14th Annual EROS Film Festival - From Iran to Ganymede: Strange Encounters, Best Friends and Family Ties
Out Film CT, the organizer of Connecticut’s two annual LGBT film festivals, is pleased to announce the line-up for the 14th EROS Film Festival, which takes place Nov. 7 – 11 at Cinestudio, on the campus of Trinity College. The event is sponsored by EROS (Encouraging Respect Of all Sexualities), Trinity’s gay/straight student alliance, and showcases a broa...
AWARDS AND JURY 2012
Sélection internationale
Louve d’or presented by Quebecor
Best feature film in the International Sélection ($15,000 cash from Québecor)
Prix d’interprétation
Best actor or actress in a feature film in the International Sélection
Prix de l’AQCC (Association québécoise des critiques de cinéma)
Best feature in the International Sélection
Prix de l’innovation - Daniel L...
The next few nights screened a number of documentaries about musicians and the impact of their music. Scheduling conflicts meant you couldn’t see all of them, so I chose the three below.
Color Me Obsessed is the rarest of rockumentaries in that it doesn’t play a single note of music from the band being featured, Minnesota’s own, The Replacements. Somehow, for this iconoclastic group, it fits. Instead, the band’s history and antics are revealed through interviews laced with humor...
Jazz is one of the only art forms that originated in America, although it can be argued that its influences and popularity are great overseas than in the country of its origin. For years, jazz artists who were treated poorly in their own country (spurned by the recording industry’s mainstream and and physically prevented from enjoying their success by the draconian Jim Crow laws that limited where they could eat, sleep and recreate), found creative and inspirational sola...
The Montreal World Film Festival comes to a close this evening with the North American Premiere of THE PRINCESS OF MONTPENSIER, the latest film from celebrated French director Bertrand Tavernier. The film will screen following the announcement of the Festival awards at the Theatre Maisonneuve, a spectacular concert hall that is the Festival’s most luxurious screening venue. The lavish historical epic is set in France in the mid sixteenth century, when the religious wars between Catholics and P...
The Montreal World Film Festival comes to a close this evening with the North American Premiere of THE PRINCESS OF MONTPENSIER, the latest film from celebrated French director Bertrand Tavernier. The film will screen following the announcement of the Festival awards at the Theatre Maisonneuve, a spectacular concert hall that is the Festival’s most luxurious screening venue. The lavish historical epic is set in France in the mid sixteenth century, when the religious wars betwe...
