For many filmmakers, the world’s most visited museum has served as a prominent location, used for its physical presence and for its psychological, cultural, and historical connotation. This is the theme of an upcoming American Cinematheque program, “The Louvre Cinema”, playing at the Aero Theater in Santa Monica California from April 10th through the 11th. “Band of Outsiders”, Jean-Luc Godard’s 1964 offbeat slapstick about three blundering thieves, who, during their jaunting, have a running visit to the Louvre, will be the first of a double feature on April 11th. Jean-Paul Salome’s “Belphegor, Lefantome Du Louvre”(“Ghosts Of The Louvre”), a 2001…
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Sergej Stanojkovski’s 2005 film, Kontakt is now playing in selected theaters in Germany. Kontakt a tragicomedy about two social rejects finding love in post-war Macedonia, has reached German cinemas this week. The film was first screened in 2005, and has since gone on to receive international recognition at several film festivals across the globe. In 2007 “Kontakt” was Macedonia’s official entry in the Academy Awards. Mr. Stanojkovski, an alumnus of FAMU, the world-renowned Prague based film school, co-wrote the screenplay for the film with Gordan Mihic. His previous work includes “Navena”, a 1996 short film he completed while in a…
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…
Starting next month, London will be the site of the 5th annual Romanian Film Festival < http://www.romanianculturalcentre.org.uk/filmfestival/index.html>, featuring a program dedicated to promoting the best of contemporary Romanian cinema. This year’s program is centered on the theme of Home and Away, and will feature both films were made in Romania and works by Romanian filmmakers who live abroad. Romanian cinema has recently seen a groundswell in critically acclaimed and internationally recognized films by Romanian auteurs, including Christian Mungiu’s “4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days” < http://cinemawithoutborders.com/news/126/ARTICLE/1475/2008-02-18.html>, which won the 2007 Palme d’Or at Cannes. Other Romanian filmmakers, including Christi…
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…
Eight short films that have been recognized at international film festivals in recent years will be available for the first time next month, when the Film Movement releases its Festivals Shorts Collection on DVD. The short films in the collection were internationally produced, and have been featured at prominent international film festivals, including Cannes, Toronto, and Vancouver. Most of the films included in the DVD collection are award winners, including “Mann Im Mond” (Man in the Moon), a German film by directors Chris Stenner and Avrid Uibel. The 1999 film, about a lonely man living on the moon, was awarded…
When it begins in early August in Los Angeles, the 2008 HollyShorts short film festival will open with “X”, a film written and directed by actor Josh Brolin (“No Country For Old Men, “American Gangster”).<br> A 15-minute film,“X” tells the story of an inmate who, after he escapes prison and becomes reunited with his daughter, searches for her murdered mother to exhume her body and give her a decent burial. The film has recently been shown at the South By Southwest Film Festival In Austin, Texas. “I’m honored that HollyShorts has chosen my directorial debut film X to open their…
Today the Tribeca Film Festival announced its slate of selected projects for its annual program, Tribeca All Access.In its fifth year, Tribeca All Access is designed to promote relationships between filmmakers in underrepresented communities and prominent executives in the film industry. Running for six days throughout the festival, the 2008 All Access program takes place from April 21 through April 26th, and will present 37 new projects, its largest showing to date. The Tribeca Film festival will run from April 23rd to May 4th.The 37 narrative and documentary filmmakers whose works were selected for the All Access program will be…
Beginning tomorrow, Mumbai, India, will play the host to 1500 Indian and 500 foreign delegates of the media and entertainment sector when the 2008 Frames convention begins. In its ninth year, the Frames convention , held by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI), is the largest global convention in Asia that deals with the Business of entertainment.The three-day convention will feature discussions and speeches by a number of big players in the global entertainment industry. The producer of the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy, Barrie Osborne, will give the keynote address on the theme of the…
In the years to come, Angola will lay the groundwork for a more prolific system of film production, says the country’s minister of culture, Bonaventura Cardoso. In an interview with Angola Press Mr. Cardoso states that the construction of a Cinema Campus will help spur the production and distribution of Angolan cinema. The Campus will be under construction from 2009 to 2013. Mr. Cardoso tells Angola Press, “A lot of things will change with the construction of the [Cinema Campus] and the image of cinema in Angola shall change completely. There is a need to have hope that we shall…