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Berlin
International Film Festival
February 7 - 18, 2001
With 16 world
premieres, the main competition program of the 51st Berlin International Film
Festival is complete. Twenty-four feature films and 11 short films will compete
for the prestigious Golden and Silver Bears, awarded by a jury of nine members
chaired by the American producer Bill Mechanic. With
the increasing number of co-production or international distribution deals,
the legal nationality...
Artisan Entertainment plans to go ahead with another Blair Witch movie
despite the recent sequel's lackluster performance. Fueled by the success of
the original Blair Witch Project, Artisan announced it would release
a sequel in late 2000 and the prequel by fall of 2001. The studio now hopes
to get the third installment in theaters by 2002. Book
of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 grossed just $26 million domestically, less
than a fifth of the business the first movie did. ...
Hollywood producer James Hill has died of Alzheimer's disease at the age of
84. Producer of such films as 1954's Vera Cruz starring Burt Lancaster, Hill
went on to produce several legendary films during the 1950s and 1960s. He was
married once, to Rita Hayworth in 1958. ...
Unable to find the ideal actress to play the role of Harry Potter's schoolmate
in the upcoming film based on the children's books phenomenon, director Chris
Colombus has decided to sign on his own daughter. The 11-year-old will play
alongside Daniel Radcliffe, in the role of Harry. The rest of the cast includes
Alan Rickman, Ian Hart, John Cleese and Richard Harris. Producers are counting
on a summer 2001 US release. ...
With 16 world premieres, the main competition program of the 51st Berlin International
Film Festival is complete (complete
list). Twenty-four feature films and 11 short films will compete for the
prestigious Golden and Silver Bears, awarded by a jury of nine members chaired
by the American producer Bill Mechanic. Asia is represented with 5 films, 4
from the US in competition and 2 more out of competition, and a large number
of European features: France (3), Italy (2), Ger...
It is New Year's Eve of the new Millenium. Victor (19) and Momo (24) are drunk and penniless in Paris when they are mistaken for homeless people and carted off to the local shelter. There they meet the long-haired, slovenly and almost catatonic Blaise. He has an array of diseases, the most serious being gangrene. Victor -- who has never encountered such misery -- is in shock. But in the depths of such suffering, a miraculous thing happens: the barriers fall and the simplest bond becomes a testam...
The Cannes Film
Festival announced Tuesday that American actress and double Oscar-winner Jodie
Foster will head the jury at the 2001 film festival, which runs from May 9 -
20. The decision has sparked speculation that festival president Gilles Jacob
is trying to please Hollywood. After all, Cannes is notorious for its anti-Hollywood,
anti-Blockbuster attitude. ``We didn't choose Jodie to please America, but the
whole world. She is a very intelligent woman and we are confi...
John Malkovich is set to star as a gangster in And Now Ladies and Gentlemen
for director Claude Lelouch. Currently on the big screen in the US in Shadow
of the Vampire, the actor will play alongside French performer Patricia
Kaas as his barroom singer girlfriend. Shooting is slated to begin March 26. ...
James Bond hero Roger Moore walked away unscathed from a car crash in Sweden Saturday.
Accompanied by his Swedish girlfriend Christina Tholstrup, the 73-year-old actor
was being driven to a television appearance near Gothenburg when the accident
occurred. Though he complained about pain in the ribs, Moore refused to cancel
the television engagement. ...
Writer Arthur Miller will be making his first big-screen appearance in an adaptation
of his short story "Homely Girl, a Life," for director Amos Gitai. Called Plain
Jane, the $9 million, English-language picture will star Oscar-nominated actress
Samantha Morton. The Pulitzer Prize-winning dramatist will play a Jewish immigrant
whose daughter is struggling with her ideals and emotions. Shooting is already
underway in New York. ...
William Friedkin's
director's cut of The Exorcist will open the Fantastic'Art Festival held
in Gerardmer, France from January 24 - 28. Among the other avant-premieres are
the first film by French actor Antoine de Caunes (Les Morsures de l'Aube)
and the new film from George Romero (Bruiser - closing film) - known for the
cult film The Night of the Living Dead. The competition selection is
featuring Sam Raimi's The Gift with Cate Blanchett, Keanu Reaves and
Hilary Swank...
Golden Trailer
Awards
January
14 (NY)
The Golden
Trailer Awards is the one film awards show where it really doesn't matter
if you've seen the film. As the title suggests, the competition to honor
for the best trailer. The Golden Trailer Awards showcase the best of the
best in movie trailers from Hollywood, the Independent Arena and around
the world. Winners were announced at the Show on January 14, 2001 at the...
Sarasota
International Film Festival
January 10 - 14 (Florida)
Sarasota,
Florida is a jewel of a city nestled on the aqua blue waters of the Gulf
Coast on the western side of Florida. The city has had a reputation for
the last fifty years as a cultural mecca, a town of less than half a million
that has its own permanent opera, theater, musical and film institutions.
The arts are thriving in Sarasota. A combination of ol...
The Director's
View Independent
Feb 9 - 12
(South Salem, NY)
Held in South
Salem, New York, the Director's View Independent is a competition featuring
new films by new directors. Festival Founder Robert Kesten says: "Our
goal with the Directors View Film Festival is to ensure a fulfilling,
entertaining and educational experience to both industry professionals
and the general public."
The festival
...
Nodance Film
and Multimedia Festival
January 20- 26, 2001 (Park City)
The irreverent,
independent Nodance Film & Multimedia Festival is proud to announce its program
line up, including an unprecedented number of world premieres. The event, held
at 333 Main Street in Park City, Utah from January 20th through January 26th,
2001 presents features, shorts, documentaries, and music videos in a celebration
of the vibrant alternative digital film culture.
COMPETITI...
Slamdunk Film Festival
January 20 - 24
Seven features and 23 shorts have been selected for the the 4th Slamdunk Film
Festival, kicking off in Park City, UT on Saturday January 20th. The festival
will run for four full days, and will include filmmaker discussions, industry
panels, and special presentations and seminars by Macromedia and Level 13. Founded
in 1998, Slamdunk began as an alternative showcase to the Sundance fest. In the
three years since its inception, Slamdunk has quic...
It
is the darker aspect of the psyche that you appear to be interested in.
Why?
Isn’t that all there is?
I think it’s probably the more interesting aspect, but I don’t think that’s all there is.
I just think there’s more unhappy people on the planet than there is happy people. To feel good about yourself and feel good about your world, you have to go through a lot of darkness. Just look at the planet: it’s a pretty ...
After the great success of Darren Aronofsky's
$60,000 debut feature, Pi 2 years ago no one really had any
clue where this 28 year old Brooklyn born director would head next. Perhaps
unsurprisingly though, he turned to another unflinching, original if admittedly
more established Brooklyn storyteller as a source for material. After
tremendous critical and festival acclaim, Requiem
For a Dream (starring the superb Ellen Burstyn) joins that...
When the Sundance Film Festival begins on January 18, the quaint ski resort
of Park City, Utah will again be inundated by hordes of Hollywood insiders,
New York indie moguls and thousands of filmmaker wannabes. Like a biblical plague
of show biz locusts, they will crowd the streets, the restaurants, the bars
with their black-on-black ensembles, their chirping cel phones, their portable
DVD players and a nervous energy whose force could threaten avalanches on the
surroundi...
Independent
Spirit Awards
March 24 (Santa Monica, CA)
Three noise-making
films top the list of nominations for this year's Independent Spirit Awards
to be held March 24, one day before the Oscars. Chuck
& Buck, Requiem
for a Dream and You
Can Count on Me have each been nominated in five categories. Sponsored
by the nonprofit organization Independent Feature Project/West, the Spirit Awards
celebrate films with provocative subject matter and vision. The ceremony...
He was born of
Renaissance art historian Detlev Freiherr von Hadeln and a renowned sculptor
and painter. He has freelanced as a photographer, worked with Ernest Artaria
and Yves Allégret, and made several documentaries (Le Pelé
and Ombres et Mirages). But for the past 22 years, Moritz de Hadeln has
been the director of the Berlin International Film Festival, a position he took
over from its now deceased founder Alfred Bauer. If you think that festival
director is a ...
Before he turned to film directing, Jeremy Stein worked in the Theater area, in Lighting Design.
Regionally, Jeremy designed The Glass Menagerie at Baltimore’s Center Stage, Arms and the Man at the Dallas Theater Center, and America Play at the Yale Repertory Theater and Joseph Papp New York Public Theater (for which he received an American Theater Wing Award Nomination for Design). Some of his credits as an associate include: Snow on the Mesa danced by Martha Graham Dance Company, direct...
The Photographer has just started its festival circuit. It premiered in the Los Angeles Independent Film Festival in the USA, in April 2000. It then went to Taos Talking Pictures, (USA) where it won the Grand Prize Finalist.
It was then screened in the following festivals:
* Camerimage – Film festival of the art of Cinematography 2000 in Poland
*and Saint Louis International Film Festival 2000 in the USA.
It has already been selected to the following coming film festivals...
Andrew is a graduate of California Institute of the Arts and the University of Southern California’s School of Cinema-Television.
He founded the New Mexico Repertory Theatre, a regional professional theatre based in Santa Fe and Albuquerque. During his tenure as artistic director, the New Mexico Rep became the largest and most successful theatre in the history of the state.
While in New Mexico, Andrew directed Children of a Lesser God, Cloud 9, Talley’s Folly, The Rainmaker, Tw...
