I have been delaying it long enough, it's time to write about experiencing Werner Herzog's Cave of Forgotten Dreams Monday night. Not that I have much to say besides SEE IT AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. Let the film envelop you and enjoy the ride.
I won't be a fool and spoil for you or try describe the near out of body experience in too many words. Here are just a few thoughts:
As she introduced the film festival programmer Rachel Rosen said, "This film reminds us how extraordinarily wonderful...
I have been delaying it long enough, it's time to write about experiencing Werner Herzog's Cave of Forgotten Dreams Monday night. Not that I have much to say besides SEE IT AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. Let the film envelop you and enjoy the ride.I won't be a fool and spoil for you or try describe the near out of body experience in too many words. Here are just a few thoughts:As she introduced the film festival programmer Rachel Rosen said, "This film reminds us how extraordinarily wonderful and mysterio...
The Tribeca Film Institute (TFI) today announced the films that will receive financial and creative support from the TFI Sloan Filmmaker Fund, provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. This year, out of 121 applicants both in the US and internationally, six projects will be awarded a total of $140,000 and will be recognized at the annual Tribeca Film Festival (April 20- May 1, 2011). Grant recipients will receive year-round mentorship from science experts and members of the film indus...
Baffin Babes
There are no babes like the Baffin Babes. Vera, Emma, Inge and Kristin- four Scandinavian girls who tackled a burly 1,200-km ski trip across Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic in 2009-will talk about the challenges of their expedition, including sleeping in a tent in 40 below with polar bears as their closest neighbors.
Wade Davis
Wade Davis is an Explorer-in-Residence at the National Geographic Society. He holds degrees in anthropology and biology and a Ph.D...
The 9th annual Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles (IFFLA) announced today its line up with 13 feature films, 6 documentaries and 13 short films that will make up their 2011 program.
The list includes the Los Angeles premiere of I AM KALAM and the world premiere of Walt Disney Pictures' ZOKKOMON which will be this year's galas screenings bookending the festival at ArcLight Hollywood, April 12th-17th.
Opening this year's festival is the award-winning and i...
The Tribeca Film Festival (TFF), announced its feature film selections in the Spotlight and Cinemania sections, as well as Special Screenings and the Tribeca/ESPN Sports Film Festival lineup. The 10th edition of the Festival will take place from April 20 to May 1 in lower Manhattan.
"Now that the majority of the program has been announced I believe you will see the rich variety and quality of the films and talent that we are presenting at Tribeca this year," s...
Did you know that acting newbie Vivek Sudarshan who's got a great break in Rahat Kazmi’s Impatient Vivek was the youngest scientist in India? Hailing from Barrelly, Vivek seems to have found his real calling in Bollywood. “Being from a small town, I never - in my wildest dreams - thought I'd land in the film industry. But as luck would have it, Mr Kazmi came to Delhi
where I got the opportunity to meet him. I'd gone up to him
and expressed my desire to sing. He aske...
14 FILMMAKERS & 9 PROJECTS SELECTED FOR FILM INDEPENDENT’S 2010 PRODUCERS LABFilm Independent, the non-profit arts organization that produces the Spirit Awards and Los Angeles Film Festival just wrapped its 10th annual Producers Lab earlier this week with 14 filmmakers and 9 projects participating. Sponsored by Technicolor and Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the seven-week program took place in Los Angeles and was designed to help producers improve their craft, and move their current projects into...
Exclusive Interview: Gore Vidal, Friend of the Country, Champions THE ENEMY OF THE SMILEby Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles CorrespondentOn Pearl Harbor Day, literary lion Gore Vidal, 85, allowed a rare exclusive interview at the offices of Dr. Hessam Nowzari, DDS, PhD, in Beverly Hills, Calif. Vidal made himself available to discuss Dr. Nowzari's documentary THE ENEMY OF THE SMILE that "addresses the serious global dental health issue of early-in-life oral infection" (the bacterium known as AA, a...
Director: Ivan Peric.
Cain is a military scientist, bitterly disappointed in human race. His conclusion is that the mankind failed to create a world worth living in. Only a small minority of privileged people live in prosperity, while the rest are spending their lives in pain and hopeless struggle to survive. One day, Cain made a decision to wipe out the entire human race from planet Earth, by activating the weapons of mass destruction. Time has passed, and Cain is coming out of the shelter to find the place where he will die. The place where the last man will die.
TERROR IN THE 5th DIMENSION 2010 CLAW AWARDS Two million, six hundred twenty nine thousand, seven hundred forty three minutes.Moments so dear. How do you measure, measure five beautiful years?By continuing a quest into a new dimension – by becoming the “RECREATOR” of your own destiny – where your struggle to grow has finally brought you total “VINDICATION” – that sets you apart from the rest of the “MOLD” – and your journey now spawns a new “DAWNING”.It was a privilege ...
The Virginia Film Festival has announced that Josh Radnor's happythankyoumoreplease has captured the Audience Favorite Award for Best Narrative Feature for the recently-wrapped, and record-setting, 2010 Festival.
The Virginia Film Festival, which smashed previous records for both attendance and box office sales by 25% this year, is presented by the University of Virginia and its College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences.
Radnor's happythankyoumoreplea...
The Virginia Film Festival has announced that Josh Radnor’s happythankyoumoreplease has captured the Audience Favorite Award for Best Narrative Feature for the recently-wrapped, and record-setting, 2010 Festival.The Virginia Film Festival, which smashed previous records for both attendance and box office sales by 25% this year, is presented by the University of Virginia and its College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences.Radnor’s happythankyoumoreplease, which played to a full house at th...
Florida has more coastline than it does land mass, so it makes sense that Floridian film audiences love films that accentuate the seas and the creatures that inhabit it. They also have a sense of urgency about the threats to their tropical paradise (as evidenced by the recent Gulf of Mexico oil disaster), so a film like BENEATH THE BLUE appeals to audiences a the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival not only for its underwater photography, its natural beauty but its strong ecolo...
AWARDS CONFERRED BY THE INTERNATIONAL JURY An international jury presided by Sergio Castellitto, and composed of journalist and writer Natalia Aspesi, director Ulu Grosbard, writer Patrick McGrath, director Edgar Reitz, and the director of the Multimedial Arts Museum in Moscow, Olga Sviblova, judged the films in Competition within the Official Selection. The international jury conferred the: - Marc’Aurelio Jury Award for Best Film: Kill Me Please by Olias Barco- Marc’Aurelio Grand Jury Award...
Looking for a way to get into the Halloween spirit? Come to the Chicago International Children's Film Festival, where films with spooky ghosts and friendly ghosts, magical items and changing identities will be screening all week long. You can learn makeup effect tricks to use with your costume at our Make It Up! workshop. Plus, we have three films screening on Halloween day itself! Visit www.facets.org/kids to check out the full Festival schedule and reserve tickets.Makeup Effects Workshop:Make ...
Director: Wout Conijn.
How to act when you are in top shape mentally but the body doesn't respond that way? Bas, Roelof and Evert are physically handicapped. Nevertheless they embark on a 1000 km bike trip across the Himalayas. From Lhasa to Kathmandu conquering mountain passes over 5000 meters high what makes enormous physical and mental demands to the participants.
Bas came into contact as a soldier with a high tension cable and can since then no longer walk. Roelof was soldier too. During his holiday he fell 6 meters with broken spine as a result. Evert the eldest one was scientist, until he accidently came under his own car, what led to partially paralyses and aphasia.
The camera follows the three guys during their expedition, which leads according to Evert to the truth. That truth is hard to swallow for Bas, the soldier who doesn’t want to give up and wants to be an example for others. Bas can’t make it to the top of the highest climb because of the cold. Roelof gets to the top, he isn’t concerned about the physical obstacles, but worries about the future with his girlfriend. The journey of Evert is a romantic story: he shares his love for the mountains with his wife, like they did on their honeymoon before the accident. This bicycle excursion Himalaya marks their love, with a majestic panorama as a reward.
THE CONQUEST OF HIGH PASSES is a moving portrait of people in search of their inner strength, during an excursion in a breathtaking landscape.
ABSTRACT NOTIONS was made up of six shorts (in screening order):
THE OPERA SINGER [2010] dir Nadaav Soudry {2 mins} - This short is a satire of an opera singer giving her best performance whilst selling out. I found it funny and truthful, short and sweet. Soudry has managed to make a statement with a 2 minute short mainly mostly made up of a slow zoom of the title character's face.
FROG IN THE WELL [2010] dir Ken Ochiai {15 mins} - A man who just lost his mother, who ...
THE GRAND OFF WORLD INDEPENDENT FILM AWARDS, 22nd-29th NOVEMBER Warsaw, PolandThe GRAND OFF World Independent Film Awards has announced the nominated short films that will vie for awards at a glittering ceremony to be held on Saturday 27th November in Warsaw, Poland. Representing some of the very best independent shorts from across the world, 52 films from 32 countries will compete in 9 categories that include Best Fiction, Best Documentary and Best Animation. The aim of GRAND OFF is to draw att...
Rocky Mount, NC native Mary Elizabeth Winstead is taking it all in as the new "it" girl as she plays the role of Ramona in the new film Scott Pilgrim vs. the World. The cartoonish comic book based film also stars the nerdy but adorable sexy Michael Cera as Scott Pilgrim.
Winstead, 25, admits that “it’s a bit daunting to step into the shoes of a character described as ‘aloof, mysterious and beautiful,’ a character who already has a lot of...
ugust 15 Deadline for Submission soon approachingYou can now enter your film for consideration for the 2010 Imagine Science Film Festival! All entries must be submitted online or postmarked no later than August 15.Visit 2010 FILM SUBMISSIONS for fee schedules and submission details.Creation, A Film About Charles Darwin, CUNY Graduate Center, Wednesday Oct 20, 7PMCreation tells the story of Charles Darwin (Paul Bettany) and his tortuous struggle to produce his best known work, “On the Origin ...
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by Marla Lewin
There is no doubt that John Lithgow is an accomplished serious actor who can never be too over the top for his own liking. Tuesday night was a rare opportunity to see him in a conversation with David Ansen, the new Artistic Director of LAFF. What was so special about this was that they were college roommates at Harvard and are still best friends. That gave David a unique insight and made it a more personal co...
by Marla LewinThe World Premiere of "One Lucky Elephant" at the L.A. Film Festival attracted Lily Tomlin, Academy Award-director, Kathryn Bigelow and actress Persia White ("Girlfriends"), who saw the film and stayed for a special panel discussion hosted by the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) that focused on the plight of elephants and other wild animals in captivity. Moderated by NY Times journalist and author Charles Siebert, the panel featured the film’s di...
The Tribeca Film Institute (TFI) (www.tribecafilminstitute.org) today announced the films that will receive financial and creative support from the TFI Sloan Filmmaker Fund, provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. This year, of 128 applicants, six projects will be awarded a total of $140,000 to help filmmakers both create and distribute their films. In addition, grant recipients will also receive year-round mentorship from science experts and members of the film industry. Th...
Surely the most versatile of Hollywood Directors, and although his name
rings no bells, Gordon DOUGLAS - sometimes billed as Gordon M. Douglas,
created a remarkable piece of work, his cinematic career spanning over
five decades.
Indeed, what Hollywood film director could
boast having helmed such a spectrum of personalities ranging in the
30's, from a hoofing Al Jolson, through action westerns with Randolph
Scott in the '40's, rambling on to culminate in rock sensation Elvis
Presley...
