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Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient Tom Hanks will present the SAG Life Achievement Award to renowned actor, writer, director, producer, and communicator Alan Alda during the 25th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards
The SAG Life Achievement Award for career achievement and humanitarian accomplishmentis the union's top accolade at the 25th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards®,
Given annually to an actor who fosters the "f...
by Marla Lewin
Global Film Village
This September, Los Angeles saw two plays by John O’Keefe produced. “Don’t You Ever Call Me Anything But MOTHER”, just closed at Zombie Joe's Underground Theatre Group in North Hollywood, starring Tina Preston in a tour de force performance, and “All Night Long” at the Atwater Theatre complex in Glendale.
John’s personal past is reflected in the performance piece &ldquo...
Brand new trailer and images for Sometimes Always Never, starring Bill Nighy, Sam Riley, Jenny Agutter, Alice Lowe & Tim McInnerny - Screening at this year's BFI London Film Festival
Sometimes Always Never Trailer
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Venom, Review: High-breed Hannibal lecture
Alien organisms are brought to earth by a mad industrialist who experiments by hosting them in human bodies, to form hybrid beings. These high-breeds feed on living humans, possess immense strength and can take over the human host at will, both in mind and body. What’s more, they can, and do, talk to the hosts in English, most of the conversations being lectures. Alien organisms inspired by Hannibal Lecter, a Hollywood cannibal who has been eat...
Didn't make it to the Paris portion of our festival? Curious what went down?
Check out our gorgeous photos taken by photographer India Lange!
You can view them on our Facebook or website. There's so many awesome shots of our brilliant filmmakers as well as our audience members having a great time!
To submit to the second annual festival visit: FilmFreeway
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We are now accepting submissions for the 2nd Annual NYC 2 Paris International Film Festival!
Join us in this new exciting tradition! All happening October 11 - 20, 2019!
What could be better than fall in NYC and Paris, watching your film along with other new and exciting films while meeting fans and filmmakers from around the world!
CERTIFICATES FOR THE FOLLOWING CATEGORIES, THE CERTIFICATES WILL BE GIVEN OUT AT THE AWARDS CEREMONY IN PARIS THIS YEAR.
Best Narrative Feature...
The Equalizer 2, Review: Unequal combat
When you have one man battling four or more mercenaries, the combat is apparently unequal. Turns out that the inequality is in favour of the one man, since he is played by Denzel Washington, the protagonist, who does the requisite equalising. Washington is not the quintessential action hero, though he tries hard to be one. Passable stuff that keeps you mildly excited with its action, and takes pains to make the story move at a reasonable pace, making th...
The House with a Clock in Its Walls, Review: Gothic and scary, with a funny-bone
Everybody loves a good mystery. Well, almost everybody. If there is magic in it and prodigious children, they love it even more. The House with a Clock in Its Walls is a magical story about warlocks and witches, children and childish innocence. It has, at its centre, a house that enjoys a position of its own. Hidden inside its walls somewhere is a clock that keeps ticking, and it is no ordinary clock. In fact, it...
The Predator, Review: Autistic liberty
Fourth instalment in the franchise and third in chronology, The Predator again plays with that one word. Remember Predator (1987), Predator 2 (1990) and Predators (2010)? You could also count the crossover films Alien v/s Predator (2004) and Alien v/s Predator Requiem (2007). They are all Predator vehicles all right, but which one predates which is hard to tell!
This one has at its core an autistic child and his sniper father at the core, is gorier than...
Love Sonia, Review: Sister’s sibling search sifting sordid sex surroundings
Official statistics show that there hundreds of thousands of sex workers in India, and many of them are below 18. Being a sex worker is not a crime, but soliciting and living of the earnings of sex workers are clear crimes. That does not deter the ‘businessmen’ who run brothels and sex rackets. 270 girls/women go missing every day in India and most land up in the flesh trade. Only 1% of them ma...
Yorgos Lanthimos’s classic comment on the more he works out of Greece the more Greek he feels.
For taking on the leading role of Queen Olivia Colman says it is a natural next step.
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Papillon, Review: Watchable remake of impressive 1973 prison escape saga
A hard act to follow, Papillon 2017 finds release a year after its premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival. Directed by Michael Noer and starring Charlie Hunnam and Rami Malek, reprising the roles of late Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman in the original made 44 years earlier, this prison escape epic nearly manages to match the original, but the operative word here is “nearly”.
Based on the intern...
Submit by August 31, 2018 to be a part of our 10th Annual festival, happening May 5 through May 12 2019!
To submit visit: https://filmfreeway.com/nycindieff
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Alpha, Review: Man and his best friend surviving in the Ice Age
It’s not a dog who is man’s best friend in Alpha, but a wolf given that name by Keda, a young man who lived in Upper Paleolithic Europe 20,000 years ago. He is the son of the Chief of a small tribe of hunter-gatherers that hunts bison in the steppes every year, to store meat for the coming winter. Boring history and a geography channel lesson? Banish the thought. Alpha is a classy movie that ranks among the best seen ...
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The Boulder International Film Festival (Feb 28-March 3) is excited to announce two new monetary awards for BIFF 2019: The $10,000 "Grand Jury Prize: Best Feature Length Film" (Narrative or Documentary) and the $3,000 "Grand Jury Prize: Best Short Film” (Narrative, Doc, or Animated).
Filmmakers enjoy luxurious accommodations and an exclusive VIP pass to the legendary parties, where interaction with Oscar-winning celebrities, A-...
Christopher Robin, Review: It’s always a sunny day, When Christopher Robin comes to play
Christopher Robin was seen by us critics on the day when he was much needed in England as the day’s play in the cricket test match between India and England was washed out due to rain. There was no sun around. It is this sunny demeanour of helping people--living by principles and loving animals as if they were people--that is at the core of Christopher Robin. And with Winnie the Pooh at the ce...
The Spy Who Dumped Me, Review: Jumped, Pumped, Slumped, Stumped
Pre-credit scenes à la James Bond, the JB theme variation in a couple of scenes and a title that is a clear Ian Fleming lift—remember The Spy Who Loved me? This one is an action comedy, with both components in equal measure. Action is fast and furious and the comedy punctuates the thrills, with the help of a comedians+mimics cast. The Spy Who Dumped Me is funny enough to make you chuckle and laugh at regular interval...
Mama Mia 2! Here we go again, Review: ABBAsolutely delightful--See that film, enjoy the scenes
Co-incidences and flashbacks galore dot the story of Mama Mia 2! Here We Go Again, a sure-fire recipé for disaster in so many films. Not here, though. Here, they are never one too many. And linking them all are some delightful songs and dances, in a 114 minute long ode to bittersweet things called life and love. A jukebox romantic comedy it is, but so well executed and integrated that it almo...
As we gear up for the 10th Annual NYC Independent Film Festival, we are thrilled to announce that in celebration of a decade of ‘never boring’ cinema, we will be screening all past ‘Best in Music Video’ winners from 2012-2018!
We thank all past winners for allowing us to screen their music videos again as a special treat for all of you. Get ready to jam!
In other exciting news, all of our 2018 interviews are now available to watch on our website. Intereste...
Mission Impossible-Fall Out, Review: “The greater the suffering, the greater the peace”
Sixth in the TV series-to-big-screen franchise, Tom Cruise’s Mission Impossible is aptly titled Fall Out. Besides the threat of a triple nuclear fall-out, there are falls, and fall outs of/from all possible kinds, in the universe of CIA operative Ethan Hunt: Motorcycles, cars, trucks and helicopters constitute one bunch; land, water and snow are the nature division; CIA-spurned rogue orga...
Soorma, Review: Bio-pick
Diljit Dosanjh pours his heart into a dream role, and director Shaad Ali inspires the cast to turn a real-life, touching tale of a star hockey player into a rivetting bio-pic. Even if the writers have deviated from incidents and facts (we call it cinematic licence), it all jells together into a highly convincing drama that survives a 132-minute run and stays with you for even after a full 24 hours and more.
Soorma (not to be confused with surma, which is applied in t...
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Wassup the ante
Ant-Man 2 begins while Scott Lang is under house arrest by the FBI, some two years after he interfered with Captain America’s mission in Germany. That is in perfect sync with Ant-Man 1, which was released in 2015. Part 2 features expanding and shrinking ants, wasps that fly at fabulous speeds and a woman who suffers from 'ghost syndrome', which makes her body density change from visible to almost invisible and again visible, in milliseconds....
Celebrating Grease's 40th anniversary in Cannes with a public screening on the beach. Check the red carpet....
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BLACKKKLANSMAN by Spike Lee
The House That Jack Built by Lars von Trier with Matt Dillon.
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