Film Movement announces that UNDER THE BOMBS, about an expatriate returning to her native Lebanon in search of her son during the 2006 war, will be available on DVD beginning Tuesday, May 5th, 2009. All Film Movement releases include a short film—this month’s selection is Porn, from Poland. The DVDs will be available at Film Movement (www.filmmovement.com), and also through major retailers such as Blockbuster, Amazon, Netflix and at Passion River Films (www.passionriver.com).Synopsis of UNDER THE BOMBS: During a cease-fire in the Lebanon-Israel conflict of 2006, a Christian taxi driver brings an untraditional Shiite woman from Beirut to the heart…
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The 23rd annual Washington, DC International Film Festival (Filmfest DC) commences April 16 through April 26, bringing the best in new international cinema to the Nation’s Capital. The Festival features over 70 films from around the world including: World premieres, DC premieres, international headliners and award winners, Official Foreign Language Film Oscar Selections, and an assortment of films with topics unique to the Washington, D.C. region. The festival also boasts over 30 international guests set to present their films including many well known directors and producers. Since its inception in 1987, Filmfest DC has become one of Washington’s major cultural…
Two Cannes prizewinners, Paolo Sorrentino’s political drama “Il Divo” and Matteo Garrone’s mafia tale “Gomorrah,” topped the list of nominations for Italy’s David di Donatello Awards, to be presented May 8. “Il Divo,” which chronicles the career of seven-time Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti (played by Tony Servillo) and his ties to organized crime, was honored with 16 nominations, including best film, director, producer, actor, and screenplay. The film won the Special Jury Award at last year’s Cannes Film Festival. “Il Divo” and “Gomorrah” also competed for best film at the European Film Awards, where “Gomorrah” emerged victorious.”Gomorrah,” which IFC…
Regent Releasing has opened THE SONG OF SPARROWS, the new film from Iranian master Majid Majidi, director of Best Foreign Language Oscar nominee CHILDREN OF HEAVEN, as well as THE COLOR OF PARADISE and BARAN today, Friday, April 10 at Laemmle’s Music Hall in Beverly Hills and Laemmle’s Town Center 5 in Encino. Winner of the Silver Bear for Best Actor at the Berlin International Film Festival and Iran’s selection for Best Foreign Language Film for the 2008 Academy Awards, Majidi’s luminous and humorous tale of morality and redemption was initially opened on Friday, April 3 in New York at…
44th Karlovy Vary International Film festival’s Forum of Independents pays tribute to one of the most idiosyncratic auteurs working today, the American writer-director Alan Rudolph, a protégé of Robert Altman. Always attracting top actors, Rudolph’s visual style offers a sort of rapturous expressionism, projecting the characters’ romantic idealism onto the external world through non-realistic lighting, the banishing of context and wonderfully apropos mood music from the likes of Leonard Cohen, Teddy Pendergast, Marianne Faithfull and Alberta Hunter. Remember My Name (1978), his second feature, is a real rarity, never released on VHS or DVD. Updating the classic woman’s melodrama, it…
New York – The Museum of Modern Art presents Kino! at Thirty: New Cinema from Germany, the Museum’s 30th annual survey of recent German cinema, from April 22 through 30, 2009. Over the last three decades, MoMA has celebrated new cinema from Germany with an annual presentation of contemporary fiction features, documentaries, student works, and animated films. This year’s selection opens with Germany ’09, a compilation of short films organized by esteemed German director Tom Tykwer. For Germany ’09, which premiered at this year’s Berlin Film Festival, 12 leading filmmakers working in Germany today take a look into the country’s…
The debut feature film from Director Florencia Manóvil is having its World Premiere at Method Fest in Los Angeles. Fiona’s Script centers around Fiona (played by Sonia Montejano), a writer who uses her art to escape from the pain of a break-up. However, the fantasy world she has created for herself doesn’t last long, as Fiona meets and falls for the charismatic ‘L’, who propels her toward the nowness and reality that she has been avoiding in her life. Owner of Mynah Films, Manóvil uses her work to give a voice to underrepresented groups, like women and the LGBT community.…
It took us 100 years to win two Oscars. Nevertheless its better to be late than never! We are finally proud of the Oscar Kudos being brought back home by our AR Rahman, Gulzar and Mr. Pookutty.And, Yes! Yipee! Hurrah! Champagne, anyone? No one? This is a historic moment. This is history being written as you read. This is us, contained as footnotes in a grander scheme of things. Today is a day to be remembered. This is a day of pride for all of us Indians. After all, a British film took the Oscars home. By an old industry…
“Slumdog Millionaire” has won 8 Oscars, Best Cinematography (Anthony Dod Mantle), Best Directing (Danny Boyle), Best Editing (Chris Dickens), Best Music (A.R. Rahman), Best Sound Editing (Glenn Freemantle and Tom Sayers), Best Sound Mixing (Ian Tapp, Richard Pryke and Resul Pookutty), Best adapted Screenplay (Simon Beaufoy) and the Best Motion Picture.It was earlier this year when we had the opportunity to watch Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire, and it impressed to the core. This has got to be one of the best films we’ve seen in the last couple of years or so that takes Indian themes and styles and takes…
This Sunday, the 81st annual Academy Awards ceremony will be held at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood. Cinema Without Borders will be ready to report the international cinema related Oscar news. (Please check The Notebook section for interviews with five directors of the movies nominated for the Best Foreign Language movie award)The five nominees for the Best Foreign Language film of 2009 are “The Baader Meinhof Complex” A Constantin Film Production, Germany, “The Class” (Sony Pictures Classics), A Haut et Court Production, France, “Departures” (Regent Releasing), A Departures Film Partners Production, Japan, “Revanche” (Janus Films), A Prisma Film/Fernseh Production, Austria,…