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Venice Film Fests Celebrates 69 Years of World Cinema
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- Published on Wednesday, 29 August 2012 05:00
- Written by Renzo Adler
Established in 1932, The Venice Film Festival (August 29 – September 8, 2012) at the Palazzo del Cinema (Lungomare Marconi, 30126 Venezia VE, Italy), is revered as the oldest running film festival and still retains a certain quiet dignity that is somewhat absent from the hype of Cannes.
Competing this year in the festival is Paul Thomas Anderson’s eagerly awaited The Master, with Philip Seymour Hoffman playing an L. Ron Hubbard style character and putting on his best crazy-face. Also in competition is Olivier Assay’s Something in the Air, a coming of age story set in the political turmoil of 1970’s France and the latest film from sovereign of suspenseful schlock, Brian De Palma, Passion, about the sexy and blood soaked world of office intrigue.
Film Forum Celebrates Harold Lloyd: Saint of Silent Slapstick
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- Published on Monday, 20 August 2012 14:41
- Written by Renzo Adler
Ah, the silent era. A time in cinema when a total disregard for personal safety meant that you were trying to pull off a really good gag, and not starve yourself so you’ll look good in tight clothes. August 27 to November 5, 2012 the Film Forum (209 W Houston Street, between 6th Avenue & Varick) will pay tribute to that era with a film festival featuring the bespectacled savant of slapstick, Harold Lloyd. A weekly festival, each Monday (and select Sundays) a different film starring the “third genius” of silet comedy (after Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton) will be screened along with live piano accompaniment by Steve Sterner and shown on gorgeous 35mm.
Call Girl To Open 23d Stockholm International Film Fest
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- Published on Friday, 17 August 2012 13:13
- Written by Renzo Adler
Now in its 23d year, the Stockholm International Film Festival (November 7 – 18, 2012, location TBA) returns to Sweden with its rich selection of international films. The festival opens with director Mikael Marcimain’s political thriller Call Girl.
Director Marcimain stated “I am honored and happy that Call Girl will open The Stockholm International Film Festival. I have been an avid visitor since the festival started and I have also been part of the international jury. So it feels awesome and a bit nervous to compete with my first feature film. Vive le cinéma!”
Call Girl is the first feature film from Marcimain, who is a popular TV director in Sweden for shows such as Graven, Lasermannen and Upp till kamp.
Other films also being shows at the 23rd Stockholm International Film Festival include:
- Beasts of the Southern Wild (Dir. Benh Zeitlin)
- The Parade (Dir. Srdjan Dragojevic)
- Xingu (Dir. Cao Hamburger)
- Middle of Nowhere (Dir. Ava DuVernay)
SIFF features over 160 films from more than 40 countries and features works for all ages. Past films that have won at SIFF include Europa, Reservoir Dogs, Dogtooth, and Oslo, August 31st.
To learn more, go to http://www.stockholmfilmfestival.se/en
The Stockholm International Film Festival
November 7 – 18, 2012
Location TBA
Stockholm, Sweden
City of Life: A New Arab Cinema Highlight
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- Published on Sunday, 12 August 2012 21:05
- Written by Laura Blum
When someone makes a first feature film, as Ali F. Mostafa has with City of Life, it’s a personal milestone. But when this debut also marks a country’s entry into big-budget long-form filmmaking, now that’s an historic event.
The United Arab Emirates came of filmmaking
age with City of Life’s arrival in 2009, roughly four decades after the UAE itself premiered in 1971. In a part of the world where oral lore traditionally prevailed over recorded culture, cinema’s dawning is all the more of a to do.
American viewers will have a chance to give kudos when the Film Society of Lincoln Center screens the film as part of its five-day series Orientation: A New Arab Cinema (August 24-29, 2012). The series celebrates another first: FSLC’s partnership with the Dubai International Film Festival to present recent works that have been supported by the Dubai Film Market.
