Another Isola Cinema festival, the fourth one, is at an end. The winner of the festival audience award competition section, the Harvest, is the film SARATAN (Ernest Abdidžaparov, Kyrgizistan/Germany, 2005, 85′), which was also the choice of the Youth jury, working under supervision of Franci Slak and Boris PalÄiÄ.<br>The closing film of the festival is Vittorio de Seta’s film Letters from Sahara (Lettere dal Sahara).The winner of the festival’s PAH-FEST workshop for best film made using a cell phone, is Joe Underwood, while the award for the best digital portret went to Marko Ocepek. Both winners received ITAK prizes -…
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Lead Actress of this Year’s Cannes’s Critics’ Week Grand Prix-Winner is the first to arrive at Isola Cinema!The young Argentinean actress Inés Efron arrived today in Slovenia after having had an exhausting but very successful week at the Cannes Film Festival. She traveled to Cannes to assist in the launch of the Argentinean-Spanish-French co-production XXY. The film –directed by 30 year old Lucía Puenzo– just won the Critic’s Week Grand Prix. In XXY Ines plays the lead role of a young hermaphrodite.Ines is the first Isola Cinema guest to arrive in town. On Saturday night June 2nd at 23:00 she’ll…
If ever a pirate approached me and offered me the chance to join a pirate crew, to travel choppy waters and cross steel with aquatic abominations I would probably eat that pirate’s liver. No I would never want to be a pirate! Some people asked me how I could be so shallow, especially if I have never tried such an adventurous career! I respond, by inviting them to sit down with me and watch Pirates 3. By the end of the movie, they are not only convinced to abandon their pursuit of the high seas, but are content on joining…
I went with a friend to see Shrek the Third, and there was this group of people that just would not stay quiet. They were so obnoxiously loud that I thought I was going to have to tell them something. Their laughter sounded like the shrill of million harpies, and their comments would make a monk lose his oath of silence. I exchanged glances of worry with my friend, in fear that the whole movie was about to be ruined by these adults (yes the kids were all quiet and well behaved). This, thankfully, was not an issue. The movie…
In honor of Asian/Pacific Islander American (APIA) Heritage Month, Women Make Movies is pleased to announce the eagerly awaited DVD release of two of our most successful titles: Grace Lee’s THE GRACE LEE PROJECT and Lisa Denker and Charlotte Lagarde’s HEART OF THE SEA: KAPOLIOKA’EHUKAI. THE GRACE LEE PROJECT opened to rave reviews in theatrical runs in New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago, and recently enjoyed its broadcast premiere on the Sundance Channel. HEART OF THE SEA: KAPOLIOKA’EHUKAI is the winner of the prestigious Audience Award on Independent Lens, public television’s Emmy Award-winning independent film series.“We are thrilled to be…
Cinema Without Borders announced today that Natasa Vukas Stanojkovski, a well known independent journalist from Croatia, has joined the publication as its Europe Event Editor and Reporter. Natasa will send her first reports from Cannes Film Festival 2007 for Cinema Without Borders.Since 1999 Natasha has worked at the national Croatian Television HRT in the informative Program. Within the Culture department she has broadcasted from all cultural major and independent Events in Croatia, produced reports on literature, drama, theater, arts and film. In the news and informative department she had also worked on the Pula film Festival, Motovun Film Festival, Berlinale,…
The agony of knowing what rests ahead, the fear that the wrong step is not so far away and neither is perdition. Black Book takes place in 1956 during the end of World War II and it brings to life the tragic and almost Shakespearean situation of a Dutch Jewish girl Rachel Steinn (Carice van Houten). It all commences when Rachel receives a visit from an old friend and thus after her departure she retreats to a lake near by where she remembers a time when warfare shattered her and almost took life away from her. It is now 1944…
The recently released film by Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright, Hot Fuzz, serves as their second installment of an apparent series of comedic parodies following their wildly popular zombie-horror flick Shaun of the Dead. Being an avid fan of Shaun of the Dead myself, I found Hot Fuzz to be just as comically satisfying as their previous endeavor. It focuses on presenting the action-packed adrenaline rush that is ubiquitous in most action films. More precisely, the film shines during its unrealistically epic gun-fight sequences—it’s ending in particular. Being a film focused on presenting intense visuals, creative elements such as symbolism…
(Los Angeles, May 8, 2007) – On May 7 The 2007 South East European Film Festival held its closing night screening of Harun Mehmedinovic’s AFI-produced short film, “In the name of the son”, followed by the Serbian feature, “Seven and a half” by Miroslav Momcilovic, at the beautiful 1920’s art deco theatre Fine Arts in Beverly Hills. Hosted by radio personality Hettie Lynne Hurtes, the evening’s guests included Gary McVey, executive director of the American Cinema Foundation and Bijan Tehrani, editor-in-chief of the Cinema Without Borders film magazine. They spoke about the importance of the festival and its growing impact…
Spider-Man 3 is as stated in the title, the third film of the franchise. The film begins by reacquainting the audience with Peter Parker and his alter ego Spider-Man. This time everything in Spidey’s life is nearly perfect, but leave it up to the villains to turn his life upside down. This film introduces three new villains Sandman, Venom, and a new Green Goblin, who all have one ultimate goal, to get rid of Spider-Man. As the film begins to progress the story becomes at time a mess, there are too many villains, to much plot and too many tears.…