In a year that saw François Delisle’s Le météore (Sundance and Berlin Film Festival accepted film) receive no love (zero nominations), and Denis Côté’s critically well-received Vic + Flo Saw a Bear was perhaps too askew for the voting clique (it did grab best Actress for Quebec’s “Melissa Leo” in Pierrette Robitaille), it was a bigger than life biopic by helmer Daniel Roby that flexed its muscles, beating out the comp. The high gloss Louis Cyr won in several tech categories and it’s strongman Antoine Bertrand won for Best Actor. Considered the favorite to win the top prize, Gabrielle was awarded the Best Director and Screenplay awards for Louise Archambault. Oddly, that film received no Best Actress consideration while it did net Gabrielle Marion-Rivard a Best Actress win at Canadian Screen Awards. Here are the noms and winners of the 16th edition.
Best Film
Catimini
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Best Film
Catimini
Le démantèlement...
- 3/24/2014
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
With the dust fully settled on the Academy Awards, we point our attention northward with tonight’s 2014 Canadian Screen Awards. Many of the television winners have already been announced in glitzy fashion during this Canadian Screen Week, but with baited breath, we’re more keen on seeing how the film award honors will pan out. Last year’s Tiff saw Denis Villeneuve bring not one (Prisoners), but a pair of feature films and it is the offbeat, doppelgänger delight Enemy that should reap in the top awards of the evening. Here are my predictions of who will win, who should win, and who should have been nominated in each of the most anticipated film categories.
Best Motion Picture:
The nominees are: Enemy, The Dismantlement, Empire of Dirt, The F Word, Gabrielle, The Grand Seduction, Maina, Tom at the Farm
Screenie voters tend to favor Canada’s yearly submission for the...
Best Motion Picture:
The nominees are: Enemy, The Dismantlement, Empire of Dirt, The F Word, Gabrielle, The Grand Seduction, Maina, Tom at the Farm
Screenie voters tend to favor Canada’s yearly submission for the...
- 3/9/2014
- by Leora Heilbronn
- IONCINEMA.com
Lenny Abrahamson’s feature, starring Michael Fassbender, in competition at the Istanbul Film Festival.
The 33rd Istanbul Film Festival has unveiled its line-up of features including the 11 films that will go head-to-head in its international competition.
The competition titles include:
Frank, Lenny AbrahamsonMetalhead, Ragnar BragasonTracks, John CurranTom at the Farm, Xavier DolanMe, Myself and Mum, Guillaume GalliennePapusza, Joanna Kos, Krzysztof KrauzeThose Happy Years, Daniele LuchettiThe Reunion, Anna OdellTriptyque, Pedro Pires, Robert LepageViolette, Martin ProvostBlind, Eskil Vogt
The 10 titles in its Human Rights in Cinema Competition include:
Rags and Tatters, Ahmad AbdallaTransX Istanbul, Maria BinderMy Love Awaits Me by the Sea, Mais DarwazahAi Weiwei the Fake Case, Andreas JohnsenThe Voice of The Voiceless, Maximón MonihanThe Missing Picture, Rithy PanhLa Jaula de oro, Diego Quemada-DíezTangerines, Zaza UrushadzeThe Verdict, Jan VerheyenFor Those Who Can Tell No Tales, Jasmila Zbanic
As previously announced, Stephen Frears’ Oscar-nominated feature Philomena, starring Judi Dench and Steve Coogan, will open the...
The 33rd Istanbul Film Festival has unveiled its line-up of features including the 11 films that will go head-to-head in its international competition.
The competition titles include:
Frank, Lenny AbrahamsonMetalhead, Ragnar BragasonTracks, John CurranTom at the Farm, Xavier DolanMe, Myself and Mum, Guillaume GalliennePapusza, Joanna Kos, Krzysztof KrauzeThose Happy Years, Daniele LuchettiThe Reunion, Anna OdellTriptyque, Pedro Pires, Robert LepageViolette, Martin ProvostBlind, Eskil Vogt
The 10 titles in its Human Rights in Cinema Competition include:
Rags and Tatters, Ahmad AbdallaTransX Istanbul, Maria BinderMy Love Awaits Me by the Sea, Mais DarwazahAi Weiwei the Fake Case, Andreas JohnsenThe Voice of The Voiceless, Maximón MonihanThe Missing Picture, Rithy PanhLa Jaula de oro, Diego Quemada-DíezTangerines, Zaza UrushadzeThe Verdict, Jan VerheyenFor Those Who Can Tell No Tales, Jasmila Zbanic
As previously announced, Stephen Frears’ Oscar-nominated feature Philomena, starring Judi Dench and Steve Coogan, will open the...
- 3/7/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
The 64th Berlinale ends today, and the awards have been announced!
In Competition
Golden Bear – Black Coal, Thin Ice, directed by Diao Yi'nan
Grand Jury Prize – The Grand Budapest Hotel, directed by Wes Anderson
Alfred Bauer Prize – Life of Riley, directed by Alain Resnais
Best Director – Richard Linklater, Boyhood
Best Actor – Liao Fan, Black Coal, Thin Ice
Best Actress – Haru Kuroki, The Little House
Best Screenplay – Anna Brüggemann & Dietrich Brüggemann, Stations of the Cross
Outstanding Artistic Contribution – Cinematographer Zeng Jian, Blind Massage
Teddy Awards
Best Feature Film – The Way He Looks, directed by Daniel Ribeiro
Jury Award – Pierrot Lunaire, directed by Bruce Labruce
Best Documentary – The Circle, directed by Stefan Haupt
Best First Feature
Best First Feature – Gueros, directed by Alonso Ruizpalacios
Fipresci
Fipresci Prize (Competition) – Life of Riley, directed by Alain Resnais
Fipresci Prize (Panorama) – The Way He Looks, directed by Daniel Ribeiro
Fipresci Prize (Forum) – Forma, directed by...
In Competition
Golden Bear – Black Coal, Thin Ice, directed by Diao Yi'nan
Grand Jury Prize – The Grand Budapest Hotel, directed by Wes Anderson
Alfred Bauer Prize – Life of Riley, directed by Alain Resnais
Best Director – Richard Linklater, Boyhood
Best Actor – Liao Fan, Black Coal, Thin Ice
Best Actress – Haru Kuroki, The Little House
Best Screenplay – Anna Brüggemann & Dietrich Brüggemann, Stations of the Cross
Outstanding Artistic Contribution – Cinematographer Zeng Jian, Blind Massage
Teddy Awards
Best Feature Film – The Way He Looks, directed by Daniel Ribeiro
Jury Award – Pierrot Lunaire, directed by Bruce Labruce
Best Documentary – The Circle, directed by Stefan Haupt
Best First Feature
Best First Feature – Gueros, directed by Alonso Ruizpalacios
Fipresci
Fipresci Prize (Competition) – Life of Riley, directed by Alain Resnais
Fipresci Prize (Panorama) – The Way He Looks, directed by Daniel Ribeiro
Fipresci Prize (Forum) – Forma, directed by...
- 2/16/2014
- by Notebook
- MUBI
Other winners of the independent jury awards at the Berlin Film Festival include Stations of the Cross, At Home and documentary The Square.
Ahead of this evening’s glitzy Berlinale awards ceremony, when the winners of the coveted Golden and Silver Bears will be announced, the festival has revealed films chosen for additional prizes by the Independent Juries.
Richard Linklater’s Boyhood, which was shot over a 12-year period and topped Screen’s jury grid, picked up two awards: the Prize of the Guild Of German Art House Cinemas and the Berliner Morgenpost Readers’ Jury Award.
The Ecumenical Jury named Dietrich Brüggemann’s Stations of the Cross (Kreuzweg) best Competition film; John Michael McDonagh’s Calvary best film in the Panorama strand; and Athanasios Karanikolas At Home (Sto spiti) best Forum film.
Jehane Noujaim’s documentary The Square (Al midan), about the ongoing uprising in Egypt, added to its growing haul of festival prizes with the Amnesty...
Ahead of this evening’s glitzy Berlinale awards ceremony, when the winners of the coveted Golden and Silver Bears will be announced, the festival has revealed films chosen for additional prizes by the Independent Juries.
Richard Linklater’s Boyhood, which was shot over a 12-year period and topped Screen’s jury grid, picked up two awards: the Prize of the Guild Of German Art House Cinemas and the Berliner Morgenpost Readers’ Jury Award.
The Ecumenical Jury named Dietrich Brüggemann’s Stations of the Cross (Kreuzweg) best Competition film; John Michael McDonagh’s Calvary best film in the Panorama strand; and Athanasios Karanikolas At Home (Sto spiti) best Forum film.
Jehane Noujaim’s documentary The Square (Al midan), about the ongoing uprising in Egypt, added to its growing haul of festival prizes with the Amnesty...
- 2/15/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
A total of 24 world premieres are included in the Berlinale’s Panorama selection, which has added a number of Asian productions.
Some 36 films from 29 countries will feature in the Panorama section of the Berlin International Film Festival (Feb 6-16), of which 24 will be world premieres.
Most recently invited are works from Norway, Ethiopia, Mexico, India, Iran, Georgia, Greece, Hungary and Austria – with returning filmmakers Elfi Mikesch and Umut Dağ, who opened Panorama 2012 with Kuma, his directorial debut.
New titles include a number of Asian productions. In Ieji (Homeland) by Japan’s Nao Kubota, a farmer’s son, who first fled to the city, explores his home village in the Fukushima district, an area that is actually still a no-go zone following the disaster at the region’s nuclear power plant.
In the South Korean film Night Flight, LeeSong Hee-il presents a duel between two schoolmates. LeeSong previously showed the films No Regret and White Night in Panorama...
Some 36 films from 29 countries will feature in the Panorama section of the Berlin International Film Festival (Feb 6-16), of which 24 will be world premieres.
Most recently invited are works from Norway, Ethiopia, Mexico, India, Iran, Georgia, Greece, Hungary and Austria – with returning filmmakers Elfi Mikesch and Umut Dağ, who opened Panorama 2012 with Kuma, his directorial debut.
New titles include a number of Asian productions. In Ieji (Homeland) by Japan’s Nao Kubota, a farmer’s son, who first fled to the city, explores his home village in the Fukushima district, an area that is actually still a no-go zone following the disaster at the region’s nuclear power plant.
In the South Korean film Night Flight, LeeSong Hee-il presents a duel between two schoolmates. LeeSong previously showed the films No Regret and White Night in Panorama...
- 1/17/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
The Academy Of Canadian Cinema & Television has announced the Canadian Screen Awards nominees.
“We are exceedingly proud today to reveal the nominees for the 2014 Canadian Screen Awards,” said Academy chair Martin Katz.
“This was a year marked by a record-breaking number of submissions, reflecting a robust level of activity in the screen-based industries in Canada which we will celebrate during Canadian Screen Week, March 3-9. Congratulations to all.”
David Cronenberg will receive the lifetime achievement award. For the full list of winners invcluding television, digital and special awards click here.
The feature nominees in full:
Best Motion Picture
The Dismantlement (Le Démantèlement) – Bernadette Payeur, Marc Daigle
Empire Of Dirt – Jennifer Podemski
Enemy – Kim McCraw, Luc Déry, Miguel A Faura, Niv Fichman, Sari Friedland
The F-Word – Andre Rouleau, David Gross, Macdara Kelleher
Gabrielle – Kim McCraw, Luc Déry
The Grand Seduction – Barbara Doran, Roger Frappier
Maïna – Karine Martin, Michel Poulette, Yves Fortin
Tom At The Farm (Tom À La Ferme) – [link...
“We are exceedingly proud today to reveal the nominees for the 2014 Canadian Screen Awards,” said Academy chair Martin Katz.
“This was a year marked by a record-breaking number of submissions, reflecting a robust level of activity in the screen-based industries in Canada which we will celebrate during Canadian Screen Week, March 3-9. Congratulations to all.”
David Cronenberg will receive the lifetime achievement award. For the full list of winners invcluding television, digital and special awards click here.
The feature nominees in full:
Best Motion Picture
The Dismantlement (Le Démantèlement) – Bernadette Payeur, Marc Daigle
Empire Of Dirt – Jennifer Podemski
Enemy – Kim McCraw, Luc Déry, Miguel A Faura, Niv Fichman, Sari Friedland
The F-Word – Andre Rouleau, David Gross, Macdara Kelleher
Gabrielle – Kim McCraw, Luc Déry
The Grand Seduction – Barbara Doran, Roger Frappier
Maïna – Karine Martin, Michel Poulette, Yves Fortin
Tom At The Farm (Tom À La Ferme) – [link...
- 1/13/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
The Academy Of Canadian Cinema & Television has announced its nominees.
“We are exceedingly proud today to reveal the nominees for the 2014 Canadian Screen Awards,” said Academy chair Martin Katz. “This was a year marked by a record-breaking number of submissions, reflecting a robust level of activity in the screen-based industries in Canada which we will celebrate during Canadian Screen Week, March 3-9. Congratulations to all.”
David Cronenberg will receive the lifetime achievement award. For the full list of winners invcluding television, digital and special awards click here.
The fearure nominees in full:
Best Motion Picture
The Dismantlement (Le Démantèlement) – Bernadette Payeur, Marc Daigle
Empire Of Dirt (pictured) – Jennifer Podemski
Enemy – Kim McCraw, Luc Déry, Miguel A Faura, Niv Fichman, Sari Friedland
The F-Word – Andre Rouleau, David Gross, Macdara Kelleher
Gabrielle – Kim McCraw, Luc Déry
The Grand Seduction – Barbara Doran, Roger Frappier
Maïna – Karine Martin, Michel Poulette, Yves Fortin
Tom At The Farm (Tom À La Ferme) – [link...
“We are exceedingly proud today to reveal the nominees for the 2014 Canadian Screen Awards,” said Academy chair Martin Katz. “This was a year marked by a record-breaking number of submissions, reflecting a robust level of activity in the screen-based industries in Canada which we will celebrate during Canadian Screen Week, March 3-9. Congratulations to all.”
David Cronenberg will receive the lifetime achievement award. For the full list of winners invcluding television, digital and special awards click here.
The fearure nominees in full:
Best Motion Picture
The Dismantlement (Le Démantèlement) – Bernadette Payeur, Marc Daigle
Empire Of Dirt (pictured) – Jennifer Podemski
Enemy – Kim McCraw, Luc Déry, Miguel A Faura, Niv Fichman, Sari Friedland
The F-Word – Andre Rouleau, David Gross, Macdara Kelleher
Gabrielle – Kim McCraw, Luc Déry
The Grand Seduction – Barbara Doran, Roger Frappier
Maïna – Karine Martin, Michel Poulette, Yves Fortin
Tom At The Farm (Tom À La Ferme) – [link...
- 1/13/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
The 64th Berlin International Film Festival has announced the first set of screenings from the edition's Panorama section. 50 fictional and documentary films will be chosen to give the programme its distinctive profile between innovative mainstream and radical alternative. So far 19 films have been invited.
Fabio Audi, Ghilherme Lobo, Tess Amorim in Hoje Eu Quero Voltar Sozinho (The Way he Looks) von/by Daniel Ribeiro
If You Don't, I Will (Sophie Fillières, France)
The Rice Bomber (Cho Li, Taiwan)
Ice Poison (Midi Z, Taiwan/Myanmar)
Calvary (John Michael McDonagh, Ireland/Great Britain)
The Way He Looks (Daniel Ribeiro, Brazil)
Is the Tall Man Happy? (Michel Gondry, France)
The Man of the Crowd (Marcelo Gomes & Cao Guimarães, Brazil)
Papillio Buddha (Jayan Cherian, India/USA)
Quick Change (Eduardo Roy Jr., Philippines)
Stereo (Maximilian Erlenwein, Germany)
Test (Chris Mason Johnson, USA)
The Better Angels (A. J. Edwards, USA)
The Lamb (Kutluğ Ataman, Germany/Turkey...
Fabio Audi, Ghilherme Lobo, Tess Amorim in Hoje Eu Quero Voltar Sozinho (The Way he Looks) von/by Daniel Ribeiro
If You Don't, I Will (Sophie Fillières, France)
The Rice Bomber (Cho Li, Taiwan)
Ice Poison (Midi Z, Taiwan/Myanmar)
Calvary (John Michael McDonagh, Ireland/Great Britain)
The Way He Looks (Daniel Ribeiro, Brazil)
Is the Tall Man Happy? (Michel Gondry, France)
The Man of the Crowd (Marcelo Gomes & Cao Guimarães, Brazil)
Papillio Buddha (Jayan Cherian, India/USA)
Quick Change (Eduardo Roy Jr., Philippines)
Stereo (Maximilian Erlenwein, Germany)
Test (Chris Mason Johnson, USA)
The Better Angels (A. J. Edwards, USA)
The Lamb (Kutluğ Ataman, Germany/Turkey...
- 12/19/2013
- by Notebook
- MUBI
John Michael McDonagh’s Calvary and new films by Michel Gondry, Kutlug Ataman and Robert Lepage are to feature in the Berlinale’s Panorama strand, which will open with Jalil Lespert’s Yves Saint Laurent.Scroll down for first batch of titles
A total of 50 features will be chosen for the Panorama section of the 2014 Berlinale (Feb 6-16), films that “provide insight on new directions in art house cinema”, and the first 19 have been announced. A total of 11 of those selected are world premieres.
The opening film will mark the international premiere of Jalil Lespert’s Yves Saint Laurent, a look at the life of the French designer from the beginning of his career in 1958 when he met his lover and business partner, Pierre Berge.
The opening screening on Feb 7 will see Berlin’s flagship cinema, the Zoo Palast, re-inaugurated as a Berlinale venue after extensive renovations.
Also in the line-up are new films from Michel Gondry, Kutluğ...
A total of 50 features will be chosen for the Panorama section of the 2014 Berlinale (Feb 6-16), films that “provide insight on new directions in art house cinema”, and the first 19 have been announced. A total of 11 of those selected are world premieres.
The opening film will mark the international premiere of Jalil Lespert’s Yves Saint Laurent, a look at the life of the French designer from the beginning of his career in 1958 when he met his lover and business partner, Pierre Berge.
The opening screening on Feb 7 will see Berlin’s flagship cinema, the Zoo Palast, re-inaugurated as a Berlinale venue after extensive renovations.
Also in the line-up are new films from Michel Gondry, Kutluğ...
- 12/19/2013
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
It's that spooky time of the year again folks. If you are in Los Angeles, that means another year of the awesome Razorblades in your Reese's short film fest and Halloween costume party. Now in its 4th year at the Downtown Independent, this free event curated and hosted by Landon Zakheim (Sundance Film Festival) and Todd Luoto (newly appointed Chancelor of Transylvania) was a total blast last year. Come on down for the costume party and watch shorts by Nic Gorman & Paul Glubb, Jon Hurst, Adam Kelemen, Bo Mathorne, Michael Mohan, MK12, Joe Nicolosi, Pedro Pires, Riley Stearns, and Andrew Zuchero. There is more info on the Downtown Independent site. But wait! There's more! We have 3 special shorts for you to watch...
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- 10/29/2013
- Screen Anarchy
A few years ago I caught Pedro Pires' debut short film Danse Macabre which preceded a Canadian feature at Viff. I can't recall anything about the feature but I've never forgotten Pires' short. I looked up everything I could on the director and have been tracking his career since (his feature film debut Triptyque premiered at Tiff and was co-directed with Canadian legend Robert Lepage). I'm thrilled that everyone can now take in Pires' glorious short.
Phi Centre, who a few weeks ago released Denis Villeneuve's Next Floor, have released Pires' morbidly gorgeous short for free viewing. Watching this again, I'm stunned at how much of it I rememb [Continued ...]...
Phi Centre, who a few weeks ago released Denis Villeneuve's Next Floor, have released Pires' morbidly gorgeous short for free viewing. Watching this again, I'm stunned at how much of it I rememb [Continued ...]...
- 10/22/2013
- QuietEarth.us
Pedro Pires' short film Danse Macabre is a perfect little gem of a film, a fusion of film and performance art revolving around the sanctity and even beauty of death captured flawlessly on film. It's been a great favorite here at Twitch for some years now and it has just been released online for free viewing. This is eight minutes very, very well spent.For a period of time, while we believe it to be perfectly still, lifeless flesh responds, stirs and contorts in a final macabre ballet. Are these spasms merely erratic motions or do they echo the chaotic twists and turns of a past life?...
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- 10/22/2013
- Screen Anarchy
The 42nd edition of the Festival du nouveau cinéma will be held in Montreal from October 9 to the 20th, showcasing the best new films and filmmakers from around the world. The festival which has often been described as ‘ baby-tiff’ picks up the best from Berlinale, Cannes, Venice, Telluride, Toronto and more. This new edition demonstrates the vibrancy of filmmaking in all its forms and for all audiences with an incredible 273 films (146 feature films and 124 shorts) from 47 countries – including (count them) 39 world premieres, 33 North American premieres and 47 Canadian premieres. I will be breaking down the line-up throughout the day, starting with the opening and closing films.
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Opening and Closing Films
This year the Festival will open with the film Triptych by Robert Lepage and Pedro Pires (Quebec). Wednesday, October 9, the festival will have the chance to meet Robert Lepage at the opening of the event ten years after The Dark of...
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Opening and Closing Films
This year the Festival will open with the film Triptych by Robert Lepage and Pedro Pires (Quebec). Wednesday, October 9, the festival will have the chance to meet Robert Lepage at the opening of the event ten years after The Dark of...
- 9/24/2013
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
Triptyque (Triptych) Written by Robert Lepage Directed by Robert Lepage and Pedro Pires Canada, 2013 - Quebecois cinema has always been a beast very much apart from the rest of the country. It has a long and proud history of being bolder, ballsier, and more artistically uncompromising than English Canadian film on the whole. Since Jésus de Montréal became the most widely-praised film to come out of the province (not directed by Denys Arcand, that is), Robert Lepage was a mainstay – that is, until he took a decade off to pursue other interests, particularly theater. Triptych marks his return, armed with a new collaborator, short-film director Pedro Pires, who assisted in bringing one of Lepage’s plays, Triptych, to the screen. The result avoids many of the commoner pitfalls that tend to befall stage-to-screen adaptations, but doesn’t quite gel into the sort of satisfying whole that would place it alongside Lepage’s past triumphs.
- 9/7/2013
- by Simon Howell
- SoundOnSight
Québecois filmmaker and theatre director Robert Lepage is one of Canada's truly great artists, a man of astonishing visual style. Since then he has achieved great acclaim, often playing larger on the international stage than he does in most of English Canada. For his latest film, Lepage has teamed up with award-winning short film director Pedro Pires to tell this tale of language and loss, of the intertwined stories of three people connecting in a variety of ways.Through the use of elegant transitions and some moments of startling, near genre film-worthy scenes, the film remains resolutely cinematic. This is all the more remarkable when it's recognized that this is based on one of Lepage's theatrical works. Despite the dialogue (and idea) heavy story, it never...
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- 9/7/2013
- Screen Anarchy
Toronto – The 38th Toronto International Film Festival® today announced the films in the Masters programme, which highlights the work of the world’s most compelling cinematic creators. The programme features a diverse collection of new films including world premieres from Quebecois directors Robert Lepage and Pedro Pires and Finnish filmmaker Pirjo Honkasalo; and North American premieres by Jia Zhangke, Jafar Panahi, Kim Ki-duk, Edgar Rietz and Claire Denis.
One additional title has also been announced in the Midnight Madness programme: the world premiere of Alex de la Iglesia’s Witching & Bitching (Las brujas de Zugarramurdi).
A Touch of Sin (Tian zhu ding) Jia Zhangke, China/Japan North American Premiere
An angry miner, enraged by the corruption of his village leaders, takes action. A rootless migrant discovers the infinite possibilities that owning a firearm can offer. A pretty receptionist working in a sauna is pushed to the limit when a wealthy client assaults her.
One additional title has also been announced in the Midnight Madness programme: the world premiere of Alex de la Iglesia’s Witching & Bitching (Las brujas de Zugarramurdi).
A Touch of Sin (Tian zhu ding) Jia Zhangke, China/Japan North American Premiere
An angry miner, enraged by the corruption of his village leaders, takes action. A rootless migrant discovers the infinite possibilities that owning a firearm can offer. A pretty receptionist working in a sauna is pushed to the limit when a wealthy client assaults her.
- 8/21/2013
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
The 38th Toronto International Film Festival has released an incredible guest list of celebrated talent from around the globe. Filmmakers expected to present their world premieres in Toronto include: Catherine Breillat, Nicole Garcia, Pawel Pawlikowski, Bertrand Tavernier, Steve McQueen, Godfrey Reggio, Denis Villeneuve, Bill Condon, Jean-Marc Vallée, John Wells, Ralph Fiennes, Richard Ayoade, Atom Egoyan, Matthew Weiner, John Carney, Jason Reitman, Jason Bateman, Yorgos Servetas, Liza Johnson, Megan Griffiths, Fernando Eimbcke, Alexey Uchitel, Johnny Ma, Biyi Bandele, Rashid Masharawi, Paul Haggis, Ron Howard, Eli Roth, Álex de la Iglesia, Bruce McDonald, Jennifer Baichwal, John Ridley, and Justin Chadwick.
The Festival also welcomes thousands of producers and other industry professionals bringing films to us.
The following filmmakers and artists are expected to attend the Toronto International Film Festival:
Ahmad Abdalla, Hany Abu-Assad, Yuval Adler, Akosua Adoma Owusu, Alexandre Aja, Bruce Alcock, Gianni Amelio, Thanos Anastopoulos, Madeline Anderson, Nimród Antal, Louise Archambault,...
The Festival also welcomes thousands of producers and other industry professionals bringing films to us.
The following filmmakers and artists are expected to attend the Toronto International Film Festival:
Ahmad Abdalla, Hany Abu-Assad, Yuval Adler, Akosua Adoma Owusu, Alexandre Aja, Bruce Alcock, Gianni Amelio, Thanos Anastopoulos, Madeline Anderson, Nimród Antal, Louise Archambault,...
- 8/21/2013
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
Hands up everyone who wants to see Jia Zhangke's wu xia effort A Touch Of Sin? Or how about Alex de la Iglesia's latest does of craziness, Witching And Bitching? Kim Ki-duk's controversial Moebius? Toronto audiences are going to be able to, with both included in the freshly released Masters lineup. Check the full list below! Toronto - The 38th Toronto International Film Festival® today announced the films in the Masters programme, which highlights the work of the world's most compelling cinematic creators. The programme features a diverse collection of new films including world premieres from Quebecois directors Robert Lepage and Pedro Pires and Finnish filmmaker Pirjo Honkasalo; and North American premieres by Jia Zhangke, Jafar Panahi, Kim Ki-duk, Edgar Rietz and Claire Denis. One...
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- 8/20/2013
- Screen Anarchy
Festival organisers announced the Discovery, Mavericks and Masters sections, details of the David Cronenberg: Transformation exhibition, a tenth Midnight Madness entry and introduced the Glenn Gould Studio to the festival’s stable of venues.
The programming strands feature new work from Catherine Breillat and on-stage conversations with Spike Jones, Irrfan Khan, Harvey Weinstein and Ron Howard.
The final entry in Midnight Madness will be the world premiere of Alex de la Iglesia’s Witching & Bitching (Las brujas De Zugarramurdi) (Spain-France).
The Glenn Gould Studio will serve as a venue for various public and industry programming during the festival and will function as a main location for the Tiff Industry Conference, set to run from Sept 6-12.
Programming will include the industry conference keynote session, Master Class, Moguls, Mavericks, Telefilm Canada Pitch This! on Sept 9 and the Doc Conference from Sept 10-11.
“As the jewel of the Canadian Broadcast Centre, Glenn Gould Studio...
The programming strands feature new work from Catherine Breillat and on-stage conversations with Spike Jones, Irrfan Khan, Harvey Weinstein and Ron Howard.
The final entry in Midnight Madness will be the world premiere of Alex de la Iglesia’s Witching & Bitching (Las brujas De Zugarramurdi) (Spain-France).
The Glenn Gould Studio will serve as a venue for various public and industry programming during the festival and will function as a main location for the Tiff Industry Conference, set to run from Sept 6-12.
Programming will include the industry conference keynote session, Master Class, Moguls, Mavericks, Telefilm Canada Pitch This! on Sept 9 and the Doc Conference from Sept 10-11.
“As the jewel of the Canadian Broadcast Centre, Glenn Gould Studio...
- 8/20/2013
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Denis Villeneuve will have two films in the festival as it emerged that Canadian Features world premiere Enemy starring Jake Gyllenhaal as a man and his doppelganger [pictured] has joined the previously announced Prisoners, also starring Gyllenhaal.
The Canadian Features selection includes Michael Dowse’s Goon follow-up The F Word, Xavier Dolan’s Tom At The Farm and Chloe Robichaud’s Sarah Prefers To Run as well as work from Jeff Barnaby, Bruce McDonald and Bruce Labruce. Also receiving its world premiere is All The Wrong Reasons featuring the final performance by the late Glee star Cory Monteith.
Festival organisers also unveiled Producers Lab Toronto participants and Telefilm Canada Pitch This! finallists, the shorts programme and participants in the tenth Tiff Talent Lab.
“The scope of this year’s feature films is as broad as Canada’s filmmaking community and demonstrates the deep versatility of our filmmakers,” said Tiff senior programmer Steve Gravestock. “From clever...
The Canadian Features selection includes Michael Dowse’s Goon follow-up The F Word, Xavier Dolan’s Tom At The Farm and Chloe Robichaud’s Sarah Prefers To Run as well as work from Jeff Barnaby, Bruce McDonald and Bruce Labruce. Also receiving its world premiere is All The Wrong Reasons featuring the final performance by the late Glee star Cory Monteith.
Festival organisers also unveiled Producers Lab Toronto participants and Telefilm Canada Pitch This! finallists, the shorts programme and participants in the tenth Tiff Talent Lab.
“The scope of this year’s feature films is as broad as Canada’s filmmaking community and demonstrates the deep versatility of our filmmakers,” said Tiff senior programmer Steve Gravestock. “From clever...
- 8/7/2013
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
This afternoon, with poutine and local wine to mark the occasion, the Toronto International Film Festival announced their Canadian film selections. Programmers Steve Gravestock and Agata Smoluch Del Sorbo proudly pronounced that this year both new and seasoned filmmakers had the “curiosity and courage to show troubling issues occurring in our country in new and exciting ways.” Past festival favorite (and one of my personal own as well) Xavier Dolan, the always controversial Bruce Labruce and Jennifer Baichwal’s films garnered applause from the crowd at the majestic Royal York ballroom. Titles sure to draw headlines and attention in the Canadian slate are Denis Villeneuve’s locally filmed ‘Enemy‘ which has Jake Gyllenhall playing a man with two identities, torn between a mistress and a wife. Villeneuve’s other recent feature ‘Prisoners‘ was previously announced as a festival title. It’s worth mentioning that two feature films being presented at...
- 8/7/2013
- by Leora Heilbronn
- IONCINEMA.com
Denis Villeneuve will have two films in the festival as it emerged on Wednesday [7] that Canadian Features world premiere Enemy starring Jake Gyllenhaal as a man and his doppelganger [pictured] has joined the previously announced Prisoners, also starring Gyllenhaal.
The Canadian Features selection includes Michael Dowse’s Goon follow-up The F Word, Xavier Dolan’s Tom At The Farm and Chloe Robichaud’s Sarah Prefers To Run as well as work from Jeff Barnaby, Bruce McDonald and Bruce Labruce.
“The scope of this year’s feature films is as broad as Canada’s filmmaking community and demonstrates the deep versatility of our filmmakers,” said Tiff senior programmer Steve Gravestock. “From clever, biting satire to intimate social commentary, powerful dramas and even a truly magical comedy, the settings and themes vary, but the perspectives are always uniquely Canadian.”
The City Of Toronto and Canada Goose Award for Best Canadian Feature Film will be given to one of many outstanding...
The Canadian Features selection includes Michael Dowse’s Goon follow-up The F Word, Xavier Dolan’s Tom At The Farm and Chloe Robichaud’s Sarah Prefers To Run as well as work from Jeff Barnaby, Bruce McDonald and Bruce Labruce.
“The scope of this year’s feature films is as broad as Canada’s filmmaking community and demonstrates the deep versatility of our filmmakers,” said Tiff senior programmer Steve Gravestock. “From clever, biting satire to intimate social commentary, powerful dramas and even a truly magical comedy, the settings and themes vary, but the perspectives are always uniquely Canadian.”
The City Of Toronto and Canada Goose Award for Best Canadian Feature Film will be given to one of many outstanding...
- 8/7/2013
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
The 2013 Toronto International Film Festival has announced its lineup of Canadian features, which includes The F Word from Michael Dowse (Goon) starring Daniel Radfliffe and Adam Driver ("Girls"), Xavier Dolan's new film Tom at the Farm and Denis Villeneuve's second film to be added to the festival Enemy, which stars one of his two leads in Prisoners (which is also premiering in Toronto), Jake Gyllenhaal. The F Word is also Daniel Radfliffe's third film in the fest after Horns from Alexandre Aja and Kill Your Darlings. F Word centers on Wallace (Radfliffe) who meets Chantry (Zoe Kazan) and it would be love at first sight, except she lives with her long-term boyfriend. So Wallace, acting with both best intentions -- and maybe a little denial -- discovers the dirtiest word in romance: friends. Dolan is coming off the fantastic Laurence Anyways and again wrote, directed and stars in...
- 8/7/2013
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
The Toronto International Film Festival has announced its lineup of Canadian features, including new work from Bruce McDonald, Xavier Dolan, Denis Villeneuve (who has two films in the festival with "Prisoners" and "Enemy" -- both of which star Jake Gyllenhaal), Michael Dowse, Jennifer Baichwal with Edward Burtynsky, Bruce Sweeney, Robert Lepage with Pedro Pires, Peter Stebbings, Ingrid Veninger, Bruce Labruce, Richie Mehta, Jeff Barnaby and Louise Archambault. "The scope of this year's feature films is as broad as Canada's filmmaking community and demonstrates the deep versatility of our filmmakers," said Steve Gravestock, Senior Programmer, Tiff. "From clever, biting satire to intimate social commentary, powerful dramas and even a truly magical comedy, the settings and themes vary, but the perspectives are always uniquely Canadian." Notable is that alongside the Canadian-made features are a bunch of previously announced films produced outside of Canada by Canuck directors, including...
- 8/7/2013
- by Peter Knegt
- Indiewire
The Drama Desk Awards — commonly known as the theater world’s Golden Globes, though nominees are represented across all NYC productions in a season — are the last precursor to the Tony Awards (check EW.com tomorrow morning for a full list of those). And judging by the list below, it’s going to be quite a competitive year, with some pretty heavy-hitters mixed in with longshots, not to mention some major snubs (Alan Cumming, Cyndi Lauper, Fiona Shaw, Chaplin’s Rob McClure to name a few). The winners will be announced at NYC’s Town Hall on May 19. Below is...
- 4/29/2013
- by Jason Clark
- EW.com - PopWatch
Day seven of the 21st Annual Whitaker St. Louis International Film Festival already?!? There are still four days and hundreds of great films to go!
Sliff’s main venues are the the Hi-Pointe Theatre, Tivoli Theatre, Plaza Frontenac Cinema, Webster University’s Winifred Moore Auditorium, Washington University’s Brown Hall Auditorium and the Wildey Theatre in Edwardsville, Il
The entire schedule for the 21st Annual Whitaker St. Louis International Film Festival be found Here.
http://cinemastlouis.org/sliff-2012
Here is what will be screening at The 21st Whitaker St. Louis International Film Festival today, Wednesday, November 14th
Booker’S Place
Booker’S Place plays at 7:15pm at the Tivoli Theatre
Booker Wright was an African-American restaurant owner who also served double-duty as a waiter in a whites-only restaurant in Mississippi in the 1960s. He became an unlikely activist for the civil-rights movement when he appeared on a 1965 network TV...
Sliff’s main venues are the the Hi-Pointe Theatre, Tivoli Theatre, Plaza Frontenac Cinema, Webster University’s Winifred Moore Auditorium, Washington University’s Brown Hall Auditorium and the Wildey Theatre in Edwardsville, Il
The entire schedule for the 21st Annual Whitaker St. Louis International Film Festival be found Here.
http://cinemastlouis.org/sliff-2012
Here is what will be screening at The 21st Whitaker St. Louis International Film Festival today, Wednesday, November 14th
Booker’S Place
Booker’S Place plays at 7:15pm at the Tivoli Theatre
Booker Wright was an African-American restaurant owner who also served double-duty as a waiter in a whites-only restaurant in Mississippi in the 1960s. He became an unlikely activist for the civil-rights movement when he appeared on a 1965 network TV...
- 11/14/2012
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Kaelen Meuiner, Garret Dillahunt, Oliver Sherman Monsieur Lazhar, Philippe Falardeau: Genie Award Winners INTERPRÉTATION Masculine Dans Un Premier RÔLE / Performance By An Actor In A Leading Role * Fellag – Monsieur Lazhar Garret Dillahunt – Oliver Sherman Michael Fassbender – A Dangerous Method Patrick Huard – Starbuck Scott Speedman – Edwin Boyd: Citizen Gangster INTERPRÉTATION FÉMININE Dans Un Premier RÔLE / Performance By An Actress In A Leading Role Catherine De LÉAN – Nuit #1 Pascale Montpetit – The Girl in the White Coat * Vanessa Paradis – Café de Flore Rachel Weisz – The Whistleblower Michelle Williams – Take This Waltz INTERPRÉTATION Masculine Dans Un RÔLE De Soutien / Performance By An Actor In A Supporting Role Antoine Bertrand – Starbuck Kevin Durand – Edwin Boyd: Citizen Gangster Marin Gerrier – Café de Flore Taylor Kitsch – The Bang Bang Club * Viggo Mortensen – A Dangerous Method INTERPRÉTATION FÉMININE Dans Un RÔLE De Soutien / Performance By An Actress In A Supporting Role Roxana Condurache – The Whistleblower...
- 3/9/2012
- by Steve Montgomery
- Alt Film Guide
We wouldn't dare neglect the selection of bite-sized cinema from around the world. Here are the Twitch contributors' favorite shorts and web series from 2011. Shorts Hope (Canada) Director: Pedro Pires by Todd Brown Though Jesus Orellana's Rosa is arguably the short of the year in terms of industry response and overall awareness--and for good reason, it's fantastic--i prefer Pedro Pires' Hope. The latest from the director of Danse Macabre is pure visual art, packed to the gills with gorgeous images and haunting emotional resonance. This man's a genius and needs to be turned loose on a feature now. Nursery Crimes (United Kingdom) Lost for Words (Canada) Coup de Grâce (Spain) by Shelagh M Rowan-Legg Films began as shorts, and it's nice to see directors...
- 1/12/2012
- Screen Anarchy
It’s been another fantastic year for Canadian cinema and there is a good chance a few films will crack our staff’s best of 2011 list (which we will be posting sometime between Christmas and New Years). Until than, you can also check out Tiff’s selections of the top 10 best features and top 10 best short films of 2011, as determined by a panel of industry professionals, during tonight’s 11th annual Canada’s Top Ten announcement.
Here is the press release:
Established in 2001, Canada’s Top Ten celebrates excellence in Canadian cinema and raises public awareness of Canadian achievements in film. Taking place from January 5 to 15, 2012 at Tiff Bell Lightbox, the programme features a panel discussion and public screenings accompanied by introductions and Q&A sessions with filmmakers. Select films will tour major cities across the country, including Vancouver’s Pacific Cinematheque, Edmonton’s Metro Cinema and Ottawa’s ByTowne Cinema.
Here is the press release:
Established in 2001, Canada’s Top Ten celebrates excellence in Canadian cinema and raises public awareness of Canadian achievements in film. Taking place from January 5 to 15, 2012 at Tiff Bell Lightbox, the programme features a panel discussion and public screenings accompanied by introductions and Q&A sessions with filmmakers. Select films will tour major cities across the country, including Vancouver’s Pacific Cinematheque, Edmonton’s Metro Cinema and Ottawa’s ByTowne Cinema.
- 12/7/2011
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
I will soon post a list of films I have already seen that I highly recommend as well as a list of my most anticipated films screening at this year’s Festival du Nouveau Cinema. For now here is the press release from the festival. Make sure you read carefully because there are a ton of great films to check out.
Montreal, Tuesday September 27, 2011– Montreal’s Festival du nouveau cinéma will be celebrating its 40th edition from October 12 to 23. For the past 40 years, Canada’s oldest film festival has offered film buffs a selection of the year’s most exciting new films — a bold lineup with plenty of whimsical and surprising elements, but one that also turns its lens on social realities and the evolution of film and new technologies. Over the course of this year’s 11-day Festival, audiences of all ages can take in features and shorts, fiction films and documentaries,...
Montreal, Tuesday September 27, 2011– Montreal’s Festival du nouveau cinéma will be celebrating its 40th edition from October 12 to 23. For the past 40 years, Canada’s oldest film festival has offered film buffs a selection of the year’s most exciting new films — a bold lineup with plenty of whimsical and surprising elements, but one that also turns its lens on social realities and the evolution of film and new technologies. Over the course of this year’s 11-day Festival, audiences of all ages can take in features and shorts, fiction films and documentaries,...
- 9/27/2011
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
With his brilliant debut short Danse Macabre director Pedro Pires announced himself as a major new talent on the Canadian film scene, one who employed a striking and distinctive visual language that few could match. With his sophomore effort, Hope, Pires makes it very clear that Danse Macabre was not a fluke and that he is not just one of the best in Canada but that he is arguably one of the finest directors in the world who is yet to shoot a feature.Ten minutes of perfection Hope is a surreal, dreamlike reflection on life and death as experienced by a general dying on a nameless battlefield. Like Danse Macabre, Hope plays entirely without dialog because Pires is smart enough to understand that words...
- 9/14/2011
- Screen Anarchy
The director of the brilliant Danse Macabre - available now on iTunes and well worth the money - returns to Toronto with his latest effort titled simply Hope.Fragmented violence of war seen through the eyes of a general on his deathbed. His mind, accustomed to a life on the battlefield, surrenders to a stream of consciousness, mixing death, brutality and one last gesture of hope. The film is based on the award-winning play, Jimmy, créature de rêve by Marie Brassard.Though he has yet to complete a feature director Pedro Pires has very quickly established himself as one of the very brightest talents in Canada, possessing a unique voice and an impressive eye. This latest is no different. Take a look at the haunting trailer...
- 9/4/2011
- Screen Anarchy
By Sean O’Connell
Hollywoodnews.com: Brad Pitt, Keira Knightley, George Clooney, Carey Mulligan, Rachel Weisz, Gerard Butler and Ryan Gosling are heading to Toronto for the 36tht international film festival, which kicks off on Thursday, Sept. 8.
The fest today confirmed the hundreds of celebrities that will be attending the can’t-miss event, promoting films and making the rounds as the annual awards season starts to take shape.
Davis Guggenheim, Francis Ford Coppola, Alexander Payne, Luc Besson, Oren Moverman, Malgoska Szumowska, Bennett Miller, Sarah Polley, Jessica Yu, Michael Winterbottom and Werner Herzog are just a few of the filmmakers who have confirmed their attendance.
Celebrities making the trek include Catherine Deneuve, Charlotte Rampling, Clive Owen, Jon Hamm, Shahid Kapoor, Michael Fassbender, Michelle Yeoh, Freida Pinto, Glenn Close, Matthew Goode, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Salma Hayek, Viggo Mortensen and Woody Harrelson. Musicians U2, Pearl Jam and Neil Young also are expected to...
Hollywoodnews.com: Brad Pitt, Keira Knightley, George Clooney, Carey Mulligan, Rachel Weisz, Gerard Butler and Ryan Gosling are heading to Toronto for the 36tht international film festival, which kicks off on Thursday, Sept. 8.
The fest today confirmed the hundreds of celebrities that will be attending the can’t-miss event, promoting films and making the rounds as the annual awards season starts to take shape.
Davis Guggenheim, Francis Ford Coppola, Alexander Payne, Luc Besson, Oren Moverman, Malgoska Szumowska, Bennett Miller, Sarah Polley, Jessica Yu, Michael Winterbottom and Werner Herzog are just a few of the filmmakers who have confirmed their attendance.
Celebrities making the trek include Catherine Deneuve, Charlotte Rampling, Clive Owen, Jon Hamm, Shahid Kapoor, Michael Fassbender, Michelle Yeoh, Freida Pinto, Glenn Close, Matthew Goode, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Salma Hayek, Viggo Mortensen and Woody Harrelson. Musicians U2, Pearl Jam and Neil Young also are expected to...
- 8/23/2011
- by Sean O'Connell
- Hollywoodnews.com
Toronto - The 36th Toronto International Film Festival® welcomes hundreds of guests this year. Filmmakers expected to present their world premieres in Toronto include: Davis Guggenheim, Francis Ford Coppola, Alexander Payne, Agnieszka Holland, Guy Maddin, Luc Besson, Bill Duke, Oren Moverman, Malgoska Szumowska, Bennett Miller, Darrell Roodt, Sarah Polley, Jessica Yu, Michael Winterbottom and Werner Herzog.
Actors expected to attend include Catherine Deneuve, Charlotte Rampling, George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Clive Owen, Gerard Butler, Jeon Do-Yeon, Jon Hamm, Shahid Kapoor, Michael Fassbender, Michelle Yeoh, Freida Pinto, Glenn Close, Matthew Goode, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Rachel Weisz, Ryan Gosling, Salma Hayek, Viggo Mortensen and Woody Harrelson. Musicians include: U2, Pearl Jam and Neil Young.
The Festival also welcomes thousands of producers and other industry professionals bringing films to us.
The following filmmakers are expected to attend the Toronto International Film Festival:
Adam Shaheen, Adam Wingard, Adolfo Borinaga Alix Jr., Agnieszka Holland, Akin Omotoso,...
Actors expected to attend include Catherine Deneuve, Charlotte Rampling, George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Clive Owen, Gerard Butler, Jeon Do-Yeon, Jon Hamm, Shahid Kapoor, Michael Fassbender, Michelle Yeoh, Freida Pinto, Glenn Close, Matthew Goode, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Rachel Weisz, Ryan Gosling, Salma Hayek, Viggo Mortensen and Woody Harrelson. Musicians include: U2, Pearl Jam and Neil Young.
The Festival also welcomes thousands of producers and other industry professionals bringing films to us.
The following filmmakers are expected to attend the Toronto International Film Festival:
Adam Shaheen, Adam Wingard, Adolfo Borinaga Alix Jr., Agnieszka Holland, Akin Omotoso,...
- 8/23/2011
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
It was a couple years back now that director Pedro Pires made huge waves with his short film Danse Macabre. A gorgeously shot meditation on death, Danse Macabre teetered in a world somewhere between a dream state and a performance dance piece winning raves from the arthouse and genre worlds alike. It's a piece of art, bluntly, and one that announced the arrival of an enormously talented director.Pires has been busy on a number of projects since, but the first that will be seen publicly is his new short film Hope, freshly selected to the Toronto International Film Festival.The fragmented violence of war seen through the eyes of a General on his deathbed. A mind accustomed to a life on the battlefield surrenders to a...
- 8/9/2011
- Screen Anarchy
A few years ago, before a screening of something or other at a festival, I saw a short film that blew me away. A combination of arthouse, dance and morbid beauty, Pedro Pires' Danse Macabre was the only thing I remember of that night. I haven't had the opportunity to re-watch the film since I first saw it but the images and music and burned into my mind.
Pires has been busy with a number of projects, including work with Cirque du Soleil's "Totem" but he's found the time to re-team with Canadian film and heatre legend Robert Lepage for a new short.
Premiering at Tiff later this year, Hope is described as:
The fragmented violence of war seen through the eyes of a General on his deathbed. A mind accustomed to a life on the battlefield surrenders to a stream of consciousness, mixing death, brutality, and finally, one last gesture of hope.
Pires has been busy with a number of projects, including work with Cirque du Soleil's "Totem" but he's found the time to re-team with Canadian film and heatre legend Robert Lepage for a new short.
Premiering at Tiff later this year, Hope is described as:
The fragmented violence of war seen through the eyes of a General on his deathbed. A mind accustomed to a life on the battlefield surrenders to a stream of consciousness, mixing death, brutality, and finally, one last gesture of hope.
- 8/9/2011
- QuietEarth.us
After bursting on to the international film scene in such a big way with 2003's Tarnation - a documentary culled largely from his own home movies - it is somewhat surprising that one-time wunderkind Jonathan Caouette has been out of the limelight for so long. Since his 2003 debut he has only three credits as a director: one on a TV documentary about himself, one a short doc about the Raindance Festival, and one as co-director of last year's All Tomorrow's Parties documentary. But he's about to be back in a more direct, more personal way.
Though details are sketchy, Caouette has partnered with Montreal based arts collective The Phi Group - the backers of Denis Villeneuve's Next Floor and Pedro Pires' Danse Macabre - to create a new short film titled All Flowers In Time. The first teaser has just arrived on the official website, giving you just...
Though details are sketchy, Caouette has partnered with Montreal based arts collective The Phi Group - the backers of Denis Villeneuve's Next Floor and Pedro Pires' Danse Macabre - to create a new short film titled All Flowers In Time. The first teaser has just arrived on the official website, giving you just...
- 9/9/2010
- Screen Anarchy
This past August 28th saw the San Diego debut of the Blacklist Art and Film Festival, and your local Dread Central staff members were on hand for the event. We're happy to report a good time was had by all, and even though we'd seen a couple of the horror shorts shown during the film fest portion already, they really popped thanks to the enthusiastic crowd.
What types of films were there? Only several of the best shorts the genre has seen in some time: Jason Eisener's hilariously brilliant "Treevenge" (review here), the clever and surprising Aussie flick "Spider" from Nash Edgerton, and Ryan Spindell's quite well made "Kirksdale" (the longest entry of the night with a runtime of 21 minutes). These three came in 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Beast in Show, respectively, and were all well deserving. They were joined by:
Trevor Jimenez's animated "Key Lime Pie...
What types of films were there? Only several of the best shorts the genre has seen in some time: Jason Eisener's hilariously brilliant "Treevenge" (review here), the clever and surprising Aussie flick "Spider" from Nash Edgerton, and Ryan Spindell's quite well made "Kirksdale" (the longest entry of the night with a runtime of 21 minutes). These three came in 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Beast in Show, respectively, and were all well deserving. They were joined by:
Trevor Jimenez's animated "Key Lime Pie...
- 9/4/2010
- by The Woman In Black
- DreadCentral.com
You might have noticed the coverage of this years ultra-sized Fantasia film festival in the Reviews and Interviews column of the site from a number of contributors taking in the festival: Mack, Shelagh, Peter, Todd, and myself, as well as a plethora of other Twitch writers hither and yon. Covering a festival of this size is a massive undertaking and I hope you enjoyed all the updates, interviews, and reviews. Rest assured there are still a few more to come. As Fantasia winds down with a screening of Metropolis Extended Edition and full orchestra, it seems to have been a raging success this year across the board. The festival announced its Jury and Audience awards, and they are below. It seems that the Subversive Serbia sidebar was a big hit, with controversial A Serbian Film getting one of the big audience awards.
Montreal, Wednesday, July 28, 2010 - As the 14th edition...
Montreal, Wednesday, July 28, 2010 - As the 14th edition...
- 7/29/2010
- Screen Anarchy
The 34th Annual Toronto International Film Festival has wrapped up with the announcement of its awards winners. On Saturday, September 19 at the Awards Reception at the Intercontinental on Front Street, "Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire" was unveiled to be the title holder of 2009 Cadillac People's Choice Award.
The gritty tale about an abused teenage girl in Harlem got the most votes from ordinary moviegoers in Toronto and beat out first runner-up Bruce Beresford's "Mao's Last Dancer", and second runner-up Jean-Pierre Jeunet's "Micmacs". Having also won the audience and jury awards for best picture from this year's Sundance Film Festival, it became the only film ever to win the audience prizes at both festivals.
"The audience award holds such an important meaning," director Lee Daniels said in a statement from the San Sebastian Film Festival, where the movie was screened on Sunday evening, September 20. "I made...
The gritty tale about an abused teenage girl in Harlem got the most votes from ordinary moviegoers in Toronto and beat out first runner-up Bruce Beresford's "Mao's Last Dancer", and second runner-up Jean-Pierre Jeunet's "Micmacs". Having also won the audience and jury awards for best picture from this year's Sundance Film Festival, it became the only film ever to win the audience prizes at both festivals.
"The audience award holds such an important meaning," director Lee Daniels said in a statement from the San Sebastian Film Festival, where the movie was screened on Sunday evening, September 20. "I made...
- 9/21/2009
- by AceShowbiz.com
- Aceshowbiz
It's no secret that the winner of the People's choice award at the Toronto International Film Festival, is a guaranteed shoe in for best picture at the Oscars. Last years winner Slumdog Millionaire is proof of this and with no surprise the People Choice Award went to the film with the most buzz. Here is a list of all the winners. Cadillac People's Choice Award: Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire [1] by Lee Daniels Runners up: Mao's Last Dancer [2] by Bruce Beresford, Micmacs [3] by Jean-Pierre Jeunet Cadillac People's Choice Award For Documentary: The Topp Twins [4] by Leanne Pooley Runner up: Capitalism: A Love Story [5] by Michael Moore Cadillac People's Choice Award For Midnight Madness: The Loved Ones [6] by Sean Byrne Runner up: Daybreakers [7] by Michael Spierig and Peter Spierig City of Toronto and Astral Media's The Movie Network Award For Best Canadian Feature Film: Cairo Time [8] by...
- 9/20/2009
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
Hnr's Michael Stevens reporting from Toronto... The Oprah Winfrey-produced feature Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire, directed by Lee Daniels, has captured the 'People's Choice' top award @ Tiff 2009. "I made this film for every person out there who ever looked in the mirror and felt unsure about the person looking back," said Daniels. Past winners of the Tiff 'People's Choice' Award, going on to win a Best Picture Oscar at the Academy Awards have included Slumdog Millionaire, American Beauty and Chariots of Fire. Other Tiff 2009 winners include critics' awards for The Man Beyond the Bridge and Hadewijch. The audience award for top doc went to The Topp Twins, described as "...more fun than a possum up your trousers...", focusing on a New Zealand-based 'lesbian country and western' singing duo. The Cadillac People.s Choice Award For Midnight Madness: The Loved Ones by Sean Byrne City of...
- 9/19/2009
- HollywoodNorthReport.com
Toronto -- The Oscar shot for Lee Daniels' "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire" grew Sunday when the coming-of-age tale about an obese, pregnant Harlem teenager picked up the top audience award in Toronto.
The Lionsgate Films pictures, executive produced by Oprah Winfrey and Tyler Perry, beat out first runner-up "Mao's Last Dancer," by Bruce Beresford, and second runner-up Jean-Pierre Jeunet's "Micmacs" in a competition voted on by ordinary film-goers in Toronto.
"The audience award holds such an important meaning," Daniels said in a statement from the San Sebastian Film Festival, where "Precious" will screen Sunday evening. "I made this film for every person out there who ever looked in the mirror and felt unsure about the person looking back," Daniels added.
Oprah Winfrey came on board "Precious" as an executive producer alongside Tyler Perry after the drama debuted in Sundance last January. Her march up...
The Lionsgate Films pictures, executive produced by Oprah Winfrey and Tyler Perry, beat out first runner-up "Mao's Last Dancer," by Bruce Beresford, and second runner-up Jean-Pierre Jeunet's "Micmacs" in a competition voted on by ordinary film-goers in Toronto.
"The audience award holds such an important meaning," Daniels said in a statement from the San Sebastian Film Festival, where "Precious" will screen Sunday evening. "I made this film for every person out there who ever looked in the mirror and felt unsure about the person looking back," Daniels added.
Oprah Winfrey came on board "Precious" as an executive producer alongside Tyler Perry after the drama debuted in Sundance last January. Her march up...
- 9/19/2009
- by By Etan Vlessing
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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