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City of Life: A New Arab Cinema Highlight
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- Published on Sunday, 12 August 2012 21:05
- Written by Laura Blum
When someone makes a first feature film, as Ali F. Mostafa has with City of Life, it’s a personal milestone. But when this debut also marks a country’s entry into big-budget long-form filmmaking, now that’s an historic event.
The United Arab Emirates came of filmmaking
age with City of Life’s arrival in 2009, roughly four decades after the UAE itself premiered in 1971. In a part of the world where oral lore traditionally prevailed over recorded culture, cinema’s dawning is all the more of a to do.
American viewers will have a chance to give kudos when the Film Society of Lincoln Center screens the film as part of its five-day series Orientation: A New Arab Cinema (August 24-29, 2012). The series celebrates another first: FSLC’s partnership with the Dubai International Film Festival to present recent works that have been supported by the Dubai Film Market.
New York International Latino Film Festival 2012
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- Published on Thursday, 09 August 2012 16:09
- Written by Renzo Adler
The 13th edition of the New York International Latino Film Festival (NYILFF) assembles fresh cinematic talent from Latin America and the Latino community in the United States.
Running from August 13 – 19, 2012,NYILFF spans several theaters throughout New York with a vast selection of films, both domestic and internationally made, that look at the life of Latinos through the eyes of children, immigrants, Americans, families, loners. These are films that address adversity, and how it makes life beautiful and horrific at the same time.
The festival opens with a free screening celebrating the 15th anniversary of the Jennifer Lopez film, Selena. This is paralleled with the other opening night feature, Filly Brown, starring Gina Rodriguez (Go For It) about an aspiring hip-hop artist that is caught between trying to escape her life, and being true to those that helped her along the way.
Other films include:
- 186 Dollars to Freedom
- Delusions of Grandeur
- Love, Concord
- Mariachi Gringo
- Sunset Stories
- Tony Tango
- Under My Nails
One of the highlights of the NYILFF is the shorts completion, sponsored in part by HBO.
There are five shorts programs, each with a different theme:
- Something In The Way She Moves (romance)
- Catchers in the Rye (coming of age)
- Use Your Illusion (fantasy)
- Check Yourself (suspense)
- The Anatomy of Melancholy (tragedy)
NYILFF also includes four panels, all of which are free to the public, that address the role of hip-hop music and culture on film, the changing face of Latinas in the media, how to market independent films, and a discussion with filmmaker Carmen Pelaez.
“In 13 years, NYILFF has grown in prestige and stature around the country and internationally,” explained founder and Co-executive director Calixto Chinchilla. “We continually strive to provide a platform for emerging and established filmmakers to showcase their work to New York’s diverse audiences.”
NYLIFF is definitely one of the more socially minded film-series this Summer and worth a look.
To learn more, go http://www.nylatinofilm.com/
New York International Latino Film Festival
August 13 -19, 2012
Various Locations
Sean Connery 007 Retrospective at IFC Center
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- Published on Wednesday, 08 August 2012 14:00
- Written by Renzo Adler
Do you have a love of fast cars that borders on the Freudian? How about a gleeful disregard for political correctness? Or maybe you just have an uncontrollable urge to watch movies about hairy Scotsmen? Well the IFC Center (323 Avenue of the Americas) has just the film series for you. James Bond No. 1: Sean Connery’s 007 (August 31 – September 6, 2012) will feature all seven of Connery’s booze-swilling, womanizing, and Cold War paranoia packed 007 films on 35mm and DCP.
- Dr. No
- From Russia With Love
- Goldfinger
- Thunderball
- You Only Live Twice
- Diamonds Are Forever
- Never Say Never Again
And for those of you that just want to watch all seven movies in one sitting, the IFC Center will have a special Bonda-a-thon screening of all seven films in chronological order on Sunday, September 2.
The New York Film Festival Celebrates 50 Years of Cinema
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- Published on Tuesday, 07 August 2012 15:24
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1963 was a momentous year for film. Liz Taylor was re-defining the starlet in Cleopatra, It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World brought a colossal conclusion to the remnants of slapstick humor of the silent era, and Sean Connery was helping create one of cinema’s major franchises in Dr. No, and it was also the year the New York Film Festival was born.
2012 marks the 50th edition of the New York Film Festival (September 28 – October 14, 2012) at Lincoln Center (various locations). While none of the films being shown at the festival have been officially revealed yet, tickets are being quickly snatched up and Lincoln Center’s Subscription Packages have already sold out.
As part of 50th anniversary, Lincoln Center will be showing 50 Years of the New York Film Festival (August 7 - September 11, 2012), a series of films that were shown at previous years that helped make the NYFF what it is today. Films being shown include:
- Topsy-Turvy (1991, dir. Mike Leigh)
- House of Mirth (2000, dir. Terrence Davies)
- I’m Going Home (2001, dir. Manoel de Oliveira)
- Talk to Her (2002, dir. Pedro Almodóvar )
- Dogville (2003, dir. Lars von Trier)
- The World (2004, dir. Jia Zhang-ke)
- The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (2005, dir. Cristi Puiu)
- Offside (2003, dir. Jafar Panahi)
- Silent Light (2007, dir. Carlos Reygadas)
- Gomorrah (2008, dir. Matteo Garrone)
- The White Ribbon (2009, dir. Michael Haneke)
- Black Venus (2010, dir. Abdellatif Kechiche)
- Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011, dir. Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
While New York is rife with different film festivals with their own audiences and agendas, Lincoln Center’s NYFF is quintessentially and eternally a New York festival, and not simply Sundance Ver.01. The New York Film Festival embodies a love of cinema, rather than an infatuation with media darlings or making deals with studios.
To learn more, go to http://www.filmlinc.com
50 Years of the New York Film Festival
August 7 - September 11, 2012
50th New York Film Festival
September 28 – October 14, 2012
Alice Tully Hall
1941 Broadway
New York, NY 10023
Walter Reade Theater
165 West 65th St
New York, NY 10023
Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center
144 West 65th St
New York, NY 10023
