Scandinavian Film Festival L.A. (SFFLA) is a yearly showcase of films from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden. The purposely non-competitive festival constitues an “annual residency of Nordic film in the film capital of the world” giving Los Angeles audiences an opportunity to immerse themselves in the representative “best” of Nordic film making in any given year. In the Los Angeles winter “film season” build up to many awards including the Academy Awards, the festival pivots around screenings of “Oscar” submissions and current feature films along with selected shorts and documentaries.The thirteenth annual Scandinavian Film Festival L.A. continues in the…
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Alex Stapleton’s directorial debut, Corman’s World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel, is a docu-tribute to legendary filmmaker Roger Corman. With an insatiable passion for her subject, Stapleton aims to get at the heart, soul, and raging psyche of Corman and his cinematic underworld. And while we get to know the what of Cormanʼs world—the films, the business, the legacy—it’s the who of Cormanʼs world that holds primacy. Those who do not recognize the name Roger Corman have likely come to know him indirectly, as the Corman stamp is now all over the Hollywood milieu. As a director/producer/screenwriter and sometimes actor,…
Burbank, California – January 5, 2012: Director Renny Harlin Slated to Receive Cinema Without Borders “Bridging the Borders Award” at Scandinavian Film Festival L.A. Renny Harlin, the Finnish director who became the quintessential American success story through his work in Hollywood, will receive the Cinema Without Borders “Bridging the Borders Award” for his film ” 5 Days of War.” The Award will be presented at the 13th Annual Scandinavian Film Festival L.A. on Sunday January 8 in conjunction with a special 3:00 p.m. screening of the film with Harlin “on deck” for honors and for Q & A. There will…
Scandinavian Film Festival L.A. (SFFLA) is a yearly showcase of films from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden. The purposely non-competitive festival constitues an “annual residency of Nordic film in the film capital of the world” giving Los Angeles audiences an opportunity to immerse themselves in the representative “best” of Nordic film making in any given year. In the Los Angeles winter “film season” build up to many awards including the Academy Awards, the festival pivots around screenings of “Oscar” submissions and current feature films along with selected shorts and documentaries.The thirteenth annual Scandinavian Film Festival L.A. comes to the…
The 13th SCANDINAVIAN FILM FESTIVAL L.A. (SFFLA) offers a smorgasbord of Nordic cinema at the Writers Guild Theater (135 S. Doheny/at Wilshire) in Beverly Hills January 7, 8, 14, 15. The program focuses on the five Nordic Oscar submissions in the context of additional current feature films, shorts and documentaries from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden. The annual immersion course in Nordic film is part of the crescendo of film activity leading up to Academy Award nominations and the Awards themselves.Opening day, Saturday Jan 7 begins with Finnish Director Juha Wuolijokiʼs feature film “Christmas Story.” Itʼs a film for…
Foreign films clearly dominated the Golden Globe nominations this year! In addition to six nominations for “The Artist”, the best Foreign Language Film nominees included movies that were filmed all over the world: from China, to Belgium, to Iran, to Spain, and lastly, to the United States. 1. The Flowers of War (China): China’s most expensive film, adapted from a novel by Geling Yan, a bloody blockbuster about the Japanese army’s massacre of civilians in Nanjing. The film stars Christian Bale as an American mortician who tries to save Chinese women and children from rape and murder during the rampage…
The story of the people who marched in the biggest protest in history is to be told for the first time in a feature-length documentary. On 15 February 2003, up to 30 million people in up to 800 cities across the globe marched against the impending invasion of Iraq. The day was described by novelist Arundhati Roy as the “most spectacular display of public morality ever”. Amir Amirani’s film places the testimony of ordinary people who marched alongside that of international celebrities who put their weight behind the movement. It presents the voices of those who orchestrated the protest, and…
Over the past two decades, Belgian cinema, be it from Flanders or from the French speaking part of the country, has risen to prominence in the international filmmaking arena, boasting richly diverse films that consistently garner critical praise and worldwide anticipation. From the unsettling but still urgently relevant MAN BITES DOG which rocked the Cannes Film Festival in 1992 and the quirky and vibrant tale of identity mix-up in TOTO THE HERO, to the monumental saga of DAENS or the Oscar nominated EVERYBODY FAMOUS, the outstanding thrillers MEMORY OF A KILLER and DOSSIER K, and the string of critically-lauded dramatic…
The Italian Cultural Institute of Los Angeles and LAND (Los Angeles Nomadic Division) announced DEPOSITO exhibition that will be held from December 7, 2011 to February 2, 2012 at the Italian Cultural Institute, 1023 Hilgard Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90024. DEPOSITO will feature a selection of work from Galleria del Deposito (1963 – 1969), which was the exhibition space for the Gruppo Cooperativo di Boccadasse, an artist collective founded by Eugenio Carmi and Carlo Fedeli in Genoa. The cooperative consisted of internationally acclaimed artists such as Getulio Alviani, Max Bill, Eugenio Carmi, Lucio Fontana, Jesus Rafael Soto, and Victor Vasarely,…
More than 2,500 members of the European Film Academy – filmmakers from across Europe – have voted for this year’s European Film Awards. At the awards ceremony in Berlin the following awards were presented: EUROPEAN FILM 2011:MELANCHOLIA, Denmark, Sweden, France and Germany WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY: Lars von Trier, produced BY: Meta Louise Foldager & Louise Vesth. EUROPEAN DIRECTOR 2011:Susanne Bier for HÆVNEN (In a Better World) EUROPEAN ACTRESS 2011:Tilda Swinton in WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN EUROPEAN ACTOR 2011:Colin Firth in THE KING’S SPEECH EUROPEAN SCREENWRITER 2011:Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne for LE GAMIN AU VELO (The Kid with…