It doesn’t get much better than this…..the Film Society of Lincoln Center, which presents the New York Film Festival each Fall, is in the midst of a revelatory review of one of the major film movements of the 20th century, presenting a list of acknowledged classics along with previously unknown (at least to me) gems. ITALIAN NEOREALISM AND THE BIRTH OF MODERN CINEMA is an exhaustive look at the cinema that flourished in Italy in the post-war period and that still remains a high poi...
When Palm Beach International Film Festival Executive Director Randi Emerman visited the Marrakech International Film Festival last year, she was not prepared for what she would find. "Not only was the Festival very grand, in terms of its presentation, dinners and receptions", Emerman shared with me over breakfast in the Filmmaker Lounge at the Mariott Delray Beach, "but I went to see a number of the local films and was astonished at their quality and scope. It occured to me then that it would b...
Sunday, April 13------When Palm Beach International Film Festival Executive Director Randi Emerman visited the Marrakech International Film Festival last year, she was not prepared for what she would find. "Not only was the Festival very grand, in terms of its presentation, dinners and receptions", Emerman shared with me over breakfast in the Filmmaker Lounge at the Mariott Delray Beach, "but I went to see a number of the local films and was astonished at their quality and scope...
Monday, December 3-------Pier Paolo Pasolini, a son of privilege who was a lifelong Communist, a poet who some called a pornographer, a moralist and a sensualist rolled up in one astonishing filmmaking talent, has been the subject of a retrospective salute at the Film Society of Lincoln Center. The program, called PIER PAOLO PASOLINI: POET OF ASHES is a mixed media salute of film, staged readings, music concerts and other presentations. At the heart of the celebration of this vital and controv...
Pier Paolo Pasolini, a son of privilege who was a lifelong Communist, a poet who some called a pornographer, a moralist and a sensualist rolled up in one astonishing filmmaking talent, has been the subject of a retrospective salute at the Film Society of Lincoln Center. The program, called PIER PAOLO PASOLINI: POET OF ASHES is a mixed media salute of film, staged readings, music concerts and other presentations. At the heart of the celebration of this vital and controversial Renaissance man is a...
Sunday, October 21--------The excitement on the Red Carpet last evening was not for a big time movie star or even a local Italian celebrity, but for a film giant, with decidedly Italian roots. Francis Ford Coppola, the iconic director of such classics as THE GODFATHER trilogy, THE CONVERSATION and APOCALYPSE NOW, is being honored here with the greatest respect and awe. His newest film YOUTH WITHOUT YOUTH had its World Premiere last evening at the Festival’s Sala Santa Cecilia, the largest of...
170 productions from 40 countries at the Inaugural Edition of the New Montreal Filmfest including 60 Feature-Length Films in World, International or North-American première!The New Montreal Filmfest has announced those films selected for the very first edition, set to take place from September 18th to 25th, 2005. And let the record show that Program Director Moritz de Hadeln and his team have managed to score a plethora of extraordinary productions to open Montreal’s newest world-class even...
