The 7th Annual Palm Beach International Film Festival is set to take place
April 11-18 intending to showcase over 50 international films from 20 countries
throughout Palm Beach County in Florida.
The guest list of expected celebrities attending include Edward Norton last
seen in Fight Club and The Score, Brett Ratner from Rush Hour
and soon to be on the screens in Red Dragon, James Whitmore most recently
seen in Shawshank Redemption and The Majestic, and Academy Award
w...
Spanish Cinema has again won in Fantasporto, this time with Fausto 5.0
(Best Film Award in the Fantasy Section) , the Best Short Film for 7337
by Sergio G. Sanchez and various other prizes. The recent winner of Berlin's
Golden Bear, Bloody Sunday by Paul Greengrass, went on to win the Directors
Week and Audience Awards. This edition of the biggest film festival in Portugal
packed huge crowds into the Rivoli and AMC Theatres, noting an estimated total
of 140,000 festival-g...
Taking place from 8-19 October 2002, the 29th Flanders International Film Festival
- Ghent will pay tribute to what is probably the greatest director-composer
collaboration in the history of filmmaking: the creative partnership between
French helmer François Truffaut and composer Georges Delerue.
The collaboration between Truffaut and Delerue will form the subject of a film
retrospective that will be presented during the festival. On 19 October, the
World Soundtrack ...
This is our view, at FilmFestivals, of the likely palmares for the Oscar awards!
Best Picture The Lord of the Rings Actor Russell Crowe (A Beautiful Mind) Actress Sissy Spacek (In the Bedroom) Supporting Actor Ian McKellen (The Lord of the Rings) Supporting Actress Jennifer Connelly (A Beautiful Mind) Director Peter Jackson (The Lord of the Rings) Original Screenplay Christopher Nolan (Memento) Adapted Screenplay Boyens, Jackson, Walsh (The Lord of the Rings) Fo...
Despite 13 nominations, Amelie only received four trophies including
Best Film and Best Director at the 27th edition of the César Awards,
France's equivalent to the Oscars. Twelve films were honored at the ceremony
including the biggest surprise winner, Best Actress to Emmanuelle Devos (Read
My Lips) who was faced with the tough competition of Isabelle Huppert (The
Piano Teacher), Audrey Tautou (Amelie) and Charlotte Rampling (Under
the Sand). Veteran French actors...
2001 marked an auspicious milestone as Elmer Bernstein became the only composer
with a body of feature-film work spanning a half century. The US composer is
to receive the very first World Soundtrack Lifetime Achievement Award at an
intimate ceremony that takes place at the London Residence of the Ambassador
of Belgium to the UK, H.E. Mr. Lode Willems on March 4. Elmer Bernstein was
expected in Ghent last fall to give a concert of his film music, and to receive
the award....
Art Directors, Editors, Writers, Directors, Producers, Cinematographers, Scenic
Artists are all part of the more than 6000 Interguild Members in America. Over
the weekend, the Producers Guild of America announced the winners of the Golden
Laurel Awards with Moulin Rouge receiving the Producer of the Year award,
and the 54th annual Writers Guild of America Awards for outstanding achievement
in writing for the screen, television and radio were announced in gala ceremonies
a...
Marc Forster is an independent thinking award winning filmmaker that is finally getting his just deserves in the mainstream consciousness with Monster's Ball, starring an Academy Award nominated Halle Berry and no stranger to Academy Award nominations, Billy Bob Thornton. The Swiss filmmaker tackles issues of American Southern racism as a racist prison guard falls in love with the widow of a man he's executed. Silver Bear Best Actress award to Halle Berry at the Berlinale 2002. ...
Disney has acquired the North American rights to Japan's top-selling film of
2001, Spirited Away, says Screen Daily. The animation film, directed
by Hayao Miyazaki, has broken all box office records in Japan. Spirited Away
also took the Golden Bear at this year's Berlin International Film Festival.
Disney's rights extend to Hong Kong, Singapore, France, and Taiwan in other
deals concluded previously. The North American release is planned for as early
as July 2003....
From March 10-17, 98 films from 40 countries will help us take a new look at
our concept of 'the South'. Twelve full-length films from ten different countries
will, this year, compete for the main festival trophies, the Grand Prix 'Le
Regard d'or' and the Best Script Award of Swiss Author's Society (SAA/Suissimage).
In addition, six other prizes will be awarded: the Public Jury Award; the Ecumenical
Award; the International Film Press Federation (FIPRESCI) Award; the E-change...
The 52nd Annual Eddie Awards announced the winners for superior editing. This
year's Award recipients were Black Hawk Down and Moulin Rouge, winning
over other Oscars contenders in the film editing category like Lord of the
Rings, A Beautiful Mind, and Memento. Robin Williams
presented Barry Levinson with the ACE Golden Eddie Filmmaker of the Year Award,
while Antony Gibbs and George Watters received Lifetime Achievement Awards.
Best Edited Feature Film
Black Hawk Down
...
The Miramax release of Steven Soderbergh's latest film, Full Frontal,
will coincide with 13th anniversary of the symbolic start of modern American
independent film movement, reports indieWIRE. The initial release was scheduled
for March, but has been pushed back to August 2, the anniversary of Soderbergh's
Sex, Lies, and Videotape 13 years ago. Full Frontal stars David
Duchovny, Catherine Keener, David Hyde Pierce, Julia Roberts, Blair Underwood,
and Nicky Katt, and is wh...
New Directors/New Films in New York
For the 31st consecutive year, spring in New York City will be ushered in by
New Directors/New Films, the acclaimed film festival presented by The Film Society
of Lincoln Center and The Department of Film and Media, The Museum of Modern
Art. The festival runs from March 22 to April 7 at The Museum of Modern Art.
New Directors/New Films is one of the country's premier showcases for the work
of fresh and unsung international and American filmma...
Harvard's Second Annual Black Arts Film Festival takes place March 1 - 3. This
year's line-up should prove to be an exciting one, featuring such films as One
Week, 30 Years to Life, and the Academy Award nominated film Murder
on a Sunday Morning.
Murder on a Sunday Morning
USA 2000, 88 min.
Directed by Jean-Xavier de Lestrade
This real-life courtroom drama raises disturbing questions about race and the
American justice system. (2002 Academy Award Nominee-Best Docum...
The AFM wrapped with many positive indicators.The market was described as slow by many exhibitors but the AFM has definitely stood above the other industry events that took place since nine eleven.In itself this is a strong sign that the market is shaping up after a bottom was hit and felt at london and milan events.Overall attendance at the American Film Market declined by 6% from 7,127 in 2001 to 6,714 in 2002 with registered buyers down at 1,327 from 1,447 in the previous year. However, the n...
Slamdunk Brings Cannes-do Attitude to CroisetteWith Second Year on Noga Hilton Penthouse Terrasse Formation of Slamdunk llc Readies Company for Indie FilmDevelopment, Production and Distribution Lavish Multimedia Screening, Event and Relaxation SpaceOffers Respite from Hubbub of Cannes FestivalAnd Hosts 3D Worldwide Animation Festival and Slamdunk Screening SeriesSlamdunk Film Festivals, one of the most successful of the festivals arising from the Sundance universe, takes another evolutionary st...
Is there an Academy Award in NASA's future?
Hiding on the space agency's shelves are many technologies that can be applied
to the motion picture and digital imaging world, all waiting to be commercialized.
So claims Don Miskowich, former VP of Business Development for Sony Pictures
Entertainment High Definition Center. He plans to point out some of them at
this year's Digital Days of the Santa Barbara Film Festival.
The man who helped introduce Sony's High Definition technology...
Amid protests and debate over Silvio Berlusconi's conflict of interest law, state funding for the Italian film industry was cut in half last week as announced by cultural minister Giuliano UrbaniAmid, reports Screen Daily. Berlusconi's conflict of interest law, which is up for debate in the Italian parliament this week, will coincide with a protest expected of over 100,000 people against the Italian government.
Meanwhile, government spending on local production of films was cut by 50% in wha...
Joining the list of the presenters at the Academy Awards are repeat presenters
Tom Hanks and Ben Stiller.
This will be the tenth time that Academy Award-winning actor Tom Hanks, who
is also a governor of the Academy, serves as a presenter on the telecast.
Last year, Hanks was nominated for an Academy Award for the leading role in
Cast Away. He has been nominated five times and is a two-time Oscar winner.
Hanks won consecutive Oscars in 1993 and 1994 for the leading roles in Ph...
New Zealand's Peter Jackson came out of the British Academy Film Awards a happy
man: Best Picture, Best Direction, Best Visual Effects, Best Makeup. A great
triumph for the epic Lord of the Rings based on a British novel. And
it was American Robert Altman who was bestowed the Outstanding British Film
of the Year for his very British ode to Agatha Christie and the mystery novel:
Gosford Park. Although Amelie did pick up Best Original Screenplay
and Production Design, the F...
Byron Tiller (Andy Garcia) is pushed to his limit when his latest novel is rejected by his publisher, and he can't even get back his old job in advertising. When Luther, the dapperly outfitted head of a very upscale male escort agency, recruits him, Byron begins servicing the beautiful and lonely wife (Olivia Williams) of one of the most famous and much-honored authors on the face of the planet, Tobias Alcott (James Coburn).
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Set in the 16th century, Juana la Loca is Vicente Aranda's modern interpretation of the historical character Queen Juana of Castile, daughter of the Catholic royal couple Ferdinand and Isabella. Juana is all set to marry "Philip the Handsome", the son of emperor Maximiliam of Austria. But fate interferes with her plans of becoming an ordinary mother and wife, for Philip shows to be not only a womanizer but a manipulator with political ambitions.
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Jeong Jae-eun's first feature film explores the meandering lives of 5 twenty-year
old girls in nowadays urban and suburban Korea. The cast boasts another great
performance by actress Bae Doo-na, who won the Best Actress award at San Sebastian
2000. The film received the NETPAC award at the Pusan International Film Festival,
and was screened back-to-back in the Rotterdam Tiger competition and Berlin
panorama. Director Jeong Jae-eun confided her thoughts and feeling about some ...
Carol Crowe, President of Apollo Cinema, a company that exclusively distributes
short films worldwide, has created a unique showcase for the second consecutive
year that gives moviegoers the rare opportunity to see the entire slate of live-action
and animated short films nominated for this year's Academy Awards. Apollo has
an agreement with Laemmle Theatres to present the program beginning on February
28. It will continue to run on consecutive weekends until the Academy Awar...
On April 20, the Bay Area will host the world premier of the West Coast Student
Film Festival. Participants from over twenty-five countries and all U.S. states
have entered their work into the Festival for competition. Winning films will
be featured at the Festival's Film-A-Thon, which will showcase twelve hours
of nonstop, world-class student films at the August Coppola Theatre at San Francisco
State University's campus. The Film-A-Thon will be followed by an awards ceremon...
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