This year the Venice Film Festival is hosting a separate competition section dedicated to Vr cinema – a first worldwide. Among the projects shortlisted, one name probably jumped out more than the others: Taiwan-based filmmaker and celebrated master of slow cinema Tsai Ming-liang.
Not necessarily the filmmaker one associates with pushing technological boundaries and crafting effects-enhanced spectacles, Tsai gave us the typically quiet, artfully designed The Deserted (at 56 minutes by far the longest-running title in the section).
After we last checked in with Mr. Tsai two years ago in Venice, we had the pleasure of sitting down with him again to talk about Vr filmmaking, control and what kind of movies he likes to watch.
The Film Stage: Did you know that the location for the festival’s Vr section, the island Lazzaretto Vecchio off the coast of Lido, used to house a hospital during the plague epidemic from the 15th...
Not necessarily the filmmaker one associates with pushing technological boundaries and crafting effects-enhanced spectacles, Tsai gave us the typically quiet, artfully designed The Deserted (at 56 minutes by far the longest-running title in the section).
After we last checked in with Mr. Tsai two years ago in Venice, we had the pleasure of sitting down with him again to talk about Vr filmmaking, control and what kind of movies he likes to watch.
The Film Stage: Did you know that the location for the festival’s Vr section, the island Lazzaretto Vecchio off the coast of Lido, used to house a hospital during the plague epidemic from the 15th...
- 9/8/2017
- by Zhuo-Ning Su
- The Film Stage
Producer-director Andrey Silvestrov’s The Ice Hole was named the winner of the first Screen International Best Pitch Award at the Moscow Business Square (Mbs).
The €400,000 comedy by Silvestrov’s new company Cooperation Propub is based on characters who are typical to the modern world: an artist, an oligarch, the Russian president and an alcoholic.
The ironic and tragic view of modern Russia also received an award sponsored by the Russian company Cosmosfilm.
In addition, the Finnish post-production house Post Control offered production services as a prize to Elizaveta Stishova’s Suleiman Mountain by Trikita Entertainment, which is being developed as part of the B’Est training programme.
The Mgap entertainment legal practice donated a prize of legal advice to the documentary project Baubxy about the Bauhaus and Vkhutemas movements by Sergei Shanovich.
Valeriy Polienko’s 1990s-set drama Kosa was selected by the Russian crowdfunding platform Planeta.ru to receive professional advice on its production.
The award-winning...
The €400,000 comedy by Silvestrov’s new company Cooperation Propub is based on characters who are typical to the modern world: an artist, an oligarch, the Russian president and an alcoholic.
The ironic and tragic view of modern Russia also received an award sponsored by the Russian company Cosmosfilm.
In addition, the Finnish post-production house Post Control offered production services as a prize to Elizaveta Stishova’s Suleiman Mountain by Trikita Entertainment, which is being developed as part of the B’Est training programme.
The Mgap entertainment legal practice donated a prize of legal advice to the documentary project Baubxy about the Bauhaus and Vkhutemas movements by Sergei Shanovich.
Valeriy Polienko’s 1990s-set drama Kosa was selected by the Russian crowdfunding platform Planeta.ru to receive professional advice on its production.
The award-winning...
- 6/24/2015
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
The Beijing International Film Festival (Bjiff) has unveiled the 15 competition titles and four gala premiees that will screen at this year’s edition (April 16-23), including opening film Maraviglioso Boccaccio, directed by Italian auteurs Paolo and Vittorio Taviani.Scroll down for full list
The Tiantan competition section include two Chinese titles – Tsui Hark’s The Taking Of Tiger Mountain and Jean-Jacques Annaud’s China-France co-production Wolf Totem – along with films from 13 different countries that will screen as a world or international premiere at the festival.
The line-up includes Italian director Michele Placido’s La Scelta, German director Marie Kreutzer’s second feature Gruber Geht, Japanese director Sono Sion’s Love & Peace, Us filmmaker Michael Almereyda’s Experimenter and Indian director M S Prakash Babu’s Fig Fruit And The Wasps (see full list below).
The four gala screenings – also world, international or Asian premieres – also include Navdeep Singh’s NH10, starring [link=nm...
The Tiantan competition section include two Chinese titles – Tsui Hark’s The Taking Of Tiger Mountain and Jean-Jacques Annaud’s China-France co-production Wolf Totem – along with films from 13 different countries that will screen as a world or international premiere at the festival.
The line-up includes Italian director Michele Placido’s La Scelta, German director Marie Kreutzer’s second feature Gruber Geht, Japanese director Sono Sion’s Love & Peace, Us filmmaker Michael Almereyda’s Experimenter and Indian director M S Prakash Babu’s Fig Fruit And The Wasps (see full list below).
The four gala screenings – also world, international or Asian premieres – also include Navdeep Singh’s NH10, starring [link=nm...
- 4/7/2015
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
Former Rome Film Festival director Marco Müller has been appointed chief consultant to the Beijing International Film Festival (Bjiff) as the five-year-old festival strives to become a world-class event.
Müller will advise the fifth edition of the festival on programming and operations, while his team of consultants will also work on various strands of the programming.
The fifth edition of Bjiff will run April 16-23.
Müller stepped down from Rome Film Festival at the end of his three-year term on December 31.
He previously headed International Film Festival Rotterdam from 1989 to 1991, Locarno from 1991 to 2000 and Venice from 2004 to 2011.
A long-time champion of Chinese and Asian cinema, Müller speaks fluent Mandarin after studying in China in the 1970s.
He was invited to the first Bjiff in 2011 as a special guest and made a keynote speech at the opening ceremony.
It is understood that he was also recently in talks with Shanghai International Film Festival about a similar position.
Organised...
Müller will advise the fifth edition of the festival on programming and operations, while his team of consultants will also work on various strands of the programming.
The fifth edition of Bjiff will run April 16-23.
Müller stepped down from Rome Film Festival at the end of his three-year term on December 31.
He previously headed International Film Festival Rotterdam from 1989 to 1991, Locarno from 1991 to 2000 and Venice from 2004 to 2011.
A long-time champion of Chinese and Asian cinema, Müller speaks fluent Mandarin after studying in China in the 1970s.
He was invited to the first Bjiff in 2011 as a special guest and made a keynote speech at the opening ceremony.
It is understood that he was also recently in talks with Shanghai International Film Festival about a similar position.
Organised...
- 1/25/2015
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
A still from Vinay Shukla and Khushboo Ranka’s Proposition for a Revolution
Nfdc Film Bazaar’s Work-in-Progress Lab has announced its selection in Fiction and Documentary categories.
The Work-in-Progress (Wip) Lab gives filmmakers a chance to have their rough-cut feature-length films viewed by an eminent panel of international advisers. These advisers have a one-on-one discussion with the filmmaker with an intention to help the filmmaker achieve an accomplished final cut of the film.
Nfdc Film Bazaar 2014 will be held from November 20-24 in Goa Mariott Resort.
Work-in-Progress Lab 2014:
Fiction :
Bokul by Reema Borah Highway by Umesh Vinayak Kulkarni Nil Battey Sannata by Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari Tathagat by Manav Kaul Thithi by Raam Reddy
Documentary :
12 Acres by Rajesh Thind Maidaan (Home Ground) by Kavita Carneiro Nehi Mozo Hanü Dizo Le (Without You, I am Nothing) by Anushka Meenakshi and Iswar Srikumar Proposition for a Revolution by Khushboo Ranka...
Nfdc Film Bazaar’s Work-in-Progress Lab has announced its selection in Fiction and Documentary categories.
The Work-in-Progress (Wip) Lab gives filmmakers a chance to have their rough-cut feature-length films viewed by an eminent panel of international advisers. These advisers have a one-on-one discussion with the filmmaker with an intention to help the filmmaker achieve an accomplished final cut of the film.
Nfdc Film Bazaar 2014 will be held from November 20-24 in Goa Mariott Resort.
Work-in-Progress Lab 2014:
Fiction :
Bokul by Reema Borah Highway by Umesh Vinayak Kulkarni Nil Battey Sannata by Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari Tathagat by Manav Kaul Thithi by Raam Reddy
Documentary :
12 Acres by Rajesh Thind Maidaan (Home Ground) by Kavita Carneiro Nehi Mozo Hanü Dizo Le (Without You, I am Nothing) by Anushka Meenakshi and Iswar Srikumar Proposition for a Revolution by Khushboo Ranka...
- 11/8/2014
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Japanese filmmaker behind Audition and Ichi the Killer to receive Maverick Director Award; As The Gods Will to world premiere in Rome.
Japanese director, screenwriter, actor, and film producer Takashi Miike is to receive the 2014 Maverick Director Award during the 9th Rome Film Festival (October 16-25)
The award is dedicated to filmmakers who have contributed to the invention of a new, original, and unconventional cinema.
Miike is known for his extreme, edgy genre films such as Audition (1999), Ichi the Killer (2001) and 13 Assassins (2012), with a filmography that stretches to nearly 100 titles.
The filmmaker will accept his award at the world premiere screening of his new film, As the Gods Will (Kamisama no iutoori).
Marco Müller, artistic director of the Rome Film Festival, said: “For the recurring power of his creative imagination and the courage of his ideas, Miike Takashi is a filmmaker who is absolutely beyond compare.
“Every one of his films is a breakneck race through a uncannily...
Japanese director, screenwriter, actor, and film producer Takashi Miike is to receive the 2014 Maverick Director Award during the 9th Rome Film Festival (October 16-25)
The award is dedicated to filmmakers who have contributed to the invention of a new, original, and unconventional cinema.
Miike is known for his extreme, edgy genre films such as Audition (1999), Ichi the Killer (2001) and 13 Assassins (2012), with a filmography that stretches to nearly 100 titles.
The filmmaker will accept his award at the world premiere screening of his new film, As the Gods Will (Kamisama no iutoori).
Marco Müller, artistic director of the Rome Film Festival, said: “For the recurring power of his creative imagination and the courage of his ideas, Miike Takashi is a filmmaker who is absolutely beyond compare.
“Every one of his films is a breakneck race through a uncannily...
- 9/22/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Audience to decide the award-winners in each section, which have changed name and focus for this year’s festival.
Artistic director Marco Müller has announced new changes to this year’s Rome Film Festival, taking place Oct 16-25.
This year, the award-winners in each section of the programme will be decided by the audience on the basis of votes cast after the screenings.
Each section has changed name and focus for 2014 and are all competitive, resulting in the festival’s structure being “slimmer’ this year with around 40 feature-length films.
The sections are as follows: Cinema d’Oggi will present films by both young and well-known authors; Gala will select “popular but original” films; Mondo Genere will be a collection of films from various film genres; and Prospettive Italia will present a survet of the latest trends in Italian cinema.
From these, the audience will assign various award winners, with all of the winning films screening on Oct...
Artistic director Marco Müller has announced new changes to this year’s Rome Film Festival, taking place Oct 16-25.
This year, the award-winners in each section of the programme will be decided by the audience on the basis of votes cast after the screenings.
Each section has changed name and focus for 2014 and are all competitive, resulting in the festival’s structure being “slimmer’ this year with around 40 feature-length films.
The sections are as follows: Cinema d’Oggi will present films by both young and well-known authors; Gala will select “popular but original” films; Mondo Genere will be a collection of films from various film genres; and Prospettive Italia will present a survet of the latest trends in Italian cinema.
From these, the audience will assign various award winners, with all of the winning films screening on Oct...
- 7/7/2014
- by ian.sandwell@screendaily.com (Ian Sandwell)
- ScreenDaily
The 9th Rome Film Festival, to be held from October 16-25, is calling for entries.
The festival will only consider feature length films as submissions. All submitted films must be recent productions completed not prior to 1st December 2013. They must not have been presented in any other format or length, not even as works-in-progress, for submission to previous editions of the Festival. With the exception of Out of Competition films, films that have had prior public screenings, have participated in other international festivals or are available on the Internet, cannnot be presented at the Rome Film Festival.
Entries are open in the following categories: New International Cinema (A selection of a maximum of 14 feature films of young or already successful directors, priority to world premieres); Gala (A selection of some of the year’s most important films, for a maximum of 11 titles. Only feature films that are world premieres, international...
The festival will only consider feature length films as submissions. All submitted films must be recent productions completed not prior to 1st December 2013. They must not have been presented in any other format or length, not even as works-in-progress, for submission to previous editions of the Festival. With the exception of Out of Competition films, films that have had prior public screenings, have participated in other international festivals or are available on the Internet, cannnot be presented at the Rome Film Festival.
Entries are open in the following categories: New International Cinema (A selection of a maximum of 14 feature films of young or already successful directors, priority to world premieres); Gala (A selection of some of the year’s most important films, for a maximum of 11 titles. Only feature films that are world premieres, international...
- 7/2/2014
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
How must festivals must change to survive in the digital age? How can they continue to support independent film and filmmakers, build audiences, increase film literacy and encourage vital dialogue when watching films on a big screen is no longer the norm? Panels and programs at Rotterdam grappled with these issues, but the festival itself illustrated some of the confusion of these shifting roles.Next year, the festival will launch Iffr Live! Audiences around the world will be able to watch film premieres at the same time as festival audiences. Selected films will stream simultaneously in art houses and online platforms and spectators will be able to participate in Q&As via social media. Currently supported by Iffr, Fortissimo Films, Trust Nordisk Film Sales and Doc&Film, Iffr Live! is intended to boost theatrical audiences for European films. A panel of festival artistic directors-- Marco Müller (Rome), Frédéric...
- 2/4/2014
- by Torene Svitil
- Thompson on Hollywood
Rome played host to a lot of great movies this month -- but not necessarily the right ones. Still struggling to reconcile its need to please local ticket-buyers, who demand local and international stars, and a difficult international crowd, who'd rather have good movies, the Rome Film Festival (which concluded its eighth edition in the Eternal City last weekend) has been labelled as "schizophrenic" even by festival director Marco Müller himself. A rather minor film, the Italian docu-fiction hybrid "Tir," about a truck driver from former Yugoslavia, won the festival's top prize, ending the festivities on a whimper. Last year, which was the first edition under the stewardship of former Venice director Müller, promised over 60 world premieres and indeed delivered, though premiere status was hardly a guarantee of quality. Indeed, most of the titles were obscure and not very good, mainly due to the fact that Rome's early November slot...
- 11/19/2013
- by Boyd van Hoeij
- Indiewire
Matthew McConaughey and Scarlett Johansson win actor prizes.Scroll down for full list of winners
Tir, the first narrative film by Italian director Alberto Fasulo, has picked up the Golden Marc Aurelio Award for best film at the 8th Rome Film Fesival.
The docu-drama explores the current econmic crisis as seen through the eyes of a former professor who becomes a trucker to solve his money problems. It stars Slovenian actor Branko Zavrsan (No Man’s Land).
Fasulo is best known for documentaries including White Noise (Rumore bianco). Tir is being sold internationally by Fandango Sales.
One of 18 competition titles, Tir beat heavyweight Us titles including Jean-Marc Vallee’s Dallas Buyers Club, Spike Jonze’s Her and Scott Cooper’s Out of the Furnace.
However, all three of those films did manage to secure wins at the festival on Saturday evening.
Scarlett Johansson, who walked the red carpet at Rome earlier in the festival, won the best...
Tir, the first narrative film by Italian director Alberto Fasulo, has picked up the Golden Marc Aurelio Award for best film at the 8th Rome Film Fesival.
The docu-drama explores the current econmic crisis as seen through the eyes of a former professor who becomes a trucker to solve his money problems. It stars Slovenian actor Branko Zavrsan (No Man’s Land).
Fasulo is best known for documentaries including White Noise (Rumore bianco). Tir is being sold internationally by Fandango Sales.
One of 18 competition titles, Tir beat heavyweight Us titles including Jean-Marc Vallee’s Dallas Buyers Club, Spike Jonze’s Her and Scott Cooper’s Out of the Furnace.
However, all three of those films did manage to secure wins at the festival on Saturday evening.
Scarlett Johansson, who walked the red carpet at Rome earlier in the festival, won the best...
- 11/17/2013
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
A total of 24 co-production projects and sections devoted to China, digital and remakes help make up Rome’s industry events.
The 8th Rome Film Festival (Nov 8-17) has revealed details of its International Film Market ahead of its launch next week.
Rome’s key industry initiatives – the informal The Business Street (TBS) screenings market and the New Cinema Network (Ncn) co-production market – will run from Nov 13-17.
Organisers are expecting distributors and producers from 45 countries and 700 accredited visitors as well as 24 selected projects, a China Day and a new initiative dedicated to remakes as well as meetings, panel discussions and conferences.
Single venue; digital focus
For its eighth edition, TBS will take place once again in Via Veneto, the street famously featured in Federico Fellini’s La Dolce Vita.
But for the first time both TBS and Ncn will be held in a single venue, the Hotel Bernini Bristol.
The Terrace will host the buyers and sellers...
The 8th Rome Film Festival (Nov 8-17) has revealed details of its International Film Market ahead of its launch next week.
Rome’s key industry initiatives – the informal The Business Street (TBS) screenings market and the New Cinema Network (Ncn) co-production market – will run from Nov 13-17.
Organisers are expecting distributors and producers from 45 countries and 700 accredited visitors as well as 24 selected projects, a China Day and a new initiative dedicated to remakes as well as meetings, panel discussions and conferences.
Single venue; digital focus
For its eighth edition, TBS will take place once again in Via Veneto, the street famously featured in Federico Fellini’s La Dolce Vita.
But for the first time both TBS and Ncn will be held in a single venue, the Hotel Bernini Bristol.
The Terrace will host the buyers and sellers...
- 11/4/2013
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Us director James Gray to preside over main competition jury, as previously announced.
Marco Müller, artistic director of the 8th Rome Film Festival (Nov 8-17), has announced the jury members who will complete the Competition Jury.
Jury president James Gray will be joined by:
Verónica Chen (Argentina);Luca Guadagnino (Italy);Aleksei Guskov (Russia);Noémie Lvovsky (France);Amir Naderi (Iran);Zhang Yuan (China).
(See below for more details on the jury)
The Jury will confer the feature films in Competition the:
Golden Marc’Aurelio Award for Best FilmBest Director AwardSpecial Jury PrizeBest Actor AwardBest Actress AwardAward for Emerging Actor or ActressAward for Best Technical ContributionAward for Best Screenplay.
It was also announced today that Italian actress Anna Foglietta will host the awards ceremony on Nov 16.
The actress, whose credits include Anton Corbijn’s 2010 thriller The American, starring Geroge Clooney, will continue to do the honours through the second part of the evening, when the Maverick...
Marco Müller, artistic director of the 8th Rome Film Festival (Nov 8-17), has announced the jury members who will complete the Competition Jury.
Jury president James Gray will be joined by:
Verónica Chen (Argentina);Luca Guadagnino (Italy);Aleksei Guskov (Russia);Noémie Lvovsky (France);Amir Naderi (Iran);Zhang Yuan (China).
(See below for more details on the jury)
The Jury will confer the feature films in Competition the:
Golden Marc’Aurelio Award for Best FilmBest Director AwardSpecial Jury PrizeBest Actor AwardBest Actress AwardAward for Emerging Actor or ActressAward for Best Technical ContributionAward for Best Screenplay.
It was also announced today that Italian actress Anna Foglietta will host the awards ceremony on Nov 16.
The actress, whose credits include Anton Corbijn’s 2010 thriller The American, starring Geroge Clooney, will continue to do the honours through the second part of the evening, when the Maverick...
- 10/29/2013
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Hong Kong director, producer, and screenwriter Tsui Hark is to receive the Maverick Director Award at the 8th Rome Film Festival (Nov 8-17).
The award is dedicated to auteurs who have contributed to the invention of a new, non-conformist cinema.
Marco Müller, artistic director of the Rome Film Festival, said: “Tsui Hark will always be one step ahead. He has never stopped experimenting, delving deep into the genres, exploring the limits of technology as he follows its non-stop evolution.
“He has reinterpreted the Chinese filmmaking tradition, turning the codes and conventions of Western cinema upside down.”
Hark has had a prolific film career with past credits including Double Team (1997), Knock Off (1998) and Seven Swords (2005) as well as the film series Once Upon A Time in China and the A Chinese Ghost Story trilogy.
The award will be presented by French director Olivier Assayas (L’eau froide, Irma Vep, Les Destinées Sentimentales) and will be accompanied by a master...
The award is dedicated to auteurs who have contributed to the invention of a new, non-conformist cinema.
Marco Müller, artistic director of the Rome Film Festival, said: “Tsui Hark will always be one step ahead. He has never stopped experimenting, delving deep into the genres, exploring the limits of technology as he follows its non-stop evolution.
“He has reinterpreted the Chinese filmmaking tradition, turning the codes and conventions of Western cinema upside down.”
Hark has had a prolific film career with past credits including Double Team (1997), Knock Off (1998) and Seven Swords (2005) as well as the film series Once Upon A Time in China and the A Chinese Ghost Story trilogy.
The award will be presented by French director Olivier Assayas (L’eau froide, Irma Vep, Les Destinées Sentimentales) and will be accompanied by a master...
- 9/26/2013
- ScreenDaily
“Maybe I was straitjacketing myself because even back when I was doing Tulsa or Teenage Lust, I wouldn't go see movies about teenagers. I wouldn't look at books if they were about teenagers, because I was afraid that either I would be influenced or that someone had already done something that I had done, or someone was doing it better. I was just afraid to look at anything, because I didn't want any ideas. I don't know why, but I didn't. Just frightened. Scared to death.”
—Larry Clark
“I am a complete man, having both sexes of the mind.”
—Jules Michelet
When you have nothing, the very wise Luc Moullet tells us, you should cultivate relentless artifice. These days, Larry Clark is almost there, down to one thing: Marfa, a bitty town in Texas. And Marfa has been oft blessed, first just obliquely by Edna Ferber, then harder by George Stevens,...
—Larry Clark
“I am a complete man, having both sexes of the mind.”
—Jules Michelet
When you have nothing, the very wise Luc Moullet tells us, you should cultivate relentless artifice. These days, Larry Clark is almost there, down to one thing: Marfa, a bitty town in Texas. And Marfa has been oft blessed, first just obliquely by Edna Ferber, then harder by George Stevens,...
- 2/4/2013
- by Uncas Blythe
- MUBI
The 7th Rome Film Festival (Festival Internazionale del Film di Roma) will confer its Lifetime Achievement Award to Quentin Tarantino. The American director, screenwriter, actor, and producer, winner of an Oscar® for Pulp Fiction, the author of extraordinary works such as Reservoir Dogs, Jackie Brown, Kill Bill:Vol.1, Kill Bill:Vol.2 and Inglourious Basterds, will receive the award on January 4th on the occasion of the gala screening of the new film he has written and directed, Django Unchained, starring Jamie Foxx, Leonardo Di Caprio, Christoph Waltz, Samuel L. Jackson, and Kerry Washington. The celebrated film-composer Ennio Morricone will be presenting the award to the director. “Quentin Tarantino’s vision has radically influenced our collective imagery over the past twenty years – explains Marco Müller, artistic director of the Rome Film Festival – Tarantino is a profoundly American yet very European filmmaker, because the relationship he has established with cinema and its...
- 12/28/2012
- by aablog@hollywoodnews.com (Josh Abraham)
- Hollywoodnews.com
The 7th Rome Film Festival will confer its Lifetime Achievement Award on Quentin Tarantino.
Tarantino will receive the award on January 4th on the occasion of the gala screening of his new film Django Unchained, starring Jamie Foxx, Leonardo Di Caprio, Christoph Waltz, Samuel L. Jackson, and Kerry Washington.
The celebrated film-composer Ennio Morricone will present the award to Tarantino.
The American director, screenwriter, actor, and producer won an Oscar for Pulp Fiction. He has directed cult films such as Reservoir Dogs, Jackie Brown, Kill Bill:Vol.1, Kill Bill:Vol.2 and Inglourious Basterds.
“Quentin Tarantino’s vision has radically influenced our collective imagery over the past twenty years – explains Marco Müller, artistic director of the Rome Film Festival – Tarantino is a profoundly American yet very European filmmaker, because the relationship he has established with cinema and its history is as analytical as it is passionate. He has cultivated a coherent project of mise-en-scene,...
Tarantino will receive the award on January 4th on the occasion of the gala screening of his new film Django Unchained, starring Jamie Foxx, Leonardo Di Caprio, Christoph Waltz, Samuel L. Jackson, and Kerry Washington.
The celebrated film-composer Ennio Morricone will present the award to Tarantino.
The American director, screenwriter, actor, and producer won an Oscar for Pulp Fiction. He has directed cult films such as Reservoir Dogs, Jackie Brown, Kill Bill:Vol.1, Kill Bill:Vol.2 and Inglourious Basterds.
“Quentin Tarantino’s vision has radically influenced our collective imagery over the past twenty years – explains Marco Müller, artistic director of the Rome Film Festival – Tarantino is a profoundly American yet very European filmmaker, because the relationship he has established with cinema and its history is as analytical as it is passionate. He has cultivated a coherent project of mise-en-scene,...
- 12/28/2012
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Marco Müller, the artistic director of the Rome Film Festival, has announced the names of the members of the International Competition Jury. Jeff Nichols, the American director and screenwriter of Shotgun Stories, Take Shelter and Mud will be its chairman. The rest of the jury consists of Russian-Kazakh director and producer Timur Bekmambetov, Italian actress Valentina Cervi, American film critic and festival director Chris Fujiwara, Iranian actress Leila Hatami, Australian director P.J.Hogan, and Argentine writer and director Edgardo Cozarinsky. Read More...
- 11/1/2012
- Bollywood Trade
Italian cinema industry sides with Marco Müller
by Vittoria Scarpa from Cineuropa.org
Bertolucci, Olmi, Bellocchio, Salvatores, Crialese, as well as Toni Servillo, Stefania Sandrelli, the producers Riccardo Tozzi andPietro Valsecchi, and singer-songwriter Franco Battiato feature amongst the 150 signatories of an appeal in favour of the new director of the Rome Film Festival, Marco Müller.
In an open letter, released today and addressed to politicians and administrators, artists of the film and entertainment industry ask that Müller be placed in the "conditions to guarantee that an all too near 2012 edition takes place", and that his contract as director of the Rome Film Festival therefore be closed.
Marco Müller's nomination as artistic director, on March 16 (see the news), has in fact still not been turned into a signed contract. According to rumours, the former director of the Venice Film Festival is becoming increasingly worried with regards to timing and has not made a mystery of the fact that he considers Cannes as a deadline (The French festival starts on May 16). The next board of director's meeting of the Fondazione Cinema per Roma, which could lead to a conclusion of the matter, will take place on Friday, assured the President Paolo Ferrari, dismissing the rumours going around about the alleged problems with the staff of selectors suggested by Müller.
"Any further loss of time would be a defeat for Rome and a huge setback for Italian cinema", says the appeal, "And would probably lead to the event's death and the cancellation of any future prospects".
(Translated from Italian)...
by Vittoria Scarpa from Cineuropa.org
Bertolucci, Olmi, Bellocchio, Salvatores, Crialese, as well as Toni Servillo, Stefania Sandrelli, the producers Riccardo Tozzi andPietro Valsecchi, and singer-songwriter Franco Battiato feature amongst the 150 signatories of an appeal in favour of the new director of the Rome Film Festival, Marco Müller.
In an open letter, released today and addressed to politicians and administrators, artists of the film and entertainment industry ask that Müller be placed in the "conditions to guarantee that an all too near 2012 edition takes place", and that his contract as director of the Rome Film Festival therefore be closed.
Marco Müller's nomination as artistic director, on March 16 (see the news), has in fact still not been turned into a signed contract. According to rumours, the former director of the Venice Film Festival is becoming increasingly worried with regards to timing and has not made a mystery of the fact that he considers Cannes as a deadline (The French festival starts on May 16). The next board of director's meeting of the Fondazione Cinema per Roma, which could lead to a conclusion of the matter, will take place on Friday, assured the President Paolo Ferrari, dismissing the rumours going around about the alleged problems with the staff of selectors suggested by Müller.
"Any further loss of time would be a defeat for Rome and a huge setback for Italian cinema", says the appeal, "And would probably lead to the event's death and the cancellation of any future prospects".
(Translated from Italian)...
- 5/3/2012
- by Vittoria Scarpa
- Sydney's Buzz
Marco Muller
Renowned Italian filmmakers Bertolucci, Olmi, Bellocchio, Salvatores, Crialese, as well as Toni Servillo, Stefania Sandrelli, the producers Riccardo Tozzi and Pietro Valsecchi, and singer-songwriter Franco Battiato feature amongst the 150 signatories of an appeal in favour of the new director of the Rome Film Festival, Marco Müller.
In an open letter addressed to politicians and administrators; artists of the film and entertainment industry ask that Müller be placed in the “conditions to guarantee that an all too near 2012 edition takes place”, and that his contract as director of the Rome Film Festival therefore be closed.
Marco Müller’s nomination as artistic director on March 16 (see news here) has in fact still not been turned into a signed contract. According to rumours, the former director of the Venice Film Festival is becoming increasingly worried with regards to timing and has not made a mystery of the fact that he considers Cannes as a deadline.
Renowned Italian filmmakers Bertolucci, Olmi, Bellocchio, Salvatores, Crialese, as well as Toni Servillo, Stefania Sandrelli, the producers Riccardo Tozzi and Pietro Valsecchi, and singer-songwriter Franco Battiato feature amongst the 150 signatories of an appeal in favour of the new director of the Rome Film Festival, Marco Müller.
In an open letter addressed to politicians and administrators; artists of the film and entertainment industry ask that Müller be placed in the “conditions to guarantee that an all too near 2012 edition takes place”, and that his contract as director of the Rome Film Festival therefore be closed.
Marco Müller’s nomination as artistic director on March 16 (see news here) has in fact still not been turned into a signed contract. According to rumours, the former director of the Venice Film Festival is becoming increasingly worried with regards to timing and has not made a mystery of the fact that he considers Cannes as a deadline.
- 5/3/2012
- by Cineuropa
- DearCinema.com
It's been a newsy day. We lost Tonino Guerra and Ulu Grosbard, the Hong Kong and New Directors/New Films festivals have opened, Takashi Miike has yet another film on the way and Casablanca, celebrating its 70th, is playing coast to coast. It's also been a fine day for posters, so I'm pepping up today's Briefing with a few for festivals and events happening soon or already ongoing. Kevin Tong designed the one above for the three films that Edgar Wright will be on hand to present at the opening of the Alamo Drafthouse on Slaughter Lane in Austin this weekend.
The lineup and schedule for Ebertfest 2012, running April 25 through 29, has been set and Roger Ebert discusses each of the titles in his Journal. Among the highlights: David Bordwell will lead a discussion of Citizen Kane, Patton Oswalt will host a session on Kind Hearts and Coronets and it looks...
The lineup and schedule for Ebertfest 2012, running April 25 through 29, has been set and Roger Ebert discusses each of the titles in his Journal. Among the highlights: David Bordwell will lead a discussion of Citizen Kane, Patton Oswalt will host a session on Kind Hearts and Coronets and it looks...
- 3/21/2012
- MUBI
For the tenth edition of Film Art: An Introduction, David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson are partnering with Criterion to present Connect Film, an hour-long set of twenty videos on various aspects of filmmaking addressed in the now-classic textbook. Above: "Elliptical Editing in Vagabond (1985)." Kristin Thompson: "Most of the other Connect examples illustrate the chapters on the four types of film technique: mise-en-scene, cinematography, editing, and sound. There's also a short documentary about digital animation."
More books. You may remember that Dave Kehr is quite an admirer of the writing of Arlene Croce, a dance critic for the New Yorker from 1973 to 1998. She's also the author of The Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers Book and, in the new issue of the New York Review of Books, she reviews Todd Decker's Music Makes Me: Fred Astaire and Jazz and Kathleen Riley's The Astaires: Fred and Adele. As the Boston Globe's Mark Feeney writes,...
More books. You may remember that Dave Kehr is quite an admirer of the writing of Arlene Croce, a dance critic for the New Yorker from 1973 to 1998. She's also the author of The Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers Book and, in the new issue of the New York Review of Books, she reviews Todd Decker's Music Makes Me: Fred Astaire and Jazz and Kathleen Riley's The Astaires: Fred and Adele. As the Boston Globe's Mark Feeney writes,...
- 3/19/2012
- MUBI
"The agony and perverse ecstasy of unrequited love permeate Terence Davies's The Deep Blue Sea," writes Graham Fuller at the top of his interview with the director. Also in the new March/April 2012 issue of Film Comment: Jonathan Rosenbaum remembers Gilbert Adair (plus a few online exclusives: Adair on Mae West and his "Cliché Expert's Guide to the Cinema"), Anton Dolin examines "The Strange Case of Russian Maverick Aleksei German" (see, too, J Hoberman's 1990 piece for Fc on German) and Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life tops the Reader's "20 Best Films of 2011" Poll — plus comments.
Then there are the shorter bits from the issue online: Nicolas Rapold on Pablo Giorgelli's Las Acacias and Athina Rachel Tsangari's Attenberg (more from Eric Hynes [Time Out New York, 4/5], Eric Kohn [indieWIRE], Anthony Lane [New Yorker], Dennis Lim [New York Times], Karina Longworth [Voice], Henry Stewart [L] and Michael Tully [Hammer to Nail]), Phillip Lopate on Jafar Panahi and Mojtaba Mirtahmasb's This Is Not a Film...
Then there are the shorter bits from the issue online: Nicolas Rapold on Pablo Giorgelli's Las Acacias and Athina Rachel Tsangari's Attenberg (more from Eric Hynes [Time Out New York, 4/5], Eric Kohn [indieWIRE], Anthony Lane [New Yorker], Dennis Lim [New York Times], Karina Longworth [Voice], Henry Stewart [L] and Michael Tully [Hammer to Nail]), Phillip Lopate on Jafar Panahi and Mojtaba Mirtahmasb's This Is Not a Film...
- 3/7/2012
- MUBI
The second edition of the N1FR, n+1's film review, "is very late," begins editor As Hamrah, but there's no need to apologize. The timing is perfect, arriving just many of us will be desperate for distraction from what promises to be a very noisy weekend. As Hamrah notes, there's not one piece in the entire issue on "even one film nominated for an Oscar this year."
Instead, we have Chris Fujiwara setting Vincent Gallo and George Clooney next to each other and riffing on the juxtaposition, Christine Smallwood on Apichatpong Weerasethakul and on Werner Herzog's Cave of Forgotten Dreams, Jeanette Samyn and Jonathan Kyle Sturgeon on Pedro Costa, Dmitry Martov on Serge Bozon and his circle, Emily Gould on Badmaash Company, a Bollywood movie that screams out to be compared and contrasted with The Social Network, Jennifer Krasinski on the rise of the polymath, Ben Maraniss on Mel Gibson,...
Instead, we have Chris Fujiwara setting Vincent Gallo and George Clooney next to each other and riffing on the juxtaposition, Christine Smallwood on Apichatpong Weerasethakul and on Werner Herzog's Cave of Forgotten Dreams, Jeanette Samyn and Jonathan Kyle Sturgeon on Pedro Costa, Dmitry Martov on Serge Bozon and his circle, Emily Gould on Badmaash Company, a Bollywood movie that screams out to be compared and contrasted with The Social Network, Jennifer Krasinski on the rise of the polymath, Ben Maraniss on Mel Gibson,...
- 2/25/2012
- MUBI
Our Deaths, in memoriam was the project title of Lav Diaz' Kagadanan sa Banwaan Ning mga Engkanto (2007). For the Ferroni Brigade, it became the motto of Venice 2011—specters of dear lives gone seemed to roam the event, the Mostra internazionale d’arte cinematografica as well as the Esposizione internazionale d'arte, and beyond.
We always commemorate the murder of Nika Bohinc and Alexis Tioseco on September 1st 2009, quietly, invariably in Venice; it was here that we heard about the crime; now, whenever we go to the press room to check our e-mails, deep down something inside us is afraid of getting another message like that one; fittingly, one of the last films we saw this year was Diaz' latest, Siglo ng Pagluluwal (Century of Birthing, 2011), which ends with a dedication to them, and talks about the way our loved ones, just like cherished ideas, notions and visions are essentially eternal,...
We always commemorate the murder of Nika Bohinc and Alexis Tioseco on September 1st 2009, quietly, invariably in Venice; it was here that we heard about the crime; now, whenever we go to the press room to check our e-mails, deep down something inside us is afraid of getting another message like that one; fittingly, one of the last films we saw this year was Diaz' latest, Siglo ng Pagluluwal (Century of Birthing, 2011), which ends with a dedication to them, and talks about the way our loved ones, just like cherished ideas, notions and visions are essentially eternal,...
- 2/7/2012
- MUBI
The Berlin International Film Festival has announced its selections for its Culinary Cinema and Forum Expanded programs. "Trust in Taste" is the theme for this year's Culinary Cinema program. Erin Brockovich is scheduled to make an appearance to discuss her environmentalism. Notable in Forum Expanded is "whiteonwhite:algorithmicnoir," a film edited live in real time which shows a man under surveillance in a fictional East European city. The film will be different every showing. Full press releases included below: Culinary Cinema 2012: “Trust in Taste” “Trust in Taste” is the motto of the 6th Culinary Cinema of the 62nd Berlinale that will be held from February 12 to 17, 2012. Fifteen films about food and the environment will be presented in the Martin-Gropius-Bau. Following the screenings, at 7:30 pm, renowned chef Sonja Frühsammer and star chefs Michael Kempf, Christian Lohse, Marco Müller from...
- 1/23/2012
- Indiewire
Back in December, we got our first look at Forum Expanded, a program of exhibitions, performances and other works that don't necessarily entail lowering the lights and peering straight ahead at the big white screen. So we already know that we'll be seeing new work by Luke Fowler, Harun Farocki and many others. The first of today's announcements from the Berlinale (February 9 through 19) fills in the details.
The addition, for example, of whiteonwhite:algorithmicnoir (image above) by Eve Sussman/Rufus Corporation, "a film edited live in real time which shows a man under surveillance in a fictional East European city," solidifies the impression that Forum Expanded is a rough equivalent of Toronto's Future Projections program and Sundance's New Frontier since, by the time it rolls into Berlin, it'll already have been presented by both.
Other notable additions since December's announcement: Luc Moullet's "uncompleted project about two thieves (mother and daughter...
The addition, for example, of whiteonwhite:algorithmicnoir (image above) by Eve Sussman/Rufus Corporation, "a film edited live in real time which shows a man under surveillance in a fictional East European city," solidifies the impression that Forum Expanded is a rough equivalent of Toronto's Future Projections program and Sundance's New Frontier since, by the time it rolls into Berlin, it'll already have been presented by both.
Other notable additions since December's announcement: Luc Moullet's "uncompleted project about two thieves (mother and daughter...
- 1/23/2012
- MUBI
The lineup for the 2011 Venice International Film Festival has been unveiled. George Clooney's The Ides Of March opens the event, while Madonna's W.E. also screens. Other highlights across the sections include new features from Roman Polanski, Al Pacino, Todd Solonz, Jonathan Demme, James Franco, David Cronenberg, Steven Soderbergh, Abel Ferrara, William Friedkin and Andrea Arnold. Below is a list of films screening in the major sections at the Venice International Film Festival, which runs from August 31 to September 10 and is directed by Marco Müller. In Competition
The Ides Of March (George Clooney)
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (Tomas Alfredson)
Wuthering Heights (Andrea Arnold)
Texas Killing Fields (Ami Canaan Maan)
Quando La Notte (Cristina Comencini)
Terraferma (Emanuele Crialese)
A Dangerous Method (David (more)...
The Ides Of March (George Clooney)
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (Tomas Alfredson)
Wuthering Heights (Andrea Arnold)
Texas Killing Fields (Ami Canaan Maan)
Quando La Notte (Cristina Comencini)
Terraferma (Emanuele Crialese)
A Dangerous Method (David (more)...
- 7/28/2011
- by By Mayer Nissim
- Digital Spy
The lineup for the 2011 Venice International Film Festival has been unveiled. George Clooney's The Ides Of March opens the festival while Madonna's W.E. also screens. Other highlights across the sections include new features from Roman Polanski, Al Pacino, Todd Solonz, Jonathan Demme, James Franco, David Cronenberg, Steven Soderbergh, Abel Ferrara, William Friedkin and Andrea Arnold. Below is a full list of films screening at the Venice International Film Festival, which runs from August 31 to September 10 and is directed by Marco Müller. In Competition
The Ides Of March (George Clooney)
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (Tomas Alfredson)
Wuthering Heights (Andrea Arnold)
Texas Killing Fields (Ami Canaan Maan)
Quando La Notte (Cristina Comencini)
Terraferma (Emanuele Crialese)
A Dangerous Method (David Cronenberg)
4:44 (more)...
The Ides Of March (George Clooney)
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (Tomas Alfredson)
Wuthering Heights (Andrea Arnold)
Texas Killing Fields (Ami Canaan Maan)
Quando La Notte (Cristina Comencini)
Terraferma (Emanuele Crialese)
A Dangerous Method (David Cronenberg)
4:44 (more)...
- 7/28/2011
- by By Mayer Nissim
- Digital Spy
Darren Aronofsky, acclaimed American director of films like Black Swan and The Wrestler, has been nominated to head the competition Jury of the 68th Venice International Film Festival, the oldest film festival in the world. The decision was announced by the Board of Directors of the Biennale di Venezia, chaired by Paolo Baratta, and the Director of the festival, Marco Müller. Black Swan had opened the festival last year and The Wrestler had won the festival’s top prize, the Venice Golden Lion, in 2008. Read More...
- 4/28/2011
- Bollywood Trade
Above: Brigade members Olaf Möller and Christoph Huber. Photo copyright Gerwin Tamsma.
While the Ferroni Brigade is a merry bunch indeed, its members only rarely look that happy; or put another way: If we smile like that: easy and relaxed, it simply has to be Venice.
As we’re in uniform, the picture is easy to date: It must have been made on September 7th… Okay, this probably needs some explanation. It’s like this: Each festival, the Ferronians chose an especially promising, i.e. potentially supremely festive day, to collectively show their colours. For Venice 2010, that was September 7th—Mario Martone’s Noi credevamo screened then, a work of most Ferronian length (over 200 minutes) and subject matter (the Risorgimento) whose title could well be considered a Ferronian creed (well, we still believe, despite...); sad to say it turned out to be one of the festival’s rare disappointments—strong,...
While the Ferroni Brigade is a merry bunch indeed, its members only rarely look that happy; or put another way: If we smile like that: easy and relaxed, it simply has to be Venice.
As we’re in uniform, the picture is easy to date: It must have been made on September 7th… Okay, this probably needs some explanation. It’s like this: Each festival, the Ferronians chose an especially promising, i.e. potentially supremely festive day, to collectively show their colours. For Venice 2010, that was September 7th—Mario Martone’s Noi credevamo screened then, a work of most Ferronian length (over 200 minutes) and subject matter (the Risorgimento) whose title could well be considered a Ferronian creed (well, we still believe, despite...); sad to say it turned out to be one of the festival’s rare disappointments—strong,...
- 11/22/2010
- MUBI
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