AFI Fest 2009 Awards AFI Fest 2009: Hollywood/Santa Monica, Oct. 30-Nov. 7, 2009 Andrea Arnold’s Fish Tank focuses on a working-class teenager (Katie Jarvis) frustrated that her mother has found a new beau (Michael Fassbender); Javier Rebollo’s Woman Without Piano is a dramatic portrait of 24 hours in the life of a Madrid housewife (Carmen Machi); and Scandar Copti and Yaron Shani’s Ajami (above) chronicles the day-to-day, anything-but-routine lives of several denizens of a tough neighborhood in Jaffa, where Muslims, Jews, and Christians are sworn to live in bloody disharmony. New Lights Competition Award Winner Fish Tank Dir: Andrea Arnold UK Woman Without Piano (La Mujer Sin Piano) Dir: Javier Rebollo Spain/France Special Jury Mention Ajami Dir: Scandar Copti, Yaron Shani Israel/Germany AFI Fest 2009 New Lights [...]...
- 11/6/2009
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
- Lots of Fall festival news today from New York, Toronto and Spain and I know what my first piece of Tiff coverage will be: Christopher Doyle's "Picture Start" (Doyle (Happy Together) reconsiders how images evolve before the director’s call to “action” and what happens to them after the “cut.” Doyle superimposes directives from traditional film leader on to the processed still film and filmmaking images he has created during his extensive career. Curated by Noah Cowan at the Indexg, 50 Gladstone Avenue in Toronto. Here is a look at eight and 1/2 news items that we didn't have enough time to cover but are worth mentioning here for August 11th... 1. Tell Me Where you are Josh!Blair Witch creators looking to make a sequel. Must be out of money and ideas. (Via Slashfilm.com) 2. Charlie, Sophie and Giamatti Cold Souls director and star on Charlie Rose last night. 3. San
- 8/12/2009
- IONCINEMA.com
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