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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
Fantasia '13: Global Gore Galore
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- Published on Tuesday, 16 July 2013 14:01
- Written by Renzo Adler
Since 1996, the Fantasia Film Festival of Montreal has been a breeding ground for the more bizarre and genre bending works of cinema, from low brow splatter fests, imaginative foreign journeys through strange lands. This year’s festival, running July 18 to August 7, 2013, continues the tradition of bringing some truly fascinating works of film from all over the world.
Opening the festival is the hotly anticipated new feature from Japanese shock-master, Takashi Miike, Shield of Straw, in which a child murder is protected by the police after an old whips the public into frenzy by putting a bounty on the killer’s head.
Troma and Lloyd Kaufman’s Return to Nuke ‘Em High is (hopefully) a return to form from the grizzled veterans of VHS era schlock, and goes back to the gory cheap thrills of the original, but now with an added message against processed foods.
Documentary L’Autre Monde (The Other World), from director Richard Stanley, follows the director’s own descent into madness as he ventures into an epicenter of the occult tucked away in the South of France.
A special screening of the so obscure it’s practically lost Japanese animated film, The Tragedy of Belladonna is a real treat. If all you know about Japanese animation is Akira, then this film will shatter your world. A story of jealousy, sex, spurned love, and death, The Tragedy of Belladonna is set in the time of the black plague and is about a woman’s pact with Satan to exact revenge on an uncaring world.
This is only a small sampling of the over 150 films being shown at Fantasia. For fans of the bizarre and innovative, there is no better festival.
To learn more, go to http://www.fantasiafestival.com/
Fantasia Film Festival
July 18 – August 7, 2013
Montreal, Quebec
Various locations
Japan Film Fest Unleashes Robots & Samurai in San Fran
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- Published on Friday, 21 June 2013 15:25
- Written by Renzo Ader
As part of San Francisco’s 2013 Japan Film Festival (July 27 – August 4, 2013), in conjunction with the J-POP Summit Festival (July 27 – 28, 2013), the much awaited third Neon Genesis Evangelion movie, Evangelion 3.0: You Can (Not) Redo, will be having its US premiere on July 27, 2013 at the NEW PEOPLE Cinema (1746 Post St, San Francisco, CA).
Provincetown Film Fest Walks on the Wild Side
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- Published on Monday, 17 June 2013 10:52
- Written by Renzo Adler
Provincetown, New England's quaint home to free-thinking and fabulousness will be playing host to a gamut of filmmakers as it celebrates the 15th anniversary of the Provincetown Film Festival (June 19 - 23, 2013). The PTown Film Fest brings together daring films like Lovelace, Emanuel and the Truth About Fishes, I Am Divine, and I'm So Excited!, along with filmmakers making appearances, including:
