The UCLA Film & Television Archive, in collaboration with Luce Cinecitta’ and the American Cinematheque, have launched “Pure and Impure: The Films of Pier Paolo Pasolini.” Hosted by the Billy Wilder Theatre in Westwood and by the Aero Theatre in Santa Monica in the months of August and September 2013, the retrospective celebrates one of the most outstanding and controversial filmmakers in post-war Europe through screenings of his films and documentaries. In conjunction with the retrospective, the Italian Cultural Institute in Los Angeles is hosting “Pasolini’s East in Roberto Villa’s photographs.” With a collection of 100 images, the exhibition explores…
Author: CWB News Department
CWB News Department
CWB News Department, collects and republishes most important news and stories about International and Independent cinema, by noting the original source of the articles
Cinema Without Borders and Hollywood Brazilian Film Festival present North America premier of BREATH 73 in a free screening. Please come and join us at the Egyptian Theatre, located at 6712 Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles, 90028. Screening Times:Thursday Aug. 1st at 6:30 PMSaturday Aug. 3rd at 5:00 PMBREATH 73’ – North-America Premiere Life never changes in a small rural village in Brazil, surrounded by mountains, isolated from the world and immersed in silence. The existence of human beings here is in total symbiosis with nature, reduced to the bare necessities. Births and deaths punctuate the slow passage of time. A…
The Hollywood Brazilian Film Festival (HBRFest), which annually presents the best in new Brazilian independent cinema, celebrates its fifth anniversary with the 2013 edition offering more than 30 Los Angeles premieres showcasing fiction, documentaries and shorts of artistic merit, fresh from the international festival circuit, from July 31 through August 4, at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood. All screenings are free of charge, except Opening Gala and Closing Night. Dedicated to addressing the cultural and commercial exchange between Hollywood, the world film industry and the Brazilian film community, HBRFest will feature Portugal as Guest Country and will also present a…
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…