The Wider Screen
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Awards Announced at Cinema City
Last Saturday, June 27 th , the awards of the 4 th annual Cinema City International Film Festival were announced at the closing ceremony in Novi Sad, Serbia. The festival gives its signature Ibis...
Jun 27, 2011 / Alison FrankThe Past and Future of Film Criticism at Cinema City
The Cinema City film festival in Novi Sad , Serbia, hosted a panel discussion on the future of film criticism with director Gerald Peary, following the screening of his documentary, For the Love of...
Jun 22, 2011 / Alison FrankIn Limbo at Cinema City
Maria Sødahl has made an assured feature debut with Limbo (2010) at the Cinema City film festival, Novi Sad, Serbia. The film was previously screened at Montreal and Thessaloniki. Set in the 1970s,...
Jun 20, 2011 / Alison FrankCinema City Kicks Off in Novi Sad, Serbia
Živojinović receives his lifetime achievement award Last night the opening ceremony took place for the 4 th annual Cinema City film festival in Novi Sad , Serbia. The festival introduced the members...
Jun 19, 2011 / Alison FrankSurprises in Taxi Driver
Despite their renown, some famous films are able to surprise new generations of filmgoers. A first-time viewer of The Graduate might only know of the character of Mrs. Robinson, familiar from the...
Jun 13, 2011 / Alison FrankFilmmuseet: Norway’s Film History
If you find yourself in Oslo, the Norwegian Film Institute’s ‘Filmmuseet’ (Film Museum) is worth a visit. Housed in ‘Filmens Hus’, same building as the city’s cinematheque, this free, compact...
May 10, 2011 / Alison Frank‘Rio’ and ‘Hop': Worlds Away
The animated features Hop and Rio have a few things in common, aside from their one-word titles. An animal plays the lead role in each (‘E.B’ the rabbit in Hop and ‘Blu’ the parrot in Rio), and both...
May 5, 2011 / Alison FrankPan’s Labyrinth: A Gateway Film
Pan’s Labyrinth (El laberinto del fauno, Guillermo del Toro 2006) is a film that seems to come up frequently on lists of top ten favourite films: finally having the opportunity to see it, I was...
Apr 5, 2011 / Alison FrankBerlinale vs. LFF: A Press Perspective
Having experienced my first two festivals as a member of the press, I feel compelled to compare them, noting the areas where one festival outperformed the other. Although London and Berlin are quite...
Mar 14, 2011 / Alison FrankBerlinale Winners
The general mood of journalists at the 61 st Berlin Film Festival was disappointment: reports generally characterised the selection as dismal. The Independent’s Jonathan Romney explained that the...
Feb 22, 2011 / Alison FrankThe Prize: Not a Winner
After yesterday’s blog on My Best Enemy , a film set during Germany’s fascist past, today’s blog reviews a film set during the country’s communist period, as well as the present-day. The Prize ( Der...
Feb 19, 2011 / Alison FrankBerlinale Day 4: The Allegory of the ‘Cave of Forgotten Dreams’, 3D
When I arrived at my hotel in Berlin to cover this festival, I was surprised to discover a default image of a fireplace quietly crackling away on the flat screen TV on the wall of my room. I wondered...
Feb 14, 2011 / Alison FrankBerlinale Day 5: Ancient meets Modern in ‘Tales of the Night’
In Cave of Forgotten Dreams Herzog couldn’t resist commenting on the cinematic dimensions he perceived in the 32,000 year old Chauvet cave paintings. He noted that some of the animals portrayed had 8...
Feb 14, 2011 / Alison FrankBerlinale Day 3: Zuzana Liová’s ‘House’
Dom ( House , Zuzana Liová, 2011) tells the story of a family in a small Czech town. Imrich wanted to give his daughters a good start in life by building them each a house on the same land as the...
Feb 13, 2011 / Alison FrankAlbanian ‘Amnesty’ at the Berlinale: A Quiet Drama
Life is not easy for Elsa: her husband is in prison for gambling debts, she has just lost her job at the factory, she has two young sons to look after, and a elderly little father-in-law who lives...
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