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Celebrating Shinoda-San: One of Japan's New Wave Masters
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- Published on Friday, 24 September 2010 19:27
- Written by Jack Angstreich
One of this year's New York Film Festival Masterworks at the Walter Reade Theater, the primary retrospective sidebar of the Festival is Elegant Elegies: The Films of Masahiro Shinoda, devoted to the work of the famed 79-year-old Japanese film director. One of the key figures of the Nipponese "New Wave," notably celebrated by film scholar Noël Burch, Shinoda's films break with classical norms. Shinoda began his career at Shochiku
as did his more famous contemporary Nagisa Oshima and both became directors so they could appeal to the rising “youth market” of the time, one that was tired of conventional Japanese film.
The series runs throughout the length of the Fest -- which opens Friday, Sept. 24th, 2010, until Sun. Oct. 10th -- and includes a rare appearance of the director on Saturday, Sept 25 at the 7:30 pm screening of Pale Flower as well as on Sunday, September 26 at the 5:45 pm screening of Melody in Gray and at the 8:15 pm of Double Suicide.
48th NY Film Fest Grazes Reality with Its Docs
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- Published on Monday, 20 September 2010 13:02
- Written by Laura Blum
Heading into its 48th campaign, New York Film Festival will once again carry the auteurist flag (from September 24th to October 10, 2010), , as it has since first mobilizing in 1963. The Festival, organized by the Film Society of Lincoln Center, prides itself on capturing the year's critical darlings in narrative fiction. So ticket buyers needn't brace for mediocrity when venturing beyond documentaries, as they’ve too often learned to do with NYFF’s downtown foil, the Tribeca Film Festival.
Mexican Revolution Trilogy at NYFF
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- Published on Monday, 20 September 2010 10:59
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A welcome discovery through this year's NYFF's Masterworks retrospectives is the Mexican Revolution trilogy directed by Fernando De Fuentes Carrau, one of the eminent directors in the Mexican film industry of the 1930s and once the subject of a MoMA retrospective in the late 1970s curated by Adrienne Mancia.
Considered a pioneer in the film industry, this Mexican film director was born in Veracruz; Mexico on December 13 1894, son of Fernando De Fuentes and Emelina Carrau de De Fuentes. He studied Philosophy at Tulane University in New Orleans.
Toronto International Film Festival Goes Downtown
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- Published on Sunday, 12 September 2010 12:30
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Flying north in formation, film flocks are making their annual migration to the Toronto International Film Festival (September 9 to 19, 2010) in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The Festival initiates both the fall movie season in North America and the awards ca
mpaigns of numerous films, and is considered among the most influential fests in the world.
This year, TIFF itself has moved. Following a $196-million capital drive, it has abandoned its Bloor and Yorkville nest, and will now be headquartered in a five-story complex called the Bell Lightbox, at King and John Streets in the city’s downtown. The official ribbon cutting and revelries will take place on September 12.
