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Posted by editor@vimooz.com on August 31, 2009 under Academy award, Documentary | 
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Tuesday, September 1, is the deadline for documentary filmmakers to submit their short subject and feature documentaries to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for consideration for the 82nd Academy Awards®.
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Director Anders Østergaard and producer Lise Lense-Møller, the duo behind ‘Burma VJ – Reporting from a Closed Country’, received the documentary film honour, the Roos Award, Saturday 29 August.
Posted by editor@vimooz.com on August 17, 2009 under Film Festival, Foreign Film | Comments are off for this article
The Headless Woman (La mujer sin cabeza, Argentina 2008), a complex and exquisite film reflecting on contemporary class relations by focusing on a bourgeois woman who may have been involved in a hit-and-run accident, directed by Lucrecia Martel, a major figure in contemporary Argentine cinema, opens Friday, September 18 on SFFS Screen at the Sundance Kabuki Cinemas.
A well-to-do woman’s refusal to accept the consequences of a hit-and-run accident that may have left an indigenous boy dead is the basis of this haunting, intensely subjective portrait. Vero, an elegant middle-aged white woman, is returning home along a deserted highway. Taking her eyes off of the dusty road for a moment, a collision brings the car to a violent halt. Shaken, but not seriously injured, she gathers herself before deciding to drive off without investigating what is left behind. She flees, attempting to evade both the authorities and her own guilt by doing her best to ignore, deny and ultimately forget what she has done. But what follows is less a Dostoyevskian meditation on a tortured conscience than an Antonionian study of bourgeois solipsism through the actions of a woman at wit’s end. The Headless Woman, the final film in acclaimed Argentine auteur Lucrecia Martel’s Salta trilogy (La Ciénaga; The Holy Girl, SFIFF 2004), subtly explores the relationship between a confused, depraved upper class and the marginalized, largely indigenous working class to which it is contemptuous or downright oblivious. Martel’s distinctive, sensual style of filmmaking combines careful sound design with strikingly oblique compositions to create a superbly disquieting and immersive film.
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REDLINE, the new animation feature by Takeshi Koike (director) and Katsuhito Ishii (screenwriter) had it’s world premiere on world’s finest and most enormous open air cinema PIAZZA GRANDE at the Locarno International Film Festival in front of 5′000 passionate viewers.
Prior the screening, the film team, including producers Masao Maruyama, Iwase and just maried Yukiko Futakata – newly mrs Takeshi Koike – appeared on stage all gathered by a red ruban-line for the presentation by festival director Frederic Maire.
After five years of production, REDLINE finally emerged in its entirety and demonstrate the potential and new possiblities of 2D animation, amidst the current prominence of 3D animation. The press and public were amazed by the creativity, the quality and the art they discovered on Piazza Grande’s huge screen.
The film is going to be released in Japan during Spring 2010.
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In You, the Living (Du levande, Sweden 2007, San Francisco International Film Festival 2008), opening Friday, September 25 on San Francisco Film Society Screen at the Sundance Kabuki Cinemas, Roy Andersson continues to display his unique take on humanity in this amalgamation of encounters and tableaux covering various facets of existence.
