Anyone doubting the effectiveness of Rotterdam’s Hubert Bals Fund need only look at the make-up of next month’s Berlinale competition.
There are no fewer than three Hbf-backed features in the hunt for this year’s Golden Bear: Lav Diaz’s A Lullaby To The Sorrowful Mission, Cross Current by Yang Chao and Inhebbek Hedi (Hedi) by Mohamed Ben Attia
Hbf provides grants to filmmakers from Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and parts of Eastern Europe. The Fund, established in 1989, takes its name from the Festival’s founder, Hubert Bals, and has long been recognised as an integral part of what Iffr offers.
A total of 13 titles in Rotterdam’s programme were made with Hbf support. That, suggests Iwana Chronis, Manager Hbf, is “about average”.
Four are world premieres including two Tiger competition contenders, La Ultima Tierra from Pablo Lamar (Paraguay) and Oscura Animal from Felipe Guerrero (Colombia.) Both of these...
There are no fewer than three Hbf-backed features in the hunt for this year’s Golden Bear: Lav Diaz’s A Lullaby To The Sorrowful Mission, Cross Current by Yang Chao and Inhebbek Hedi (Hedi) by Mohamed Ben Attia
Hbf provides grants to filmmakers from Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and parts of Eastern Europe. The Fund, established in 1989, takes its name from the Festival’s founder, Hubert Bals, and has long been recognised as an integral part of what Iffr offers.
A total of 13 titles in Rotterdam’s programme were made with Hbf support. That, suggests Iwana Chronis, Manager Hbf, is “about average”.
Four are world premieres including two Tiger competition contenders, La Ultima Tierra from Pablo Lamar (Paraguay) and Oscura Animal from Felipe Guerrero (Colombia.) Both of these...
- 1/29/2016
- by geoffrey@macnab.demon.co.uk (Geoffrey Macnab)
- ScreenDaily
These days, the American movie going public is quite accustomed to seeing major motion picture based on a prior television series, as well as the opposite movement from big to small screen. But back in 1956, this wasn’t quite as common an adaptation, which may explain the lack of enthusiasm surrounding Foreign Intrigue, a beautifully photographed film directed by Sheldon Reynolds based on his successful television series of the same name, which aired 1951 to 1955. As retooled with matinee idol Robert Mitchum, the film’s rather schizophrenic narrative jumps freely between being a colorfully lush romantic European entanglement and espionage tinged noir narrative.
On the way to visit his enigmatic and mysterious employer, press agent Dave Bishop (Mitchum) finds his boss collapsed and barely breathing. The man expires in his arms, and it’s ruled his death was the cause of a heart attack. Or was it? Immediately, Bishop informs his...
On the way to visit his enigmatic and mysterious employer, press agent Dave Bishop (Mitchum) finds his boss collapsed and barely breathing. The man expires in his arms, and it’s ruled his death was the cause of a heart attack. Or was it? Immediately, Bishop informs his...
- 8/11/2015
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
This week on Off The Shelf, Ryan is joined by Brian Saur to take a look at the new DVD and Blu-ray releases for the week of August 4th, 2015, and chat about some follow-up and home video news.
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Episode Links & Notes Follow-up Vudu News Miyazaki Box Set BFI titles announced Land Before Time Kl Studio Classics: Phantom of the Opera / The Knack Criterion’s Dressed To Kill stretched, resolved Funimation to release Speed Racer on Blu-ray + (Ghost in the Shell to theaters) Clue Club from the Warner Archive on August 11th The Hunger from the Warner Archive on August 18th The World According To Garp from the Warner Archive on August 25th The Iron Giant New Releases Big House, U.S.A. Blast from the Past Flamenco, Flamenco Foreign Intrigue Free Willy He Ran All the Way I Love Lucy: The Ultimate Season 2 Innerspace The Man from U.
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Episode Links & Notes Follow-up Vudu News Miyazaki Box Set BFI titles announced Land Before Time Kl Studio Classics: Phantom of the Opera / The Knack Criterion’s Dressed To Kill stretched, resolved Funimation to release Speed Racer on Blu-ray + (Ghost in the Shell to theaters) Clue Club from the Warner Archive on August 11th The Hunger from the Warner Archive on August 18th The World According To Garp from the Warner Archive on August 25th The Iron Giant New Releases Big House, U.S.A. Blast from the Past Flamenco, Flamenco Foreign Intrigue Free Willy He Ran All the Way I Love Lucy: The Ultimate Season 2 Innerspace The Man from U.
- 8/5/2015
- by Ryan Gallagher
- CriterionCast
This story first appeared in the June 6 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. Summer readers, like moviegoers, crave blockbusters in which to lose themselves while on vacation. This year's buzzy reads find favorites going in unexpected directions (Stephen King, J.K. Rowling), familiar faces making comebacks (Hillary Clinton, Paul McCartney) and promising rookies (Joel Dicker, Terry Hayes). Foreign Intrigue The Truth About The Harry Quebert Affair by Joel Dicker (Penguin, $18, May) The international best-seller (it outsold Dan Brown's Inferno on the way to selling 2 million copies in France) by a Swiss novelist whose previous sales were
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- 5/31/2014
- by Andy Lewis
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
She made Woburn Abbey Britain's most popular stately home
Nicole Milinaire-Russell, Dowager Duchess of Bedford, who has died aged 92, was, by her own account, ruefully overworked for 14 years in the cause of converting into a highly profitable business a stately home she had never wholly liked living in. "Man is the creator, woman the organiser," she proclaimed soon after taking up residence at Woburn Abbey, Bedfordshire, in 1960 as the wife of the 13th Duke.
By 1974, when she and her husband moved out to hand over to his son Robin, the Marquess of Tavistock, Woburn had become the most popular stately home in the country. Robin was the eldest of the three sons from the duke's two previous marriages, and his continuation of the enterprise was the subject of the TV series Country House (1999-2002).
In 2003 Nicole sent from her flat in Monaco a letter to newspaper editors urging them:...
Nicole Milinaire-Russell, Dowager Duchess of Bedford, who has died aged 92, was, by her own account, ruefully overworked for 14 years in the cause of converting into a highly profitable business a stately home she had never wholly liked living in. "Man is the creator, woman the organiser," she proclaimed soon after taking up residence at Woburn Abbey, Bedfordshire, in 1960 as the wife of the 13th Duke.
By 1974, when she and her husband moved out to hand over to his son Robin, the Marquess of Tavistock, Woburn had become the most popular stately home in the country. Robin was the eldest of the three sons from the duke's two previous marriages, and his continuation of the enterprise was the subject of the TV series Country House (1999-2002).
In 2003 Nicole sent from her flat in Monaco a letter to newspaper editors urging them:...
- 9/14/2012
- by Dennis Barker
- The Guardian - Film News
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