The Kid With A Bike (Le Gamin au Velo) is a Belgian coming of age film written and directed by the Belgian brothers; Jean-PIerre and Luc Dardebbe, originally played at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival winning the Grand Jury Prize award and a nominee for Best Foreign Language Film at the 2012 Golden Globes. The film unfolds with Cyril Catoul (Thomas Doret) an 11 year old boy who is living at a Children’s home due to the abandonment of his deadbeat father and sole caretaker. Despite his father’s rejection and total dismissal Cyril’s holds on to the idea that his…
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The Secret World of Arrietty (Kari- gurashi no Arietti) is the seventeenth Japanese animated film produced by Studio Ghibli, directed by Hiromasa Yonebayashi and written by Hayao Miyazaki and Keiko Niwa. Other proclaimed films produced by Studio Ghilbi include Howl’s Moving Castle, Spirited Away, Kiki’s Delivery Service and My Neighbor Totoro. The Secret World of Arrietty was originally released in Japan on July 17, 2010, making it the highest grossing movie of that year. The American dub was produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and released for the North American audience on February 17 2012. The film is based on…
Last week we had the opportunity to speak with Ken Muche, Director of Public Relations for Verizon Wireless in Southern California, about what Verizon is offering in terms of 4G Wireless networking and WiFi. Cinema Without Borders: The last time we spoke was about a year and a half ago and a lot can happen in that span. What’s new for Verizon in media and entertainment?Ken Muche: Well since we last spoke, we have expanded our 4G LTE network immensely. It is important to remember that our 4G network is ten times faster than our 3G network, so that really…
Tonight The Shore directed by Terry George won an OSCAR for the Best Live Action Short film Oscar. earlier this month, we asked Terry George about the chances of The Shore to win an Oscar: “Well I guess we have a 1 in 5 chance, you don’t really know. In terms of my future work, I have been nominated twice before, and it helps to get your name out there, it all helps. The thing with “The Shore” for me is that I am able to show a beautiful part of Ireland to the rest of the world and that…
Academy Awards announced the five nominees for the Best Foreign language Film Award. The five nominees are: A Separation (Iran), Bullhead (Belgium), Footnote (Israel), In Darkness (Poland), and Monsieur Lazhar (Canada). Cinema Without Borders’ visitors, could go to our Home Page and vote for the film that they believe will win the Best Foreign Language Award Film.A Separation (Jodaeiye Nader az Simin) Iran, directed by Asghar Farhadi, (Also Asghar Farhadi is nominated for the Best Original Screenplay for A Separation): When bank employee Nader refuses to emigrate, his wife Simin sues for divorce, citing better opportunities for their daughter outside…
Tonight A Separation, a film by Asghar Farhadi, won the Golden Globe Award for the Best Foreign Language Film Award. Other nominees in this category were The Flowers of War (China), In The Land of Blood and Honey (USA), The Kid with a Bike (Belgium) and The Skin I Live In (Spain). During last month Cinema Without Borders voted to tell us what film may win the award for the Best Foreign Language Film Award at Golden Globe Awards , and their top choice, A separation, proved to be the right one. Set in contemporary Iran, A Separation is a…
Palm Springs – January 15, 2012— Today, Palm Springs International Film Festival named Terraferma as the winner of Cinema Without Borders’ Bridging the Borders Award. Le Havre, from Finland, took home runner-up honors. Emanuele Crialese, director of the Terraferma , the winner of the 2012 Cinema Without Borders’ Bridging the Borders Award, receives an HP EliteBook 8560w Mobile Workstation with a built-in HP DreamColor display, valued at approximately $4000. The prize was provided by HP. This year’s nominees for the award were Almania (Germany), Le Havre (Finland), Monsieur Lazhar (Canada), Morgen (Romania ), and Terraferma (Italy). The award luncheon for…
Burbank, CA – January 10, 2012: Today, Cinema Without Borders has announced the five nominees for its Bridging The Borders Award at 2012 Palm Springs International Film Festival. The Bridging The Borders Award at the 2012 Palm Springs International Film Festival will be given to the most successful film in bringing the people of our world closer together. The five nominees for the Cinema Without Borders Bridging The Borders Award are: Almania (Germany), Le Havre (Finland), Monsieur Lazhar (Canada), Morgan (Romania ), and Terraferma (Italy). The Bridging The Borders Award winning film will be announced on Sunday, January 15th, at the…
Happy Holidays, film fans! Cinema Without Borders has put together a list of our Top Ten Products of 2011. We encountered many of these technological treats in our tests, as well as in personal use, and would like to share our joy with CWB loyalists. Who knows, you might just find the perfect Christmas gift for a friend—or yourself! Without further ado, here are our top ten products of the year for 2011! (In alphabetical order) 1. Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 Master Collection CS 5.5 is a complete package for post production. Users can access professional video editing in Premiere,…
For six years now, I’ve used a mobile device for my video and film watching life. I love watching movies to death, and I’ll spend a great deal of time with my iPad in café or restaurant, streaming video to no end. But my main problem has always been the weak reception of my 3G; it’s clear that 3G isn’t your best option for playing smooth, high quality video. Therefore I went after personal Wi-Fi devices. My first few tries ended up with failure—some units I tried weren’t much better than my iPad’s 3G. My next test came when a…