Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSBetty White in Golden Girls. The iconic Betty White, best known for her comedic prowess on television shows like Golden Girls and the Mary Tyler Moore Show, died on New Year's Eve at the age of 99. The first woman to produce a sitcom, White also starred in films from a small part in Otto Preminger's Advise and Consent to Toy Story 4 (as a teething ring named Bitey White), and as Nell Minow writes in her obituary, "she was just as deliriously funny as herself."Steven Soderbergh has published his annual list of everything he's seen and read in 2021, ranging from the 2020 Olympic Games to "Magic Mike Live" and multiple viewings of The Maltese Falcon. Recommended VIEWINGYann Gonzalez (Knife + Heart) has directed a new short film, Fou de Bassan, which is available to view online.
- 1/5/2022
- MUBI
The Alert!The experimental cinema of the Romanian avant-garde of the 1970s and 1980s, made under the radar of the totalitarian regime, was ultimately aimed at the liberation of both the possibilities of the cinematic medium and the position of the cinematic spectator. This search into how far cinema could be pushed to capture movement and rhythm, and to encapsulate and fragment the human body, was presented in the retrospective “Conference Fascinations” at the celebratory 25th edition of the Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival, a section specially dedicated to the presentation of experimental and underground cinema created in the Eastern bloc during the communist era. Curated by Andrea Slováková, this year its focus was on Romania, presenting the work of groups such as Kinema Ikon and the Sigma group as well the work of individual artists such as Mircea Săucan and Ion Grigorescu. Overall, the program highlighted the curiosity of...
- 1/3/2022
- MUBI
Following its successful retrospective dedicated to Taiwanese documentary cinema in 2017, Ji.hlava Intl. Documentary Film Festival decided to focus on South Korea this time, securing “99.9% of the original program” after the event was forced to move online due to the pandemic.
“Our colleagues in South Korea told us that this is the most comprehensive retrospective of these films and the first one that’s really trying to show its development,” programmer of experimental documentaries Andrea Slováková tells Variety. “We talk a lot about South Korean cinema, but not about its documentaries.”
“Transparent Landscape: South Korea” includes 22 short and feature-length films, from the works of artist Nam June Paik to “Over Me” by Chang-jae Lim, Yun-tae Kim’s “Wet Dream” and 1924’s “Livestock Industry of Korea,” clocking in at just seven minutes. But while the country’s fictional output has been getting international recognition thanks to the likes of Kim Ki-duk,...
“Our colleagues in South Korea told us that this is the most comprehensive retrospective of these films and the first one that’s really trying to show its development,” programmer of experimental documentaries Andrea Slováková tells Variety. “We talk a lot about South Korean cinema, but not about its documentaries.”
“Transparent Landscape: South Korea” includes 22 short and feature-length films, from the works of artist Nam June Paik to “Over Me” by Chang-jae Lim, Yun-tae Kim’s “Wet Dream” and 1924’s “Livestock Industry of Korea,” clocking in at just seven minutes. But while the country’s fictional output has been getting international recognition thanks to the likes of Kim Ki-duk,...
- 10/31/2020
- by Marta Balaga
- Variety Film + TV
Documentarian, film theoretician and curator Andrea Slováková has been voted to lead Famu. Czech documentarian, film theoretician and curator Andrea Slováková, who works on the management team of the Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival, currently curating experimental films and the Vr programme, and is one of the founders of the DAFilms portal, has been voted to become the next dean of the Film and Television School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (Famu). Slováková is thus poised to become the first female dean in the history of the school, since it was established in 1947. Slováková studied documentary filmmaking at Famu and briefly served as a vice-dean under the current dean. Producer Čestmír Kopecký, who lectured at Famu, and Ondřej Zach, who currently leads Famu International, were the other candidates for the post. Six senators out of nine voted for Slováková; Kopecký and Zach received one vote each,...
The virtual reality distribution market is like a “jungle” with wildly different fees being asked for projects, says Andrea Slováková, programmer of the Vr section at the Ji.hlava Intl. Documentary Film Festival.
One of the big challenges in organizing Ji.hlava’s Vr section, she explains, is that in the emerging Vr market there are still no common standards or references for fees for festivals that want to program Vr works.
Slováková says that some Vr works are offered for free, whereas others might ask for anything from Euros 300 ($332), to Euros 1,000 or even Euros 10,000 for screening rights for five days at the festival. For festivals with a modest budget, the latter is an impossibly high sum.
“Producers and distributors are not sure how to think about fees – it is obvious that it is something that is looking for standards,” says Slováková.
Now in its fourth year, Ji.hlava’s...
One of the big challenges in organizing Ji.hlava’s Vr section, she explains, is that in the emerging Vr market there are still no common standards or references for fees for festivals that want to program Vr works.
Slováková says that some Vr works are offered for free, whereas others might ask for anything from Euros 300 ($332), to Euros 1,000 or even Euros 10,000 for screening rights for five days at the festival. For festivals with a modest budget, the latter is an impossibly high sum.
“Producers and distributors are not sure how to think about fees – it is obvious that it is something that is looking for standards,” says Slováková.
Now in its fourth year, Ji.hlava’s...
- 10/27/2019
- by Tim Dams
- Variety Film + TV
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