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DocuWorks Showcases in NY & LA
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- Published on Wednesday, 11 August 2010 19:15
- Written by Laura Blum
From July 30 to August 19, 2010, Manhattanites and Angelinos can catch theatrical screenings of 22 nonfiction films (including five shorts) during the International Documentary Association's DocuWeeks Theatrical Documentary Showcase.
You can catch IDA's showcase in New York City at the IFC Center (323 Sixth Av. at W. Third St.) and at the ArcLight Hollywood (6360 W. Sunset Boulevard) in Los Angeles. All of the films are in the running for a 2011 Academy Award.
One of them is Waste Land, a loving portrait of garbage. Rot and refuse are not the sort of thing you ordinarily equate with beauty, but then there's nothing ordinary about Brazilian artist Vik Muniz or his photographic work celebrating the art of recycling. The documentary by Lucy Walker follows Muniz from Brooklyn to Brazil's largest trash heap to photograph its gleaners.
Venice Int'l Film Festival: Inundated with Premieres
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- Published on Sunday, 08 August 2010 17:18
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For the 67th time, the island of Lido in Venice, Italy will become awash with cinema life when the Venice International Film Festival rises September 1 to 11, 2010. And once again, Hollywood creatures are expected to flood the seven-mile sandbar that hosts the world's oldest film festival.
Quentin Tarantino is helming the jury that will confer the prestigious Golden Lion. Among the 23 contenders for this year's top kudo is Darren Aronofksy's psychological thriller Black Swan. Tagged as the opening night film, it stars Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis as ballerinas who are themselves thrust in a competition, in this case for marquee roles in a production of Swan Lake. Aronofsky's The Wrestler won the 2008 Golden Lion.
"Russellmania!" Hits New York's Lincoln Center
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- Published on Thursday, 29 July 2010 05:00
- Written by Kevin Filipski
Russellmania was never as widespread as “Beatlemania,” but director Ken Russell wouldn’t care. The “bad boy” of British film-makin
g began in the '60s with a series of artist biographies about the likes of composer Frederick Delius that only hinted at where his feature-film career would go when he exploded onto the international scene with Women in Love.
The Film Society of Lincoln Center’s Russellmania! is not a complete retrospective of Russell’s films — it only collects nine of his major productions from 1969 - 1977, when he was arguably at his peak, both in prolific-ness and quality—but Russell’s '80s and '90s output is pretty much diminishing returns anyway, so why not stop here? (Actually, the series should stop before the overwrought 1977 biopic Valentino, in which a fatally miscast Rudolf Nureyev is outclassed by Michelle Phillips, of all people, who looks like she’s about to devour him in their unintentionally funny nude scene.)
Cinemania 2010: The InVisible MAFAF
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- Published on Saturday, 24 July 2010 20:21
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Established in 2002 as the support program at the Pula Film Festival, the 9th annual Cinemaniac festival is a multimedia exhibition of experimental film making running from July 18th through August 6th at the Gallery Anex and Gallery Luka (MMC LUKA) in Croatia. Cinemania 2010: The InVisible MAFAF exhibition is dedicated to the MAFAF - the Inter cine club Alternative Amateur and Artist Film Festival, which ran f
rom 1965 to 1990 in Pula as an annual prelude to the Yugoslav Feature Film Festival.
This year's festival aims to resurrect and re-contextualize the history of the nearly completely forgotten European film festival. Despite its 25 years as the biggest event dedicated to alternative and non-professional film making in Yugoslavia, the MAFAF seemed to have dropped from the collective memory, becoming invisible in the public eye. The Cinemaniac exhibition, curated by Branka Bencic and pieced together through rare documents and fragile archives, seeks “to provide room for a subjective critical reinterpretation which would be shorn of eulogy and myth.” The event aspires to make the invisible visible once more.
Throughout its nearly three decades, the MAFAF showcased the works of such talents as Tomislav Gotovac, Želimir Žilnik, Vladimir Petek, Lordan Zafranović, Franci Slak, Ivan Faktor, Zdravko Mustać, Boris Poljak, Vladislav Knežević, Josip Zanki, and Dan Oki. Cinemaniac 2010 will bring the lost festival deliberately into present context by inviting to Pula several of the erstwhile MAFAF participants along with a new generation of contemporary visual artists. In essence, the event hopes to not only summon ghosts of the departed festival, but to highlight its larger connection to the procession of experimental videography toward the future.
Cinemania 2010: The InVisible MAFAF is also seen as a research platform, a project which will be implemented in phases in several recognizable presentation formats - exhibitions, film screenings program, a series of talks - a panel discussion - symposium, publications: catalog, collection, and will play a significant role in creating archives and storing and collecting materials to protect the festival from falling again into invisibility.
For exhibit schedule and more information go to www.pulafilmfestival.hr/hr/index.php?p=list&group=67
Cinemania 2010: The InVisible MAFAF
July 18th - August 6th, 2010
Gallery Anex and Gallery Luka (MMC LUKA)
Croatia
