TEANECK — A contest this fall will give high school students the opportunity to make short films using their phones and learn township history through the eyes of an older resident. The three- to five-minute films will each feature an interview with an older Teaneck resident sharing a memory of living in the township. “The idea is kids can tell a story about what makes Teaneck a unique place to live, told through the stories of the people who have lived here,” said Jeremy Lentz, the director of the film festival. “We want to hear stories that are engaging from…
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Four Iranian films will go on screen at the 61st BFI London Film Festival, which will be held from October 4 to 15. “Israfil” by Ida Panahandeh has been selected for the Love Section while Abbas Kiarostami’s “24 Frames” will go on screen in the Create Section. “Israfil” tells the story of Behruz, who has returned to Iran after 20 years to sell his properties and meet his fiancée Sara for the first time. But attending the funeral of his friend’s son, reminds him of his painful past and lost love. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXli9FIk9zU “24 Frames” is Kiarostami’s last experimental movie, which…
Iranian cinema continues to draw large audiences at festivals, and Vahid Jalilvand’s second feature ‘No Date, No Signature’ (‘Bedoune Tarikh, Bedoune Emza’) was much applauded at its Venice Horizons bow. In the tradition of Asghar Farhadi’s ‘A Separation,’ its story zeroes in on the class conflict between the rich and the poor and plays, less than convincingly, on the guilt feelings of a powerful forensic pathologist who is involved in an accident that may or may not have caused a child’s death. Lensed with great sensitivity and style and superbly acted, it has one drawback for Western audiences in its…
Since 2009, Jody Kielbasa’s helped usher the Virginia Film Festival toward a rarefied space in the commonwealth’s culture. Few, if any, programs across the state could result in director Werner Herzog milling around a city’s downtown, stopping into a local bar for a bit of grub. After a stint at the helm of the Sarasota Film Festival and a few years running VFF, Kielbasa was appointed Vice Provost for the Arts at the University of Virginia in 2013. He recently took some time to answer a few questions about the cultural landscape of Charlottesville. Q: How do you think students…
Home » Entertainment » Lambadina: Award-winning Ethiopian-American film to debut in Addis Lambadina: Award-winning Ethiopian-American film to debut in AddisRahel Samuel September 1, 2017 Lambadina: Award-winning Ethiopian-American film to debut in Addis2017-09-01T08:11:23+00:00 Entertainment No Comment ShareTweetGooglePinit Lambadina (Photo credit: lambadinamovie.com) As a new generation of young people who were born abroad to Ethiopian parents comes of age, several voices have emerged to tell the story of their heritage through music, literature and film. The Texas-born, 29-year-old filmmaker Messay Getahun is a rising star among them, with his debut motion picture,Lambadina, making the rounds of film festivals across North America and…
September means summer is coming to a close, and with that we say “good riddance” to the dismal blockbuster season we had over the past few months. For moviegoers in Los Angeles, there’s still plenty ahead at our local repertory and indie movie theaters this month to make up for that. Here are the highlights of what’s coming up in September for cinephiles in L.A. The region-wide art initiative Pacific Standard Time returns for a third time to Southern California, this time focusing on Latin American and Latino art in dialogue with the city of Los Angeles. The whole series…
Twelve films are set to compete in the London festival’s Official Competition section for the Best Film Award, which is given to an inspiring, inventive and distinctive film. Running October 4-16, the festival will screen 242 films, from 67 countries, with 29 world premieres, 8 international premieres and 34 European premieres. Films in official Competition: 120 BPM (BEATS PER MINUTE) CREDITS Dir Robin CampilloProd Hugues Charbonneau, Marie-Ange LucianiScr Robin Campillo, Philippe MangeotWith Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Arnaud Valois, Adèle HaenelFrancePulsating with life and pounding with urgency, this rousing, heart-breaking celebration of political activism is nothing short of a modern queer…
It has some promising moments, but there is something forced, contrived and a bit cliched about this fey British indie in the road-movie style. Two teenage stepbrothers, Michael (Jack Parry-Jones) and Thor (Christy O’Donnell), set out from Shetland to Glasgow on a dual mission: Michael to confront his girlfriend, who is at uni and who he suspects is cheating on him, and Thor to find his estranged and remarried mum. On the way, they meet up with singer Caitlin. In this role, Tara Lee is landed with a frankly unconvincing manic-pixie-rock-chick role – a tough, street-smart character who is there…
The holiday season is right around the corner, which means now is a perfect time to snuggle up indoors and watch a few movies. And the Trump era also happens to be right around the corner, which makes now an excellent time to prepare oneself for what’s coming. Luckily, you can do both simultaneously. While President-elect Donald Trump is something new in American politics, his rise to power does have international precedents. Other countries have seen this movie before. And over the past few decades, brilliant filmmakers from around the world have produced films that reflect their own national brushes…
Palestine has picked Annemarie Jacir’s Wajib as its official contender for the 2018 Oscars in the foreign-language category. The film, which premiered in Locarno’s official competition, where it won three independent prizes, pairs father and son Mohammad Bakri and Saleh Bakri for the first time, teaming the celebrated Palestinian actors in a wry road movie comedy set amid wedding preparations in the run-up to Christmas in Nazareth. The Hollywood Reporter described Wajib as a “nicely low-key comedy-drama of fangled and community ties,” adding that it was “built foursquare around the charm and skill” of its co-leads and offered a “genial glimpse into a complex and…