Cannes Film Festival's Directors' Fortnight Starring: Bill Sage, Ambyr Childers, Julia Garner, Wyatt Russell, Nick Damici, Jack Gore, Michael Parks and Kelly McGillis – Directed by Jim Mickle Jim Mickle's suspenseful horror thriller WE ARE WHAT WE ARE comes full circle. Acquired by eOne for U.S. theatrical rights off of the film's critically acclaimed world  [ Read More ]

A revenge film equally suited for art house cinephiles and die-hard genre fans. IT'S ABOUT A BEACH BUM, whose quiet life is upended by dreadful news. He sets off for his childhood home to carry out an act of vengeance but proves an inept assassin and finds himself in a brutal fight to protect his  [ Read More ]

Unstaged is a five-part concert series featuring various artists, presented by YouTube, American Express and VEVO. Each performance included unique online components, such as voting for the encore performance or the ability to switch camera angles. The series began with Arcade Fire, who performed at Madison Square Garden in New York City on 5 August  [ Read More ]

Three armed men, one of them a priest, are out hunting in the woods. The prey they are after is under their very feet: a man, unshaven and sordid, who sleeps in an underground dug-out of his own making. Borgman has just woken up when his attackers stick a spear into the ground that narrowly  [ Read More ]

  Premiered at the Director's Fortnight at Cannes, “Blue Ruin” is the new movie by american filmmaker Jeremy Saulnier ('Murder Party'). It is the story of a man who finds his life ruined by bad news and deciding to set off for his home when he was a child, to carry his total revenge. The  [ Read More ]

Third Person is the upcoming movie by Award winner Paul Haggis, starring superstars Mila Kunis, James Franco, Liam Neeson, Adrien Brody, Olivia Wilde and Kim Basinger. It follows three inter connected love stories of three couples in three cities, looking from the beginning to the middle era step to the end of a relationship. In  [ Read More ]

Lars Ulrich has presented at the Cannes FF 2013 the upcoming docu-film about Metallica's world, “Metallica Through the Never“. We met him at the beach in Cannes for a short interview about his life in music. “Sex and drugs and rock'n'roll? Oh, you know, I've become too old for all of them. Yes for sex  [ Read More ]

Great World has to be saved! Here's the aim of Rob Stewart's work as a videomaker, here at Cannes FF 2013 to spread the absolutely amazing documentary Revolution, already presented and winner at Toronto FF and Vancouver FF, and produced by Gus Van Sant. REVOLUTION is a film about changing the world, going for it,  [ Read More ]

Jia Zhang-Ke presents a picture of contemporary China, through four interrelated portraits: four individuals from four different corners of China, confronted with the country's growing inequalities and new aspirations for democracy and freedom.     A miner who is exasperated by corruption, a man who is forced to migrate to another region to find work,  [ Read More ]

  Lee Tamahori (Wellington, 1950) is the famous director from New Zeeland who Started his carreer as a filmmaker with Once Were Warriors (1994), to jump into thriller with Mulholland Falls (1996), just before his success The Edge (1997) and Die Another Day (2002), the twentieth James Bond movie with Pierce Brosnan. After directing too  [ Read More ]

INteRVIew wIthFRANçoIs ozoN What was the catalyst forYOUNG & BEAUTIFUL? Directing Ernst Umhauer and Bastien Ughetto for INTHE HOUSEwas such a pleasure I wanted to work with young actors again. Myearly shorts and features explored adolescence, but from UNDERTHE SAND on, I’ve worked essentially with older actors. SoYOUNG & BEAUTIFUL started with my desire to  [ Read More ]

  Estela is a 12 year old girl who has just fallen crazy in love with a young policecadet who wants to run away with her and get married. Trying to achieve thisdream, her family will have to live the violence that is devastating the region. INTERVIEW WITH AMAT ESCALANTE HELI is your third movie  [ Read More ]

CANNES FF 2913 OUT OF COMPETITION The Great Gatsby Twelve years after Romeo+Juliet, based on Shakespeare’s tragedy, Baz Lurhmann set out to adapt the famous novel by Francis Scott Fitzgerald in an attempt to reveal its unspoken side. Three film versions of The Great Gatsby have been made since the novel, considered a major work  [ Read More ]

    Acclaimed Danish film director Thomas Vinterberg is the winner of the 2013 European Union Prix MEDIA. The prize is awarded to the best new film project with box-office potential eligible for support from the EU MEDIA programme for cinema. The award will be presented to Vinterberg by Androulla Vassiliou, European Commissioner for Education,  [ Read More ]

American director William Friedkin will receive the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the 70 Venice International Film Festival (28 August – 7 September 2013). The decision was made by the Board of Directors of the Biennale chaired by Paolo Baratta, upon recommendation of the Director of the Venice Film Festival Alberto Barbera. In presenting  [ Read More ]

Cannes FF 2013, may 15th – 25th       IN COMPETITION Opening Film Baz LUHRMANN THE GREAT GATSBY (H.C.) 1h45 *** Valeria BRUNI-TEDESCHI UN CHÂTEAU EN ITALIE 1h44 Ethan COEN, Joel COEN INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS 1h45 Arnaud DESPALLIÈRES MICHAEL KOHLHAAS 2h05 Arnaud DESPLECHIN JIMMY P. (PSYCHOTHERAPY OF A PLAINS INDIAN) 2h Amat ESCALANTE HELI  [ Read More ]

While the Official Selection of feature films for the 66th Festival de Cannes will be revealed on Thursday 18th April, the list of Short Films is unveiled in advance. The Cinéfondation and Short Films Jury, presided by Jane Campion, will nominate the prize-winners for the Short Film Competition and the Cinéfondation Selection. THE SHORT FILMS  [ Read More ]

DOCUMENTA MADRID presents the first titles of the Official Selection. The Oscar nominated documentary “The Gatekeepers”, the best European documentary “Winter Nomads”, the winner of Panorama Berlin “The Act of Killing” and the sequel to the famous hit “The Staircase” directed by the Oscar-winning Jean-Xavier de Lestrade, shall take us in a fantastic voyage from  [ Read More ]

By Chiara Spagnoli Gabardi   The year 2012 has set a record for French film in Italy, that hadn’t been as high ever since the 80s. This newly achieved peak, is probably due to the craftsmanship approach adopted by the French cinéastes who manage to create “auteur” movies that are popular and emphatically enthralling. This  [ Read More ]

FROM CANNES FF 2013 website: http://www.festival-cannes.fr It is on The Great Gatsby by Australian director Baz Luhrmann, that the curtain will rise at the inauguration of the 66th Festival de Cannes, on Wednesday 15th May, in the Grand Théâtre Lumière of the Palais des Festivals, out of Competition in the Official Selection. Adapted from the  [ Read More ]

By Chiara Spagnoli Gabardi “Fee-fi-fo-fum, I smell the blood of an Englishman, Be he live, or be he dead I'll grind his bones to make my bread.” Is the historical and most popular quatrain chanted by children who are fond of the British fairytale ‘Jack and the Beanstalk. Bryan Singer’s movie is mainly inspired by  [ Read More ]

by Chiara Spagnoli Gabardi The author of the ‘Twilight’ franchise, Stephanie Meyer has written the novel ‘The Host,’ adapted on screen by the film-maker from New-Zealand Andrew Niccol. The sci-fi thiller romance reveals a future in which Earth has been occupied by a parasitic alien species that overtakes the human race by controlling their bodies and  [ Read More ]

Oz the Great and Powerful the review by Chiara Spagnoli Are you prepared to discover how it all began before Dorothy was thrust by a whirlwind Somewhere Over the Rainbow? Disney’s fantastical adventure ‘Oz The Great and Powerful,’ directed by Sam Raimi, imagines the origins of L. Frank Baum’s beloved wizard character. When Oscar Diggs  [ Read More ]

Here we are with the annual Academy Awards Winners article. Are you ready? List of the 85th annual Academy Award winners announced Sunday in Los Angeles: 1. Best Picture: “Argo.” 2. Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis, “Lincoln.” 3. Actress: Jennifer Lawrence, “Silver Linings Playbook.” 4. Supporting Actor: Christoph Waltz, “Django Unchained.” 5. Supporting Actress: Anne Hathaway, “Les  [ Read More ]

PRIZES OF THE INTERNATIONAL JURYGOLDEN BEAR for the Best Film Poziţia CopiluluiChild's Pose by Călin Peter Netzer JURY GRAND PRIX (Silver Bear) Epizoda u životu berača željeza An Episode in the Life of an Iron Pickerby Danis Tanović ALFRED BAUER PRIZE (Silver Bear) – in memory of the Festival Founder –for a feature film that  [ Read More ]

    Since 1986 the Berlin International Film Festival has presented the Berlinale Camera to film personalities or institutions to which it feels particularly indebted and wishes to express its thanks.   At the 63rd Berlin International Film Festival, US filmmaker Richard Linklater was honoured with a surprise Berlinale Camera.   Richard Linklater is a  [ Read More ]

Berlinale Residency 2012 filmmakers   Tuesday, February 12   The Berlinale Residency programme supports writer/directors from around the world, who have already enjoyed their first festival and cinema successes, in developing their new fiction, documentary film or cross-media projects. The first Berlinale Residency took place from September – December 2012. The selected filmmakers stayed in  [ Read More ]

STATE 194 PANORAMA DOKUMENTE at the Berlin FF 2013 SYNOPSIS: If you build the foundations of peace . . . will it come? This fascinating question lies at the heart of STATE 194, a vital and revealing look deep inside Israel and Palestine at the men and women trying to seize an historic opportunity to  [ Read More ]

The Berlin International Film Festival is celebrating its opening tomorrow, on February 7, 2013 at 7.30 pm. After a few words of greeting from Minister of State for Cultural and Media Affairs Bernd Neumann and Governing Mayor of Berlin Klaus Wowereit, the Festival will be officially opened by Jury President Wong Kar Wai (Hong Kong,  [ Read More ]

Berlinale 2013: International Jury With WONG Kar Wai serving as Jury President, the International Jury will decide who will receive the Golden Bear and Silver Bears of the 2013 Berlinale Competition. The other members of the International Jury will be Susanne Bier, Andreas Dresen, Ellen Kuras, Shirin Neshat, Tim Robbins and Athina Rachel Tsangari. Chinese  [ Read More ]

Film producers who are looking for exciting literary material for the screen should be in their element at “Books at Berlinale” on February 12, 2013. Ten novels that might make good movies will be presented at this year’s “Books at Berlinale” within the scope of the Berlinale Co-Production Market. At the breakfast following the pitch,  [ Read More ]

Quartet the movie review by Chiara Spagnoli We are accustomed to seeing Mr Dustin Hoffman in front of the camera ever since he played the young Benjamin Braddock seduced by the sensuous Anne Bancroft-Mrs Robinson in ‘The Graduate’. Today at age 75, Hoffman has decided to step behind the camera for his directorial debut in  [ Read More ]

Warm Bodies by Chiara Spagnoli In the past few years we’ve been sucked up in the realm of vampire love stories: pathos, blood, pretentiousness, all elements that produced the audience’s exasperation. This time the Transylvanians get substituted by a funny new twist on a classic love story between dead and alive, between cold bodies and  [ Read More ]

                  “Hip Hop Hassid” by Francesca Pagani by Chiara Spagnoli Shneur Hasofer has chosen DeScribe as nome de plume. He’s a very unique artist as he’s probably the only known rapper to be Jewish. The Hasidic performer lives in Brooklyn, combining his music with his spiritual call,  [ Read More ]

    ROME FILM FESTIVAL FESTIVAL INTERNAZIONALE DEL FILM DI ROMA   Friday January 4th Lifetime Achievement Award to Quentin Tarantino and Django Unchained gala screening   The 7th Rome Film Festival (Festival Internazionale del Film di Roma) will confer its Lifetime Achievement Award to Quentin Tarantino. The American director, screenwriter, actor, and producer, winner  [ Read More ]

            The silver screen is accustomed to telling the stories of the rock bands who make it, but director David Case has decided to take a different angle with his poignant, vibrant and sardonic ‘Not Fade Away’. The story seems to draw inspiration from the director’s life, since just as  [ Read More ]

          Ever dreamt of meeting in real life a superhero like Superman or Batman? Well you now stand a chance thanks to the young and talented director Sheldon Candis who has spotted out the the contemporary masked heroes who patrol the streets of America as activists, fighting against violent crime. “The  [ Read More ]

LOTUS EATERS by Chiara Spagnoli from NY Once upon a time there was a contemporary Alice in Wonderland who got plunged in London’s West End of wealthy spoilt kids, engaged in procrastination, sex, drugs and ennui. “Lotus Eaters” sets Alexandra McGuinness’ debut as a director through, an incredibly alluring movie, which has had a great  [ Read More ]

THE PRIZES AWARDED TO THE FILMS IN COMPETITION The International Jury, chaired by Jeff Nichols and composed of Timur Bekmambetov, Valentina Cervi, Edgardo Cozarinsky, Chris Fujiwara, Leila Hatami and P.J.Hogan, has conferred the following awards: – Golden Marc’Aurelio for Best Film: Marfa Girl by Larry Clark – Best Director Award: Paolo Franchi for E la  [ Read More ]

Brasil meets Rome Film Festival. Presented n the last day of the italian cinema kermesse, Mundo Invisivel is a collection of 11 short movies directed by Wim Wenders, Atom Egoyan, Beto Brant e Cisco Vasquez, Gian Vittorio Baldi, Jerzy Stuhr, Manoel De Oliveira, Marco Bechis, Maria De Medeiros, Guy Baddin, Lais Bodanzky. With productin by  [ Read More ]

Presented at the end of the Rome Film Festival 2012, in MAXXXI competition, “Tar” is a movie adapted by James Franco and the students in the class he teaches at New York University, as a compilation of ten short films each directed by a student, based on a book of poems titled Tar by Pulitzer  [ Read More ]

  Based on writer & musician Willy Vlautin first novel (dated 2005), The Motel Life is an intense and dramatic movie directed by Alan Polsky and Gabriel Polsky, starring Emile Hirsch, Stephen Dorff and Dakota Fanning. Full of emotion, realism and centered on the sad story of two brothers, inspired on writing on Charles Bukowski’s books  [ Read More ]

The Band de Jotas is the new movie by Director, artist, illustrator Majane Satrapi, like a variant delusional about the exchange of suitcases in an airport. Nils and Didier arrive in the south of Spain to participate in a badminton tournament. And a strange woman is manipulative settle accounts with the local underworld. When they  [ Read More ]

“A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III“, by Roman Coppola, is the story about Charles Swan III (Charlie Sheen) has it all. He’s an eccentric and highly successful graphic designer whose fame, money and devilish charm have provided him with a seemingly perfect life. But when his true love, a perplexing beauty named  [ Read More ]

Silvio Berlusconi rose from cruise ship entertainer to become a successful entrepreneur, and then Prime Minister of Italy. Suddenly, when he was just a hair’s breadth away from attaining the highest and most sought-after office in Italy, the Quirinale, his ascent came to an abrupt halt. “SB I Knew Him Well” is a documentary that explores the  [ Read More ]

  Director: Walter Hill Writers: Alessandro Camon, Alexis Nolent, Walter Hill Actors: Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Beau Brasseaux, Christian Slater, Dominique DuVernay, Don Tai, Holt McCallany, Jason Momoa, Jon Seda, Jordan Sudduth, Marcus Lyle Brown, Michelle Torres, Sarah Shahi, Sung Kang, Sylvester Stallone, Weronika Rosati Presented at the Rome Film Festival 2012 out of competition, Walter Hill’s  [ Read More ]

        Epic and magical adventure about the story of Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy, the Sandman, and Jack Frost, legendary characters with previously unknown extraordinary abilities. When an evil spirit known as Pitch lays down the gauntlet to take over the world, the immortal Guardians must join forces to protect  [ Read More ]

A supernatural love story set in the South, “Beautiful Creatures” tells the tale of two star-crossed lovers: Ethan (Alden Ehrenreich), a young man longing to escape his small town, and Lena (Alice Englert), a mysterious new girl. Together, they uncover dark secrets about their respective families, their history and their town. Oscar nominee Richard LaGravenese  [ Read More ]

Based on R.L. Stevenson’s short-novel “The Ebb-tide“, and surounded by the noir athmosphere, “Waves” is the first movie by Corrado Sassi, and tells the story of three men sailing  from Italy to the Eastern Mediterranean. A sailorman and two suspected  men with a specific reason to escape from their own country. The cast (Director Corrado  [ Read More ]

  “Le Guetteur is like a French version of my Crime Novel“. Italian Director Michele Placido told us about his upcoming movie, 'Le Guetteur', presented at the Rome Film Festival 2012 out of competition. An extremely strong spy story about killers, bandits and policemen, in Paris, with co-production by Rai Cinema, RTBF, Canal+, Cine+ and  [ Read More ]