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Vietnam Launches First Film Festival
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- Published on Monday, 26 August 2013 12:11
- Written by Matt Oakes
Known more as the birthplace of phở than a haven for film, artistic societies in Vietnam aim to shake things up with their first ever Family Film Festival in Ho Chi Minh City. Between December 21-23, the ever-growing artistic youth of Southeast Asia will have a chance to expose their films and projects to audience sizes the region has never seen before.
Vietnamese cinema is not necessarily a new art form, having been born in the early 1920s, but late-stage globalization has meant new opportunities for filmmakers to expose themselves to audiences and potential distributors the world over. As a chance for young artists to take a stab at a near universal art form, the Family Film Festival could signal a big chance for the ever-growing popularity of films from the region. This particualr festival will feature both live action and animated films with the only caveat being that all talent must be region-specific.
Global Greats at 51st NY Film Fest
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- Published on Friday, 23 August 2013 16:45
- Written by Brad Balfour
A spectacular cinematic cavalcade of spectacle, the New York Film Festival (NYFF) returns to Lincoln Center September 27, and runs to October 13, 2013. Having it’s world premiere at NYFF is Paul Greengrass’s Captain Phillips, which has been called “…a riveting experience” by NYFF’s Director of Programming and Selection Committee Chair, Kent Jones. Also at the NYFF’s opening is a special tribute to Actress Cate Blanchett and actor/director Ralph Fiennes, followed closely by the preimere of Fiennes’ The Invisible Woman on October 2.
Oscar winning Tokyo Sonata director, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, will show Real, his first feature since 2008, in which a comic book author slips into a coma, and her husband literally ventures into her psyche in an attempt to revive her.
Premiering, and also the festival's Centerpiece Gala Selection, is Ben Stiller’s adaptation of The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, based on the short story by James Thurber. As Stiller’s first directorial piece since Tropic Thunder in ’08, Walter Mitty features comedic powerhouses such as Patton Oswalt, but has a less madcap tone and is more reminiscent of The Royal Tenenbaums.
Blue Is the Warmest Color, based on the graphic novel by Julie Maroh, and directed by Abdellatif Kechiche, will screen uncut with a NC-17 rating. A sensation at Sundance, Blue Is the Warmest Color is a coming of age treatise on sexual and personal identity.
Closing the festival is Spike Jonze's Her, starring Joaquin Phoenix. Reminscent of The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind's themes of technology and self awareness, Her is about a writer played by Phoenix that falls in love with his sentient computer operating system played by Scarlett Johansson.
This is only a small sampling of the films being featured at the 51st NYFF, which is being hotly anticipated. Follow this site for more updates to come.
To learn more, go to http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff2013/
The 51st New York Film Festival
September 27 – October 13, 2013
The Film Society of Lincoln Center
70th Venice Film Fest Screens to the Web
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- Published on Friday, 23 August 2013 10:26
- Written by Chiara Spagnoli Gabardi
In a world of internet users, the 70th edition of the Venice Film Festival (August 28th – September 7th, 2013) is in step with the times. The most prestigious and oldest Italian film festival looks to the future, now making it possible to view movies online through the “Sala Web.”
The VFF Web Theatre has a maximum “seating” capacity of 500 for each showing. There is one screening only for each of the films to be shown and it’s located on a secure site managed by Festival Scope on behalf of the Festival. In order to view the film of choice, users must first register on the website, pay for the four euro ticket, after which they will receive a personal link that’s good for one viewing only.
Each film (in the original with English subtitles) will be available for streaming within 24 hours starting at 9 pm (Italian time) on the day of the film’s official presentation on the Lido; it’s viewable around the world concurrent with the official screenings of the Mostra d’arte cinematografica di Venezia (again, from August 28th – September 7th, 2013). Only one viewing is allowed, though you may stop the screening at any time and continue it later from the point at which it was interrupted within 24 hours of 9 pm starting time (Italian time zone for Venice) on the day of the film’s presentation. Viewing is available as a stream only -- films can’t be downloaded.
A high-speed Internet connection is required to view the stream, as well as a computer with a memory of at least 2GB of RAM or more and a 2 GHz or faster processor and Flash Player (updated to version 11.3). Before purchasing a ticket for the Web Theatre, you may test your connection and computer at the following link: https://www.festivalscope.com/media/screening_test.
Viewing is not compatible with mobile devices such as tablets or smartphones.
Starting this year, Mymovies.it will also collaborate in the promotion.
The sale of digital tickets is already available via the Biennale website, www.labiennale.org.
To learn more, go to: http://www.labiennale.org/en/Home.html
The Venice Film Festival
August 28th – September 7th, 2013
Toronto International Film Festival Announces Full Lineup
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- Published on Tuesday, 23 July 2013 12:10
- Written by Matt Oakes
In the Special Presentations department, we have Cannes Palme D'or winner Blue is the Warmest Color, Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave, Dallas Buyers Club starring Matthew McConaughey and Jared Leto, Alfonso Cuarón's Gravity with George Clooney and Sandra Bullock, Prisoners starring Hugh Jackman and Jake Gyllenhaal, Jonathan Glazer's Under the Skin with Scarlett Johansson, Devil's Knot with Colin Firth and Reese Witherspoon, Dom Hemingway starring Jude Law, Jim Jarmusch's Only Lovers Left Alive and Asghar Farhadi's The Past.
Take a look at the full list below.
GALAS
- American Dreams in China (dir. Peter Ho-Sun Chan) - Hong Kong/China
- The Art of the Steal (dir. Jonathan Sobol) - Canada
- August: Osage County (dir. John Wells) - USA
- Cold Eyes (dir. Cho Ui-seok and Kim Byung-seo) - South Korea
- The Fifth Estate (dir. Bill Condon) - USA [Opening Night Film]
- The Grand Seduction (dir. Don McKellar) - Canada
- Kill Your Darlings (dir. John Krokidas) - USA
- Life of Crime (dir. Daniel Schechter) - USA [Closing Night Film]
- The Love Punch (dir. Joel Hopkins) - France
- The Lunchbox (dir. Ritesh Batra) - India/France/Germany
- Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom (dir. Justin Chadwick) - South Africa
- Parkland (dir. Peter Landesman) - USA
- The Railway Man (dir. Jonathan Teplitzky) - Australia/United Kingdom
- The Right Kind of Wrong (dir. Jeremiah Chechik) - Canada
- Shuddh Desi Romance (dir. Maneesh Sharma) - India
- Supermensch The Legend of Shep Gordon (dir. Mike Myers) - USA
- 12 Years a Slave (dir. Steve McQueen) - USA
- All Is By My Side (dir. John Ridley) - United Kingdom
- Attila Marcel (dir. Sylvain Chomet) - France
- Bad Words (dir. Jason Bateman) - USA
- Belle (dir. Amma Asante) - United Kingdom
- Blue Is the Warmest Color (dir. Abdellatif Kechiche) - France
- Burning Bush (dir. Agnieszka Holland) - Czech Republic
- Can a Song Save Your Life? (dir. John Carney) - USA
- Cannibal (Caníbal) (dir. Manuel Martín Cuenca) - Spain/Romania/Russia/France
- Dallas Buyers Club (dir. Jean-Marc Vallée) - USA
- Devil's Knot (dir. Atom Egoyan) - USA
- The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him and Her (dir. Ned Benson) - USA
- Dom Hemingway (dir. Richard Shepard) - United Kingdom
- Don Jon (dir. Joseph Gordon-Levitt) - USA
- The Double (dir. Richard Ayoade) - United Kingdom
- Enough Said (dir. Nicole Holofcener) - USA
- Exit Marrakech (dir. Caroline Link) - Germany
- Felony (dir. Matthew Saville) - Australia
- Gloria (dir. Sebastián Lelio) - Chile/Spain
- Going Away (Il est parti dimanche) (dir. Nicole Garcia) - France
- Gravity (dir. Alfonso Cuarón) - USA/United Kingdom
- The Great Beauty (La Grande Bellezza) (dir. Paolo Sorrentino) - Italy
- Hateship Loveship (dir. Liza Johnson) - USA
- Ida (dir. Pawel Pawlikowski) - Poland
- L'intrepido (dir. Gianni Amelio) - Italy
- The Invisible Woman (dir. Ralph Fiennes) - United Kingdom
- Joe (dir. David Gordon Green) - USA
- Labor Day (dir. Jason Reitman) - USA
- Like Father, Like Son (dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda) - Japan
- MARY Queen of Scots Thomas (dir. Imbach) - France/Switzerland
- Night Moves (dir. Kelly Reichardt) - USA
- Omar (dir. Hany Abu-Assad) - Palestine
- One Chance (dir. David Frankel) - USA
- Only Lovers Left Alive (dir. Jim Jarmusch) - USA
- The Past (Le Passé) (dir. Asghar Farhadi) - France/Italy
- Philomena (dir. Stephen Frears) - United Kingdom
- Pioneer (Pionér) (dir. Erik Skjoldbjærg) - Norway/Germany/Sweden/France/Finland
- Prisoners (dir. Denis Villeneuve) - USA
- Quai d'Orsay (dir. Bertrand Tavernier) - France
- REAL (dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa) - Japan
- Starred Up (dir. David Mackenzie) - United Kingdom
- Third Person (dir. Paul Haggis) - Belgium
- Those Happy Years (Anni Felici) (dir. Daniele Luchetti) - Italy
- Under the Skin (dir. Jonathan Glazer) - USA/United Kingdom
- Violette (dir. Martin Provost) - France/Belgium
- Visitors (dir. Godfrey Reggio) - USA
- Walesa. Man of Hope. (Walesa. Czlowiek z nadziei.) (dir. Andrzej Wajda) - Poland
- We are the Best! (Vi är bäst!) (dir. Lukas Moodysson) - Sweden
- Le Week-End (dir. Roger Michell) - United Kingdom
- You Are Here (dir. Matthew Weiner) - USA
