The full, 462 page English version of Allan Dwan: A Dossier, published by LUMIÈRE, edited by David Phelps and Gina Telaroli, and translated with Ted Fendt and Bill Krohn, is now online for free! Farran Nehme, the "Self-Styled Siren", has some lovely words on the recently departed Mickey Rooney:
"Few terms are crueler than has-been. A has-been is Norma Desmond rattling around an empty mansion. Avoiding strong light like a vampire, bitterly dishing old enemies to skeptical interviewers. So focused on looking back that you never move forward.
Mickey Rooney was never a true has-been in his life, not with 90 years of work. Shorts and features, A pictures and B pictures, star turns and character parts. Social dramas, musicals, an impressive run of noirs, comedies, Emmy awards, sitcoms, a hit Broadway show. The Siren spotted him in The Muppets in 2011 and heard a college-age woman whisper to her companion,...
"Few terms are crueler than has-been. A has-been is Norma Desmond rattling around an empty mansion. Avoiding strong light like a vampire, bitterly dishing old enemies to skeptical interviewers. So focused on looking back that you never move forward.
Mickey Rooney was never a true has-been in his life, not with 90 years of work. Shorts and features, A pictures and B pictures, star turns and character parts. Social dramas, musicals, an impressive run of noirs, comedies, Emmy awards, sitcoms, a hit Broadway show. The Siren spotted him in The Muppets in 2011 and heard a college-age woman whisper to her companion,...
- 4/9/2014
- by Adam Cook
- MUBI
I Am The Keeper, Dreamland and Father’s Garden win at Swiss Film Awards; First Saas-Fee Filmfest honours Soldate Jeannette and Love Steaks.
Sabine Boss’ I Am The Keeper (Der Goalie bin ig) was the big winner at this year Swiss Film Awards in Zurich, picking up four prizes for Best Feature Film, Best Screenplay, Best Actor (Marcus Signer) and Best Film Score after being nominated in seven categories.
The production by C-Film Ag and Carac Film, based on the eponymous novel by Pedro Lenz about an ex-junkie’s past catching up with him as he tries to find a way back into normal life, was released by Ascot Elite Entertainment Group in cinemas in the German-speaking part of Switzerland on Feb 6 and has already posted over 68,000 admissions.
The members of the Swiss Film Academy voted to give the Quartz trophy for Best Actress to Ursina Lardi for her performance as a prostitute in Zurich in [link...
Sabine Boss’ I Am The Keeper (Der Goalie bin ig) was the big winner at this year Swiss Film Awards in Zurich, picking up four prizes for Best Feature Film, Best Screenplay, Best Actor (Marcus Signer) and Best Film Score after being nominated in seven categories.
The production by C-Film Ag and Carac Film, based on the eponymous novel by Pedro Lenz about an ex-junkie’s past catching up with him as he tries to find a way back into normal life, was released by Ascot Elite Entertainment Group in cinemas in the German-speaking part of Switzerland on Feb 6 and has already posted over 68,000 admissions.
The members of the Swiss Film Academy voted to give the Quartz trophy for Best Actress to Ursina Lardi for her performance as a prostitute in Zurich in [link...
- 3/24/2014
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Arri Worldwide secures North American deal ahead of the Efm, where it will showcase two market premieres.
Arri Worldsales has sealed a North American deal ahead of this week’s European Film Market (Efm) with Vertical Entertainment for Alain Gsponer’s family film The Little Ghost.
Santa Monica-based Vertical acquired all Us and Canadian rights for the adaptation of Otfried Preussler’s internationally bestselling children’s classic, which has been sold to 24 countries worldwide to date.
Vertical Entertainment, which was launched last year by industry veterans Rich Goldberg and Mitch Budin, has previously released such family films as the animated feature Freedom Force and the Russian 3D animated film The Snow Queen. produced by Timur Bekmambetov.
Market premieres
Frederik Steiner’s award-winning Zurich (Und Morgen Mittag Bin Ich Tot) is one of two market premieres being presented by Arri Worldsales at the Efm in Berlin this week.
The film about a young woman suffering from cystic fibrosis...
Arri Worldsales has sealed a North American deal ahead of this week’s European Film Market (Efm) with Vertical Entertainment for Alain Gsponer’s family film The Little Ghost.
Santa Monica-based Vertical acquired all Us and Canadian rights for the adaptation of Otfried Preussler’s internationally bestselling children’s classic, which has been sold to 24 countries worldwide to date.
Vertical Entertainment, which was launched last year by industry veterans Rich Goldberg and Mitch Budin, has previously released such family films as the animated feature Freedom Force and the Russian 3D animated film The Snow Queen. produced by Timur Bekmambetov.
Market premieres
Frederik Steiner’s award-winning Zurich (Und Morgen Mittag Bin Ich Tot) is one of two market premieres being presented by Arri Worldsales at the Efm in Berlin this week.
The film about a young woman suffering from cystic fibrosis...
- 2/3/2014
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Arri Worldwide secures North American deal ahead of the Efm, where it will showcase two market premieres.
Arri Worldsales has sealed a North American deal ahead of this week’s European Film Market (Efm) with Vertical Entertainment for Alain Gsponer’s family film The Little Ghost.
Santa Monica-based Vertical acquired all Us and Canadian rights for the adaptation of Otfried Preussler’s internationally bestselling children’s classic, which has been sold to 24 countries worldwide to date.
Vertical Entertainment, launched last year by industry veterans Rich Goldberg and Mitch Budin, had previously acquired Tim Fehlbaum’s apocalyptic thriller Hell from Arri.
Market premieres
Frederik Steiner’s award-winning Zurich (Und Morgen Mittag Bin Ich Tot) is one of two market premieres being presented by Arri Worldsales at the Efm in Berlin this week.
The film about a young woman suffering from cystic fibrosis who travels to Switzerland to end her life received the prize in the Newcomer category at this...
Arri Worldsales has sealed a North American deal ahead of this week’s European Film Market (Efm) with Vertical Entertainment for Alain Gsponer’s family film The Little Ghost.
Santa Monica-based Vertical acquired all Us and Canadian rights for the adaptation of Otfried Preussler’s internationally bestselling children’s classic, which has been sold to 24 countries worldwide to date.
Vertical Entertainment, launched last year by industry veterans Rich Goldberg and Mitch Budin, had previously acquired Tim Fehlbaum’s apocalyptic thriller Hell from Arri.
Market premieres
Frederik Steiner’s award-winning Zurich (Und Morgen Mittag Bin Ich Tot) is one of two market premieres being presented by Arri Worldsales at the Efm in Berlin this week.
The film about a young woman suffering from cystic fibrosis who travels to Switzerland to end her life received the prize in the Newcomer category at this...
- 2/3/2014
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Arab spring compilation wins Jihlava’s main award; Best Czech film for HBO-backed doc
Belgium-based Peter Snowdon’s The Uprising, a compilation of amateur footage from the Arab spring, was awarded the Opus Bonum - Best International Documentary Film Award at the Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival in the Czech Republic last night (Oct 28).
The winner was picked by a single juror, Us director-curator Craig Baldwin who described The Uprising as “a film which, in turn, saddened me, frightened me, outraged me, inspired me, and ultimately made me truly proud to be a part of the democratic project and the struggle for human dignity.”
The Uprising, which was produced by Brussels-based Rien à voir production with the UK’s Third Films of Duane Hopkins and Samm Haillay as co-producers, had its world premiere in Jihlava.
In the Czech Joy sidebar competition, the Best Czech Documentary Film Award went to Petr Hátle’s The Great Night which was co-produced...
Belgium-based Peter Snowdon’s The Uprising, a compilation of amateur footage from the Arab spring, was awarded the Opus Bonum - Best International Documentary Film Award at the Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival in the Czech Republic last night (Oct 28).
The winner was picked by a single juror, Us director-curator Craig Baldwin who described The Uprising as “a film which, in turn, saddened me, frightened me, outraged me, inspired me, and ultimately made me truly proud to be a part of the democratic project and the struggle for human dignity.”
The Uprising, which was produced by Brussels-based Rien à voir production with the UK’s Third Films of Duane Hopkins and Samm Haillay as co-producers, had its world premiere in Jihlava.
In the Czech Joy sidebar competition, the Best Czech Documentary Film Award went to Petr Hátle’s The Great Night which was co-produced...
- 10/29/2013
- ScreenDaily
Nearly 20 rising documentary filmmakers named at the Czech Republic festival.
A total of 19 up-and-coming players in the European creative documentary have been selected for the second edition of the Emerging Producers platform during this year’s Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival (Oct 24-29).
The 2013 line-up includes:
Portuguese producer Joana Gusmao [pictured], who is preparing André Gil Mata’s The Tree to shoot in Sarajevo this December;
Polish producer-director Jacob Dammas whose Polish Illusions was shown at Hot Docs and Cph:dox;
France’s Karim Aitouna who received the Robert Bosch Stiftung Co-Production Prize for his project A Place In The Sun;
Berlin-based Michel Balagué of Mengamuk Films who produced Marcin Malasczcak’s Sieniawka, which premiered at the Berlinale last February. Balagué is now developing a second film with Malasczcak as a co-production between Germany, Poland and the UK;
Croatia’s Morana Komljenovic who served as a co-producer on Nebojsa Slijepcovic’s Gangster Of Love.
Divided into three...
A total of 19 up-and-coming players in the European creative documentary have been selected for the second edition of the Emerging Producers platform during this year’s Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival (Oct 24-29).
The 2013 line-up includes:
Portuguese producer Joana Gusmao [pictured], who is preparing André Gil Mata’s The Tree to shoot in Sarajevo this December;
Polish producer-director Jacob Dammas whose Polish Illusions was shown at Hot Docs and Cph:dox;
France’s Karim Aitouna who received the Robert Bosch Stiftung Co-Production Prize for his project A Place In The Sun;
Berlin-based Michel Balagué of Mengamuk Films who produced Marcin Malasczcak’s Sieniawka, which premiered at the Berlinale last February. Balagué is now developing a second film with Malasczcak as a co-production between Germany, Poland and the UK;
Croatia’s Morana Komljenovic who served as a co-producer on Nebojsa Slijepcovic’s Gangster Of Love.
Divided into three...
- 10/18/2013
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
The 18th Busan International Film Festival (Biff) wrapped with the two New Currents Awards going to Ahn Seonkyoung’s Korean film Pascha and Byamba Sakhya’s Mongolia-Germany co-production Remote Control.Scroll down for feature film winners
Headed by Rakhshan Banietemad, the New Currents jury of Aoyama Shinji, Scott Foundas and Charles Tesson lauded Pascha: “For its intimate, highly original expression of an unusual love story.”
They awarded Remote Control: “For its sharply observed portrait of the tension between city and country, reality and fiction.”
Both films won $30,000 each.
Hannah Espia’s Filipino film Transit picked up a Special Mention: “For opening a window on to an unknown dimension of contemporary Israeli life and the fates of people caught in a desperate political situation.”
Maximilian Hult’s Sweden-Iceland coproduction Home picked up the inaugural Busan Bank Award, also known as the Audience Award for selected Flash Forward section films. It comes with $10,000 in Korean distribution support and another...
Headed by Rakhshan Banietemad, the New Currents jury of Aoyama Shinji, Scott Foundas and Charles Tesson lauded Pascha: “For its intimate, highly original expression of an unusual love story.”
They awarded Remote Control: “For its sharply observed portrait of the tension between city and country, reality and fiction.”
Both films won $30,000 each.
Hannah Espia’s Filipino film Transit picked up a Special Mention: “For opening a window on to an unknown dimension of contemporary Israeli life and the fates of people caught in a desperate political situation.”
Maximilian Hult’s Sweden-Iceland coproduction Home picked up the inaugural Busan Bank Award, also known as the Audience Award for selected Flash Forward section films. It comes with $10,000 in Korean distribution support and another...
- 10/14/2013
- by hjnoh2007@gmail.com (Jean Noh)
- ScreenDaily
Look Now! will release ThuleTuvalu [pictured] in Swiss cinemas in early 2014.
Zurich-based HesseGreutert Film has turned its attention to the highly topical issue of climate change for its new feature documentary production ThuleTuvalu, directed by Matthias von Gunten.
In the €870,000 production, Von Gunten visited Thule, the northernmost town in Greenland, where the ice is melting, and then travelled to the other side of the globe to the Pacific island state of Tuvalu which is slowly drowning in the rising sea.
Look Now!, which has released such documentaries as David Sieveking’s Vergiß Mein Nicht and Peter Liechti’s Vaters Garten this year, plans to release ThuleTuvalu in Swiss cinemas in early 2014.
HesseGreutert had also produced von Gunten’s previous film, the documentary project Max Frisch, Citoyen, which was also distributed by Look Now!
Producer Simon Hesse also told Screen that next year will also see the theatrical release of HesseGreutert’s production of Men Lareida’s feature debut, Viktoria...
Zurich-based HesseGreutert Film has turned its attention to the highly topical issue of climate change for its new feature documentary production ThuleTuvalu, directed by Matthias von Gunten.
In the €870,000 production, Von Gunten visited Thule, the northernmost town in Greenland, where the ice is melting, and then travelled to the other side of the globe to the Pacific island state of Tuvalu which is slowly drowning in the rising sea.
Look Now!, which has released such documentaries as David Sieveking’s Vergiß Mein Nicht and Peter Liechti’s Vaters Garten this year, plans to release ThuleTuvalu in Swiss cinemas in early 2014.
HesseGreutert had also produced von Gunten’s previous film, the documentary project Max Frisch, Citoyen, which was also distributed by Look Now!
Producer Simon Hesse also told Screen that next year will also see the theatrical release of HesseGreutert’s production of Men Lareida’s feature debut, Viktoria...
- 10/1/2013
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
The 63rd Berlinale is coming to a close, and the awards have been announced!
In Competition
Golden Bear - Child's Pose, directed by Călin Peter Netzer
Jury Grand Prix - An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker, directed by Danis Tanović
Silver Bear for Best Director - Prince Avalanche, directed by David Gordon Green
Best Actor - Nazif Mujić, An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker
Best Actress - Paulina Garcia, Gloria
Best Screenplay - Closed Curtain, written by Jafar Panahi
Alfred Bauer Prize - Vic+Flo Saw a Bear, directed by Denis Côté
Outstanding Artistic Contribution - Cinematographer Aziz Zhambakiyev, for Harmony Lessons
Special Mentions - Promised Land, directed by Gus Van Sant & Layla Fourie, directed by Pia Marais
Best First Feature Award
Best First Feature - The Rocket, directed by Kim Mordaunt
Special Mention - The Battle of Tabatô, directed by João Viana
Teddy...
In Competition
Golden Bear - Child's Pose, directed by Călin Peter Netzer
Jury Grand Prix - An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker, directed by Danis Tanović
Silver Bear for Best Director - Prince Avalanche, directed by David Gordon Green
Best Actor - Nazif Mujić, An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker
Best Actress - Paulina Garcia, Gloria
Best Screenplay - Closed Curtain, written by Jafar Panahi
Alfred Bauer Prize - Vic+Flo Saw a Bear, directed by Denis Côté
Outstanding Artistic Contribution - Cinematographer Aziz Zhambakiyev, for Harmony Lessons
Special Mentions - Promised Land, directed by Gus Van Sant & Layla Fourie, directed by Pia Marais
Best First Feature Award
Best First Feature - The Rocket, directed by Kim Mordaunt
Special Mention - The Battle of Tabatô, directed by João Viana
Teddy...
- 2/17/2013
- by Notebook
- MUBI
Kino Lorber will release the stylized 2008 Swiss documentary The Sound of Insects on DVD on July 19.
The winner of the European Film Academy Documentary 2009 award “for its skillful exploration of minimalistic means to create an extraordinary visual story between life and death,” The Sound of Insects will carry a list price of $29.95.
The movie looks at the story of when, in a remote wintry forest, a hunter discovers the mummified corpse of a 40-year-old man. A diary is found near the body, detailing the man’s everyday thoughts as he commits suicide through self-imposed starvation.
Based on a true story and adapted from the novella Until I am a Mummy by Shimada Masahiko, Peter Liechti’s The Sound of Insects is an investigation into the mystery of the man’s enigmatic self-destructive motivations. Taking on his point-of-view, the film presents the notebook entries as stream-of-consciousness musings on the world around him as his body dissipates,...
The winner of the European Film Academy Documentary 2009 award “for its skillful exploration of minimalistic means to create an extraordinary visual story between life and death,” The Sound of Insects will carry a list price of $29.95.
The movie looks at the story of when, in a remote wintry forest, a hunter discovers the mummified corpse of a 40-year-old man. A diary is found near the body, detailing the man’s everyday thoughts as he commits suicide through self-imposed starvation.
Based on a true story and adapted from the novella Until I am a Mummy by Shimada Masahiko, Peter Liechti’s The Sound of Insects is an investigation into the mystery of the man’s enigmatic self-destructive motivations. Taking on his point-of-view, the film presents the notebook entries as stream-of-consciousness musings on the world around him as his body dissipates,...
- 5/5/2011
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
The 8th annual Big Sky Documentary Film Festival is all set to run for ten days this Feb. 11-20 in Missoula, Montana. This year, the fest will have a whopping 140 film programs, a growth that necessitates an expansion from its regular home at the Historic Wilma Theatre — where it will occupy two screens — to also feature screenings at the former Pipestone Mountaineering store.
Special events at the fest include a free opening night screening of How to Die in Oregon sponsored by HBO Documentary Films. The film, directed by Peter D. Richardson, examines the impact the legalization of physician-assisted suicide has had on the state. (In 1994, Oregon was the first state to legalize the practice.)
Also, indie rock band Yo La Tengo will perform their acclaimed live score of the films of pioneering French underwater documentary film director Jean Painlevé, something they have done for other film festivals all over the world.
Special events at the fest include a free opening night screening of How to Die in Oregon sponsored by HBO Documentary Films. The film, directed by Peter D. Richardson, examines the impact the legalization of physician-assisted suicide has had on the state. (In 1994, Oregon was the first state to legalize the practice.)
Also, indie rock band Yo La Tengo will perform their acclaimed live score of the films of pioneering French underwater documentary film director Jean Painlevé, something they have done for other film festivals all over the world.
- 1/15/2011
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
The dead come back to life, sort of. Writer/director/cinematographer Peter Liechti springs something on the viewing audience unlike anything that has been sprung before. The film is more or less the reading of a journal made by deceased man. The journal describes the last days of the man.s life, during which he intentionally starved himself to death in a thrown together plastic tent in the forest. This film was screened as part of the Rubin Museum.s series of talks, films and programs entitled .Talk About Nothing. that were conducted with the museum.s exhibition .Grain of Emptiness: Buddhism-Inspired Contemporary Art.. Well, there you have it. Adverse criticisms of the film react negatively to the fact that the film is pretty...
- 12/23/2010
- by Ron Wilkinson
- Monsters and Critics
The Cinema Eye Honors, devoted to highlighting the best of the year's nonfiction films, have flipped for Lixin Fan's fantastic "Last Train Home," which follows a family of migrant workers as they struggle to stay connected while living separated by hundreds of miles. "Last Train Home" received the most nominations -- seven -- while Banksy's "Exit Through The Gift Shop" and Afghanistan documentary "Armadillo" each received six. The award ceremony will take place on January 18 at the Museum of the Moving Image in New York, and will be broadcast on the Documentary Channel.
Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking
Armadilllo
Directed by Janus Metz
Produced by Sara Stockmann and Ronnie Fridthjof
Exit Through The Gift Shop
Directed by Banksy
Produced by Jaimie D'Cruz
Last Train Home
Directed by Lixin Fan
Produced by Mila Aung-Thwin and Daniel Cross
Marwencol
Directed by Jeff Malmberg
Produced by Jeff Malmberg, Tom Putnam, Matt Radecki, Chris Shellen...
Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking
Armadilllo
Directed by Janus Metz
Produced by Sara Stockmann and Ronnie Fridthjof
Exit Through The Gift Shop
Directed by Banksy
Produced by Jaimie D'Cruz
Last Train Home
Directed by Lixin Fan
Produced by Mila Aung-Thwin and Daniel Cross
Marwencol
Directed by Jeff Malmberg
Produced by Jeff Malmberg, Tom Putnam, Matt Radecki, Chris Shellen...
- 11/5/2010
- by Alison Willmore
- ifc.com
The highlights of the 2010 Guth Gafa Festival have been announced. 30 international and Irish award-winning films will be screened at the event at which guests such as Sundance's Patricia Finneran and Cork Film Festival director Mick Hannigan will be present. Some of the award winning international films being screened at the Guth Gafa festival include Peter Kerekes' 'Cooking History'; Peter Liechti's 'The Sound of Insects – Record of a Mummy'; Rupert Isaacson's 'The Horse Boy'; Michael Madsen's 'Into Eternity'; Kaleo la Belle's 'Beyond this Place'; John Appel's 'The Player' and 'Steam of Life' from Joonas Berghäll and Mika Hotakainen.
- 5/13/2010
- IFTN
As the SXSW Film, Music and Interactive festival gets closer, more and more announcements are coming out about what programming we can expect during the event. Friday, it was announced what film would cose the competition and in addition, more features and shorts were added to the program which already features over 100 films.
Here’s all the info about the new items from the official press release. As we told you previously, we’ve got a great team going to SXSW this year so be sure to check back often for more.
SXSW Film Festival Announces Closing Night Film,
Additional Features & Shorts For 2010 Event
The South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Conference and Festival has announced Chris Morris’ pitch-black satire Four Lions as its Closing Night film, to play on Saturday, March 20 at the Paramount Theatre in Austin, Texas. SXSW also released additional feature and short titles or the 2010 event, which...
Here’s all the info about the new items from the official press release. As we told you previously, we’ve got a great team going to SXSW this year so be sure to check back often for more.
SXSW Film Festival Announces Closing Night Film,
Additional Features & Shorts For 2010 Event
The South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Conference and Festival has announced Chris Morris’ pitch-black satire Four Lions as its Closing Night film, to play on Saturday, March 20 at the Paramount Theatre in Austin, Texas. SXSW also released additional feature and short titles or the 2010 event, which...
- 2/22/2010
- by Chris Ullrich
- The Flickcast
SXSW Film has announced more titles for its 2010 program. Chris Morris' Four Lions will now close the festival. New features, shorts, and documentaries have also been added, including American Grindhouse, Cargo, Strummerville, This Movie is Broken, and Suck. The full list (courtesty of SXSW) is presented below.
Headliners
Four Lions (United Kingdom)
Director: Chris Morris. Screenwriters: Jesse Armstrong, Sam Bain, Simon Blackwell and Chris Morris
Four Lions tells the story of a group of British jihadists who push their abstract dreams of glory to the breaking point. Cast: Riz Ahmed, Arsher Ali, Nigel Lindsay, Kayvan Novak, Adeel Akhtar
Spotlight Premieres
American Grindhouse
Director: Elijah Drenner. Screenwriters: Calum Wadell and Elijah Drenner
This feature documentary chronicles the history of the American Exploitation Film. It digs deep into this often overlooked category of U.S. cinema and unearths the shameless and occasionally shocking origins of this popular entertainment. (World Premiere)
Cargo...
Headliners
Four Lions (United Kingdom)
Director: Chris Morris. Screenwriters: Jesse Armstrong, Sam Bain, Simon Blackwell and Chris Morris
Four Lions tells the story of a group of British jihadists who push their abstract dreams of glory to the breaking point. Cast: Riz Ahmed, Arsher Ali, Nigel Lindsay, Kayvan Novak, Adeel Akhtar
Spotlight Premieres
American Grindhouse
Director: Elijah Drenner. Screenwriters: Calum Wadell and Elijah Drenner
This feature documentary chronicles the history of the American Exploitation Film. It digs deep into this often overlooked category of U.S. cinema and unearths the shameless and occasionally shocking origins of this popular entertainment. (World Premiere)
Cargo...
- 2/20/2010
- Screen Anarchy
Austin, Texas – February 19, 2010 – The South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Conference and Festival has announced Chris Morris’ pitch-black satire Four Lions as its Closing Night film, to play on Saturday, March 20 at the Paramount Theatre in Austin, Texas. SXSW also released additional feature and short titles or the 2010 event, which will take place March 12 – March 20, 2010. The festival will open with the world premiere of Kick-Ass, directed by Matthew Vaughn and starring Aaron Johnson, Cholë Grace Moretz, Christopher Mintz-Plasse and Nicolas Cage. SXSW will also host more than 80 Film Conference panels, which will take place Friday, March 12 – Tuesday, March 16. Previously announced participants for the 2010 SXSW Film Conference include Michel Gondry (The Thorn in the Heart, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind), Quentin Tarantino (Inglourious Basterds), David Gordon Green (Eastbound & Down, Pineapple Express), Jeffery Tambor’s Acting Workshop, and Academy Award-winning Argentine composer, solo artist and producer Gustavo Santaolalla, among many others. For full panel descriptions and participants,...
- 2/20/2010
- by Dave Campbell
- SmellsLikeScreenSpirit
Sundance favorite and World Cinema Grand Jury nominee Four Lions will close the 2010 SXSW Film Festival on Saturday, March 20. The UK film was co-written, directed, and stars Chris Morris.
Other “festival favorites” include Waking Sleeping Beauty, a behind-the-scenes documentary about Disney animation from 1984 to 1994 directed by Beauty and the Beast producer Don Hahn, and Tony, a Slamdance selection and psychological thriller about a serial killer.
Skateland, starring Ashley Green, is also getting another look from festival goers, as well as the raved-about short film from Spike Jonze titled I’m Here. Plus a Doors documentary narrated by Johnny Depp. I’ll be reviewing and covering as many of these films as I can.
Below is a full list of the additional titles screening at the film festival, which runs from March 12th through the 20th in Austin, Texas.
Headliners
Four Lions (United Kingdom)
Director: Chris Morris. Screenwriters: Jesse Armstrong, Sam Bain,...
Other “festival favorites” include Waking Sleeping Beauty, a behind-the-scenes documentary about Disney animation from 1984 to 1994 directed by Beauty and the Beast producer Don Hahn, and Tony, a Slamdance selection and psychological thriller about a serial killer.
Skateland, starring Ashley Green, is also getting another look from festival goers, as well as the raved-about short film from Spike Jonze titled I’m Here. Plus a Doors documentary narrated by Johnny Depp. I’ll be reviewing and covering as many of these films as I can.
Below is a full list of the additional titles screening at the film festival, which runs from March 12th through the 20th in Austin, Texas.
Headliners
Four Lions (United Kingdom)
Director: Chris Morris. Screenwriters: Jesse Armstrong, Sam Bain,...
- 2/19/2010
- by Jeff Leins
- newsinfilm.com
The 22nd Annual European Film Awards wrapped up Saturday night in the German town of Bochum with Michael Haneke’s creepy film The White Ribbon, coming away as the night’s biggest winner.
The White Ribbon was also the winner of this year’s Palme d’Or, the biggest prize given at the Cannes Film Festival.
The haunting tale of a small German town on the eve of World War I also gave Haneke a best director win. Along with its win as best picture, The White Ribbon also won for best screenwriter and will be the German entry at this year’s Academy Awards.
According to Variety, Sony Pictures Classics will release The White Ribbon on Christmas Day in the United States.
Tahar Rahim from A Prophet, the French entry, won European Actor 2009. The film also won for best sound.
Kate Winslet won best actress for The Reader, a...
The White Ribbon was also the winner of this year’s Palme d’Or, the biggest prize given at the Cannes Film Festival.
The haunting tale of a small German town on the eve of World War I also gave Haneke a best director win. Along with its win as best picture, The White Ribbon also won for best screenwriter and will be the German entry at this year’s Academy Awards.
According to Variety, Sony Pictures Classics will release The White Ribbon on Christmas Day in the United States.
Tahar Rahim from A Prophet, the French entry, won European Actor 2009. The film also won for best sound.
Kate Winslet won best actress for The Reader, a...
- 12/13/2009
- by Reel Loop News Staff
- ReelLoop.com
A Hot Docs, Silverdocs, Rotterdam and Karlovy Vary selected doc that has been mentioned in some programs as an Into the Wild-like in nature has won European Documentary Film Award's 2009 Prix Arte prize (for Best Doc). - A Hot Docs, Silverdocs, Rotterdam and Karlovy Vary selected doc that has been mentioned in some programs as an Into the Wild-like in nature has won European Documentary Film Award's 2009 Prix Arte prize (for Best Doc). Peter Liechti's The Sound of Insects -- Record of a Mummy was cited for "it's skillful exploration of minimalist means to create an extraordinary visual story between life and death". I'll would have made a call out for a screener copy, but I'll be catching the doc at Ridm Montreal next month - the trailer below basically demonstrates how you can do a lot with very little. Based on the novella "Until I am...
- 12/13/2009
- by Ioncinema.com Staff
- IONCINEMA.com
The European Film Academy have announced the documentary film titles nominations and out of the ten mostly unknown titles we find a pair of exceptions in Burma VJ (which received some solid buzz at Sundance) and The Beaches of Agnes... - The European Film Academy have announced the documentary film titles nominations and out of the ten mostly unknown titles we find a pair of exceptions in Burma VJ (which received some solid buzz at Sundance) and The Beaches of Agnes (which received a film festival red carpet treatment and was shown at the Film Forum this summer). Previous winners of Prix Arte award include: last year's Helena Trestikova's Rene (read here) and 2007 the prize went to Rithy Panh's Paper cannot Wrap up Embers. The winner will be announced on the 12th of December. The Beaches Of Agnes - Agnès Varda, France Below Sea Level - Gianfranco Rosi,...
- 12/13/2009
- by Ioncinema.com Staff
- IONCINEMA.com
The hardware for the 2009 European Film Awards has been handed out and Michael Haneke is the clear winner, with his latest - The White Ribbon - taking film, director and screenwriter nods. Here's the complete list of winners:
The 22nd European Film Awards
The Winners
European Film 2009
Das Weisse Band (The White Ribbon), Germany/Austria/France/Italy
written and directed by Michael Haneke
produced by Stefan Arndt, Veit Heiduschka, Michael Katz, Margaret Menegoz
& Andrea Occhipinti
European Director 2009
Michael Haneke for Das Weisse Band (The White Ribbon)
European Actor 2009
Tahar Rahim in Un ProphEte (A Prophet)
European Actress 2009
Kate Winslet in The Reader (Der Vorleser)
European Screenwriter 2009
Michael Haneke for Das Weisse Band (The White Ribbon)
Carlo Di Palma European Cinematographer Award 2009
Anthony Dod Mantle for Antichrist & Slumdog Millionaire
European Film Academy Prix D'Excellence 2009
Brigitte Taillandier, Francis Wargnier, Jean-Paul Hurier & Marc Doisne for
the Sound Design, Un ProphEte (A Prophet...
The 22nd European Film Awards
The Winners
European Film 2009
Das Weisse Band (The White Ribbon), Germany/Austria/France/Italy
written and directed by Michael Haneke
produced by Stefan Arndt, Veit Heiduschka, Michael Katz, Margaret Menegoz
& Andrea Occhipinti
European Director 2009
Michael Haneke for Das Weisse Band (The White Ribbon)
European Actor 2009
Tahar Rahim in Un ProphEte (A Prophet)
European Actress 2009
Kate Winslet in The Reader (Der Vorleser)
European Screenwriter 2009
Michael Haneke for Das Weisse Band (The White Ribbon)
Carlo Di Palma European Cinematographer Award 2009
Anthony Dod Mantle for Antichrist & Slumdog Millionaire
European Film Academy Prix D'Excellence 2009
Brigitte Taillandier, Francis Wargnier, Jean-Paul Hurier & Marc Doisne for
the Sound Design, Un ProphEte (A Prophet...
- 12/12/2009
- Screen Anarchy
Michael Haneke’s “Das Weisse Band” (The White Ribbon) won best European Film and the Austrian filmmaker also took the prize for “European Director” and “European Screenwriter” this evening at the 22nd European Film Awards in Bochum, Germany. Kate Winslet took the award for “European Actress” for her role in “Der Vorleser” (The Reader), while Tahar Rahim won European Actor for “A Prophet.” Peter Liechti’s “The Sound of Insects” took the pirze …...
- 12/12/2009
- Indiewire
Bochum, Germany -- "The White Ribbon," Michael Haneke's powerful depiction of a German village on the eve of World War I, conquered the 2009 European Film Awards, beating out Oscar champ "Slumdog Millionaire" to win the top trophies in the best film and director categories.
"I'm stunned. I'm overwhelmed," Haneke said as he hoisted his best film trophy, adding that the film was "truly an European production" as it featured funding and production teams from four countries -- Germany, Austria, France and Italy.
Haneke also won the European wcreenwriter nod for his disturbing script to "The White Ribbon," which traces the roots of fascism in the oppressive religious and civil society of Germany in 1913.
"Slumdog Millionaire" didn't go away empty-handed, picking up the Efa's people choice award as well as the European cinematographer prize for cameraman Anthony Dod Mantle, who was also honored for his lensing of Lars von Trier's shocker "Antichrist.
"I'm stunned. I'm overwhelmed," Haneke said as he hoisted his best film trophy, adding that the film was "truly an European production" as it featured funding and production teams from four countries -- Germany, Austria, France and Italy.
Haneke also won the European wcreenwriter nod for his disturbing script to "The White Ribbon," which traces the roots of fascism in the oppressive religious and civil society of Germany in 1913.
"Slumdog Millionaire" didn't go away empty-handed, picking up the Efa's people choice award as well as the European cinematographer prize for cameraman Anthony Dod Mantle, who was also honored for his lensing of Lars von Trier's shocker "Antichrist.
- 12/12/2009
- by By Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Scheduled presenters at the 2009 European Film Awards, to be held later this evening in Bochum, Germany, are: Actresses Victoria Abril (Spain), Caterina Murino (Italy), Johanna ter Steege (the Netherlands), María Valverde (Spain), and actors Detlev Buck (Germany), Jesper Christensen (Denmark), Ben Kingsley (UK), Maciej Stuhr (Poland), and Anatole Taubman (Switzerland). Also, documentary director Nino Kirtadzé (France/Georgia), actor/director Aksel Hennie (Norway), and director/actor Branko Djuric (Bosnia & Herzegovina). And finally, Gottfried Langenstein, President of Arte, Viviane Reding, EU Commissioner for Information, Society and Media, and Efa President Wim Wenders. Among the expected guests are actresses Hannelore Elsner (Germany), Krystyna Janda (Poland), and Julia Jentsch (Germany), and directors Roland Emmerich and Sönke Wortmann. Plus award winners Peter Liechti (Efa [...]...
- 12/12/2009
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Loopline Film and Screen Training Ireland have announced an updated list of tutors for their upcoming Feature Documentary Workshop series taking place in Dublin in November and December. The workshop is aimed at Irish-based documentary makers who are developing a feature project and there will be 10 participants accepted on the workshop. The tutors now include filmmakers Heddy Honigmann (Oblivion, Forever, Crazy); Marc Isaacs & Rachel Wexler (Men in the City); Peter Liechti, winner of the Prix Europa award for his film 'The Sound of Insects'; Eric Daniel Metzgar (Reporter); David Kinsella (A Beautiful Tragedy); Phil Grabsky (The Boy Who Played on the Buddhas of Bamiyan) and Anne Aghion (My Neighbour, My Killer).
- 10/27/2009
- IFTN
The European Film Academy has announced that Peter Liechti’s “The Sound of Insects - Record of a Mummy” has been awarded the European Film Awards’ “Prix Arte” for best documentary. The Swiss film beat out Agnes Varda’s “The Beaches of Agnes,” Anders Ostergaard’s “Burma VJ,” and Yoav Shamir’s “Defamation,” among others. The award chosen by an independent jury, whose members this year were documentary filmmaker Nino Kirtadzé from France/Georgia, Austrian producer …...
- 10/12/2009
- Indiewire
The European Film Academy has named "The Sound of Insects - Record of a Mummy" the winner of the Documentary 2009 - Prix Arte award.
The jury chose Peter Liechti's film over nine other nominees for "its skillfull exploration of minimalistic means to create an extraordinary visual story between life and death."
Jury members - Nino Kirtadze, Franz Grabner, and Viktor Kossakovsky - screened all ten nominated films at the city of Vilnius in Lithuania and decided on the winner on the site.
The winning film from Switzerland will be presented at the 22nd European Film Awards Ceremony on December 12 in Bochum, Germany.
The jury chose Peter Liechti's film over nine other nominees for "its skillfull exploration of minimalistic means to create an extraordinary visual story between life and death."
Jury members - Nino Kirtadze, Franz Grabner, and Viktor Kossakovsky - screened all ten nominated films at the city of Vilnius in Lithuania and decided on the winner on the site.
The winning film from Switzerland will be presented at the 22nd European Film Awards Ceremony on December 12 in Bochum, Germany.
- 10/12/2009
- icelebz.com
Cologne, Germany -- "The Sound of Insects – Record of a Mummy," an experimental film combining documentary and literary elements from Swiss director Peter Liechti, has won this year's Prix Arte for best European documentary.
The haunting film is based on the novella "Until I am a Mummy" by Japanese writer Shimada Masahiko, itself based on the real-life journal of a man in a remote forest who committed suicide by self-starvation. A hunter stumbled over his mummified remains in a makeshift tent.
The Prix Arte jury of Austrian producer Franz Grabner, Russian documentary filmmaker Viktor Kossakovsky and Georgian actress/director Nino Kirtadze praised "The Sound of Insects" for "its skillful exploration of minimalist means to create and extraordinary visual story between life and death."
The documentary first screened at Toronto's Hot Docs festival, with an English narration performed by Canadian filmmaker Peter Mettler ("Petropolis").
"The Sound of Insects" beat out more political docs,...
The haunting film is based on the novella "Until I am a Mummy" by Japanese writer Shimada Masahiko, itself based on the real-life journal of a man in a remote forest who committed suicide by self-starvation. A hunter stumbled over his mummified remains in a makeshift tent.
The Prix Arte jury of Austrian producer Franz Grabner, Russian documentary filmmaker Viktor Kossakovsky and Georgian actress/director Nino Kirtadze praised "The Sound of Insects" for "its skillful exploration of minimalist means to create and extraordinary visual story between life and death."
The documentary first screened at Toronto's Hot Docs festival, with an English narration performed by Canadian filmmaker Peter Mettler ("Petropolis").
"The Sound of Insects" beat out more political docs,...
- 10/12/2009
- by By Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Cologne, Germany -- Political issues have pride of place among this year's nominees for the Prix Arte, the European Film Academy's documentary award.
Andres Ostergaard's "Burma VJ," on the 2007 protest by thousands of Burmese monks; German directors Leon Geller and Marcus Vetter's "The Heart of Jenin," an investigation into the Israeli army's shooting of Palestinian boy Ahmed Khatib; and Jawad Rhalib's "The Damned of the Sea," which looks at the plight of Moroccan fisherman, all made this year's short list.
Political undercurrents are also clearly visible in other nominees, including Gianfranco Rosi's portrait of anarchists living in a makeshift "slab city" in the California desert and "Defamation," a critical look at anti-Semitism from Israeli director Yoav Shamir.
But the scope of the 2009 Prix Arte nominees ranges from Agnes Varda's autobiographical essay "The Beaches of Agnes" to portraits of extraordinary people in Lilian Franck & Robert Cibis'...
Andres Ostergaard's "Burma VJ," on the 2007 protest by thousands of Burmese monks; German directors Leon Geller and Marcus Vetter's "The Heart of Jenin," an investigation into the Israeli army's shooting of Palestinian boy Ahmed Khatib; and Jawad Rhalib's "The Damned of the Sea," which looks at the plight of Moroccan fisherman, all made this year's short list.
Political undercurrents are also clearly visible in other nominees, including Gianfranco Rosi's portrait of anarchists living in a makeshift "slab city" in the California desert and "Defamation," a critical look at anti-Semitism from Israeli director Yoav Shamir.
But the scope of the 2009 Prix Arte nominees ranges from Agnes Varda's autobiographical essay "The Beaches of Agnes" to portraits of extraordinary people in Lilian Franck & Robert Cibis'...
- 10/8/2009
- by By Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
London -- Organizers of next year's Rotterdam International Film Festival on Monday unveiled plans for a trio of tribute sidebars, with Polish film director Jerzy Skolimowski, Paolo Benvenuti from Italy and Switzerland's Peter Liechti all scheduled.
The trio are expected to attend the festival for the retrospectives.
Organizers also said the event's newest section, Signals, will have five thematic programs, including "Size Matters," comprising exhibitions and films that focus on cinema and visual art in relation to ubiquitous electronic screens.
Other themes are "Hungry Ghosts," which will include recent Asian ghost movies, and "First Things First," focusing on first films by established film auteurs, and a sidebar on young Turkish filmmakers.
The 38th edition kicks off Jan. 21, with the 26th accompanying CineMart taking place Jan. 25-29. The full lineup will be announced Jan. 15, organizers said.
The trio are expected to attend the festival for the retrospectives.
Organizers also said the event's newest section, Signals, will have five thematic programs, including "Size Matters," comprising exhibitions and films that focus on cinema and visual art in relation to ubiquitous electronic screens.
Other themes are "Hungry Ghosts," which will include recent Asian ghost movies, and "First Things First," focusing on first films by established film auteurs, and a sidebar on young Turkish filmmakers.
The 38th edition kicks off Jan. 21, with the 26th accompanying CineMart taking place Jan. 25-29. The full lineup will be announced Jan. 15, organizers said.
- 12/8/2008
- by By Stuart Kemp
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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