Author: CWB News Department

The Consul General of Belgium, Ambassador Rudi Veestraeten presents the screening of BEYOND THE WALLS as part of their monthly “GRIT AND WHIMSY: THE BEST OF RECENT BELGIAN CINEMA” series. This film will be screened on Wednesday, July 17th, 2013 at 7:30 pm at the Aero Theatre 1328 Montana Ave, Santa Monica, CA 90403. BEYOND THE WALLS (Hors Les Murs)2012, 120 min, Frakas Productions. Dir: David LambertYoung pianist Paulo (Matila Malliarakis) is living, not entirely happily, with his girlfriend when he’s smitten with an Albanian bass player, Ilir (Guillaume Gouix). He moves in with the man, but on the day Paulo…

Berberian Sound Studio by British writer/director Peter Strickland, is an eerie, atmospheric homage to the Italian giallo films of the 1970s. Giallo films, or “spaghetti thrillers” are a unique blend of experimental art and sleazy exploitation, featuring soundtracks from some of Italy’s most sophisticated, boundary pushing composers. Strickland is a soundtrack buff and experimental musician himself, and with Berberian, he initiates us into this weird little world of audiophilia that might otherwise have gone uncelebrated. Toby Jones plays Gilderoy, a timid, introverted sound engineer, who arrives from England to record and mix the audio for ‘The Equestrian Vortex’—a supernatural, torture-laden…

KINO CROATIA: NEW FILMS 
June 21 – 23, 2013, at the Egyptian and Aero Theatres. 
Presented in collaboration with Consulate General of the Republic of Croatia in Los Angeles, Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs, HAVC – Croatian Audiovisual Center, Ministry of Culture; with support from E.L.M.A. (European Languages and Movies in America) and Croatian National Association. Produced by Matko Brljević Malinger.The first “live pictures” in Croatia were shown on October 8, 1896, just ten months after the art of cinema was born in Paris. The venue was a small theatre hall in the building that is now home to…

The Consul General of Belgium, Ambassador Rudi Veestraeten presents the screening of THE FIFTH SEASON as part of their monthly “GRIT AND WHIMSY: THE BEST OF RECENT BELGIAN CINEMA” series. This film will be screened on Wednesday, June 19th, 2013 at 7:30 pm at the Aero Theatre 1328 Montana Ave, Santa Monica, CA 90403. THE FIFTH SEASON (La Cinquième Saison)2012, 93 min, Bo Films. Dir: Peter Brosens and Jessica WoodworthA mysterious calamity strikes: spring refuses to come. The cycle of nature is capsized. Alice and Thomas, two teenagers living in a Belgian village deep in the Ardennes forest, struggle to…

The 7th Annual Los Angeles Greek Film Festival, in it’s new home at The WGA Theatre, announced this year’s theme: WE STAND ALONE: NEW GREEK CINEMA. The festival runs from June 6-9, at The WGA Theatre and Real D Screening Rooms in Beverly Hills.”We stand on the threshold of universal change. Greeks are among the reluctant players of this wave, just as they have often been in the past when the turning forces destroyed traditions, broke down customs, and brought about new institutions and ideas. But those who are caught in the torrents of the times are called to step…

Created and produced by Jean Marie Boursicot for more than 30 years, the world renowned international advertising cinema festival, The Night of the Ad Eaters®, featuring the world’s best, creative and jaw-dropping commercials on the big screen from amongst 60 different nationalities, premieres in Los Angeles on May 31, 2013, 7:30pm, at the American Cinematheque’s Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood. A special three-hour edition of the international advertising cinema festival will be showcased at the Egyptian Theatre for one night only, featuring hundreds of amazing, entertaining commercials from 40 countries. The Los Angeles program will include: ‘Singing America’ (popular songs in…

Cannes Film Festival 2013 has announced awrad winners. The Palme d’or has gone to La Vie d’Adèle – Chapitre 1 & 2 by Abdellatif Kechiche. The President of the Jury, Steven Spielberg, explained that “The Jury took note of the excellence of three artists: Adèle Exarchopoulos, Léa Seydoux et Abdellatif Kechiche.”After receiving his award from American actress Uma Thurman, the winner, accompanied by his two actresses, declared: “I want to remind everyone of a man who helped me find my way, who I love and who I miss: Claude Berri. I want to dedicate this prize and this film to…

The 2013 Un Certain Regard prizes were handed out by Thomas Vinterberg’s jury this evening in Cannes. Cambodian director Rithy Panh won the top award for his first-person story The Missing Picture. The Jury Prize was given to the well-liked Omar by Oscar nominee Hany Abu-Assad. Alain Guiraudie won the Directing Prize for the controversial but acclaimed erotic thriller Stranger By The Lake which Strand Releasing picked up this week. The Un Certain Talent award was given to the ensemble of actors from Spanish director Diego Quemada-Diez’ The Golden Cage. And Ryan Coogler’s Fruitvale Station was honored with the Prize…

The room was packed for the press conference for Roman Polanski’s Venus in Fur. The director was accompanied by Emmanuelle Seigner and Mathieu Amalric, by David Ives, the author of the original play, Alexandre Desplat, composer, Pawel Edelman, director of photography, and the producers Robert Benmussa, Alain Sarde and Mariusz Lukomski. Selected extracts below. Roman Polanski, on the fact that the film echoes his work: “I didn’t realise it, but when people started saying it, I saw that in fact there are quite a few similarities.”Roman Polanski and Mathieu Amalric, on their favourite part of the film: “Roman Polanski :…

An emblematic victim of artistic repression in Iran, Mohammad Rasoulof was arested at the same as Jafar Panahi. Dast-Neveshtehaa Nemisoosand, which has come to the Festival secretly, portrays a serial killer. Mohammad Rasoulof returns to Un Certain Regard, two years after Bé Omid Didar (Goodbye), for which he received the Best Director Award. The film was brought to the Festival de Cannes secretly, at the same time as Jafar Panahi’s In film nist (This is Not a Film) (presented in a Special Screening), but the two Iranian filmmakers were unable to come to Cannes.Suspected of preparing a film expressing anti-government…