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Indiana Jones and the Cannes Film Festival? - /Film

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008

/Film - Rumor has it that Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull will make it’s worldwide premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, which runs from May 15th - 25th 2008. Fox News reports that Spielberg’s representatives are currently in negotiations with officials of the festival to have Indiana Jones 4 open the festival, with the whole cast and crew making appearances on the red carpet at Cannes’s Palais. From what I understand, Parmaount isn’t doing a junket or prescreenings for the film, so this would be the first public screening of the new film. The rest of us will have to wait until May 22nd 2008 when Kingdom of the Crystal Skull hits theaters worldwide… [Full Story]

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Maddin's My Winnipeg to open Berlin festival showcase - CBC.ca

Friday, December 14th, 2007

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CBC.ca, Canada - The Forum section of the Berlin International Film Festival next February will open with Guy Maddin’s My Winnipeg, a quirky homage to his home city. The Forum section of the Berlinale, considered one of Europe’s top three film festivals, is devoted to avant-garde and experimental films. My Winnipeg and Italian filmmaker Isabella Rossellini’s short films Green Porno were announced this week as the headliner international premieres for the category… [Full Story] Related Articles • LET THE YEAR-END LIST FRENZY BEGIN - Now Toronto

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REDACTED—Washington Denies Brian De Palma Visa to Attend Havana Film Festival - Twitch

Thursday, December 6th, 2007

Twitch - Via the ACN (Cuban News Agency), renowned American film maker Brian de Palma could not attend the inauguration of the Havana’s New Latin American Film Festival on Tuesday, in which his latest film Redacted was screened, due to the harsh travel restrictions imposed by Washington… [Full Story]

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‘4 Months…’ Wins Big at the European Film Awards - Cinematical

Sunday, December 2nd, 2007

Cinematical - In American films, 2007 has been the year of the unwanted pregnancy, with Knocked Up, Waitress, and Juno all tackling the subject. Turns out Europe is thinking along the same lines, as the abortion drama 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days took awards for best picture and best director (Cristian Mungiu) Saturday at the 20th annual European Film Awards. 4 Months has won numerous prizes at film festivals, including three at Cannes alone. It is Romania’s entry for the Oscars’ foreign-language category and is almost sure to get a nomination, especially now that the European Film Awards have honored it… [Full Story]

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‘Control’ Is the Big Winner at the British Indie Film Awards - Cinematical

Saturday, December 1st, 2007

Cinematical - The British Independent Film Awards are relatively young, having first been handed out in 1998, and this year’s big winner was the youth-minded Control, the biopic of Joy Division lead singer Ian Curtis. At the awards ceremony Wednesday night in London, Control took five prizes, including the top honor: Best British Independent Film. Control’s other prizes were for best director (Anton Corbijn), best debut director, best supporting actor or actress (Toby Kebbell), and most promising newcomer — the film’s star, Sam Riley… [Full Story]

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A Roundup of Foreign Film Festival Winners: Stockholm and Tokyo - Cinematical

Monday, November 26th, 2007

Cinematical - What do the Stockholm Film Festival and Tokyo Filmex have in common? Nothing! Except that they both ended and announced their winners this weekend. That’s enough to combine ‘em into one post, I say. At the 18th annual Stockholm fest, the top winner was 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, the Romanian abortion drama that’s been racking up prizes since debuting at Cannes earlier this year. (Cinematical’s James Rocchi reviews it here.) It was named best film at Stockholm, and star Anamaria Marinca won the actress prize. Jason Patric was named best actor for his performance in the abrasive dramedy Expired (a film I hated at Sundance), with Carlos Reygadas taking best script for the challenging religious drama Silent Light. Janusz Kaminski’s cinematography in The Diving Bell and the Butterfly was honored, and Persepolis — it’s impossible to hold a film festival in 2007 without giving Persepolis a prize — got a trophy for Oliver Bernet’s musical score… [Full Story]

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“Joy Division” To Open Sheffield Doc/Fest - indieWIRE

Thursday, September 27th, 2007

indieWIRE - The European premiere of Grant Gee’s documentary “Joy Division” will open the 14th Sheffield Doc/Fest with the filmmaker and former Joy Division band members present at the screening. The fest also announced over 100 films that will screen over 5 days, including 22 World, 7 European and 23 UK premieres. A new addition to the festival is nightly “film strands,” in which there will be a music doc, sports doc and a “controversial” doc (called an “Anti-Doc”) running each night. Also running throughout the festival is an environmentally themed program called “green docs” and “bent docs,” which will showcase gay/lesbian and transgender documentaries… [Full Story]

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“Atonement” Launches Inaugural Fest - indieWIRE

Wednesday, September 26th, 2007

indieWIRE - The Middle East International Film Festival in Abu Dhabi has announced Joe Wright’s “Atonement” as the opening night film of their inaugural year. Starring James McAvoy and Keira Knightley, the film has previously shown to warm reception at Venice and Toronto. Additional special presentations that were announced include Todd Haynes’ “I’m Not There,” Brian De Palma’s “Redacted,” Gavin Hood’s “Rendition,” and Claude Lelouch’s “Roman de Gare.” “It is an honor to receive such outstanding support from international studios in our inaugural year,” said Executive Director Nashwa Al-Ruwaini. “We are extremely proud of our Special Presentations and look forward to announcing an equally impressive selection of festival competition films.” The festival will take place October 14-19, 2007… [Full Story]

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Cronenberg opens Spain's San Sebastian film festival - AFP

Thursday, September 20th, 2007

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AFP - Canadian director David Cronenberg’s crime thriller “Eastern Promises,” set in London’s expatriate Russian underworld, opened the 55th annual San Sebastian Film Festival in northern Spain on Thursday. The film is one of 16 competing for the coveted Concha de Oro, or Golden Shell, prize for best film, to be awarded by a jury headed by US writer-director Paul Auster, author of “The New York Trilogy”. Cronenberg said his new movie showed audiences the “new Russia, coming with a very brutal capitalism that reminds us what capitalism really looks like before it has a sophisticated evolution.” “It’s a story of gangsters and criminality. For them, violence is a way of life,” said Cronenberg of his first film since his 2005 Oscar-nominated “A History of Violence.”… [Full Story] Related Articles • Cronenberg film to open Spain's San Sebastian film festival - South Asian Women’s Forum [View all 95 related]

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Toronto After Dark Film Festival

Wednesday, September 19th, 2007

Toronto After Dark Film Festival - Toronto After Dark Film Festival is delighted to announce half its lineup of new horror and fantasy feature films which will premiere at its second annual edition, this October 19-25, at the Bloor Cinema, in Toronto, Canada. The first seven feature films revealed are: THE TRIPPER, David Arquette’s star-studded debut horror film as writer-director, POULTRYGEIST: NIGHT OF THE CHICKEN DEAD, Lloyd Kaufman’s much anticipated new new zombie musical, THE WOLFHOUND, the most expensive Russian fantasy film ever made, AACHI & SSIPAK, a groundbreaking new sci-fi animation from Korea, MULBERRY STREET and AUTOMATON TRANSFUSION, two critically acclaimed and gut-renching new zombie outbreak films, and AUDIENCE OF ONE, a hilarious, award-winning documentary about one priest’s disastrous attempt to shoot a Christian version of Star Wars. Seven more feature film premieres, and a collection of 36 cutting-edge horror and fantasy short films will complete this year’s Toronto After Dark program, when they are announced online at the festival website on Sept. 26. Fans can watch trailers to the announced films, and pre-order Festival Passes at the Toronto After Dark Film Festival website here: http://torontoafterdark.com

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