CALL FOR ENTRIES It's time to send a screener of your FEATURE FILM to the Taormina Film Fest 2008, taking place in Sicily from June 15 to 21, 2008. Our deadline for submissions is MAY 9. We are now accepting films for selection in the most exciting summer festival in Europe, a boutique showcase for just 20 new films to be shown to our audiences and distributors from around the world. Once again we will privilege world and international premières, divided into the following three sections: ME...
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull will premiere in Cannes film festival
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Monday, February 25------European films and talents were the big winners at last night's Academy Awards, making the event very much a foreign affair. In the acting categories, the winners were all European thespians of note. Daniel Day-Lewis, who portrays a morally corrupt oil baron in early 20th century America, won his second Best Actor Oscar for his role in THERE WILL BE BLOOD. In the Best Actress category, the surprise winner was French actress Marion Cotillard, for her stunning reincarnati...
Chance and Happenstance, the World Premiere of the Spanish Film 3:19 by Felicia TomaskoOn a whim, we walked into one of the screenings of the world premiere of 3:19. The danger is that this story could be depressing. After all, it takes its title from the Genesis passage ending “for dust you are and to dust you will return.” One 26-year-old member of a trio of friends is dying of terminal cancer. While this story of friendship, love and loss could conceivably be dark and mournful, director...
Santa Barbara International Film Festival Day One : Opening Night Film: Definitely, Maybe “I like to be manipulated.” I heard one of my male film-going companions state this when talking about why he liked Definitely, Maybe. I don’t think he’s getting in touch with his feminine side as much as he is commenting on his film-going personality. After all, this is why we go see films oftentimes: to be manipulated. To have our tears jerked, to feel something, to follow along on the trials, tri...
cloverfieldOn the eve of his departure for Japan, Rob (Michael Stahl-David) sees his going-away party as an opportunity to confess unresolved feelings and tie up loose ends. His agenda takes an unexpected turn when a jolt shakes the revelers. The crowd quiets down to watch news reports of an earthquake, then rushes to the roof to assess the damage. A fireball explodes on the distant horizon. A power failure follows. Confusion gives way to panic as the partygoers stumble through the blackout and into the streets.
Giancarlo Giannini and Hannah Schygulla
MICHAEL BAY with the TAA Taormina Arte Award
Curtis Hanson, Robert Duvall and Eric Bana
5 years HARRY WINSTON AND TAORMINA FILM FEST
Movie fans are buzzing about the new independent feature film, Intent. Intent is the highest ranked film in development on Internet Movie Database (www.imdb.com), which ranks films based on search requests. Intent has received more traffic and searches on Imdb than Transformers 2 and Spider-Man 4 combined.Since its launch in October, approximately 1.5 million people have also visited www.intentmovie.com, the official website of Intent. During December, the site had a record month, with ove...
There will be blood trailer
Will tonight be the closest thing we have to an award show this season, or will the "People's Choice Awards" on 1/8/08, "The Golden Globes" on 1/13/08 and the "The Academy Awards" on 2/24/08 go on amidst the threat of actors boycotting to attend in order to demonstrate their support for the writer's strike? Tonight at "Spotlight Live" in Times Square, writers, journalists, and critics from world renowned publications, observed, interviewed, and photographe...
deborah young and franco battiato
THE TAORMINA FILM FEST BRINGS LUCK TO ITS FILMS: 5 OUT OF 20 NEW FILMS PRESENTED AT THE LAST FESTIVAL, HAVE BEEN SELECTED AS NATIONAL ENTRIES FOR THE BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM OSCAR ® The staff of the Taormina Film Fest, headed by film critic Deborah Young, wishes to share its satisfaction in the exceptionally high percentage of films presented at the last festival that have been chosen by their respective countries as national candidates for an Academy Award ® as Best Foreign Language Fi...
Here is the basic briefing for now, more to come tomorrow: 1. Best First Film: Presenter: Olympia Dukakis, Winner: "Away From Her"/Sarah Polley. 2. Best Animated Film: Presenter: Jonathan Demme, Winner: "Persepolis", 3. Best Foreign-Language Film: Presenter: Charlie Rose, Winner: "The Lives of Others" Directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, 4. Best Non-Fiction Film: Presenter: Campbell Scott, Winner: "No End in Sight" 5. Best Cinematographer: Present...
Good Luck Chuck French Poster
Casino Royale video TV Show
Watch out for Stallone Rambo is back, his war is not over!
