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Royal Flush Festival To Play to Full Houses
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- Published on Saturday, 09 October 2010 04:06
- Written by Laura Blum
The funhouse mirror that is Royal Flush Magazine once again celebrates its warped take on pop culture, video games, indie movies and underground music and art at its annual immersion, Royal Flush Festival, October 11 to 18, 2010. Think Mad Magazine and Harvard Lampoon for merrily stunted adults as the pages of this nationally-circulated rag jolt to life through screenings and performances at the Knitting Factory in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and other New York venues.
Festival curtains will rise on its film segment with Shan Nicholson’s documentary Downtown Calling, in which Blondie’s Deborah Harry narrates the saga of New York’s downtown music and art scene in the 1970s and 1980s. For Festival clinchers, film programmer & co-director Jim Muscarella has slotted El Monstro Del Mar!, Stuart Simpson’s B-movie slasher by way of Australia.
Hamptons Int'l Film Festival Floats Many Stars & Starfish in Oct.
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- Published on Sunday, 03 October 2010 00:42
- Written by Laura Blum
The Hamptons International Film Festival dips into its 18th year October 7 to 11, 2010 in East Hampton, New York, with additional beachheads in Southampton, Sag Harbor and Montauk.
Reaching the Long Island shore will be films from Chad, the Czech Republic, Columbia and Denmark, among other countries, buoying the Festival’s “mission to bring a wide range of viewpoints from around the world,” as per Executive Director Karen Arikian.
Two films will open this year’s Festival. First to take its bows will be the U.S. premiere of Barney’s Version, in East Hampton on October 7. Richard J. Lewis’ adaptation of Mordechai Richler’s last novel was warmly received in Toronto, as was The King’s Speech – so much so, in fact, that it took top prize – and it’s set to show off Tom Hooper’s directorial chops on the following night, in East Hampton.
Festival curtains will close with Black Swan. Darren Aronofksy's ballet thriller has garnered festival applause for Natalie Portman's star turn as a rivalrous ballerina.
Counter Culture, Counter Cinema: An Avant-Garde Film Festival
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- Published on Saturday, 02 October 2010 00:11
- Written by Brad Balfour
The Museum Of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA), with Pacific Design Center, and Charles S. Cohen present Counter Culture,
Counter Cinema: An Avant-Garde Film Festival -- a three-day celebration of films focusing on the long-term alliance between experimental cinema and counter-culture activity. The festival will be held at the SilverScreen Theater at the Pacific Design Center (8687 Melrose Ave. in West Hollywood) October 14th through October 16th, 2010, and will cover the half-century from the early 1960s to the present, featuring films and videos that explore sexuality, politics, communal experiments, and transgressive appropriations. A set of guest speakers -- a vital part of the program -- will also be presenting panels.
London Film Festival - Inspiration Amid Uncertainty
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- Published on Friday, 01 October 2010 18:33
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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.
