The decision for the design of the trophy for the PREMIERE First Movie Award
has been made, selected from among 30 submissions. The winning design of the
competition, in which students from all of Germany's art colleges were invited
to participate, was created by Felix Winkler and Hendrik Schäfer. Both
have been studying Product Lay-Out at the Offenbach Art College since 1997.
The decisive factor for the jury of four's vote was the modern and complex approach
their submi...
The Panorama section of the 52nd Berlinale has now confirmed two thirds of
its Main Program, the Panorama Dokumente and the Panorama Special. With productions
selected from over 1500 films, 26 nations will be participating this year. France,
the USA, Germany and Japan are focal points. Eastern Europe, South America and
other countries in Asia are also well represented. In Panorama well known directors
as well as newcomers are presented.
Certain topics are in the air worldwi...
Teknolust, artist turned director Lynn Hershman-Leeson's second film, like
her first, Conceiving Ada, features Tilda Swinton, nifty digital effects,
and a prime place at Sundance. Screening in the American Showcase section, Teknolust,
however, multiplies the San Francisco-based director's interests. In the visually
dazzling, endearingly wacky film, Swinton, plays not only a brilliant yet daft
scientist but also the three glamorous clones of herself. They're color coded
wo...
Apocalypse Night:
Gojoe by Sogo Ishii (Japan)
Revelation by Stuart Urban (UK)
Trash Night:
Cubbyhouse by Murray Fahey (Australia)
Dagon by Stuart Gordon (Spain)
Special Screenings:
Avalon by Mamoru Oshii (Japan)
Jimmy Neutron : Boy Genius by John A.Davis (USA) ...
Kairo by Kiyoshi Kurosawa (2001)
12 Monkeysby Terry Gilliam (1995)
La Jetée by Chris Marker (1963)
The Sacrifice by Andreï Tarkovski (1986)
Mad Max 2 by George Miller (1982)
New York 1997 by John Carpenter (1981)
Starship Troopers by Paul Verhoeven (1997)
Terminator 2 by James Cameron (1990)
The Postman by Kevin Costner (1997)...
Feature Films Competition :
NORMAN JEWISON (director), President
CYRIELLE CLAIR (actress)
EMMA DE CAUNES (actress)
FRANCOISE FABIAN (actress)
PATRICK BRAOUDE (actor, director, writer)
BERNARD FARCY (actor)
CHRISTOPHE GANS (director)
ERIC LIBERGE (drawer, writer)
BENOIT MAGIMEL (actor)
GILBERT MELKI (actor)
GEORGES WOLINSKI (drawer, écrivain, journalist)
Shorts :
ANTOINE DULERY (actor),President
BERENICE BEJO (actress)
OLIVIA BONAMY (actress)
THOMAS DUTRONC (musician, actor)...
A LOUER de James L. Frachon (France) (13')
AVATARS de Ben Elia (France) (5')
DANS LES YEUX DU CHIEN MORT d’Emmanuel Bellegarde (France) (9’)
FLASH de François Bergeron (France) (8’50)
METAL SPIKE des Frères Poiraud (France) (6’)
NOMINA DOMINI d’Ivan Engler (Switzerland) (20')
R. MERTONENSIS de Nicolas Salis (France) (5')
STARING GIRL d’Alex et Nico (France) (3’)
TETE DE CHOU de Stéphane Secq (France) (15’)
LA TOILE de Michel Ler...
Arpad Sopsits's Torzok (Abandoned) is Hungary's Foreign Film submission
to the 2002 Oscars. Based on the director's youth, the film deals with the lives
of a bunch of juvenile boarders during the socialist regime. Director Arpad
Sopsits addresses issues of memory and redemption in this exclusive interview.
What's your background?
(Smiles) I really started out as a filmmaker in 1988/89. That's when I got
my first real opportunity to make films. So my career took a budding sta...
The temperature seems to have dropped a few degrees and a brief, snow’s
sprinkling over Park City. The morning sees the annual Queer Brunch, which is
bustling even though there’s not anything to match Hedwig and the Angry
Inch, the gay-themed hit of last years fest—though, like the aforementioned
film, Moises Kaufman’s HBO adaptation of The Laramie Project, the
opening night film, involved development support from the Sundance Institute.
There are, howev...
The talk around Park City is that Sundance is in a low-key mode.
The weather's mild, clear and crisp -- and though there are crowds hitting the
screening rooms, there are fewer films with big buzz and less frantic energy
surrounding the parties. Sure, people are talking, but their conversations are
geared to the socially aware, grass roots films like Blue Vinyl, Judith
Helfand and Daniel Gold's surprisingly entertaining documentary on the ecological
horrors of PVC or the ...
Two things are immediately apparent at this years 2002 Sundance Film Festival
-- the town appears more bustling; the arriving hoards of moviegoers seem especially eager to get into the theaters. There is an energy in the air that has been MIA [missing in action] over the past few years. Last night was opening night down in Salt Lake City where The Laramie Project opened the festival. The question everyone was asking was: "Where are all the stars?" While the premiere was 'star power' ...
Coinciding with this year's Sundance Film Festival is the usual smorgasbord
of other "dances." Festivals such as Slamdance Film Festival (which
was the first offshoot and has ten years later created its own footing on the
festival circuit), Slamdunk Film Festival, TromaDance Festival, X-Dance Festival,
Lost Film Fest, Nodance Film Festival, and Digidance Digital Cinema Festival
all add to the independent film 10-day bonanza taking place in Park City, Utah
starting January...
This is David Lynch's year to shine. Not only are the critics all over North
America raving about Mulholland Drive, which did not fare well at the
box office, but the "Twin Peaks" mystery maker has accepted the prestigious
role of President of the jury at the 2002 Festival de Cannes to be held from
May 15 - 26. Lynch is a regular at Cannes, having picked up a Palme d'Or in
1990 for Sailor and Lula and the Best Director award at Cannes 2001 shared
with The Man Who Wasn't T...
Always wanted to compare how the major fests and major awards ceremonies coincided.
Starting with a decade of Oscar winners, we present in comparison a decade of
Golden Globes, Sundance Grand Jury awards, Berlinale Golden Bears, Cannes Palme
d'Or winners, Venice Golden Lions, and the European Film Awards.
Year
Film
Genre
Period
Source
US
gross $m
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On Jan 11th, the documentary feature competition screenings begin to unveil.
The 2002 competition line-up includes a grand total of 16 films coming from
all over the United States, as well as one film from South Africa and and one
from Mexico. With early morning picks like Blue Vinyl, an investigative
piece about the dangers of vinyl production and use, and Amandla! A Revolution
in Four-Part Harmony, a moving film about the importance of music in the
struggle anti-aparthe...
Nortel Networks Palm Springs Intern'l Film Festival
January 10-21 (US)
The Palm Springs Film Festival opens with Monsoon Wedding, the big winner
at Venice 2001. The following night galas include Cannes 2001 winner The
Son's Room, as well as Time Out, the big winner in the second competition
section of Venice 2001. Other titles graced with red carpet entrances include
the U.S. film Enigma, as well as those films also featured in the Foreign
Languge section: Italian for Be...
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced that eight films
were being considered for Achievement in Visual Effects at the 74th Academy
Awards. The films in consideration in alphabetical order are:
A. I. Artificial Intelligence
Black Hawk Down
Cats and Dogs
The Fast and the Furious
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Jurassic Park III
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Pearl Harbor
Some of the above films are also up for Sound Editin...
Twenty-one Academy Awards for scientific and technical achievement will be
presented on March 2 by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The
Academy's Board of Governors voted 7 Scientific and Engineering Awards, which
will be presented in the form of plaques, and 14 Technical Achievement Awards,
presented as certificates, based upon recommendations from the Scientific and
Technical Awards Committee, chaired by Academy Visual Effects Branch Governor
Richard Edl...
Kinderfilmfest, dedicated to international children's cinema, will
release a book in honour of its 25th anniversary this February during the Berlin
International Film Festival. The book, entitled "Moments, Meetings, Emotions - 25 Years at Kinderfilmfest" looks back on the history of the festival and
children's cinema. Directors of films in the line-up for this year's fest
are from Poland, Denmark, Australia, Iran, Korea, and Canada. The entire roster
has not been decided upon ...
The Associated Press reports that Leni Riefenstahl, a filmmaker who made propoganda
films for the Nazis, will complete her first film in fifty years. The release
of her film, Impressions Under Water, will coincide with her 100th birthday
this August. The film, about an underwater world, comes from over 2,000 scuba
dives that Riefenstahl began in 1974, at age 72.
Riefenstahl is most famous for her work with Hitler, for whom she made what has been praised
by many as the bes...
The board of directors of the Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival announced
that it will have a new chairman, William R. Grant. He has worked in public
television for years, and was responsible for "Nature," one of public
television's most watched programs. Programs produced under his supervision
have won seven National News and Documentary Emmy awards and three George Foster
Peabody awards.
Grant has served on the festival's board of directors since its inception in
19...
After just celebrating its 10th anniversary, the Walter Reade Theater is beginning
the new year with two festivals: the 30th Dance on Camera Festival (Jan 11-12,
Jan 18-19) and the 11th New York Jewish Film Festival (Jan 13-24).
The Dance on Camera Festival presents dance film from around the world, and
is in the Walter Reade Theater for its seventh season in 2002. On the program
are films from France, Australia, USA, Canada, The Netherlands, Russia, and
Denmark.
The Ne...
The Cannes International Film Festival has decided to officially name itself
what most people always called it anyway: Festival de Cannes, says Variety.
The "Festival" also underwent other major changes as the logo took
on a new look. The new image being applied to Cannes is all part of an effort
to modernize the festival.
The Festival de Cannes is considered the number one most prestigious film event
of the year and the statistics attest to its popularity among the press: ...
The National Society of Film Critic's best picture went to David Lynch's Mulholland
Drive by just two votes over Robert Altman's Gosford Park. The tables
soon turned when Altman beat Lynch for best director. Naomi Watts stole the
best actress award for Mulholland Drive by a large majority, while The
Royal Tenenbaum's Gene Hackman won best actor by 18 votes over Denzel Washington
for his role in Training Day.
Best Picture
Mulholland Dr.
Directed by David Lynch
Best A...
Nominees Out for Independent Spirit Awards
The nominations for the 17th annual IFP/West Independent Spirit Awards have
been announced. Popular picks this year such as In the Bedroom and Memento
made their way to the nomination list, but less obvious choices like Hedwig
and the Angry Inch and L.I.E. have several nominations each. The
winners will be announced at the IFP/West Independent Spirit Awards ceremony
on March 23rd, presented by Director John Waters. Nominees for the ...
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