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London Film Festival - Inspiration Amid Uncertainty
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- Published on Friday, 01 October 2010 18:33
- Written by Laura Blum
Britain’s largest cinema spectacle, the London Film Festival, is for the 54th time “bringing the world’s best new films to London,” October 13 to 28, 2010. Unlike some of its competitors, the British Film Institute’s big Fall fest shows no signs of falling down.
Rumors continue to swirl that the axing of the UK Film Council could doom such regional beneficiaries as the Cambridge Film Festival. Yet LFF stands to gain from the reallocation of £’s in the Council’s wake.
Since its genesis in 1956, LFF has generally served as a “festival of festivals” mounting the UK premieres of favorites from Cannes, Toronto and Sundance. (Local lore has it that the BFI acted on the expressed belief of local film critics that “with Cannes and Venice having their festivals, as did Edinburgh, so surely London should too.”) Yet, as per Artistic Director Sandra Hebron, London also fulfills a discovery role.
Celebrating Shinoda-San: One of Japan's New Wave Masters
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- Published on Friday, 24 September 2010 19:27
- Written by Jack Angstreich
One of this year's New York Film Festival Masterworks at the Walter Reade Theater, the primary retrospective sidebar of the Festival is Elegant Elegies: The Films of Masahiro Shinoda, devoted to the work of the famed 79-year-old Japanese film director. One of the key figures of the Nipponese "New Wave," notably celebrated by film scholar Noël Burch, Shinoda's films break with classical norms. Shinoda began his career at Shochiku
as did his more famous contemporary Nagisa Oshima and both became directors so they could appeal to the rising “youth market” of the time, one that was tired of conventional Japanese film.
The series runs throughout the length of the Fest -- which opens Friday, Sept. 24th, 2010, until Sun. Oct. 10th -- and includes a rare appearance of the director on Saturday, Sept 25 at the 7:30 pm screening of Pale Flower as well as on Sunday, September 26 at the 5:45 pm screening of Melody in Gray and at the 8:15 pm of Double Suicide.
48th NY Film Fest Grazes Reality with Its Docs
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- Published on Monday, 20 September 2010 13:02
- Written by Laura Blum
Heading into its 48th campaign, New York Film Festival will once again carry the auteurist flag (from September 24th to October 10, 2010), , as it has since first mobilizing in 1963. The Festival, organized by the Film Society of Lincoln Center, prides itself on capturing the year's critical darlings in narrative fiction. So ticket buyers needn't brace for mediocrity when venturing beyond documentaries, as they’ve too often learned to do with NYFF’s downtown foil, the Tribeca Film Festival.
Mexican Revolution Trilogy at NYFF
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- Published on Monday, 20 September 2010 10:59
- Written by Jack Angstreich
A welcome discovery through this year's NYFF's Masterworks retrospectives is the Mexican Revolution trilogy directed by Fernando De Fuentes Carrau, one of the eminent directors in the Mexican film industry of the 1930s and once the subject of a MoMA retrospective in the late 1970s curated by Adrienne Mancia.
Considered a pioneer in the film industry, this Mexican film director was born in Veracruz; Mexico on December 13 1894, son of Fernando De Fuentes and Emelina Carrau de De Fuentes. He studied Philosophy at Tulane University in New Orleans.
