44th Telluride Film Festival Announces Guest Director Joshua Oppenheimer
Telluride Film Festival, presented by National Film Preserve LTD., is proud to announce its 2017 Guest Director, Joshua Oppenheimer. The award-winning documentarian is set to select a series of films...
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Erwin Provoost named next CEO of Flanders Audiovisual Fund (VAF)
Erwin Provoost is to become the next CEO of the Flanders Audiovisual Fund (VAF), it was announced today by the organisation's Board. Provoost will succeed Pierre Drouot, who was appointed CEO in...
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Fantasia Film Festival 2017 Jury Members
CHEVAL NOIR JURYJury President Richard StanleyRichard Stanley is a filmmaker, trained anthropologist, ordained priest and lifelong student of the dark arts. As a writer and freelance journalist he has...
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Ken Loach and Małgorzata Szumowska Act As Patrons of young filmmakers...
At the 52nd Karlovy Vary International Film Festival the European Film Academy (EFA) has launched a campaign to invite young filmmakers to become voting members of the EFA. „We want to encourage our...
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Grossmann Jury announced
Juries VICIOUS CATKRISTIJAN MILIĆ Director from Zagreb, Croatia. In 2008 his debut feature The Living and the Dead won the Vicious Cat award, while his second film opened the 11th edition of...
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Malcolm McDowell of A CLOCKWORK ORANGE at Famous Monsters Halloween Bash!
Legendary British actor Malcolm McDowell has been announced for the Famous Monsters Halloween Bash! Perhaps most well known for his starring roles in the super-edgy films A CLOCKWORK ORANGE and...
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Olivier Assayas, Yousry Nasrallah and Sabine Azéma will be the jury...
Assayas, Nasrallah, Azéma The President of the International Competition jury will be French film critic, screenwriter and director Olivier Assayas, who already made his mark at the Festival in 2014...
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Adrien Brody to receive 2017 Leopard Club Award
The 70th Locarno Festival will pay tribute to Academy Award-winning actor Adrien Brody. The American star will receive the 2017 Leopard Club Award in Piazza Grande on 4 August. In bestowing the...
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Amy Landecker will join Jim Parsons and Claire Danes in the drama A Kid Like...
AMY LANDECKER JOINS JIM PARSONS and CLAIRE DANES IN A KID LIKE JAKEThat’s Wonderful Productions announced today that Amy Landecker will join Jim Parsons and Claire Danes in the drama A Kid Like Jake....
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DARKEST HOUR Has Gary Oldman as Churchill Looking Like an Awards Contender
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles CorrespondentNothing like a rousing World War II “never surrender” movie to lift the spirits from current political events; thus comes DARKEST HOUR, set for release...
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Rob Stewart's motivations for Revolution
MAKE A DONATION IN MEMORY OF ROB STEWARTRob Stewart accomplished so much in his life, but there’s still more to do. To honour Rob’s memory, the Stewart family is collecting donations through...
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RIP George A. Romero, father of the zombie apocalypse
"It is with great sadness that Famous Monsters acknowledges the death of a horror great: George A. Romero, father of the zombie apocalypse, visionary filmmaker and master of social commentary. The...
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Pardo d’onore Manor for Jean-Marie Straub
Pardo d’onore Manor for Jean-Marie Straub Born in France in 1933, with a career that stretches back over sixty years and that plowed a distinct furrow across the field of 20th century cinema. The Pardo...
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Locarno Talks la Mobiliare: the visionary power of words
Locarno Talks What happens when people try to shape the future? This is the underlying question for the concept behind Locarno Talks, a new platform for discussion and exchange set up by the...
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Actor Martin Landau dies
Martin Landau (June 20, 1928 – July 15, 2017) was an American film and television actor. His career began in the 1950s, with early film appearances including a supporting role in Alfred Hitchcock's...
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Leslie Zemeckis: On Making Emojis From Her Film, Plus A Lady & A Tiger
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles CorrespondentIt’s fitting that Leslie Zemeckis is in Italy when we decide to do an interview, because the word burlesque is derived from Italian roots in “burla,”...
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Iconic horror film-maker, of the Living Dead fame, Romero dies at 77
Iconic horror film-maker, of the Living Dead fame, Romero dies at 77Often called the father or progenitor of the modern zombie movie, American film director George A. Romero has died of lung cancer, in...
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Actor Martin Landau, Oscar-winner at 66, dies, aged 89
Actor Martin Landau, Oscar-winner at 66, dies, aged 89Martin Landau, who landed his first and only Oscar in 1994, at age 66, playing Bela Lugosi in the Ed Wood biopic, has died, aged 89. He is also...
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Pardo d’onore Manor for Todd Haynes
On Monday 7th August the Festival will pay homage to U.S. director, screenwriter and producer Todd Haynes. His latest film Wonderstruck will be screened in company with Poison, one of the featured...
View ArticleCarlos Muguiro will be the director of the new Film School promoted by the...
He designed the teaching curriculum of the Film School of the Community of Madrid (ECAM), and currently he is the head of the specialty Documentary Cinema in the same school. He has an accredited...
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