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Posted by editor@vimooz.com on November 11, 2009 under Palm Springs International Film Festival (PSIFF) | 
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Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon stars in Invictus, directed by Clint Eastwood
The 21st Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival (PSIFF) will present Morgan Freeman with the Career Achievement Award for Acting. The Festival runs January 5-18.
Posted by editor@vimooz.com on February 27, 2009 under Black Maria Film Festival, Cannes Film Festival, FESPACO Pan-African Film Festival, Harlem International Film Festival, Philadelphia Film Festival (Philly Fest), Philadelphia QFest, True/False Film Festival, Venice International Film Festival | Be the First to Comment
The 2009 Harlem International Film Festival kicked off last night, and continues thru Sunday, March 1st. This weekend’s screenings take place at the MILLENNIUM, 66 East 4 Street.
The first-ever Engine Collision Festival will bring together over 100 artists for daily independent film screenings, live performance, music, art and fashion. Headliners include filmmaker David Lynch, who is set to screen a selection of his un-released short films. Jennifer Lynch will also be on hand, reading from her novel “The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer.”
This 11-day event, starting last night and running thru March 8 will also give people a last chance to catch “The Engine” in the Hollywood & Vine area, California. Read more …
TLA Entertainment Group and the Philadelphia Film Society, which co-present the Philadelphia International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, announced this week that they have reconciled their differences and will again be working together.
The two organizations will collaborate on the Philadelphia Film Festival/CineFest, March 26-April 6, and the newly named LGBT event Philadelphia QFest, July 9-19. Read more …
Thursday marked the opening night of the annual True/False Film Festival. For the first time since True/False started six years ago, there were 10 documentaries to see on Thursday night, regarded as the “soft” opening night for the four-day festival. Tonight, Friday, is considered the kickoff. Read more …
The fate of polar bears and the efforts to save them are the subjects of the film ‘Ice Bears of the Beaufort,’ which is on the roster Feb. 28, when the 28th annual Black Maria Film Festival rolls into the Morristown Unitarian Fellowship in Morris Township, New Jersey. From the Arctic Ocean to New York City’s Little Italy, the Black Maria film selections run the gamut in locations and topics, from the medical to the cultural. Read more … [catch the festival when it comes to your city]
Actor, Clint Eastwood accepted a special award from the Cannes Film Festival. Cannes rarely gives awards outside its festival, and Eastwood was appreciative. “I will treasure it for as long as I’m around,” he said. Eastwood won the Cannes Golden Coach award for Mystic River in 2003.
He will soon go to South Africa to begin filming his next project. The movie will be based on Nelson Mandela and his appearance at the 1995 Rugby World Cup final, seen as a turning point in the country’s post-apartheid history. Matt Damon and Morgan Freeman will star in the film. Read more …
Director Ang Lee, will head the jury for this year’s Venice Film Festival’s prestigious Golden Lion award. The Taiwanese-born director won the award in 2007 for “Lust, Caution,” and in 2005 for “Brokeback Mountain,” for which he also won a best directing Oscar.
This year’s film festival will be held Sept. 2-12. Read more …
The 40th anniversary FESPACO Pan-African film festival, showcasing the continent’s wide-ranging cinematic talent kicks off this weekend, February 28 thru March 7th.
Feature films competing for this year’s Etalon d’Or de Yennenga, the “African Oscar” fashioned after the legendary horsewoman founder of Burkina Faso’s biggest ethnic group, range from a superstitious tale of an albino murdered for his head to incest in a poor Afrikaner family in South Africa. Read more …
Posted by editor@vimooz.com on December 10, 2008 under Palm Springs International Film Festival (PSIFF) | Be the First to Comment
The 20th Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival (PSIFF) will present Clint Eastwood with the Career Achievement Award. The festival earlier announced that it will also honor Amy Adams with the Spotlight Award for her performance in Doubt from Miramax Films, and in honor of his many contributions to the entertainment industry, will present Academy Award winner Ron Howard with its Director’s Lifetime Achievement Award. In addition, Anne Hathaway will receive the prestigious acting honor, the Desert Palm Achievement Award.
Presented by Cartier, the Awards Gala will kick-off the 2009 Awards Season on Tuesday, January 6, 2009 at the Palm Springs Convention Center and will be hosted by “Entertainment Tonight’s” Mary Hart. The Festival runs January 6-19, 2009.
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Posted by editor@vimooz.com on September 5, 2008 under New York Film Festival | Be the First to Comment
The Film Society of Lincoln Center announced the complete public schedule for the 46th New York Film Festival today. The Film Society’s annual showcase of the current state of contemporary filmmaking will run Sept. 26 to Oct. 12, while the official sidebar, In the Realm of Oshima, continues to Oct. 13.
The majority of festival screenings will be at the Ziegfeld Theatre, 54th St. between 6th and 7th Avenues. Opening and Closing Night screenings will take place at Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall, while several special events, panels and the popular HBO Films Dialogues will be at the Film Society’s Walter Reade Theater and in the adjacent Samuel B. & David Rose Building at the Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse.
As previously announced, the festival with open with Laurent Cantet’s “The Class” and close with Darren Aronofsky’s “The Wrestler.” Clint Eastwood’s “Changeling” is honored as the festival’s Centerpiece. The HBO Films Dialogues will recognize the remarkable careers and skills of festival favorites Aronofsky, Jia Zhangke, Wong Kar-wai and Arnaud Desplechin. Special events include filmmaking Martin Scorsese presenting a Technicolor screening of “Pandora and the Flying Dutchman;” Alloy Orchestra on stage with the New York premiere of their newest score, accompanying “The Last Command;” a variety of special panels that will examine current film criticism and discuss issues raised by the films “It’s Hard Being Loved by Jerks” and Guy Debord’s “In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni;” and other events.
Presented by the Film Society, the annual New York Film Festival showcases new works by both emerging talents and internationally recognized artists, including numerous New York, U.S., and world premieres.
The 46th New York Film Festival is sponsored by Chopard, The New York Times and Sardinia Region Tourism. Additional support from illy caffè; HBO Films; 42 Below Vodka, Maxell; and Wines from Spain. Participating sponsors include Stella Artois, Technicolor, agnes b., the Film Foundation and American Express Preservation Screening Program, and Kodak. Special thanks to Cineric; Dolby; CTS; Josephina; O’Neals; The Park Lane Hotel. Trailer courtesy of Bunker New York and Nuncle. The 46th New York Film Festival is made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.
The Film Society of Lincoln Center was founded in 1969 to celebrate American and international cinema, to recognize and support new directors, and to enhance the awareness, accessibility and understanding of film. Advancing this mandate today, the Film Society hosts two distinguished festivals. The New York Film Festival annually premieres films from around the world and has introduced the likes of François Truffaut, R.W. Fassbinder, Jean-Luc Godard, Pedro Almodóvar, Martin Scorsese, and Wong Kar-Wai to the United States. New Directors/New Films, co-presented by the Museum of Modern Art, focuses on emerging film talents. Since 1972, when the Film Society honored Charles Chaplin, the annual Gala Tribute celebrates an actor or filmmaker who has helped distinguish cinema as an art form. Additionally, the Film Society presents a year-round calendar of programming at its Walter Reade Theater and offers insightful film writing to a worldwide audience through Film Comment magazine.
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Posted by editor@vimooz.com on August 13, 2008 under New York Film Festival | Be the First to Comment
The North American premiere of Clint Eastwood’s Changeling will be featured as Centerpiece of the 46th New York Film Festival and Darren Aronofsky’s The Wrestler is the festival’s Closing Night selection, the Film Society of Lincoln Center announced yesterday. A newly restored print of Max Ophuls’s final masterwork Lola Montès will be featured as the festival’s spotlight retrospective. All three films headline the festival’s 28-film main slate, which will screen at the Ziegfeld Theatre, Sept. 26 – Oct. 12.
Clint Eastwood’s provocative period drama Changeling stars Angelina Jolie as Christine Collins, a single mother in 1928 Los Angeles who returns home to find her nine-year-old son missing. The police return five months later with a child claiming to be her son, but despite the affirmation of the media, she remains unconvinced. After she unites with community activist Gustav Briegleb (John Malkovich), Collins’s desperate search for her child becomes an unlikely campaign against institutional corruption and a vigilant stand for equality under the law. The film was written by J. Michael Straczynski and produced by Eastwood, Brian Grazer, Ron Howard and Robert Lorenz, with Tim Moore and Jim Whitaker as executive producers. It screened at the Cannes Film Festival and will be released by Universal.
In the title role of Darren Aronofsky’s Closing Night film The Wrestler, actor Mickey Rourke gives “a performance of a lifetime,” says the Film Society’s Kent Jones. He plays once-popular pro Randy “The Ram” Robinson, who now ekes out a living performing for diehard wrestling fans in small-town venues throughout New Jersey. A heart attack forces him to reconsider his life, but his attempts to reconnect with his daughter (Evan Rachel Wood) and start a relationship with stripper Pam (Marisa Tomei) cannot outshine the allure of the ring. The film was written by Robert D. Siegel and produced by Scott Franklin and executive producer Jennifer Rother. Read more of this article »