Tag: Berlinale
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‘A Secret World’ at Cinélatino
A Secret World ( Un mundo secreto , 2012) was among 14 films in the fiction feature competition at Cinélatino, Toulouse’s Latin American Film Festival. The film received a special mention from the...
Apr 7, 2012 / Alison Frank‘The Other’ at The 2nd London Iranian Film Festival
The London Iranian Film Festival is only in its second year, but already it boasts an enchanting and highly professional-looking trailer, as well as a varied line-up of films that blast open the old...
Dec 6, 2011 / Alison FrankWhere Do We Go Now? Onwards and upwards
After making her feature debut as an actress in Bosta (2005), a film about a travelling dance troupe and their eponymous bus, Nadine Labaki went on to direct her own films, in which she also stars,...
Oct 19, 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 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...
Feb 11, 2011 / Alison FrankThe Berlinale Opens with True Grit
True Grit, the Coen Brothers’ latest feature, opened the 61st Berlin Film Festival this evening. Based on a novel of the same name by Charles Portis, the Coen Brothers’ film is the second film...
Feb 11, 2011 / Alison FrankJames Cameron Talks ‘Avatar 2′ and Re-release of ‘Avatar’ With Extra Footage
In an interview with Market Saw yesterday, James Cameron opened up about his plans to re-release his environmentally-conscious alien epic “Avatar” with an additional nine minutes of pure CG footage,...
Aug 8, 2010 / Eric M. ArmstrongLone Wolf in Black America: A Bill Gunn Retrospective
“I’ve liked every script I’ve ever written,” Bill Gunn told an interviewer in 1971, “I’ve hated every movie made from them.” It’s a prickly statement for a screenwriter, especially one with such a...
Jun 16, 2010 / Jesse CataldoIndie Film Pioneer, Richard Glasser, Dies
Independent film pioneer, Richard Glasser, died Tuesday, Feb. 23 in Los Angeles after suffering a stroke days earlier. He was 50. The son of famed film producer Bernard Glasser, Richard began his...
Feb 27, 2010 / Eric M. ArmstrongTMA FilmCast #25 – Precious, Invictus (Written Reviews)
This week we’re trying something a little different. Scott, my usual co-host, was absent from class during the recording of the show so instead of scrambling to find a temporary replacement I decided...
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