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Posted by editor@vimooz.com on October 23, 2009 under drama | 
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IFC Films will distribute in the US, writer-director Ruba Nadda’s “Cairo Time,” winner of the best Canadian feature prize at the Toronto International Film Festival. The romantic drama stars Patricia Clarkson and Alexander Siddig.
Posted by editor@vimooz.com on October 11, 2009 under Horror | Comments are off for this article
Lars von Trier’s horror movie “Antichrist” continues to live up to its not0riety. Variety reports that at the New York Film Festival screening: The film had to be stopped after a man passed out during one of its more intense scenes. Ambulances were called and the man had to be carried out before the screening resumed for the stunned audience.
Posted by editor@vimooz.com on October 10, 2009 under Thriller | Comments are off for this article
IFC Films will distribute in the U.S. the David Siegel & Scott McGehee’s New York-set suspense thriller “Uncertainty,” starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt (“500 Days of Summer”) and Lynn Collins (“X-Men Origins”). “Uncertainty,” will debut in U.S. this weekend at the Hamptons International Film Festival.
Posted by editor@vimooz.com on October 4, 2009 under Foreign Film | Comments are off for this article
Bruno Dumont’s “Hadewijch” which opened the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival, has been picked up by IFC Films. The film screened in competition at the San Sebastian Film Festival, and will have its U.S. debut this Sunday at the New York Film Festival.
Posted by editor@vimooz.com on September 21, 2009 under Documentary | Comments are off for this article
Rainbow Media, owner of IFC Films, will distribute Don Argott’s documentary “The Art of the Steal” in the US through its its new theatrical and video-on-demand label Sundance Selects. The film recently premiered at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival and will have its US premiere at the 2009 New York Film Festival which kicks off later this week.
Posted by editor@vimooz.com on September 2, 2009 under Comedy | Comments are off for this article
Robert Pattinson’s portrayal of brooding, tormented vampire Edward Cullen in the blockbuster “Twilight” film series has made him one of Hollywood’s hottest new stars. Now, watch as he reveals another, surprising side in HOW TO BE, a side-splitting comedy coming to DVD from IFC Films and MPI Media Group. A must-see for all Pattinson fans, the DVD hits stores on November 17, 2009. The disc includes an exclusive interview with Pattinson, never-before-seen footage and many other extras.
Posted by editor@vimooz.com on May 20, 2009 under Foreign Film | Comments are off for this article
IFC Films has picked up Ken Loach’s “Looking for Eric” and the controversial Lars Von Trier’s “Antichrist” from this year’s Cannes Film Festival for distribution in the U.S. Looking for Eric is a British comedy about a postman who gets life lessons from footballing legend Eric Cantona and “Antichrist” is a controversial erotic thriller. Both films have been receiving lots of attention at the festival.
Last week IFC also picked up the Romanian film “Tales From the Golden Age.” “Tales from the Golden Age” is composed of five short stories of an unconventional personal history of the late communist period in Romania.
Posted by editor@vimooz.com on March 27, 2009 under Film Festival, drama | Comments are off for this article
IFC Films has acquired U.S. distribution rights to Alexis Dos Santo’s romantic drama “Unmade Beds,” which premiered earlier this year at Sundance Film Festival. [via]
With his startlingly visceral and original second feature, Unmade Beds, Alexis Dos Santos manifests an exuberant London where unbridled longing and zeal plunge nubile expats into lusty adventures and momentous encounters. When wide-eyed Spaniard Axl comes to London on a quest for the father who abandoned him, he lands in the middle of a creative hotbed-an underground polyglot squat filled with colorful free spirits. Among them is Vera, a beautiful Belgian girl recently dumped by her boyfriend, who seeks to restore her faith in romantic destiny after meeting a charismatic stranger. As Axl and Vera separately pursue these bittersweet and elusive connections, they circle each other’s orbits-their fates almost inevitably intertwined.Alongside this lush story of youthful awakening, Dos Santos conjures a rhythmic stream-of-consciousness mood collage. Axl and Vera’s world vibrates with visual and sonic energy. The palate of yellows, reds, and greens emits benevolent warmth as if to soften the blow of their tender aches. Surprising sound scapes and an effusive score aptly express the characters’ mercurial interior states. Meanwhile slapstick moments and musical performances by fresh unknowns puncture the melancholy, buoying the film into irreverent whimsy. They may be slightly crumpled works in progress-like the unmade beds where they slumber-but Axl, Vera, and their friends are as vital as a crisp new day. [via]
Posted by editor@vimooz.com on January 11, 2009 under Coming Soon, Industry | Comments are off for this article
Sony Pictures Classics has picked up North American rights to the documentary “Tyson,” which will have its North American premiere at the upcoming Sundance Film Festival. The film is the first of NBA all-star Carmelo Anthony’s Krossover Productions. In the film, Mike Tyson examines his own life in and out of the ring with a candor, eloquence and vulnerability that is by turns poignant, funny and never less than brutally honest. Read more …
IFC Films has snapped up the US rights to the Canadian film “The Necessities of Life.” Set in 1952. An Inuit hunter named Tiivii, who suffers from tuberculosis, ends up in a sanatorium near Quebec City, far from home and his loved ones. Read more …
Posted by editor@vimooz.com on October 23, 2008 under Film Festival, Foreign Film, Premiere | Comments are off for this article
The 2008 AFI European Union Film Showcase, the fall’s signature cultural event for Washington, DC, moviegoers and the area’s diplomatic community, will formally kickoff November 6 with the Opening Night presentation, I’VE LOVED YOU SO LONG [Il y a longtemps que je t'aime]. The French film stars Kristin Scott Thomas as a woman readjusting to life after a long term in prison. Oscar(R)-winner Scott Thomas has garnered great acclaim for her performance. The film is the debut feature by novelist-turned-director Philippe Claudel. Sony Pictures Classics releases the film in the US later this fall.
For the first time, the AFI EU Showcase will feature three Centerpiece Screenings:
–France’s A CHRISTMAS TALE [Un Conte de Noel] (November 8), directed by Arnaud Desplechin, to be released later this year by IFC Films;
–Italy’s GOMORRAH (November 15), the Grand Prix winner at Cannes and Italy’s Official Oscar(R) selection, also to be released by IFC Films; and
–Germany’s THE BAADER MEINHOF COMPLEX (November 21), the latest film from writer-producer Bernd Eichinger. The film is Germany’s Official Oscar(R) selection and will be making its East Coast Premiere. Constantin Films represents the film internationally.
The AFI EU Showcase Closing Night film is ELDORADO (November 22), Belgium’s Official selection. Winner of the FIPRESCI Prize at the 2008 Directors Fortnight section at Cannes, the film will be making its US premiere. Film Movement will distribute the film in the US.
“The Special Presentations in this year’s AFI EU Film Showcase represent the most outstanding films in what may be our best EU Showcase ever,” said Todd Hitchcock, Film Programmer, AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center. “AFI’s EU Film Showcase has grown in size, stature and celebrity over the past few years, reflecting the vibrancy of filmmaking in the EU countries and the EU’s own growth to its present membership of 27 countries.”
The AFI EU Showcase is produced and hosted by the AFI Silver Theatre, in cooperation with the Cultural Counselors of European Union Member States’ Embassies and the European Commission Delegation in Washington, DC. All films will be shown exclusively at the historic AFI Silver Theatre in downtown Silver Spring, MD.
Opening Night Presentation
I’VE LOVED YOU SO LONG [Il y a longtemps que je t'aime]
Thursday, Nov. 6
Novelist-turned-director Philippe Claudel’s profoundly moving film examines the role of family and forgiveness in an utterly fresh new way, in a story marked equally by intelligence, kindheartedness and grace, and sparked by outstanding performances from Oscar(R)-winner Kristin Scott Thomas and rising talent Elsa Zylberstein. Released
from prison after serving 15 years for committing a shocking crime, Juliette (Scott Thomas) moves in with her younger sister Lea (Zylberstein) and her sister’s family. Hardened by her prison stretch and the agonizing emotions she has locked away within her, the readjustment to normal life is difficult for Juliette, with her sister’s happy life of family and friends seeming strange to her, even a rebuke. What follows is a series of small steps–and the occasional setback–as Juliette gradually learns to open up and accept people back into her life.
Film Festivals/Awards
Berlin International Film Festival 2008/Prize Of The Ecumenical Jury
Telluride Film Festival 2008
Toronto International Film Festival 2008
Official web site: http://www.sonyclassics.com/ivelovedyousolong
Press site: http://www.sonypictures.com/classics/press/ivelovedyousolong.html
Centerpiece Presentation
A CHRISTMAS TALE [Un conte de Noel]
Saturday, Nov. 8
Junon (Catherine Deneuve) and Abel (Jean-Paul Roussillon) are the parents of three grown children: Elizabeth (Anne Consigny), a melancholic playwright with a mathematician husband (Hippolyte Girardot) and a tortured teenage son, Paul (Emile Berling); Henri (Mathieu Amalric), the self-destructive black sheep, banished from family events by Elizabeth five years prior; youngest Ivan (Melvil Poupaud), the peacemaker, is married to the beautiful Sylvia (Chiara Mastroianni) and has two eccentric little boys; while a fourth – Joseph, the eldest – died from leukemia as a boy. When the disease reappears again in the family, all are tested to see who can be a donor, and then everyone – including lovesick cousin Simon (Laurent Capelluto) and Henri’s girlfriend, Faunia (Emmanuelle Devos) – return home for a long Christmas weekend. All crowded again under the same roof, solidarity quickly – and hilariously – devolves into feuding, drunkenness and bed-hopping, as everyone struggles to make sense of the mysteries of family, life, and what lies ahead.
Film Festivals/Awards
Cannes International Film Festival 2008/Special Prize For Catherine Deneuve
Toronto International Film Festival 2008
New York Film Festival 2008
Official web site: http://www.ifcfilms.com/viewFilm.htm?filmId=996
Press site: http://www.ifcfilmsextranet.com/index.php
Centerpiece Presentation
GOMORRAH [Gomorra]
Saturday, Nov. 15
Power, money and blood: these are the values that the residents of the province of Naples and Caserta confront every day. They have practically no choice, and are forced to obey the rules of the “System,” the Camorra. Only a lucky few can even think of leading a normal life. Five stories are woven together in this violent scenario, set in a cruel and ostensibly invented world, but one that is deeply rooted in reality.
Don Ciro is “il sottomarino.” He pays the families of the prisoners that are affiliated with his clan, a clan that has the undisputed command of the territory. He is sharp, discreet and carries out his job without getting involved. But at a certain point the clan begins to crumble. Unsure who to take orders from, he has to worry about his own survival; Toto is 13 years old and can’t wait to grow up. So he begins his training in the school of life, one step at a time, until one day he has to make an irreversible decision; Marco and Ciro think they are living in a Brian de Palma film, but in the eyes of the “system” they are only two stray dogs whose acts of bravado are disturbing the orderly routine of business; Roberto is a university graduate and wants to work. Franco offers him a great opportunity, steady employment with good earning prospects: a job in the field of toxic waste management. But the reality of his task is too disconcerting to Roberto’s conscience; Pasquale is a talented tailor who works under the table for a small enterprise subcontracted by the haute couture clothes industry. Chinese competitors give him the opportunity to teach the secrets of his trade to their workers. He is seduced and gratified by the opportunity and accepts, putting his life in danger.
Film Festivals & Awards
Cannes International Film Festival 2008/Winner Grand Prix
Toronto International Film Festival 2008
Telluride Film Festival 2008
New York Film Festival 2008
Italy’s official submission for the 2009 foreign language Oscar(R).
Press site: http://www.ifcfilmsextranet.com/index.php
Centerpiece Presentation
THE BAADER MEINHOF COMPLEX [Der Baader Meinhof Komplex]
**EAST COAST PREMIERE**
Friday, Nov. 21
The latest film from writer-producer Bernd Eichinger (PERFUME, DOWNFALL) gives epic treatment to the eponymous group of 1960s radicals who formed the Red Army Faction (RAF) and terrorized the German establishment.
Germany in the 1970s: Murderous bomb attacks, the threat of terrorism and the fear of the enemy inside are rocking the very foundations of the still fragile German democracy. The radicalized children of the Nazi generation led by Andreas Baader (Moritz Bleibtreu), Ulrike Meinhof (Martina Gedeck) and Gudrun Ensslin (Johanna Wokalek) are fighting a violent war against what they perceive as the new face of fascism: American imperialism supported by the German establishment, many of whom have a Nazi past. Their aim is to create a more human society but by employing inhuman means they not only spread terror and bloodshed, they also lose their own humanity. The man who understands them is also their hunter: the head of the German police force Horst Herold (Bruno Ganz). And while he succeeds in his relentless pursuit of the young terrorists, he knows he’s only dealing with the tip of the iceberg.
The film is based on journalist Stefan Aust’s definitive account of the subject, “Der Baader Meinhof Komplex,” first published to great acclaim in 1985.
Film Festivals
International Rome Film Festival 2008 (October 22-31, 2008)
The Times/BFI London Film Festival (October 15-30, 2008)
Germany’s official submission for the 2009 foreign language Oscar(R)
Official web site: http://www.thebaadermeinhofcomplex.com
Closing Night Presentation
ELDORADO
**US PREMIERE**
Saturday, Nov. 22
Yvan, a short-tempered man in his forties, lives a mundane life as he makes a living selling old American cars. However, all of that changes the night he surprises a young boy named Elie breaking into his house. Rather than punish the boy, he develops an affection for the adolescent and even decides to drive him back to his parents.
That trip will lead them through the wide spaces of Belgium, during which they will meet improbable characters, and through which, they might actually help Yvan to forever close a chapter of his life.
Film Festivals & Awards
Cannes International Film Festival 2008/Prix Regard Jeunes, Prix
Europa Cinemas, and Fipresci Prize For Directors’ Fortnight
Belgium’s Official Submission For The 2009 Foreign Language Oscar(R)
Official Web Site: http://www.Filmmovement.Com
Tickets for 2008 EUROPEAN UNION FILM SHOWCASE are regular price unless otherwise noted and are as follows: Opening and Closing Night screenings, $15/$10 AFI Members. Centerpiece screenings, $12/$10 AFI Members. All other screenings, $10 general admission; $9 for seniors, students w/ valid ID and military personnel; $8.50 AFI members; weekday screenings before 6:00 p.m. are $7.50. AFI EU Showcase Passports are available for multiple screenings. More information at AFI.com/Silver.
Tickets may be purchased online for no service fee at AFI.com/Silver or at the AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center box office during normal box office hours (one half hour before the first show of the day). Recorded programming information is available at 301.495.6700; general theater information at 301.495.6720. The full schedule of films is soon to be available online at AFI.com/Silver with a downloadable PDF of the full program.
The AFI Silver is located in downtown Silver Spring, Maryland, at 8633 Colesville Road (between Georgia Avenue and Fenton Street), two blocks from the Silver Spring Metro stop and easily accessible from the Capital Beltway (I-495), less than two miles from either the Georgia Avenue or Colesville Road exits.