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"Russellmania!" Hits New York's Lincoln Center
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- Published on Thursday, 29 July 2010 05:00
- Written by Kevin Filipski
Russellmania was never as widespread as “Beatlemania,” but director Ken Russell wouldn’t care. The “bad boy” of British film-makin
g began in the '60s with a series of artist biographies about the likes of composer Frederick Delius that only hinted at where his feature-film career would go when he exploded onto the international scene with Women in Love.
The Film Society of Lincoln Center’s Russellmania! is not a complete retrospective of Russell’s films — it only collects nine of his major productions from 1969 - 1977, when he was arguably at his peak, both in prolific-ness and quality—but Russell’s '80s and '90s output is pretty much diminishing returns anyway, so why not stop here? (Actually, the series should stop before the overwrought 1977 biopic Valentino, in which a fatally miscast Rudolf Nureyev is outclassed by Michelle Phillips, of all people, who looks like she’s about to devour him in their unintentionally funny nude scene.)
Cinemania 2010: The InVisible MAFAF
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- Published on Saturday, 24 July 2010 20:21
- Written by Bree Rubin
Established in 2002 as the support program at the Pula Film Festival, the 9th annual Cinemaniac festival is a multimedia exhibition of experimental film making running from July 18th through August 6th at the Gallery Anex and Gallery Luka (MMC LUKA) in Croatia. Cinemania 2010: The InVisible MAFAF exhibition is dedicated to the MAFAF - the Inter cine club Alternative Amateur and Artist Film Festival, which ran f
rom 1965 to 1990 in Pula as an annual prelude to the Yugoslav Feature Film Festival.
This year's festival aims to resurrect and re-contextualize the history of the nearly completely forgotten European film festival. Despite its 25 years as the biggest event dedicated to alternative and non-professional film making in Yugoslavia, the MAFAF seemed to have dropped from the collective memory, becoming invisible in the public eye. The Cinemaniac exhibition, curated by Branka Bencic and pieced together through rare documents and fragile archives, seeks “to provide room for a subjective critical reinterpretation which would be shorn of eulogy and myth.” The event aspires to make the invisible visible once more.
Throughout its nearly three decades, the MAFAF showcased the works of such talents as Tomislav Gotovac, Želimir Žilnik, Vladimir Petek, Lordan Zafranović, Franci Slak, Ivan Faktor, Zdravko Mustać, Boris Poljak, Vladislav Knežević, Josip Zanki, and Dan Oki. Cinemaniac 2010 will bring the lost festival deliberately into present context by inviting to Pula several of the erstwhile MAFAF participants along with a new generation of contemporary visual artists. In essence, the event hopes to not only summon ghosts of the departed festival, but to highlight its larger connection to the procession of experimental videography toward the future.
Cinemania 2010: The InVisible MAFAF is also seen as a research platform, a project which will be implemented in phases in several recognizable presentation formats - exhibitions, film screenings program, a series of talks - a panel discussion - symposium, publications: catalog, collection, and will play a significant role in creating archives and storing and collecting materials to protect the festival from falling again into invisibility.
For exhibit schedule and more information go to www.pulafilmfestival.hr/hr/index.php?p=list&group=67
Cinemania 2010: The InVisible MAFAF
July 18th - August 6th, 2010
Gallery Anex and Gallery Luka (MMC LUKA)
Croatia
The Maya Indie Film Series Celebrates Latino Themes
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- Published on Friday, 23 July 2010 18:19
- Written by Perry Santanachote
The Maya Indie Film Series kicks off its sophomore tour on July 23, 2010, in Dallas, TX. The Latino-themed film series will tour eight
cities through July and August, with one week in each city, and end in Los Angeles, CA, in time for Hispanic Heritage Month.
The movies in the series are a cross section of genres, including comedy, crime, feel-good, action and romance. Some are in English and some in Spanish. The sample is the same cinematic variety that Moctesuma Esparza, Maya Entertainment’s founder, experienced as a boy growing up in East L.A. 50 years ago.
New York Int'l Latino Film Festival Unites Latindom
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- Published on Thursday, 22 July 2010 12:28
- Written by Laura Blum
Nothing says "si se puede" like the New York International Latino Film Festival. The respected fest began 11 years ago with the budget for a burrito, and has since lassoed steady sponsorship, loyal fans and a reputation as a premier US showcase focused on urban Hispanic cinema.
