For a sampling of the narrative features not already mentioned, I offer the following:
While the premise of Another Earth suggests that it is a science-fiction film, it is really more of a character study with a sci-fi MacGuffin. Lead actress/writer Brit Marling, as Rhoda, is in virtually every shot, and yet is silent for roughly the first twenty minutes. Her ability to keep the audience engaged through facial expression and body language sets the tone for the gently unfolding plot. Alo...
The next few nights screened a number of documentaries about musicians and the impact of their music. Scheduling conflicts meant you couldn’t see all of them, so I chose the three below.
Color Me Obsessed is the rarest of rockumentaries in that it doesn’t play a single note of music from the band being featured, Minnesota’s own, The Replacements. Somehow, for this iconoclastic group, it fits. Instead, the band’s history and antics are revealed through interviews laced with humor...
Bladerunner at Fantasporto, 2012
What better film to be honored at a 'Fantastic' film festival than the classic Sci-Fi film Bladerunner (1982)! At the 32nd International Film Festival of Porto (Fantasporto), which took place February 20 to March 3, 2012, the film was screened as an homage to cinemas of the future.
Directed by Ridley Scott, the canonical film was based on the novel by Sci-Fi writer Philip K. Dick called: "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" about...
Bladerunner at Fantasporto, 2012
What better film to be honored at a 'Fantastic' film festival than the classic Sci-Fi film Bladerunner (1982)! At the 32nd International Film Festival of Porto (Fantasporto) the film was screened as an homage to cinemas of the future. Directed by Ridley Scott, the canonical film was based on the novel by Sci-Fi writer Philip K. Dick called: "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" about a time in the future where androids (who look like h...
The 28th Imagine Film Festival will run 17 to 28 April 2012 - Filmtheater Kriterion & Tuschinski 1
Approx. 70 long and short films, Night of Terror, Fantastic European Shorts, Anime, Masterclasses, panel discussions and Q&A's
Theme programme: Superheroes, Special focus on Il Luster Producties
Just like in 2010 and 2011, Imagine is once again looking for creative types and home filmmakers who want to go for the Time Capsule Award, the award for the best online film of t...
At the 2012 Fantasporto (20 February - 04 March) in Porto, Portugal, the festival paid tribute to some of the best blood sucking films in the vampire canon: "Bram Stoker's Dracula" (1992), which screned at the Rivoli Theater follwing a screening of another vampire classic, F.W. Murnau's "Nosferatu" (1922).
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As another Oscar season has passed us by and three-time Academy Award winner Meryl Streep has won yet another Academy Award for Best Actress, I think it's time to mention one of my favorite films of all time, one I must admit I watch once a month- OUT OF AFRICA (1985).
Why people so often refer to it as a ‘chick flick’ is beyond me when it is a Sydney Pollack film and one of Hollywood’s greatest canonic triumphs. Universal’s “Out of Africa”, which won the Oscar for B...
The Northwest Independent Film Festival is proud to announce the first Panel Discussion for the 2012 Festival,
"COMICS AND CINEMA"
to be held at Alter Ego Comics (230 N. Main St., Lima, OH) on Sunday, July 8, 2012!
Hosted by Wapakoneta native Theodore James, producer of the highly successful documentary SUPERHEROES, the panel will serve to discuss the recent explosion and evolution of Comic Book movies!
Tickets go on sale MAY 7, 2012.
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100 YEARS SINCE THE DEATH OF BRAM STOKER
Bram Stoker died 100 years ago and Fantasporto 2012 honors the creator of the gothic novel "Dracula". There were very few stories left behind by a writer that was adapted to cinema so often. Bu one of his texts became world famous. A novel and from this novel emerged one of the most distinguishable characters of all: Count Dracula. Despite not being the first vampire story ever written, it was surely the one that gave...
Fantasporto’2012 under the sign of
BLADE RUNNER
“...I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time... like tears in rain... Time to die...”
Roy Batty (Rutger Hauer) in Blade Runner
The 32th edition of International Film Festival of Porto emerges under the sign of the Future. F...
A film about Tenedos and passion of island. "Somewhere among the notebooks of Gideon I once found a list of diseases as yet unclassified by medical science, and among these there occurred the word islomania, which was described as a rare but by no means unknown affliction of spirit. These are people, Gideon used to say, by way of explanation, who find islands somehow irresistible. We islomanes, says Gideon, are ...
Your chance to enter the Centenary year of the Bram Stoker International Film Festival. Internationally recognised as one of the best genre festivals in the World !
The BSIFF was established in order to provide more opportunities and exposure for filmakers, screenwriters and game developers working within the Horror, Sci- Fi, Thriller and suspense genres. Dare you visit the spiritual home of DRACULA?
http://www.bramstokerfilmfestival.com/
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We looked for a partner who loves movies, cherishes those
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make a purchase at this cool online store, you will be supporting SEE FEST too.
So, don't forget to mention our name!! Metropolis has suggested a few titles by
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Obreht's debut novel...
Meet Iranian – New-Zealander Faramarz Beheshti, winner of Best Non-European Independent Documentary at ÉCU 2011 for “Salam Rugby”. It is a story of women rugby players in Iran, which may sound like an anomaly, but as this documentary shows, Iranian women are more than ready to dive into the scrum if only the authorities would let them. Following the Islamic Revolution in 1979 competitive sports for women were actively discouraged and it wasn't until the social reforms of the 90s that wome...
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Sven Alexander Heinrich Wins Accolade Competition
La Jolla, California, December 2, 2011 - Sven Alexander Heinrich, graduated student from the Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica, has won a prestigious Award of Excellence from The Accolade Competition. The award was given for Sven Heinrich´s exciting short film, El Amante del Padrino (The Godfather´s Lover), which deals with the fate...
The short film "El Amante del Padrino (The Godfather´s Lover)" has won an Award of Excellence at the prestigious The Accolade Competition during the fall 2011 edition.
http://www.accoladecompetition.org/Excell.aspx
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It's high time for another one of my
'LOOKING BACK, Cinema's Greatest Moments'...
With all the TWILIGHT: SAGA's (I must be one of the only people in the world who is NOT a fan) I can't help but fill up with nostalgia for the vampire films I was watching to obsession when I was a teenager...
BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA (in my opinion) is one of Coppola's great masterpieces... The film adaptation of Bram Stoker's novel: 'Bram Stoker's Dracula'. Here are some scen...
This is the trailer for the 19 minute film of ZOMBIE, based on the novella by famous American author Joyce Carol Oates. The film has won "Best Short Film (Horror)" "Best Supporting Actor" and "Best Short Dramatic Screenplay." It's been an official selection at 15 film festivals so far. The film tells the story of a Jeffrey Dahmer'esque serial killer.
www.zombiethefilm.com
It's been quite a journey developing the film of ZOMBIE. First I adpated Joyce Carol Oates' novella into a solo play that I performed at the New York International Film Festival. Then I performed it for extended runs twice Off-Broadway. We made a short film (19 minutes) that is an official selection at 15 film festivals so far. We've won a number of awards -- first with the play, and now with the film. For the film we've won "Best Short Film (Horro)" "Best Supporting Actor&quo...
Pirates Alley focuses on the rise of this Gulf of Aden piracy situation.
The documentary focuses heavily on historical matters to this present
chaos and carnage.
Pirates Alley se concentre sur la montée de ce
golfe d'Aden situation de la piraterie. Le documentaire se concentre
fortement sur des questions historiques, à ce chaos actuel et le
carnage.
Writing my piece on Bertrand Tavernier, I had to miss the Master Class by Philip Noyce:-(
Does the Australia-born US based film-maker need an intro?
I've seen Salt, Dead Calm, Clear and Present Danger, Patriot Games,The Bone Collector, The Quiet American,The Saint,Sliver...
But I haven't seen a single film:-0 at IFFI:-0
Hopefully, one or two tommorrow:-)
Maybe more if I'm lucky :-))
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The short film of ZOMBIE is based on the novella by Joyce Carol Oates. It's the story of a Jeffrey Dahmer-esque serial killer, and his final crime. We're an official selection in 15 film festivals so far--we're scheduled on the film festival circuit into 2012. I'm meeting with the director of the film soon, to talk about the development of the feature film. We're currently on draft five of the script. We're beginning to talk about casting as well.
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