Tex box The Film Society of Lincoln Center will host actors, directors, journalists and a judge this August as three of its ongoing programs present four films, mixing political dramas with inventive coming-of-age tales.The editors of Film Comment magazine bookend the month of August with the New York theatrical premieres of two little-seen gems, beginning with the Film Comment Selects screening of Stephen Frears’s “The Deal” (UK, 2005; 90m), Wednesday, Aug. 6, at 8:00 p.m. Frears and writer Peter Morgan’s prequel to “The Queen,” the film traces the devolution in the relationship between the old-fashioned and hard-nosed Gordon Brown (David…
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What a refreshing comic experience…you must see Kung Fu Panda. It has been a long time since I have been to an animated feature that was so much fun. The IMAX film experience was gorgeous. If you see the film this is the way to see it. Jack Black is brilliant as Po the overweight not ready for prime time kung fu master. The story is what makes this movie sing. Dustin Hoffman as the voice of Master Shifu was a much unexpected performance. I loved him. Considering he is playing against type, I was very impressed. Angelina Jolie, Lucy…
As a writer for Cinema Without Borders, I wanted to write about these current negotiations between unions and producers & studios. I found a SAG actor who wrote his own letter and decided what he said was something rarely published but needs to be said. This is a letter from SAG union member Tony Stengel. After you read the article please feel free to comment…thanks so much…Akiko AshleyBefore you get the idea that I am just writing to bash SAG, because I am going to a little bit. You need to know that I am a BIG supporter of the…
Tofu, The Vegan Zombie “Zombie Dearest” is absolutely the cutest little family comedy. “Zombie Dearest” is the collaboration between two super talented people Creator William Vaughan and Lee Stringer; both are instructors at the Dave School. William Vaughan co-created the characters, co-wrote and produced. Lee Stinger co-wrote and directed. William and Lee put together a team of talented artists from the Dave School to bring Tofu’s world to life. The entire production design had a nice warm feeling for a zombie film. (Smile.) “Zombie Dearest” features a brilliant cast with voices from Billy West, Ellen Muth, April Warren, Bridget Crowley…
Banned 15 years ago because of governmental resistance in early post-Soviet Estonia, the original, uncensored version of “City Unplugged” is now available on DVD and downloads through the distributor IndiePix films . Directed by Ilkka Javilatury 1993, “City Unplugged” is set in Tallinn, 1991, shortly after Estonia separated from the Soviet Union, and squarely depicts the uneasy and chaotic times that faced the newly independent nation. The portrait of a country in flux is a reason many give for its eventual banning by the government. IndiePix President Bob Alexander expressed the importance of this release, noting, “ [its] a great…
An official selection at last years Cannes and Toronto Film festivals, “My Brother Is An Only Child” will be released on Friday, March 28th in New York, coupled with an April 4th release the following week in Los Angeles at Laemmle’s Royal Theatre. The film will then reach Pasadena on April 11th, before hitting more screens nationally. Directed by veteran Italian filmmaker Daniele Luchetti (“Its Happening Tomorrow”, “Il Portaborse”), “My Brother Is An Only Child” is set in a small Italian town during the 1960’s and 70’s. The film tells the story of two brothers who have divergent ideological principles…
After several years of planning, Madrid will finally serve up its newest entrée in the city’s tapas bar of international cultural events with the first edition of Filma Madrid, otherwise known as the Madrid International Film Festival, from March 28 through April 5. You may be one of those cineastes who feels the world hardly needs another film festival; there’s already more than 500 worldwide, catering to every manner of major and not-so-major features, shorts and videos. (Filma Madrid itself falls right between two of the granddaddies, Berlin and Cannes.) But this promising upstart appears to have the all private…
Kazakhstan’s official entry to the Academy Awards this year, the oscar nominated Genghis Kahn bio-pic, “Mongol”, directed by Sergei Bodrov, took home six Nika Awards on Friday, including an award for best film of the year.Mr. Bodrov, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Arif Aliyev, won the Nika for best director. “Mongol” also won awards for best cinematography, sound design, art direction, and costumes. Mongol beat out a slate of strong slate of Russian films nominated for best picture, including “Simple Things”, “Cargo 200”, “Traveling With Pets”, and “The Mermaid”.The other top awards of the night included best screenplay for…
The Oscar nominated animated feature, “Persepolis”, will be coming back to a select number of theaters in April, this time in English. Released by Sony Pictures Classics, the English version will reach 100 screens nationwide on April 11. Originally in French, the film by Iranian writer Marjane Satrapi, who also co-directed with Vincent Paronnaud, was released in December in a limited number of theaters. Satrapi and Paronnaud directed the English actors while the original French version was being completed. “Persepolis”, based on Satrapi’s internationally best selling autobiographical graphic novel, tells the story of a young girl growing up in Iran…
Lisa Jackson’s, The Greatest Silence: Rape In The Congo, which won the Sundance Special Jury Prize, began its world tour on the opening night of the One World Human Rights Documentary Film Festival in Prague. It is being reported that the film, produced in association with HBO Documentary Films and the Fledgling Fund, played to a packed, standing-room-only audience for both its screenings.After seeing the film, the director of the One World festival, Igor BlaževiÄ, began a donation fund to assist the women of the DRC. The festival’s organizer, People in Need, then announced that it is donating $10,000 to…