Museum of Modern Arts, New York has announced their September screening schedule.Monday, September 7: 4:00 Romeo + Juliet 1996. USA. Directed by Baz Luhrmann. With Leonardo DiCaprio, Claire Danes. This time, the star-crossed lovers find themselves in the midst of a gangland battle when the rival Capulets and Montagues face off. Luhrmann remained faithful to Shakespeare’s language, but he updated the setting to modern-day “Verona Beach” and included a soundtrack replete with classic rock, punk, and opera. 120 min. Part of the Recent Film Acquisitions: Continuum film exhibition4:30 Amarcord 1973. Italy/France. Directed by Federico Fellini. Screenplay by Fellini, Tonino Guerra.…
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The Royal Flush Festival, formerly known as the Evil City Film Fest, announces its lineup of independent films, music videos, live music performances, and underground art openings taking place October 15th-18th at Anthology Film Archives and other venues throughout New York. Named after Royal Flush Magazine, a nationally-distributed killer rag that celebrates underground music, art, video games, pop-culture and indie movies with a strict, no-fluff stance, the Royal Flush Festival has more value than any other film festival in New York while doing so at a fraction of the cost. During the festival, Royal Flush Magazine will reveal its 2009…
Vicious Circle, a film by Paul Boyd will be screened tonight, Friday August 21th, at Los Angeles Downtown Film Festival.Set in the streets of Venice Beach (with a brief U-turn downtown LA!), this punk rock tale follows teenage skater-artist R.J. (Paul Rodriguez, Jr.) on the run for his life after a shocking tragic murder pits him against a vengeful gangbanger, the cops and the sins of a father currently incarcerated for gun dealing. Director Paul Boyd manages to keep the pace fast and loose while delivering an intricately woven non-linear narrative structure. The film is occasionally punctuated with animated flashes…
The Downtown Film Festival—Los Angeles (DFFLA)announces a night of experimental film and performance on Sunday August 16 at the AT&T; Center. Curated by Noel Lawrence, “City of Angles” surveys recent audiovisual work from and about the city of Los Angeles and its relation to Hollywood mythologies. The show includes a special film screening, a program of expanded cinema and live performance, as well as a gallery in the Cinema Lounge that will be open throughout the festival. The night kicks off at 5:00 pm with Deborah Stratman’s O’er The Land which premiered at Sundance 2009. A meditation on freedom and…
Born on the 6th of March, 1984 in Singapore, Edmund Yeo did a one-year postgraduate course in film production at Murdoch University, Perth in 2006. He joined Woo Ming Jin’s Greenlight Pictures in 2007 and became involved in numerous productions as producer and editor. Notable productions include telemovie Days of the Turquoise Sky (2008) and the short film, Blue Roof (2007). He was also the associate producer of the award-winning feature film THE ELEPHANT AND THE SEA (2007). His latest collaboration with Woo Ming Jin as producer/editor is WOMAN ON FIRE LOOKS FOR WATER (2009).He started writing and directing his…
Film Independent, the non-profit arts organization that produces the Spirit Awards and the Los Angeles Film Festival, announced today that the 2010 Spirit Awards will be held on Friday, March 5, 2010, and will air live and uncut at 8:00 p.m. PST/11:00 p.m. EST on IFC (Independent Film Channel). The nominations press conference will take place on Tuesday, December 1. This year’s celebration marks the 25th Anniversary of the Spirit Awards, which honors films made by filmmakers, who embody independence and who dare to challenge the status quo. To celebrate the milestone, Film Independent and IFC will be broadcasting the…
The Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53rd Street, New York, NY 10019, as part of the Recent Film Acquisitions: Continuum film exhibition has planned the following screenings:Monday August 10 4 PM- The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Le Scaphandre et le papillon ) 2007. France/USA. Directed by Julian Schnabel. With Mathieu Amalric. The true story of French Elle editor Jean-Dominique Bauby, who suffered from a rare neurological disease called locked-in syndrome, which leaves his body paralyzed but his mind completely unaffected. In French; English subtitles. 112 min. 7 PM Little Children 2006. USA. Directed by Todd Field. With Kate…
The Baader Meinhof Complex opens in LA on August 28. The Baader Meinhof Complexhappens in Germany in the 1970s: Murderous bomb attacks, the threat of terrorism and the fear of the enemy inside are rocking the very foundations of the yet fragile German democracy. The radicalised children of the Nazi generation lead by Andreas Baader, Ulrike Meinhof and Gudrun Ensslin are fighting a violent war against what they perceive as the new face of fascism: American imperialism supported by the German establishment, many of whom have a Nazi past. Their aim is to create a more human society but by…
Doha Tribeca Film Festival (DTFF) today announced key members of the team that will head up the inaugural 2009 Festival. Amanda Palmer, head of entertainment for Al Jazeera English, has been named DTFF Executive Director. Palmer will lead the Festival and work with a team from Tribeca that includes Geoffrey Gilmore, Chief Creative Officer of Tribeca Enterprises, to shape the program. Locally the team will include Arab documentary and short films expert Mohamed Maklouf, serving as the festival’s Regional Programs Advisor, and award-winning Palestinian filmmaker Scandar Copti serving as Community Outreach Programmer. Doha Tribeca Film Festival will run October 29…
WMM has announced the release of MRS. GOUNDO’S DAUGHTER from Barbara Attie and Janet Goldwater, which had its world premiere at Silverdocs last month, followed by a screening at the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival. Threatened with deportation, Mrs. Goundo must convince an immigration judge that her two-year-old daughter is in danger: if returned to her family’s native country of Mali, she will be forced to undergo female genital mutilation (FGM). Mrs. Goundo is fighting to remain in the United States. But it’s not just because of the ethnic conflict and drought that has plagued her native Mali. Threatened…