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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.
Toronto International Film Festival Goes Downtown
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- Published on Sunday, 12 September 2010 12:30
- Written by Laura Blum
Flying north in formation, film flocks are making their annual migration to the Toronto International Film Festival (September 9 to 19, 2010) in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The Festival initiates both the fall movie season in North America and the awards ca
mpaigns of numerous films, and is considered among the most influential fests in the world.
This year, TIFF itself has moved. Following a $196-million capital drive, it has abandoned its Bloor and Yorkville nest, and will now be headquartered in a five-story complex called the Bell Lightbox, at King and John Streets in the city’s downtown. The official ribbon cutting and revelries will take place on September 12.
Woodstock Film Festival - Grit Not Glam
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- Published on Tuesday, 07 September 2010 17:04
- Written by Laura Blum
Just as the fall foliage mounts its technocolor show in the Hudson Valley Catskills, the Woodstock Film Festival fires up a spectacle of its own in Woodstock, NY. Screenings, performances, panels and special events will unfold in the historic arts colony of flower power fame as well as in the neighboring towns of Rhinebeck, Rosendale, Mt. Tremper and Kingston. This year’s “fiercely independent” Festival will take place September 29 to October 3, 2010, marking its 11th season.
More than 150 films will be on offer, whittled down from 1,500 submissions. Each year the tally of premieres edges ever upward; the upcoming edition’s is 60, and 11 of these mark world debuts.
Latinbeat Comes of Age
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- Published on Saturday, 04 September 2010 19:01
- Written by Laura Blum
Never mind the unlucky number; Latinbeat's 13th year of toasting Latin American cinema at the Film Society of Lincoln Center (September 8 to 18, 2010) gives ample cause to clink glasses.
Programmed by FSLC’s Marcela Golio and Richard Peña, the slate features 16 films from eight countries. Five of these entries will be staging their U.S. premieres, including Marcelo Piñeyro’s Thursday Widows/Las viudas de los jueves, which opens the festival.
