The Festival, now 12 years old, attracts large audiences to a full
programme of mostly non-American films and concentrates particularly
on the films nominated for the Best Foreign Film Oscar. There are
also ancillary events which include panels, discussions, and tributes
to distinguished film personlaities.
This year 34 Oscar-nominated foreign films are being shown and
an International Critics Jury orga...
If Wim Wenders has been called a "rootless and restless" director, then Herzog has become, as Anton Kaes states in "World Cinema", "a symbol of the filmmaker as adventurer, vagabond and daredevil, an auteur "willing to risk his life for a film." Filmfestivals.com met him at the European Film Forum of Strasbourg where he received an honorary award, but not before addressing with his usual alertness the burning question of European cinema's future...
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Max Ophüls
Prize- Film Festival
January 16-21 (Saarbrücken, Germany)
Birthplace
of that restless romantic Max Ophüls (born in 1902) - one of the
few directors to have made classic movies in both Europe and Hollywood,
Saarbrücken hosts an excellent, intimate event celebrating his
name and evoking his spirit each January. The 22nd edition again focuses
sharply on young or ...
The 5th edition
of Comedie de l'Alpe d'Huez in France awarded its Grand Prize to Together
by Lukas Moodysson (Sweden), its Special Jury Prize to What's Cooking
by Gurinder Chadha (US), while the Audience Award went to Origine Controlee
by Zakia and Agmed Bouchaala (France). What's Cooking and Origine
Controlee tied for the Critics' Prize. As for short films, the Best Short
went to Les Inévitables by Christophe Le Masne while the Special
Jury Prize and Critics' Prize ...
Dubbed "King
of comedy", called the "successor to Cary Grant" in the
mid-eighties, Tom Hanks is one of the very few American comic actors to
have successfully made his way to more dramatic roles, winning two Oscars
at that (for Philadelphia and Forrest Gump). Back in the
80's, Tom Hanks was not so sure about the looming profile of his career.
"Right now I'm hot. Next year I may not be" he said in David
...
Anna lives with her father in the house she has inherited from her mother.
An unbearable silence, imposed by feelings of guilt, prevails in Anna's house after her mother's death. Communication with her father is difficult and often impossible.
Anna meets Alexander, a very successfull dancer choreographer.
Alexander's midlife crisis is leading him to an unexpected, selfish and often selfdistructive behaviour in his personal life and artistic activity. Trapped in the impasse , ordained by his...
Lucia Rikaki studied History of Art Graphic Design, Cinema and Photography in 1984. She created the production company Orama Films producing art films, TV and theater in 1995. And she created the "104 Art Theater stage" and the "104 Comedy Club".
She teaches actors in acting schools.
She was president of The European Producers Network and a member of the Governing Boards of EURO AIM,DOCUMENTARY,MAP TV. She is a member of the Governing Board of the Greek Film Directors and Producers Union....
Dancing Soul opened theatrically in Greece the 29th of January 1999.
Since it has won three awards. It has been awarded:
* Bronze Award at Worldfest International Film Festival in Houston, USA
* Prix Agenda 21 at ECOFILM International Film Festival in Lille, France
* State Quality Award at Thessaloniki International Film Festival in Greece.
Dancing Soul has also been selected in the following film festivals in the Competition Sections.
*2000 Worldfest International Film Fe...
A year after becoming the toast of New York City’s art scene, photographer Max Martin has lost his ability to take a decent picture. On the night before his make-or-break gallery opening, surrounded by the trappings of success but devoid of inspiration, Max embarks on a bizarre trek through the city in search of ten mysterious photographs that could save his career.
Shot in brilliant color and dramatic black and white, first-time director Jeremy Stein’s industrial New York City i...
A young pregnant woman arrives in New York City from Russia seeking her boyfriend and finds herself abandoned and living with his friend - a trip-hop D.J.
Her mind drifts into her past when she was coming of age in a coal mining town in Russia.
As relationships in New York develop along side her memories, her storytelling contemplates the borders of self-liberation and self-deception. ...
Tony Pemberton was born in Toledo, Ohio in 1966. He is a graduate from the State University of New York at Purchase with a BFA in film in 1990, and later the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts: Bard College with an MFA in film in 1993. He is also known for acting the role of the Young Genet in Todd Haynes' Poison.
Cited in Variety as One of Ten Directors to Watch in 2000, he has previously shown films at The Anthology Film Archives, the Kino Museum in Moscow, Russia, The Whitney Amer...
Beyond the Ocean premiered at the Sundance Film Festival 2000 in the Dramatic Competition. In this competition it was nominated for Grand Jury Award.
Afterwards, it went through many international film festivals such as:
* Munich Film Festival , Germany, 2000, European Premiere
* Karlovy Vary Film Festival ,Czech Republic, 2000
* Moscow Film Festival , Russia, 2000
* Sao Paolo Film Festival , Brazil, 2000
* Milano Film Festival , Italy, 2000
* Mannheim Film Festival , ...
In this dark and dangerous Film Noir-meets-German Expressionism directorial debut from veteran visual effects man Les Bernstien, paunchy ex-con Joe Butcher (John Voldstad – “The Newhart Show”) heads South of the Border, tumbling head first into the boiling vat of corruption that supports Tijuana’s thriving snuff film industry. Through a booze-induced haze, Butcher encounters a Mexican spitfire, a grizzled drunk, a villainous dwarf and an obese sexpot, as he frantically retraces his brot...
Les Bernstien schooled and worked in graphic design and photography in New York City until moving to Los Angeles to pursue a career as a Visual Effects Director of Photography on such varied works as The Hollow Man , Stuart Little , Fight Club , Small Soldiers , City of Angels , The Game , Dante’s Peak , Contact , Batman Forever , Ghostbusters I and II , along with many other films and commercials.
In television, Les has won an Emmy for Star Trek: The Next Generation , as well a...
In March 1999, Night Train began its film festival journey. To date, 87% of all screenings have been on an invitation basis (Official Selections).
Following is a list of all Film Festival screenings, beginning with the most recent first:
*Invited to the Exground Filmfest 2000 in Germany, where they used a still from Nigh Train to design the festival poster
*Invited to the Stockholm International Film Festival 2000 in Sweden
*Invited to the MIFF Milano International Film Festival 2000 i...
Jean-Jacques
Annaud's Enemy at the Gates will open the Berlin Film Festival on February
7, 2001 in a world premiere screening. By selecting this film, shot exclusively
in Germany and for the most part at Babelsberg Studios, the Berlinale would
like to call attention to Germany as a centre for film and media production.
Festival Director Mortiz de Hadeln explained, "Although we know that everyone
is against war, we cannot ignore the gruesome events of the past. With th...
The Film Critics Circle of Australia has announced its nominees for this year's
awards. Chopper
and The
Dish led the annual awards nominations with nine nominations each, including
best film and director. The foreign film nominations in the English-language category
are: American
Beauty, Ride
With The Devil, The
Sixth Sense and Three
Kings. The films nominated for Best Foreign (non-lanuage film) went to
Crouching
Tiger, Hidden Dragon, All
About My Mother, The
Widow Of S...
Lars von Trier’s Dancer
In The Dark led the way for the Danish Oscar nominations, with ten,
incuding Best Film, Best Actress (Bjork), and Best Supporting Actress (Shobka
Fallon). The award ceremony takes place on February 4 in Copenhagen. ...
One of Hollywood's most talked-about star couples, Kim Basinger and Alec Baldwin,
have filed for divorce after seven years of marriage. A publicist announced the
couple were citing irreconcilable differences as the reason for the break-up.
The Oscar-winning actress and actor were married in 1993 after meeting on the
set of The Marrying Man in 1991. Baldwin, 42, is apparently staying at
the couple's New York residence, while Basinger, 47, is living in Los Angeles
with the couple's fiv...
With worldwide praise for his Crouching
Tiger, Hidden Dragon as background noise, Ang Lee has signed on to direct
the film of the Marvel comic book character the Hulk for Universal Pictures. In
the works for some time now, the project is expected to have a long preproduction
period for special effects and a 2003 release. ...
The much awaited US release of O, a modern version of Othello, has been
pushed back once again for concerns over the film's violence. Although the release
was originally set for fall 1999, people at Dimension Films are now talking about
a spring 2001 release date. The producers apparently esteem that a graphic rape
and murder scene is too acute a reminder of the real-life violence that took place
in Colorado in 1999. ...
Robert De Niro will soon be added to the ever-growing list of Hollywood actors
to grace the London stage. The actor has apparently agreed to star in "Art",
the phenomenally successful play by French playwright Yasmina Reza. The story
centers on three men's friendship after one of them purchases a highly minimalist
painting. De Niro has reportedly bought an apartment in London's Docklands neighborhood,
which is beginning to be known as Little Hollywood. ...
The stars are heading
to Sundance ... and we don't mean the celestial ones. The Los Angeles Times
reported today that the Park City festival is expecting an all-star guest list,
including Julia Roberts, Elizabeth Hurley, Mick Jagger, Patrick Swayze, and
Forest Whitaker. Roberts will be in town to support her niece, whose short film
was accepted into the festival. In case you've been stuck in a snowstorm, Sundance
kicks off January 18 and runs through January 28. More than...
The Academy of Motion
Picture Arts and Sciences announced today the seven films being considered for
the Sound Editing Oscar at the 73rd Academy Awards. They are: Cast
Away, Gladiator,
Mission Impossible
II, The Perfect Storm, Space
Cowboys, U-571, and Unbreakable.
Ten-minute clip reels from each film will be screened for the Sound Editing Award
Nominating Committee on February 6th. The members may nominate up to three of
the seven films for Oscar consideration, recommend a sin...
Cannes may have snubbed Italy for the Official competition, but Berlin sure isn't repeating the gesture. The International Film Festival, which kicks off next month, will
screen two Italian films in competition, out of a total field of nine Italian
pics. Malena from Miramax starring Monica Bellucci and and Ferzan Ozpetek's
drama Ignorant Fairies (Fate Ignoranti) are the two official competition
films. Other Italian films on the program include Francesco Dal Bosco's Commesso
...
