On Sunday, the 19th of May 2013 Indian Cinema’s official entry Bombay Talkies had its star-studded Gala screening at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival 2013. The premiere event took place in the beautiful French Riviera city.
Produced by Viacom18 Motion Pictures and Flying Unicorn Entertainment, Bombay Talkies brings together India’s leading contemporary filmmakers, including Karan Johar, Anurag Kashyap, Zoya Akhtar and Dibakar Banerjee.
The screening was attended by a...
"We Steal Secrets" the Story of Wikileaks by Alex Deleon <filmfestivals.com>
Julian Assange
Whatever your view of Julian Assange, whether as a fearless crusader for truth or a heartless hacker and ego-maniac, Alex Gibney's amazing doumentary following the Rise and Fall of Assange and the scapegoating of his sexually confused US Army collaborator, Bradley Manning, asks all the hard qu...
Lithuanian movie producers predicted that the number of films produced in Lithuania next year will increase three-fold after the Lithuanian Parliament approved an amendment granting income tax incentives for film production today.
„This incentive is vitally important for our film industry. The income tax amendment will encourage Hollywood’s and Europe’s greatest filmmakers to choose Vilnius and Lithuania for shooting, bringing with them tax revenue and new jobs. Th...
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THE ONLY UK VOD DESTINATION CREATED BY HORROR FANS FOR HORROR FANS LAUNCHES FRIDAY 14th JUNE www.thehorrorshow.tv
THE HORROR SHOW, launching on 14th June, is the only UK video on demand destination created for, and curated by horror fans. It’s the primary destination for horror fans to stream and/or download horror films, from the latest releases to classic and cult titles.
Current titles include the critically-acclaimed cult film EXCISION, THE TALL MAN starring Jessica ...
‘Paradise: Love’ (‘Paradies: Liebe’, 2012).
No one comments about sexual tourism when it deals with men traveling to foreign countries for bargain sex (Amsterdam, Brazil, Thailand, Japan, etc., etc.) but when Ulrich Seidl takes on the anything but subtle subject of women traveling the globe for sex tourism, the film is controversial and hotly debated. Sometimes labeled as racist and vulgar, ‘Paradise: Love’ is a story about consensual sex for money between ...
Miss Christina/ Domnișoara Christina (by Alexandru Maftei)
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World Premieres in the Romanian Days section.
One of the sought-after sections of Transilvania International Film Festival (May 31 – June 9, Cluj) will bring to the big screen, between June 6 and 8, a series of Romanian films which will be thus screened for the first time. The Romanian Days selection made by Artistic Director Mihai Chirilov gathers 11 feature films and 20 short films, some of them w...
painting: The Titian painting Venus with a Mirror, from which Severin gets the idea of Venus in furs.
'Venus with a Penis' by Vanessa McMahon.
Based on the 1870 Austrian novella ‘Venus im Pelz’ by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Roman Polanski’s latest film, "La Vénus à la fourrure" (‘Venus in Fur’, 2013) recently screened in competition at the 66th Cannes Film Festival.
Set in a Paris theater playwright and director &ls...
painting: The Titian painting Venus with a Mirror, from which Severin gets the idea of Venus in furs.
'Venus with a Penis' by Vanessa McMahon.
Based on the 1870 Austrian novella ‘Venus im Pelz’ by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Roman Polanski’s latest film, "La Vénus à la fourrure" (‘Venus in Fur’, 2013) recently screened in competition at the 66th Cannes Film Festival.
Set in a Paris theater playwright and director &ls...
If love had a color would it be blue?
Directed by Tunisian born French native Abdellatif Kechiche, ‘Blue is the Warmest Color’ ("La Vie d’ Adèle", 2013) is an enterprising story that reminds us of the nature of true love. Despite the awe-inspiring explicit lesbian lovemaking scenes that even had the French gasping for air in the theater, this is not merely a story about a gay couple and their passionate bedroom affair; rather, it’s about the na...
6 Nuclear Yellow Oscars go to 6 Countries
Uranium Film Festival ends with Samba of Rio de Janeiro’s famous Favela Mangueira, where Rio´s Samba was born
In typical Brazilian style with Samba and Caipirinha Magnifica ended the 3rd International Uranium Film Festival of Rio Janeiro 2013 in the cinema of the Modern Art Museum (MAM). A band of Rio de Janeiro’s famous Favela Mangueira, where Rio´s popular Samba was born, played for the selected audience with the pres...
Only Lovers Left Alive
By Moira Sullivan.
Cannes Luncheon
Cannes Luncheon ©Moira Sullivan
Toward the end of the festival, when the press was anxious to leave for home and needed an injection of new sites and hospitality, the mayor of Cannes, Bernard Brochand, took the opportunity to invite over 100 journalists to a luncheon in the old quarters of Cannes – Le Suquet. The official jury also attended the lunch and press had the opportunity of photographing this high p...
by Alex Deleon <filmfestivals.com>
Leonardo DiCaprio as Jay Gatsby, Tobey Maguire as Nick Carraway, all well and good, but Indian reports on the ongoing Cannes film festival have been far more interested in the fact that 70 year old Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan appears in the film, even if it's in a one scene cameo you might miss if you blinked twice and weren't waiting for this as the high point of the picture (as many Indians will be).
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“Actor?” is the first ever feature film in documentary history to be animated. It details the trials and tribulations of actors: working or ‘resting.’ “Actor?” will screen May 16th at 1:30pm & May 18th at 3:30pm both screenings will take place at Palais F in Cannes.
The 76-minute film culls the best from interviews with hundreds of actors, some big stars and some character actors. Beloved celebrity interviewees include Ed Asner (Up&r...
In Competition
Directed by : Jim JARMUSCH
Country: UNITED KINGDOM, GERMANY
Year: 2013
Duration: 123.00 minutes
Synopsis
Set against the romantic desolation of Detroit and Tangier, an underground musician, deeply depressed by the direction of human activities, reunites with his resilient and enigmatic lover.
Their love story has already endured several centuries at least, but their debauched idyll is soon disrupted by her wild and ...
In Competition
Directed by : Roman POLANSKI
Country: FRANCE
Year: 2013
Duration: 96.00 minutes
Synopsis
Alone in a Paris theater after a long day of auditioning actresses for the lead role in his new play, writer-director Thomas complains on the phone about the poor caliber of talent he has seen. No actress has what it takes to play his lead female character-a woman who enters into an agreement with her male counterpart to dominate him as her slave...
Un Certain Regard
Directed by : Mohammad RASOULOF
Country: IRAN
Year: 2013
Duration: 125.00 minutes
Synopsis
Khosrow and Morteza set out on a mission to kill someone. The assassination ought to be arranged as a suicide. At the last minute however, they are obliged to change their initial plans…
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Mohammad RASOULOF - Director
Mohammad RASOULOF - Screenplay
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In Competition
Directed by : James GRAY
Country: USA, FRANCE
Year: 2013
Duration: 119.00 minutes
Synopsis
1921. In search of a new start and the American dream, Ewa Cybulski and her sister Magda sail to New York from their native Poland. When they reach Ellis Island, doctors discover that Magda is ill, and the two women are separated. Ewa is released onto the mean streets of Manhattan while her sister is quarantined. Alone, with nowhere ...
Filmfestivals.com correspondent Elise Prado gets the scoop on the new Alexander Payne film, "Nebraska," as it premieres May 23.
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Un Certain Regard
Directed by : Katrin GEBBE
Country: GERMANY
Year: 2013
Duration: 110.00 minutes
Synopsis
Young Tore belongs to the Jesus FreakS, a Christian punk movement rebelling against established religion whilst at the same time following Jesus' precepts of love.
One day, in what appears to be a miracle, Tore manages to repair a car which has broken down and gets to know the driver, BENNO.
Before long, Tore moves into a tent in Ben...
Un Certain Regard
Directed by : Lav DIAZ
Country: PHILIPPINES
Year: 2013
Duration: 250.00 minutes
Synopsis
A man is wrongly jailed for murder while the real killer roams free. The murderer is an intellectual frustrated with his country's never-ending cycle of betrayal and apathy. The convict is a simple man who finds life in prison more tolerable when something mysterious and strange starts happening t...
In Competition
Directed by : Arnaud DES PALLIÈRES
Country: FRANCE, GERMANY
Year: 2013
Duration: 121.00 minutes
Synopsis
In the sixteenth century, somewhere in the Cevennes, Michael Kohlhaas, a prosperous horse merchant, leads a comfortable and happy family life. Victim of an injustice, this righteous and honest man raises an army and plunders cities to restore his right.
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In Competition
Directed by : Alexander PAYNE
Country: USA
Year: 2012
Duration: 110.00 minutes
Synopsis
A poor old man living in Montana escapes repeatedly from his house to go to Nebraska to collect a sweepstakes prize he thinks he has won. Frustrated by his increasing dementia, his family debates putting him into a nursing home -- until one of his two sons finally offers to take his father by car, even as he realizes the futility...
Un Certain Regard
Directed by : Hiner SALEEM
Country: KURD, FRANCE, GERMANY
Year: 2013
Duration: 100.00 minutes
Synopsis
After the fall of Saddam Hussein, Baran, a Kurdish independence war hero, resolves to accept a position in a godforsaken village at the borders of Iran and Turkey, an illegal trafficking Mecca.
There he meets Govend, a beautiful young woman who has come to work as the teacher in the newly-opened school despite her twelve brot...
