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The 50th anniversary of the Thessaloniki International Film Festival, which concluded on Sunday, was a mix of triumph and controversy. With more than 250 features and shorts screened from around the world and numerous film-related art exhibits and other parallel events, the festival ...
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The Independent Filmmaker Project has announced the line-up of jurors determining the recipients of the 19th Annual Gotham Independent Film Awards. The awards ceremony will be held at Cipriani Wall Street on Monday, November 30. As previously announced, career tributes will be presented as part ...
Horror
It’s been quite a year for Jacques Tati fans. On the heels of an exhibition this summer at the Cinémathèque Française devoted to the French director, Tati’s classic “M. Hulot’s Holiday” is currently at both New York’s Film Forum and Los Angeles’ Nuart Theatre for two-week engagements; the ...
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Oscilloscope Laboratories has announced a new DVD subscription club for its slate of releases entitled “Circle of Trust.” For $150, subscribers can get the next 10 DVDs that the distributor releases, each arriving a week before the street date. “There’s a real void in the marketplace since ...
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Amsterdam, The Netherlands, November 23, 2009—This 15th weekly column begins with why I love Frederick Wiseman and concludes with why I love documentary cinema. Since seeing “La Danse” a few weeks ago at New York’s Film Forum, I’ve been wanting to make the following statement: Frederick Wiseman ...
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A jury led by director Theo Angelopoulos presented Scandar Copti and Yaron Shani’s “Ajami” with the Golden Alexander for Best Feature Film at the 50th Thessaloniki International Film Festival this weekend, along with an award of 40,000 euros. The Silver Alexander and prize of 25,000 euros was ...
Drama
The U.S. distribution rights to Ilisa Barbash and Lucien Castaing-Taylor’s Berlin Film Festival premiere “Sweetgrass” have been acquired by The Cinema Guild. The deal was negotiated by Ryan Krivoshey, Director of Distribution for The Cinema Guild with Sandy Forman on behalf of the filmmakers. ...
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With its drearily brief paragraphs and poetic emphasis on imagery over dialogue, Cormac McCarthy’s 2006 post-apocalyptic novel “The Road” practically reads like a screenplay. Not unreasonably, John Hillcoat’s tense, discomfiting big screen adaptation remains almost entirely faithful to the ...
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Justin Long
One of contemporary cinema’s most graceful, taken-for-granted actors, Robin Wright, too long in the shadow of her ex-husband, would seemingly have finally found the perfect leading role in Rebecca Miller’s “The Private Lives of Pippa Lee,” in which she plays a graceful, taken-for-granted wife ...
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Rebecca Miller
Jeffrey Wright
John Hillcoat’s “The Road,” Rebecca Miller’s “The Private Lives of Pippa Lee” and Richard Linklater’s “Me and Orson Welles” mark a rather star-studded batch of specialty films making their way to theaters this Thanksgiving week. Generally regarded as one of the most potent filmgoing holidays of ...
Drama
Expanding to 629 screens, this was the weekend for “Precious” to truly prove itself a formidable box office entity. Adding on 455 screens and screening all over the country, it did just that. According to estimates provided by Rentrak today, the Lee Daniels film grossed $11,007,500 ...
Horror
The Box
Pedro Almodovar
Television networks here in Europe including the BBC have included profiles and commentary on Herman van Rompuy, the recent Belgian prime minister who assumed the new position of President of the European Union, while Great Britain’s Baroness Catherine Ashton was named the body’s new Foreign ...
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Serious movies with weighty international topics gave way to laughter (and even some tears) today after the Saturday skies cleared and the temperature warmed up a bit here in The Netherlands. British filmmaker Julien Temple sipped red wine while lecturing this afternoon at the International ...
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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced that 10 animated short films will advance in the voting process for the 82nd Academy Awards. Thirty-seven pictures had originally qualified in the category. The Short Films and Feature Animation Branch Reviewing Committee viewed all ...
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Academy Awards
Martin Short
EDITOR’S NOTE: This feature was originally published as part of indieWIRE’s coverage of the Toronto International Film Festival. Herzog’s “Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans” is being released in theaters across North America today. Werner Herzog has been the subject of much curiosity at ...
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Werner Herzog
The 2010s are fast approaching - 41 days and counting - and indieWIRE is continuing this weekly Friday chart devoted to glancing back at the past ten years. With a film opening each weekend as a starting point, we’re charting various sub-categories of 2000s film, focusing on their North ...
Horror
The Box
Veteran directors Frederic Wiseman, D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus are among the documentary mavericks attending the 22nds International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), which opened last night in the Netherlands’ largest city. The festival is considered the most important in the ...
Comedy
Wayne'S World
IFC Entertainment and Netflix have announced a partnership that gives Netflix the U.S. rights to 53 unique titles from IFC Entertainment. Through this agreement select titles from IFC Entertainment’s library of independent films will become available to be streamed instantly to televisions and ...
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In his review for indieWIRE, Eric Hynes calls Lukas Moodysson’s latest, “Mammoth,” a “career killer” and, while his may be among the most damning reviews of the film, which opens in the US today, it’s getting very little love from critics on the whole. “Moodysson hasn’t exactly descended to ...
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“A movie is something like – even something
shot and edited and frozen there – I think
it’s like a person…you know more about that person with time,” observed director Pedro Almodóvar in a recent video interview with Reverse Shot’s Eric Hynes. “That ...
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