THE PLEASURE OF BEING ROBBED
You've heard of the Warner brothers and the Baldwin brothers.....well, make way for the Safdie brothers, the directorial team of Benny and Josh Safdie, American indie's dynamic duo. The BAMcinématek located at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York has turned the asylum over to the inmates for the eclectic film series titled Emotional Sloppy Manic Cinema: Films Directed and Selected by Benny and Josh Safdie.
The series, a collection of 19...
Bangkok's first 'post-protest' int'l movie fest - the new BANGKOK INDIEFEST (www.bangkokfest.com) - WRAPS after screening 80+ new movies from local and international filmmakers!
Stand by while scores are being tabulated for the 'Golden Shirt' awards...
Info @ http://www.bangkokfest.com
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DEEP IN THE WOODS (Benoit Jacquot, France)
While most of Europe is on vacation and the film business is enjoying a brief pause in its frenetic pace, the action is strong and the movies are fierce at the Locarno Film Festival, the esteemed film event taking place this week in the beautiiful mountain city in southern Switzerland.
The Festival, celebrating its 63rd year as one of the world's oldest and most respected, is the first for newly installed Artistic Director Olivier P...
“That’s a yes from me.” A line made famous from the judgeson American Idol can now be coming from fans that attend the Astoria/LIC FilmFestival October 22-24, 2010. The unique twist allows fans to vote for the best pieces ineach category for films or readings. The piecesthat win the most votes in each category will be presented with The Fan Awardduring the closing ceremony on Sunday evening. “The Fan Awards make the fans proactive and more involved,”said film director Dennis Cieri. ...
RABBIT HOLE (John Cameron Mitchell, USA)
With just a month left until the Toronto International Film Festival, the largest film event in North America and one of the premiere film summits of the year, the shape of the event is coming into closer view. With independent and international cinema showing some pulse at the box office after a disasterous two years, all eyes will be turning to Canada in the coming weeks for a crystal ball peak at what should be some of the big end-of-y...
Les thèmes du festival sont : le merveilleux, le rêve, l’imaginaire, la magie, les mythes, les légendes, les fables, les contes, la poésie, le surnaturel, l’ésotérisme, et aussi les comics, les jeux de rôles, le fantastique, la science fiction, les jeux vidéo.
Un festival sur les thèmes de l’imaginaire, la magie et le rêve car ce sont des thèmes présents dans toute...
Temecula Valley International Film and Music Festival Information
Update
Screenings: August 5th @ 6pm in
the Tower Plaza in Temecula. In the room
directly to the left of Texas Loosey's; walk between Starbucks and Painted
Earth, behind the center gazebo and you will be able to help us select films
for the 2010 festival!
Volunteers: Turn in your
volunteer registration before August 10, 2010 to get priority in selection of
your shifts for the festival. You c...
There are a few film directors whose appeal splits people right down the middle. Some hate the work and some are devoted groupies. However, if the response to a particular director bridges the entire spectrum, then it is all the proof needed that this talented film artist's sensibility cannot be ignored. For myself, always a sucker for the sweeping operatic gesture in film, I find myself to be a disciple of the British director Ken Russell.
Russell did not think small in hi...
Today is the time for the arrival of legendary Laibach, the most important and successful Slovenian band of all times! Before their midnight concert at the Rock Hard Night at the Main Square, they will address the gathered congregation in a quintessential Q&A session, hosted by Nenad Bekvalac. We will also show the documentary Divided States of America that will be personally announced by director Sašo Podgoršek.
The City Cinema will once again show the music documentaries in competition,...
BANGKOK ~ The dates for the 8th World Film Festival of Bangkok have been confirmed as November 5 to 14, 2010.
Continuing in the spirit of “arts and freedom” since it was established in 2003 under the direction of Thailand’s most popular festival director, Victor Silakong, WFF is growing in stature every year.
Submissions for the 2010 festival are being accepted until October 1. No submission fee is required.
”We are looking for all genres and types of films: fictio...
The
Festival du Film Merveilleux promotes films celebrating the
imaginary, the Wonder and magic from all over the world.
The Talulah Association also organizes short-film and features film
events in Paris ( all themes welcome ) as well as film workshops and
ecological awareness. Founders are Benedicte Beaugeois and Maureen Gerby.
The themes of the Film festival are magic, the imaginary, the marvelous,
the astonishing, the supernatural, the occult,...
Winners of Bangkok IndieFest's 'Golden Shirt' Award to be Determined by Audience Choice
Winners of Bangkok IndieFest's 'Golden Shirt' award in each category to be determined by audience choice this year, via ballot selection for each of the 80+ participating films.
See complete schedule and lineup here:
http://www.bangkokfest.com/schedule_venues/schedule_venues.html
BANGKOK INDIEFEST 1.0: August 6-8, 2553
More info @ http://www.bangkokfest.com
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The Montreal World Film Festival will pay tribute to the celebrated French actress Nathalie Baye, who will be in Montreal to present a selection of her films. One of the most well-respected and versatile French actresses of her generation, Nathalie Baye has enjoyed a lengthy career that has included multiple César awards and a wide variety of roles. She has been the muse of many of the great directors of the French screen, such as Alain Cavalier, Nicole Garcia, Jean-Luc Godard, Toni...
SOMEWHERE (Sofia Coppola)
The world premieres are coming strong and fast for the Fall film season as the Venice Film Festival has announced a particularly stellar competition section. For North Americans not making the trip to the Lido, many of these films will receive their North American premieres at the Toronto Film Festival a week later in September (the two festivals actually overlap for a few days on the first weekend of September).
Twenty-two films have been set to ...
The unholy day is upon the beautiful town of Ljutomer, Slovenia! Today at 19:30h at the City Cinema Jose Mojica Marins will proclaim his ghastly gospel at a ferocious Q&A session, hosted by our Vicious Cat Jury President Dinko Tucaković. It will be followed by a vicious outburst of his most spine-chilling films. The first blow will be delivered by the Strange World of Coffin Joe at 21:30h at the Culture House Cinema. Then the carnival of horror will move to the Open Air Cinema at the Main S...
Once again you have a whole lot of goodness coming your way at Slovenian most extreme film and wine extravaganza, Grossmann Festival in Ljutomer!
There will be a Q&A session with Uwe Boll at the City Cinema at 19:30h, hosted by our Slak's Vicious Cats Jury member Alin Ludu Dumbrava, film critic from Transylvania! Open Air Cinema will also be in the sign of the controversial German director. After the documentary Raging Boll at 21:00h you will be able to see his adrenaline-ridden and gore-...
ERA New Horizons International Film Festival, named by the Polish Film Institute as the most significant film event in the country, is in full swing in the historic city of Wroclaw. Festivities began on July 22nd with the Polish Premiere of the Festival's opener Cannes Film Festival Grand Prix Winner, Of Gods and Men (Des hommes et des dieux) by Xavier Beauvois. That same evening also saw the screening of a second French film, the kaleidoscopic Enter the Void, the latest masterpiece ...
From left to right :
Jeremie
Beaugeois, Lydia Tassier, Williams Crepin, Philippe Vidal, Nicolas
Bary,
Benedicte Beaugeois, Olivier Lliboutry, Maureen Gerby
Another small and unpretentious film festival, Palić International Film Festival founded in 1992 in Subotica, Serbia ended last night. 17th Issue of the festival this year substrated all values of European film. And to make things clear, Palić Film Festival has an international character and this year presented New Belgian Film and Hungarian Cinematography in the section of a New Hungarian Film, beside the usual competitive program at Official Selection and Parallels and Encounters. But ...
The line-up of films for the fifth annual trinidad+tobago film festival, which takes place from September 22 to October 5, has been confirmed. As ever, the festival will be showcasing the best in Caribbean and Caribbean Diaspora films, as well as films from Latin America countries in the Caribbean basin. The festival screens feature-length narrative and documentary films, and also short films.
One of the most anticipated films in this year's line-up is Moloch Tropical, the ...
Short
Film
We accept shorts of
lengths, styles and genres, including DOCUMENTARY shorts and ANIMATED
films. Films can also be shot in any format or media as long as the
submitted format is on DVD, in which we ultimately screen from. We try
to put as few limits on the filmmakers as possible. Films shot by locals
or shot around SF Bay area is a plus, but not required. Time limit:
Under 30 minutes in length.
Music
Video
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Dear friends of cinematic offense, fine wine and sounds that scare hounds! We hereby announce that the film program of this year’s Grossmann Film and Wine Festival is now officially online! Take your time and immerse yourself into the wicked world of Grossmann that will soon once again come to life for a ghastly week of unholy pleasures in the idyllic atmosphere of Ljutomer, Slovenia. It is the charming capital of the wine region of Prlekija and also where Slovenian film was born in 1905. This...
