The 20th edition of the festival includes competition titles ’71 and Blind.
The Athens International Film Festival (Sept 17-28) kicks off its 20th edition today with 241 titles selected by artistic director Orestis Andreadakis.
The festival will open with Damian Szifron’s hit Wild Tales, which has proved a critical hit since its world premiere in competition at Cannes, and will close with David Fincher’s Us crime drama Gone Girl, marking its European premiere.
This year’s international competition includes Yann Demange’s Berlinale title, ’71, and Eskil Vogt’s Blind, which has picked up awards in Berlin and Sundance among others.
‘71, Yann Demange (UK)10,000 km, Carlos Marques-Marcet (Spa)Blind, Eskil Vogt (Nor)The Canal, Ivan Kavanagh (Irel)Manos Sucias, Josef Wladyka (Us-Col)The Mend, John Magary (Us)Natural Sciences, Matías Lucchesi (Arg)Thou Wast Mild and Lovely, Josephine Decker (Us)The Way He Looks, Daniel Ribeiro (Bra)When Animals Dream, Jonas Alexander Arnby (De)
A five-member Youth Jury, comprised...
The Athens International Film Festival (Sept 17-28) kicks off its 20th edition today with 241 titles selected by artistic director Orestis Andreadakis.
The festival will open with Damian Szifron’s hit Wild Tales, which has proved a critical hit since its world premiere in competition at Cannes, and will close with David Fincher’s Us crime drama Gone Girl, marking its European premiere.
This year’s international competition includes Yann Demange’s Berlinale title, ’71, and Eskil Vogt’s Blind, which has picked up awards in Berlin and Sundance among others.
‘71, Yann Demange (UK)10,000 km, Carlos Marques-Marcet (Spa)Blind, Eskil Vogt (Nor)The Canal, Ivan Kavanagh (Irel)Manos Sucias, Josef Wladyka (Us-Col)The Mend, John Magary (Us)Natural Sciences, Matías Lucchesi (Arg)Thou Wast Mild and Lovely, Josephine Decker (Us)The Way He Looks, Daniel Ribeiro (Bra)When Animals Dream, Jonas Alexander Arnby (De)
A five-member Youth Jury, comprised...
- 9/17/2014
- by alexisgrivas@yahoo.com (Alexis Grivas)
- ScreenDaily
Sound + Vision Film Festival, a showcase of music documentaries from world over, celebrates its second outing at Fslc, here in NYC. This year's festival consists of eclectic mix of new films, retrospectives and musical performances and more. The lineup includes spotlights on subjects like a Japanese trance didgeridoo player, seminal atmospheric bands of the late 1980s and early 1990s, a Mexican acoustic duo who combine thrash metal and flamenco, and music created on 1980s video-game hardware.Opening night selection is Beautiful Noise, a documentary on the rise of the influential 'wall-of-sound' scene that started with Cocteau Twins, The Jesus and Mary Chain and My Bloody Valentine. The series concludes with Florian Habicht's Pulp, which follows iconic Brit band Pulp and the lead-up to their reunion...
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- 7/30/2014
- Screen Anarchy
One of the boons of the internet era is the easy accessibility of once obscure music by bands like the Cocteau Twins, the Jesus and Mary Chain and My Bloody Valentine. While these shoegaze bands may now appear as part of the upper tier of music festival lineups, in their heyday their music was only appreciated by a small passionate fanbase that, to paraphrase Brian Eno’s famous quote about the Velvet Underground, eventually formed bands after hearing the seminal albums. Now, a new documentary is arriving that will track the influence and legacy of the shoegaze movement, and its first trailer has appeared online. As Pitchfork reports, the Eric Green-helmed and Sarah Ogletree-produced “Beautiful Noise” began life as a successful Kickstarter campaign in 2012 and will finally screen in front of audiences next month. The doc will show how the aforementioned bands—and others, including Slowdive and Chapterhouse—“influenced generations of bands.
- 5/13/2014
- by Cain Rodriguez
- The Playlist
The largest film festival in the Us will screen 440 films and runs from May 15-June 8.
The One I Love is the closing night screening and Quincy Jones will receive a lifetime achievement award. Richard Linklater’s Boyhood is the centrepiece screening.
The festival will feature 44 world, 30 North American and 14 Us premieres. Twelve films will compete in each of the New Directors, New American Cinema and Documentary competition categories
“Film is more than entertainment,” said artistic director Carl Spence. “The life-changing nature of the collective experience of cinema and the stories moving pictures can tell are Siff’s inspinration and mission every year as we put together the festival.
“This year, Siff continues to be a festival of discovery, with more than 100 new directors making their debut. Richard Linklater was one of those filmmakers back in 1990 with the premiere of Slacker; it’s fitting to have him return for our anniversary with his masterwork Boyhood – unlike any other...
The One I Love is the closing night screening and Quincy Jones will receive a lifetime achievement award. Richard Linklater’s Boyhood is the centrepiece screening.
The festival will feature 44 world, 30 North American and 14 Us premieres. Twelve films will compete in each of the New Directors, New American Cinema and Documentary competition categories
“Film is more than entertainment,” said artistic director Carl Spence. “The life-changing nature of the collective experience of cinema and the stories moving pictures can tell are Siff’s inspinration and mission every year as we put together the festival.
“This year, Siff continues to be a festival of discovery, with more than 100 new directors making their debut. Richard Linklater was one of those filmmakers back in 1990 with the premiere of Slacker; it’s fitting to have him return for our anniversary with his masterwork Boyhood – unlike any other...
- 4/30/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
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