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…
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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…
Park City, UT — Sundance Institute announced today the films selected to screen in the 2012 Sundance Film Festival out-of-competition sections Spotlight, Park City at Midnight, NEXT <=> and New Frontier. The Festival takes place from January 19 through 29 in Park City, Salt Lake City, Ogden and Sundance, Utah. The complete list of films is available at www.sundance.org/festival.Trevor Groth, Director of Programming for the Sundance Film Festival, said, “In many ways, the extremes of the Festival’s program are most readily apparent in our out-of-competition sections, which showcase the wildest comedies, the most terrifying horror films and uncompromised visions from…
New York, NY – The winners of the 2nd annual edition of the Cinema Tropical AWARDS presented by Cinelatino and Dish LATINO, were unveiled this evening at a special event at The New York Times’ 15th Floor Conference Center. Peruvian film Octubre / October by Daniel and Diego Vega was the winner of the award for Best Feature Film of the Year, whilst Chilean film Nostalgia de la luz / Nostalgia for the Light by Patricio Guzmán was named Best Documentary Film. Mexican film El lugar más pequeño / The Tiniest Place by Tatiana Huezo won two awards for Best…
The Hindu: “Arab Cinema,” a package comprising eight films reflecting the present popular uprisings for democracy in the Arab world, will be one of the highlights of the 16th International Film Festival of Kerala (IFFK) which will commence in the city on December 9.Widely acclaimed Egyptian film Tahrir 2011: The Good The Bad and The Politician, a joint venture of directors Aten Amin, Tamer Ezzat, and Amr Salama, is among the films included in this section. The movie, which has been divided into three sections, portrays the surge and suppression of popular revolt under the regime of former president and…
New York – Women Make Movies (WMM), the distributor of films by women and about women, announces that HBO will air the broadcast premiere of the award-winning PINK SARIS, the new film by internationally acclaimed and Sundance award winning director, Kim Longinotto. The film will air on HBO2 on Wednesday, November 30, at 8 pm EST. “A girl’s life is cruel…A woman’s life is very cruel,” notes Sampat Pal, the complex protagonist at the center of PINK SARIS, internationally acclaimed director Kim Longinotto’s latest foray into the lives of extraordinary women. Sampat should know – like many others she was…
Featuring PIERRE ÉTAIX in person and screenings of LE GRAND AMOUR and his Oscar-winning short HEUREUX ANNIVERSAIRE. Hosted by Leonard MaltinThe delightful films of Pierre Étaix, a classic French comedian influenced by Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin, have been largely unseen for over 20 years.Copyright entanglements have long kept Pierre Étaix’s work out of the public eye. Happily, these films have recently been restored and re-released in France. Now, following his stateside appearance at the 2011 Telluride Film Festival, the Academy welcomes Étaix to Los Angeles. After a conversation with the comedian, newly restored prints of his Oscar-winning short “Heureux…
The annual celebration of Italian cinema, Cinema Italian Style, will open this year with Italy’s official Oscar submission for Best Foreign-Language Film, Emanuele Crialese’s topical drama TERRAFERMA. Following is an array of Italy’s best films, with an emphasis on the country’s strong year for comedies: Nanni Moretti’s papal crowdpleaser WE HAVE A POPE, starring Michel Piccoli as an insecure cardinal; Paulo Genovese’s THE IMMATURE, an ensemble comedy about a long-overdue reunion of a group of former best friends; Gianni Di Gregorio’s THE SALT OF LIFE, in which an aging married man dabbles in the possibility of being a cradle robber;…
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…