1915 was an especially auspicious year in terms of celebrity births, and 2015 is shaping up to be quite the year for centennial celebrations. Frank Sinatra, Edith Piaf, Billy Holiday, Arthur Miller and Orson Welles are all having a resurgence in popularity this year, due at least in part to the flood of articles, books, films and conferences taking place around the world to commemorate their talent and achievements, and remind us of the complex and often controversial lives they led, in betwee...
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Cannes Festival Insider, 2015
By Adrienne Papp
Since 1978, Un Certain Regard composes the heart of the Official Selection with the Competition.
Presided over by Isabella Rossellini, the Un Certain Regard Jury is this year exclusively composed of film-makers, directors and actors.
President
Isabella Rossellini, film-maker (United States, Italy)
Members of the Jury
Haifa...
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The 28th TIFF will join the Cannes Film Festival 2015, By Adrienne Papp
By Adrienne Papp
Released by the Tokyo International Film Festival
The 28th TIFF will join the Cannes Film Festival 2015
Photo : Isabella Rossellini © AFP / John MacDougall
Tokyo International Film ...
Ever wonder what it'd be like to mix coming-of-age drama, romance and comedy with action adventure, fantasy, detective mystery and tragedy -- and top it off with musical numbers and a road trip? Add caper flourishes and you have The ZigZag Kid. Belgian director Vincent Bal's genre-defying screen adaptation of Israeli author David Grossman's beloved novel is a triumph of contradictions, as is its young hero, Nono Feierberg.
Nono idealizes his dad, Holland's top police detec...
Actress Isabella Rossellini is to present the Montblanc Best Script Award at the closing event of the 21st Filmfest Hamburg on 5 October 2013 at the CinemaxX.
The award includes prize money of 10,000 euros and, together with Filmfest Hamburg, rewards the best script in the Nordlicht section. Five films have been nominated. The jury consists of screenwriter and producer Volker Einrauch, actress Leila Abdullah and cinematographer Wolfgang T...
by Marla Lewin
The 2010 Palm Springs International ShortFest announced that it has selected 314 films from more than 3,000 worldwide entries. Among the films screening and in competition areaward-winning films from 43 countries around the world. The 16th ShortFest will showcase 58 World Premieres, 55 North American Premieres and 24 U.S. Premieres. All selections are structured into 52 themed programs, which will screen June 22-28, at the Camelot Theatres in ...
Tuesday, May 15------One of the more provocative, outrageous and downright brilliant film events of the New York film season ends its seven day run tonight, with actress Isabella Rossellini live and in person, capping off a series of live narrators during the silent film epic's week-long run at New York's Village East Cinemas. Canadian director Guy Maddin, who draws upon the aesthetics and melodramatic richness of early silent cinema for his expressionistic works, is presenting his la...
Saturday/Sunday, October 21/22-----THE ARCHITECT is a sophisticated urban drama about a Chicago architect (played by Anthony LaPaglia) confronted by an outspoken female activist (Viola Davis) living in a dangerous housing project of his design. LaPaglia plays Leo Waters, an idealistic architect and patriarch of an affluent, suburban Chicago family. Viola Davis is Tonya Neeley, a pragmatic activist who is trying to keep her family together while living in one of the city’s most drug and crime...
