Bertrand Mandico's The Wild Boys (2017), which is receiving an exclusive global online premiere on Mubi, is showing September 14 – October 14, 2018 as a Special Discovery.French director Bertrand Mandico shared with us the films he thought about before, during, and after making his feature debut, The Wild Boys:ISLANDSThe Saga of AnatahanMatango: Attack of the Mushroom People: The island and its fauna and flora, the mushroom-men, the sinking. A sublime film.Lord Jim: The tempest sequence in the opening and the cowardice of Lord Jim—an amazing film.A High Wind in Jamaica: For the confusion of the captain played by Antony Quinn, the phlegm of James Coburn and the beauty of his young crew.The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea (Lewis John Carlino, 1976): For the erotic figure of the Captain (Kris Kristofferson) and its clique of violent boys.Remorques: A romantic and captivating film with sequences...
- 9/13/2018
- MUBI
Films from former socialist bloc countries swept the awards at the 26th Panorama of European Cinema Festival in Athens.
Alexandra Strelyanaya’s The Sea, a Russian production by Alexey Uchitel, received the best film award.
The film is a sentimental drama with social and environmental overtones set in the Russian Kola peninsula on the North Sea coast.
Class Enemy by Slovenian Rok Bicek, in which students and teachers clash at a high school, received the Fipresci award.
Withering by Milos Pusic, a Serbian-Swedish-Swiss co-production about a young villager’s efforts to escape poverty by emigrating to Switzerland, received the audience award.
A career award was presented to local director Yorgos Tsemberopoulos, back from the UK where his latest The Enemy Within played at the London Film Festival.
Other career awards went to veteran art director Anastasia Arseni and celebrated theatre and film actor Minas Hatzissavas.
The festival, steered by artistic director Ninos Fenek Mikelides, featured more than...
Alexandra Strelyanaya’s The Sea, a Russian production by Alexey Uchitel, received the best film award.
The film is a sentimental drama with social and environmental overtones set in the Russian Kola peninsula on the North Sea coast.
Class Enemy by Slovenian Rok Bicek, in which students and teachers clash at a high school, received the Fipresci award.
Withering by Milos Pusic, a Serbian-Swedish-Swiss co-production about a young villager’s efforts to escape poverty by emigrating to Switzerland, received the audience award.
A career award was presented to local director Yorgos Tsemberopoulos, back from the UK where his latest The Enemy Within played at the London Film Festival.
Other career awards went to veteran art director Anastasia Arseni and celebrated theatre and film actor Minas Hatzissavas.
The festival, steered by artistic director Ninos Fenek Mikelides, featured more than...
- 11/28/2013
- by alexisgrivas@yahoo.com (Alexis Grivas)
- ScreenDaily
A fictional date to see a 1950s Greek movie might yet restore the reputation of film-maker Nikos Koundouros and his dark, satirical masterpiece, O Drakos
Recently I became what almost felt like the last person in the English-speaking world to read Jonathan Franzen's latest novel Freedom originally published last summer and now out in paperback. This terrifically ambitious saga stretches forwards and backwards from the central, fraught relationship of Walter Berglund and Patty Emerson, a liberal couple who first meet at college in the late 1970s. From this starting point, Franzen manages to create a colossal picture of 21st-century America: its history, its popular art, its corporate culture, its homeland insecurity and its endangered natural world.
Now, there can hardly be anything left to say about Jonathan Franzen and his place in literary history. But I think it might be possible to note the way he could be changing the course of film history.
Recently I became what almost felt like the last person in the English-speaking world to read Jonathan Franzen's latest novel Freedom originally published last summer and now out in paperback. This terrifically ambitious saga stretches forwards and backwards from the central, fraught relationship of Walter Berglund and Patty Emerson, a liberal couple who first meet at college in the late 1970s. From this starting point, Franzen manages to create a colossal picture of 21st-century America: its history, its popular art, its corporate culture, its homeland insecurity and its endangered natural world.
Now, there can hardly be anything left to say about Jonathan Franzen and his place in literary history. But I think it might be possible to note the way he could be changing the course of film history.
- 10/12/2011
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
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