70th Venice Film Fest Screens to the Web

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Published on Friday, 23 August 2013 10:26

Written by Chiara Spagnoli Gabardi

In a world of internet users, the 70th edition of the Venice Film Festival  (August 28th – September 7th, 2013) is in step with the times. The most prestigious and oldest Italian film festival looks to the future, now making it possible to view movies online through the “Sala Web.”

The VFF Web Theatre has a maximum “seating” capacity of 500 for each showing. There is one screening only for each of the films to be shown and it’s located on a secure site managed by Festival Scope on behalf of the Festival. In order to view the film of choice, users must first register on the website, pay for the four euro ticket, after which they will receive a personal link that’s good for one viewing only.

Each film (in the original with English subtitles) will be available for streaming within 24 hours starting at 9 pm (Italian time) on the day of the film’s official presentation on the Lido; it’s viewable around the world concurrent with the official screenings of the Mostra d’arte cinematografica di Venezia (again, from August 28th – September 7th, 2013). Only one viewing is allowed, though you may stop the screening at any time and continue it later from the point at which it was interrupted within 24 hours of 9 pm starting time (Italian time zone for Venice) on the day of the film’s presentation. Viewing is available as a stream only -- films can’t be downloaded.
 
A high-speed Internet connection is required to view the stream, as well as a computer with a memory of at least 2GB of RAM or more and a 2 GHz or faster processor and Flash Player (updated to version 11.3). Before purchasing a ticket for the Web Theatre, you may test your connection and computer at the following link: https://www.festivalscope.com/media/screening_test.

Viewing is not compatible with mobile devices such as tablets or smartphones.

Starting this year, Mymovies.it will also collaborate in the promotion.
 
The sale of digital tickets is already available via the Biennale website, www.labiennale.org.

To learn more, go to: http://www.labiennale.org/en/Home.html

The Venice Film Festival
August 28th – September 7th, 2013

Toronto International Film Festival Announces Full Lineup

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Published on Tuesday, 23 July 2013 12:10

Written by Matt Oakes

• 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