyo International Film Festival (Tiff) has announced its Special Screenings line-up of high-profile films from Japan and abroad.
Aside from previously announced opening and closing films - Big Hero 6 and Parasyte - world premieres in Special Screenings include Mamoru Oshii’s Japan-Canada coproduction Garm Wars The Last Druid, a “hybrid animation fusing pioneer CG and live-action technologies”.
Also, Isshin Inudo’s romance Miracle: Devil Claus’ Love And Magic, Sebastian Masuda’s The Nutcracker 3D and Kiyotaka Taguchi’s The Next Generation - Patlabor - Episode 10, a live action version of Mobile Police Patlabor with special footage to screen with commentary from general director Oshii.
The line-up will also include a look at footage from upcoming Tim Burton feature Big Eyes, starring Amy Adams and Christoph Waltz. It opens in the Us on Dec 25.
The festival will run Oct 23-31.
Special Screenings
Title/country/director, Wp - World Premiere
Big Hero 6 (Us) Don Hall, [link...
Aside from previously announced opening and closing films - Big Hero 6 and Parasyte - world premieres in Special Screenings include Mamoru Oshii’s Japan-Canada coproduction Garm Wars The Last Druid, a “hybrid animation fusing pioneer CG and live-action technologies”.
Also, Isshin Inudo’s romance Miracle: Devil Claus’ Love And Magic, Sebastian Masuda’s The Nutcracker 3D and Kiyotaka Taguchi’s The Next Generation - Patlabor - Episode 10, a live action version of Mobile Police Patlabor with special footage to screen with commentary from general director Oshii.
The line-up will also include a look at footage from upcoming Tim Burton feature Big Eyes, starring Amy Adams and Christoph Waltz. It opens in the Us on Dec 25.
The festival will run Oct 23-31.
Special Screenings
Title/country/director, Wp - World Premiere
Big Hero 6 (Us) Don Hall, [link...
- 9/19/2014
- by hjnoh2007@gmail.com (Jean Noh)
- ScreenDaily
brouillard passage #14
Dear Fern,
Many of the features you have told me about I have subsequently seen and very much like: Ferrara's tender, banal Pasolini (with a fantastic lead performance by Willem Dafoe, and, as you so justly pointed out, a truly moving homage with Ninetto Davoli), and the eccentric structural romantic comedy from Johnnie To, Don't Go Breaking My Heart 2. Two of the best films at Toronto, so far. Maybe I will return to these films later in the festival to tell you more of what I thought, but first somethings you may not have seen.
The much-anticipated shorts programs of the Wavelengths section wrapped up two nights ago and was presided over as always by indomitable programmer Andréa Picard—practically a cult figure in the festival world these days—who year after year has made it the most distinctive, the most personal, and the most engaged and engaging section at Tiff.
Dear Fern,
Many of the features you have told me about I have subsequently seen and very much like: Ferrara's tender, banal Pasolini (with a fantastic lead performance by Willem Dafoe, and, as you so justly pointed out, a truly moving homage with Ninetto Davoli), and the eccentric structural romantic comedy from Johnnie To, Don't Go Breaking My Heart 2. Two of the best films at Toronto, so far. Maybe I will return to these films later in the festival to tell you more of what I thought, but first somethings you may not have seen.
The much-anticipated shorts programs of the Wavelengths section wrapped up two nights ago and was presided over as always by indomitable programmer Andréa Picard—practically a cult figure in the festival world these days—who year after year has made it the most distinctive, the most personal, and the most engaged and engaging section at Tiff.
- 9/15/2014
- by Daniel Kasman
- MUBI
Edited by Adam Cook
Film festival programmers from around the world are joining in signing a Statement of Support for the Beijing Independent Film Festival:
"As independent film festivals and supporters of independent cinema, we have learned with deep concern that the Chinese government and police authorities have prevented the 11th Beijing Independent Film Festival based in Songzhuang, Beijing, from opening last weekend, August 23rd, and detained its organizers Wang Hongwei, Fan Rong, and Li Xianting for several hours. We are also deeply concerned that Biff’s sponsoring organization, the Li Xianting Film Fund, has been raided, and the entirety of its invaluable archives of independent Chinese cinema have reportedly been confiscated.
We call upon the relevant Chinese authorities to permit the Beijing Independent Film Festival to pursue its mission to nurture and exhibit a full range of alternative cinematic voices in China, to allow the festival to operate without interference,...
Film festival programmers from around the world are joining in signing a Statement of Support for the Beijing Independent Film Festival:
"As independent film festivals and supporters of independent cinema, we have learned with deep concern that the Chinese government and police authorities have prevented the 11th Beijing Independent Film Festival based in Songzhuang, Beijing, from opening last weekend, August 23rd, and detained its organizers Wang Hongwei, Fan Rong, and Li Xianting for several hours. We are also deeply concerned that Biff’s sponsoring organization, the Li Xianting Film Fund, has been raided, and the entirety of its invaluable archives of independent Chinese cinema have reportedly been confiscated.
We call upon the relevant Chinese authorities to permit the Beijing Independent Film Festival to pursue its mission to nurture and exhibit a full range of alternative cinematic voices in China, to allow the festival to operate without interference,...
- 8/27/2014
- by Notebook
- MUBI
The new issue of cléo, a journal of film and feminism, features interviews with Clio Barnard (The Selfish Giant) and Alanis Obomsawin, articles on Michael Glawogger’s Whores’ Glory, Josephine Decker’s Butter on the Latch, James Gray’s The Immigrant, Ivan Reitman’s Junior, Raffaele Brunetti and Marco Leopardi’s Hair India, Sophie Hyde’s 52 Tuesdays, Barbara Kopple’s Harlan County, USA and Sally Potter’s Rage and a roundtable on Gillian Robespierre’s Obvious Child. Also in today's roundup of news and views: J. Hoberman on David Lynch and Werner Herzog, Dick Cavett's steamy interview with Robert Altman and more. » - David Hudson...
- 8/21/2014
- Fandor: Keyframe
The new issue of cléo, a journal of film and feminism, features interviews with Clio Barnard (The Selfish Giant) and Alanis Obomsawin, articles on Michael Glawogger’s Whores’ Glory, Josephine Decker’s Butter on the Latch, James Gray’s The Immigrant, Ivan Reitman’s Junior, Raffaele Brunetti and Marco Leopardi’s Hair India, Sophie Hyde’s 52 Tuesdays, Barbara Kopple’s Harlan County, USA and Sally Potter’s Rage and a roundtable on Gillian Robespierre’s Obvious Child. Also in today's roundup of news and views: J. Hoberman on David Lynch and Werner Herzog, Dick Cavett's steamy interview with Robert Altman and more. » - David Hudson...
- 8/21/2014
- Keyframe
João Bénard da Costa's essay on Nicholas Ray's Johnny Guitar (1954) is now available in nine languages. Do we fully appreciate the impact of Cornell Woolrich on cinema? What does Ida Lupino's Outrage (1950) have to say about "what we now know to call rape culture"? Plus Boris Nelepo on Alain Resnais's Life of Riley, Kenji Fujishima and Carson Lund on Michael Glawogger's Workingman's Death, Joseph Nechvatal on Henri Langlois and more. » - David Hudson...
- 6/17/2014
- Fandor: Keyframe
It always sucks when someone dies. But in the small world of documentary filmmaking, where the directors are a close-knit, dogged group, traveling to the same events and sharing the same few resources to tell their often personal or passionate stories, the loss of a fellow intrepid traveler cuts deep. It’s like losing a member of your extended family. The last six months have been particularly tough on the international nonfiction community, with the passings of Ed Pincus, Peter Wintonick, Michael Glawogger, and Malik Bendjelloul. The loss of just one of these filmmakers provides plenty to mourn, but the death of four beloved directors within a short time is cause for serious pause. Not only will the documentary community miss out on their future projects, it also loses their voices: creative, intellectual, and in some cases, rabble-rousing, these were filmmakers who were defined as much by their outstanding work as their character.
- 5/29/2014
- by Anthony Kaufman
- Indiewire
Hyena
The full line-up has been announced for this year’s Edinburgh International Film Festival, which runs from Wednesday 18th to Sunday 29th June. In total, 156 features from 47 countries will be screened, with 11 world premieres, 7 European premieres and 95 UK premieres.
The festival opens with the world premiere of British drug trafficking thriller Hyena from writer-director Gerard Johnson, starring Peter Ferdinando, Stephen Graham, Neil Maskell, and MyAnna Buring. The closing night gala is the international premiere of romantic comedy We’ll Never Have Paris, directed by husband and wife team Jocelyn Towne and Simon Helberg (best known for The Big Bang Theory). Written by and also starring Helberg, it features Melanie Lynskey, Maggie Grace, Zachary Quinto, and Alfred Molina in its cast.
We’ll Never Have Paris
The American Dreams strand highlights cutting-edge new works from American independent cinema. Sofia Coppola’s The Bling Ring featured last year, and now Gia Coppola...
The full line-up has been announced for this year’s Edinburgh International Film Festival, which runs from Wednesday 18th to Sunday 29th June. In total, 156 features from 47 countries will be screened, with 11 world premieres, 7 European premieres and 95 UK premieres.
The festival opens with the world premiere of British drug trafficking thriller Hyena from writer-director Gerard Johnson, starring Peter Ferdinando, Stephen Graham, Neil Maskell, and MyAnna Buring. The closing night gala is the international premiere of romantic comedy We’ll Never Have Paris, directed by husband and wife team Jocelyn Towne and Simon Helberg (best known for The Big Bang Theory). Written by and also starring Helberg, it features Melanie Lynskey, Maggie Grace, Zachary Quinto, and Alfred Molina in its cast.
We’ll Never Have Paris
The American Dreams strand highlights cutting-edge new works from American independent cinema. Sofia Coppola’s The Bling Ring featured last year, and now Gia Coppola...
- 5/28/2014
- by Josh Slater-Williams
- SoundOnSight
Austrian director Michael Glawogger has tragically died at the age of 54 while shooting in Africa. For more on this brilliant director and his working method read Daniel Kasman's interview from Venice about Glawogger's last film, Whores' Glory (2011). Mubi Us is in the middle of a 30-day run of the director's Workingman's Death (2005).
Above: Omar Ahmed's brief video essay on Michael Mann's Thief. For Cinema Scope Online, Kiva Reardon writes on the Images Festival:
"Offering streaming links to almost their entire programme, the festival can be consumed from a couch, in sporadic order and with no regard for curatorial intent, which beggars the question: Is a collection of Vimeo links really a film festival? Should this sound like an ontological foray into digital existence, apologies, but the issue is not going away; Hot Docs likewise offers a multitude of link-based screeners to accredited journalists. It is a less than...
Above: Omar Ahmed's brief video essay on Michael Mann's Thief. For Cinema Scope Online, Kiva Reardon writes on the Images Festival:
"Offering streaming links to almost their entire programme, the festival can be consumed from a couch, in sporadic order and with no regard for curatorial intent, which beggars the question: Is a collection of Vimeo links really a film festival? Should this sound like an ontological foray into digital existence, apologies, but the issue is not going away; Hot Docs likewise offers a multitude of link-based screeners to accredited journalists. It is a less than...
- 4/23/2014
- by Adam Cook
- MUBI
Austrian filmmaker Michael Glawogger, who worked under-the-radar and pushed himself to the brink as a documentary and feature filmmaker, has passed away at age 54 in Africa. He died from Malaria while working on his latest film. Glawogger's final finished feature was "Whores' Glory" in 2011, a stylish and gritty documentary triptych on prostitutes from Mexico, Thailand and Bangladesh. But he also worked on "Cathedrals of Culture," a 3D architecture doc, alongside Werner Herzog and Wim Wenders. Throughout his prolific career, Glawogger sought to capture the rhythms of lives both ordinary and extreme in far away places, most notably in his 2005 masterpiece "Workingman's Death," about manual laborers in far-flung corners of the Earth, and 1998's cross-cultural portrait "Megacities." All of his documentaries look closely at globalization and its resonance, but they are also incredibly cinematic. Gorgeously lensed -- and typically on celluloid, which he preferred to digital -- his...
- 4/23/2014
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Thompson on Hollywood
Michael Glawogger, an Austrian filmmaker, has died at the age of 54. The director, who made both documentaries and narrative films, was shooting footage in Africa for an upcoming film when he died, Film and Music Austria reported on its website. “We are both as an industry and as a person deeply shocked and speechless,” filmmaker Danny Krausz wrote in a statement. See photos: Hollywood's Notable Deaths of 2014 Glawogger was making a documentary about a year of traveling around the world, which he was also writing about in the form of diary entries for Der Standard newspaper in Austria. Glawogger was best known for his advocacy.
- 4/23/2014
- by Jordan Zakarin
- The Wrap
Austrian director of award-winning documentaries Whores’ Glory and Workingman’s Death died while filming in Africa from malaria.
Michael Glawogger, the Austrian director, screenwriter and cinematographer, has died aged 54 in Africa. Production company Lotus-Film confirmed that Glawogger died this morning (April 23) in Liberia from malaria.
He was best known for documentaries including Megacities, which won the Vienna film award in 1998; Workingman’s Death, which picked up the Grierson Award at the London Film Festival in 2005; and Whores’ Glory, which won the Austrian Film Award at the 2012 Viennale.
Glawogger recently directed the National Library of Russia segment of omnibus 3D documentary feature Cathedrals of Culture, which debuted at the Berlin Film Festival in February.
A statement from Lotus-Film said: “We have lost a long-time friend. Michael Glawogger influenced our work in a unique way and he was significantly involved in the creative orientation of the way we produce films.
“Michael went on a journey to find out what...
Michael Glawogger, the Austrian director, screenwriter and cinematographer, has died aged 54 in Africa. Production company Lotus-Film confirmed that Glawogger died this morning (April 23) in Liberia from malaria.
He was best known for documentaries including Megacities, which won the Vienna film award in 1998; Workingman’s Death, which picked up the Grierson Award at the London Film Festival in 2005; and Whores’ Glory, which won the Austrian Film Award at the 2012 Viennale.
Glawogger recently directed the National Library of Russia segment of omnibus 3D documentary feature Cathedrals of Culture, which debuted at the Berlin Film Festival in February.
A statement from Lotus-Film said: “We have lost a long-time friend. Michael Glawogger influenced our work in a unique way and he was significantly involved in the creative orientation of the way we produce films.
“Michael went on a journey to find out what...
- 4/23/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Acclaimed Austrian director Michael Glawogger, famed for his hard-hitting documentaries on the lives of the desperate poor, has died while on a shoot in Africa. Glawogger, whose work includes his documentary trilogy into the world of work: Workingman's Death, Megacities, Whores' Glory as well as dramas such as Slumming and Kill Daddy Good Night apparently died in Liberia after contracting Malaria. Gallery: Hollywood's Notable Deaths of 2014 Glawogger had been in Africa gathering material for a new project. “With horror and great dismay we have received the news of the sudden death of Michael Glawogger,” industry association Film
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- 4/23/2014
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Exclusive: The return of the Zoo-Palast cinema to the Berlinale’s roster of screening venues is “the greatest challenge facing us this year,” according to festival director Dieter Kosslick.
Kosslick spoke exclusively to ScreenDaily less than three weeks before the 64th edition (Feb 6-16) kicks off with the world premiere of Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel on Feb 6, explaining that the festival will now have three centres throughout the city: at the Zoo-Palast where the Berlinale was based until 1999; at the Berlinale-Palast at Potsdamer Platz; and at the Friedrichstadtpalast in the former East Berlin.
“We now have a focus in the Western part of the city which is something we had always wanted: the Berlinale is back in the West! We have a balanced cinema situation in the whole of the city,” he said.
“We had to abandon the original idea of having the Friedrichstadtpalast only as a temporary venue while the Zoo-Palast was being...
Kosslick spoke exclusively to ScreenDaily less than three weeks before the 64th edition (Feb 6-16) kicks off with the world premiere of Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel on Feb 6, explaining that the festival will now have three centres throughout the city: at the Zoo-Palast where the Berlinale was based until 1999; at the Berlinale-Palast at Potsdamer Platz; and at the Friedrichstadtpalast in the former East Berlin.
“We now have a focus in the Western part of the city which is something we had always wanted: the Berlinale is back in the West! We have a balanced cinema situation in the whole of the city,” he said.
“We had to abandon the original idea of having the Friedrichstadtpalast only as a temporary venue while the Zoo-Palast was being...
- 1/20/2014
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Hoàng Phi in Nước (2030) by Nghiêm-Minh Nguyễn-Võ
The following titles join the previously announced films screening as part of the Panorama section:
Asabani Nistam! (I'm Not Angry!), (Reza Dormishian), Iran - International Premiere
Blind, (Eskil Vogt), Norway / Netherlands - European Premiere
Difret, (Zeresenay Berhane Mehari), Ethopia - European Premiere
Fieber (Fever), (Elfi Mikesch), Luxembourg / Austria - World Premiere
Güeros, (Alonso Ruízpalacios), Mexico - World Premiere
Highway, (Imtiaz Ali), India - World Premiere
Ieji (Homeland), (Nao Kubota), Japan - World Premiere
In Grazia di Dio (Edoardo Winspeare), Italy - World Premiere
Love Is Strange, (Ira Sachs), USA - International Premiere
Mo Jing (That Demon Within), (Dante Lam), Hong Kong, China - World Premiere
Na kathese ke na kitas (Standing Aside, Watching), (Yorgos Servetas), Greece - European Premiere
Night Flight, (LeeSong Hee-il), Republic of Korea - World Premiere
Nước (2030), (Nghiêm-Minh Nguyễn-Võ), Vietnam - World Premiere
Patardzlebi (Brides), (Tinatin Kajrishvili), Georgia / France
Risse...
The following titles join the previously announced films screening as part of the Panorama section:
Asabani Nistam! (I'm Not Angry!), (Reza Dormishian), Iran - International Premiere
Blind, (Eskil Vogt), Norway / Netherlands - European Premiere
Difret, (Zeresenay Berhane Mehari), Ethopia - European Premiere
Fieber (Fever), (Elfi Mikesch), Luxembourg / Austria - World Premiere
Güeros, (Alonso Ruízpalacios), Mexico - World Premiere
Highway, (Imtiaz Ali), India - World Premiere
Ieji (Homeland), (Nao Kubota), Japan - World Premiere
In Grazia di Dio (Edoardo Winspeare), Italy - World Premiere
Love Is Strange, (Ira Sachs), USA - International Premiere
Mo Jing (That Demon Within), (Dante Lam), Hong Kong, China - World Premiere
Na kathese ke na kitas (Standing Aside, Watching), (Yorgos Servetas), Greece - European Premiere
Night Flight, (LeeSong Hee-il), Republic of Korea - World Premiere
Nước (2030), (Nghiêm-Minh Nguyễn-Võ), Vietnam - World Premiere
Patardzlebi (Brides), (Tinatin Kajrishvili), Georgia / France
Risse...
- 1/19/2014
- by Notebook
- MUBI
World premieres include A Long Way down, starring Breaking Bad’s Aaron Paul and Pierce Brosnan, and The Two Faces of January, the directorial debut of Drive screenwriter Hossein Amini starring Viggo Mortensen, Kirsten Dunst and Oscar Isaac.
The Berlin International Film Festival (Feb 6-16) has unveiled the 18-strong line-up for its Berlinale Special strand, including nine world premieres.
Stand-outs in the list include the world premiere of A Long Way Down, an adaptation of Nick Hornby’s bestseller about four people who meet on New Year’s Eve and form a surrogate family to help one another weather the difficulties of their lives. It stars Breaking Bad’s Aaron Paul, Pierce Brosnan, Toni Collette and Imogen Poots.
Also receiving its world premiere will be con artist thriller The Two Faces of January, the directorial debut of Drive screenwriter Hossein Amini, which stars Viggo Mortensen, Kirsten Dunst and Inside Llewyn Davis’ Oscar Isaac.
Mexican actor Diego Luna...
The Berlin International Film Festival (Feb 6-16) has unveiled the 18-strong line-up for its Berlinale Special strand, including nine world premieres.
Stand-outs in the list include the world premiere of A Long Way Down, an adaptation of Nick Hornby’s bestseller about four people who meet on New Year’s Eve and form a surrogate family to help one another weather the difficulties of their lives. It stars Breaking Bad’s Aaron Paul, Pierce Brosnan, Toni Collette and Imogen Poots.
Also receiving its world premiere will be con artist thriller The Two Faces of January, the directorial debut of Drive screenwriter Hossein Amini, which stars Viggo Mortensen, Kirsten Dunst and Inside Llewyn Davis’ Oscar Isaac.
Mexican actor Diego Luna...
- 1/17/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
While 3D technology has largely been used by Hollywood in the service of banging and crashing and blowing things up films such as Pina and Cave Of Forgotten Dreams have demonstrated that the technology has far more wide ranging uses than just that. In the right hands and directed towards the right subjects 3D can be used to share location and experience, to place the audience in a place rather than simply having them look at it. And that is precisely the point of upcoming documentary series Cathedrals Of Culture.A six part project with installments to be directed by Robert Redford, Wim Wenders, Michael Glawogger, James Marsh (no, not that James Marsh), Karim Ainouz and Michael Madsen (no, not that Michael Madsen) the series will...
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- 6/11/2013
- Screen Anarchy
Before J.C. Chandor could fully soak in the experience of premiering his sophomore feature “All is Lost” at Cannes this week -- which was met with rapturous praise (read our review here) -- he had already lined up his next project, and it's slated to shoot later this year. His third feature, A Most Violent Year,” is planning to cast a bunch of big names, but none of them have been revealed as of yet. Given the buzz for 'Lost,' however, names may not be so difficult to come by. Plot details are being kept under wraps but considering how well he handled an ensemble cast with his debut film, “Margin Call,” it should be fun to see him working with another top notch cast. [Deadline] Meanwhile, the star of "All Is Lost" -- none other than Robert Redford -- is looking to get back behind the camera himself. He's...
- 5/25/2013
- by Ken Guidry
- The Playlist
A little bit of coin news from Europe’s Eurimages Fund (support of 13 projects) in the same token drops a couple of hints on where we might be at with some of our favorite European auteurs – topping the list and making our mouths water for Cannes 2014 is a listing for Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s next feature film entitled Winter Sleep – a Turkish-German-France co-production. Further digging tells us that Ceylan actually began filming in late January in the unique backdrop of Cappadocia, Turkey with actors Haluk Bilginer (The Reluctant Fundamentalist), Demet Akbag, Melisa Sözen on board. Swedish auteur Ruben Ostlund (whose Play is mysteriously still without a U.S Distributor) is inches away from filming Tourist – which will be ready for a Croisette 2014 showing as well. Jasmila Zbanic who won big in Berlin back in 2006 with Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams, is funding her latest Love Island and feel...
- 3/20/2013
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
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