Film Festival
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'Tempest' hits New York Film Fest in Oct.
Hollywood Reporter: Film &bull Yesterday
"The Tempest" is blowing into New York. Julie Taymor's adaptation of the Shakespeare play will screen as the Centerpiece Selection of the New York Film Festival. Full Story »
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Taymor's "Tempest" Takes NY Fest Slot
indieWIRE &bull Yesterday
Fall film festival lineup continue to take shape. "The Tempest," film and theater director Julie Taymor's adaption of the Shakespeare play, has been chosen as the Centerpiece selection for this year's New York Film Festival. After closing the Venice Film… Full Story »
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'Enter the Void' poster
In Contention &bull Yesterday
Gaspar NoA's "Enter the Void," a three-hour melange of bad-trip imagery, medium-core sex and approximately 1,736 swooping crane shots, has hovered in distribution limbo since last year's Cannes festival, and no wonder: these days, it's hard enough for perfectly innocuous… Full Story »
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Central Florida lands another short films festival
Frankly My Dear... &bull Yesterday
Sanford will be home to the Love Your Shorts Film Festival, a Feb. 11-13 event in Sanford where organizers are planning " to host blocks of movies for fan voting in these categories: Animation, Comedy, Documentary, Drama, Florida connections (either… Full Story »
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Hitler homemovies get re-release
Variety Online &bull Yesterday
A documentary film on Adolf Hitler's home life that has been barely seen since its bow 37 years ago will be available to a new generation with theatrical distribution deals in Germany and the U.S. Australian director Philippe Mora's 1973… Full Story »
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Searchlight Sets Dates for '127 Hours' and 'Black Swan'
Get The Big Picture &bull Yesterday
Fox Searchlight has become an awards season leader over the past few years and while I don't expect this is the last we've heard from the boutique studio between now and then - there are still the films at the… Full Story »
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For a weekend, a few moments of Kevin Kline
The Seattle Times &bull Jul 30, 2010
I've had two lovely treats this sunny Friday: a chicken-salad sandwich on a croissant that was so insanely good it deserves its own movie (seriously, I'm practically ready to address a sonnet sequence to it), and a brief but very… Full Story »
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Watch Disco & Atomic War Now!
Libertas &bull Jul 30, 2010Watch more free documentaries By Jason Apuzzo. A film from the recent LA Film Festival that we loved was Disco & Atomic War. A Disco is an extraordinary new Estonian documentary about the so-called 'soft power' influence of American and… Full Story »
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August Is Not For Blogging
The Lost Boy &bull Jul 30, 2010
I'm taking a month off from ye ol' blog to attempt to not be distracted from looming end-of-summer deadlines for a bunch of other stuff, and to try and be as family-and-friend oriented this month in Toronto before the fall… Full Story »
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Toronto After Dark Film Festival Unveils 2010 Line-Up
Filmjunk &bull Jul 30, 2010
The Toronto After Dark Film Festival is an impressive genre festival that keeps growing every year, and makes for a great warm-up to the Midnight Madness program at TIFF. This year's festival runs from August 13th to 20th and covers… Full Story »
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Do Not Watch This Trailer For Catfish
CHUD.com &bull Jul 30, 2010
Now TalkingWATCH THIS NOW: MARKETS OF BRITAINlast post by:mcnooj82The B Action Movie Threadlast post by:Rene (Mr.Eko)Scott Pilgrim vs. the World Post Releaselast post by:Sean BatemanYour Fake Bandlast post by:Steve MoonrocketHokuto No Ken...Fist Of The North Star! I was riding the… Full Story »
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Toronto After Dark Film Festival 2010: Film Schedule
Film-Book &bull Jul 30, 2010
The film schedule for the 2010 Toronto After Dark Film Festival (TAD) has been released. The 5th Toronto After Dark Film Festival is "a showcase of horror, sci-fi, action and cult cinemaA held annually in Toronto, Canada at the Bloor… Full Story »
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Timothy Bottoms honored at Oldenburg Fest
Hollywood Reporter - International &bull Jul 30, 2010
Actor Timothy Bottoms, a star of the New Hollywood era with roles in films such as "The Last Picture Show" and "Johnny Got His Gun" and who received a late career revival playing President George W. Bush in Trey Parker… Full Story »
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'Your House' wins Pia competition
Zibb.com: Media/Movies & Film (Industry News & Blogs) &bull Jul 30, 2010
TOKYO -- Kohei Yamakawa's "Your House" (Anta no Ie), a drama about an elderly couple, won the Grand Prize at the Pia Film Festival, which unspooled July 16-30 at the National Film Center in Tokyo. Sho Kataoka's "Mr. Jellyfish" was… Full Story »
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New fest topper puts distinctive stamp on Locarno
Variety Online &bull Jul 30, 2010
Fest Traveler: Locarno 2010: Pere slims down lineup but adds edgy auteur infusion -- Olivier Pere is putting his stamp on the event by cutting clutter while radicalizing the selection to include more edgy, ultra-indie and genre titles alongside the… Full Story »
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Gersten, Rauch among TCG award winners
Variety Online &bull Jul 30, 2010
Lincoln Center Theater exec producer Bernard Gersten, Oregon Shakespeare Fest a.d. Bill Rauch and helmer Anne Kauffman are among the recipients of the 2010 awards from Theater Communications Group. Legit nonprofit service and development org TCG hands out kudos every… Full Story »
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Opening this week on the local specialty film circuit
Chicago Sun-Times Entertainment &bull Jul 30, 2010
This touring program of animated shorts consists of 19 titles that were originally submitted to the annual Sick Twisted fest based in La Jolla, Calif., but did not make the cut for lack of sickness or twistiness. Despite its name, this spinoff fest does not showcase younger animators, and includes work dating back to 1998. The fest's website plugs the line-up as both "accessible" and "more artistic." The international lineup is hardly experimental in style, though. Some of the plots overlap: a sock on a clothesline organizes a search party to rescue its stray mate, and an octopus battles a… Full Story »
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Coppola, Aronofsky lead Venice fest
Paris Guardian.com &bull Jul 30, 2010
ROME - World premieres by directors Sofia Coppola and Darren Aronofsky as well as the hotly anticipated adaptation of cult novel "Barney's Version" will be among the highlights of this year's Venice f... Full Story »
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Distributor FAQ: FilmBuff
The Independent - Obsessed with independent film since 1978. &bull Jul 30, 2010FilmBuff is a digital distribution service provided by Cinetic Rights Management (CRM). Although FilmBuff is less than three years old, its sister company, Cinetic Media, has been a major player in film sales since 2001. Former South by Southwest Film Festival head Matt Dentler left the fest in 2008 to lead marketing and programming operations for CRM, which has grown significantly in the past two years. FilmBuff focuses on finding distribution for digital media by representing filmmakers to various distributors. The Independent's Courtney Sheehan spoke with Chris Horton, head of acquisitions at FilmBuff, to get a better sense of what… Full Story »
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"Sawako Decides" Cleans Up at Fantasia Film Fest
indieWIRE &bull Jul 29, 2010
Yuya Ishii's "Sawako Decides" was the big winner at the 14th Fantasia Film Festival, that took place from July 8 - 28 in Montreal, Quebec. Ishii's comedy about a young Japanese woman who starts out cleaning up snot and ends… Full Story »
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