Norway's first film noir Death Is A Caress will screen as part of the Edith Carlmar retrospective The Glasgow Film Festival has announced further programme details for this year's festival, which will run from March 2 to 13.
The festival, which will run in hybrid format, will screen a programme of African Stories - a collection of contemporary films celebrating the rich diversity of life in countries across the continent. The films range from Casablanca Beats, a joyous salute to the power of music to transform lives in Morocco and Khadar Ayderus Ahmed’s multi award-winning Djibouti-set The Gravedigger’s Wife, to documentaries including Once Upon A Time in Uganda, about one man’s mission to create an action movie industry in the country. Gff is working with Scotland’s Africa in Motion film festival on events around some key titles. This programme of films will combine to provide a taste of a vital and booming filmmaking continent.
The festival, which will run in hybrid format, will screen a programme of African Stories - a collection of contemporary films celebrating the rich diversity of life in countries across the continent. The films range from Casablanca Beats, a joyous salute to the power of music to transform lives in Morocco and Khadar Ayderus Ahmed’s multi award-winning Djibouti-set The Gravedigger’s Wife, to documentaries including Once Upon A Time in Uganda, about one man’s mission to create an action movie industry in the country. Gff is working with Scotland’s Africa in Motion film festival on events around some key titles. This programme of films will combine to provide a taste of a vital and booming filmmaking continent.
- 12/16/2021
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Edith Carlmar's The Wayward Girl (1960) is exclusively showing on Mubi starting December 16, 2020.Illustration by Ruth Gwily.Edith Carlmar’s The Wayward Girl, a 1959 tale of young lovers on the run, revealed one of cinema’s great stars to the world—Liv Ullmann. But it would also spell the end of Carlmar’s career in feature filmmaking. Norway’s prolific first woman director, Carlmar made ten features in the decade between 1949 and 1959, from comedies and social-issue dramas to what came to be considered the country’s first noir with her debut Death Is a Caress. Alongside her husband Otto, Carlmar would establish Carlmar Film A/S, producing movies that, not unlike her contemporary Ida Lupino, tackled sensational subject matter—abortion, unwed pregnancies, substance abuse, and juvenile delinquency—with warmth and empathy. Above all, Carlmar was a popular filmmaker: hardworking, mercenary, and with a good eye for the scandalous issues of...
- 12/21/2020
- MUBI
There’s an accepted story we tell ourselves about the history of the movies, which goes something like this: Technological inventions in the late 1800s lead to a new type of mass entertainment and a burgeoning art form in the early part of the 20th century. Though the epicenter and main exporter of moviemaking is earmarked by many to be Hollywood, USA, this “moving pictures” phenomenon spreads far and wide outside of America’s borders — not just in France (who’ve been making films since the very beginning and is...
- 9/1/2020
- by David Fear
- Rollingstone.com
New York’s Anthology Film Archives has announced the lineup for its ambitious Woman With a Movie Camera: Female Film Directors Before 1950,” which runs September 15 — 28. Among the spotlighted filmmakers are Gene Gauntier, Lois Weber and Alice Guy-Blaché, though many more will be featured during the two-week series as well. Full lineup below.
“The Girl Spy Before Vicksburg” (Sidney Olcott & Gene Gauntier)
“Further Adventures of the Girl Spy” (Sidney Olcott)
“The Colleen Bawn” (Sidney Olcott & Gene Gauntier)
“Broadway Love” (Ida May Park)
“The Adventures of Prince Achmed” (Lotte Reiniger)
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“The Rosary” and “Suspense” (Lois Weber & Phillips Smalley)
“Shoes” (Lois Weber)
“The Holy Night” (Elvira Notari)
“Humankind” (Elvira Giallanella)
“The Drunken Mattress” (Alice Guy-Blaché)
“The Strike” (Alice Guy-Blaché)
“The New Love and the Old” (Alice Guy-Blaché)
“The Roads That Lead Home” (Alice Guy-Blaché)
“The...
“The Girl Spy Before Vicksburg” (Sidney Olcott & Gene Gauntier)
“Further Adventures of the Girl Spy” (Sidney Olcott)
“The Colleen Bawn” (Sidney Olcott & Gene Gauntier)
“Broadway Love” (Ida May Park)
“The Adventures of Prince Achmed” (Lotte Reiniger)
Read More: The Rock Named World’s Highest-Paid Actor, Earning Nearly $20 Million More Than Highest-Paid Actress, Jennifer Lawrence
“The Rosary” and “Suspense” (Lois Weber & Phillips Smalley)
“Shoes” (Lois Weber)
“The Holy Night” (Elvira Notari)
“Humankind” (Elvira Giallanella)
“The Drunken Mattress” (Alice Guy-Blaché)
“The Strike” (Alice Guy-Blaché)
“The New Love and the Old” (Alice Guy-Blaché)
“The Roads That Lead Home” (Alice Guy-Blaché)
“The...
- 8/25/2016
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
I was a sceptic; I thought it could not be done. I did not believe that London could host such an important global event, let alone pull it off with such grandiose confidence. But now the Olympics are over and to be honest, I don’t want it to end. Particularly considering my last images may be that of Jessie J ruining Queen, or Liam Gallagher proving he needs Noel. But with Britain standing 3rd in the medal rankings, we can be proud of our athletes’ efforts. Whether it was handball, hockey or dressage, my eyes were opened to the magic of the Olympics and I’m sad to see them go. So why not cling on for a little bit longer and join me as I attempt to blur the realms of Film and the Summer Olympics.
If you haven’t read my previous parts, then please find them...
If you haven’t read my previous parts, then please find them...
- 8/31/2012
- by Dan Lewis
- Obsessed with Film
Melissa Anderson for Artforum: "After last year's glut of bumptious, high-profile nonfiction films — some of which were revealed to be hoaxes (Casey Affleck's I'm Still Here), possible hoaxes (Banksy's Exit Through the Gift Shop), or artless, witless pseudohoaxes (Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman's Catfish) — Clio Barnard's Brechtian documentary The Arbor stands out all the more for its seamless hybridization of fact and fiction. Barnard, an artist making her feature-length directorial debut, traces the troubled life and legacy of British playwright Andrea Dunbar (1961–1990), whose highly autobiographical work chronicled her grim existence on the Bradford, West Yorkshire, council estate where she grew up. (And which she never left: Dunbar died of a brain hemorrhage at age 29, shortly after collapsing at her local pub.) Though widely acclaimed for her three plays — her first, The Arbor, premiered in 1980 at London's Royal Court Theatre; her second, Rita, Sue and Bob Too, was made...
- 4/29/2011
- MUBI
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