Beyond the Ocean premiered at the Sundance Film Festival 2000 in the Dramatic Competition. In this competition it was nominated for Grand Jury Award.
Afterwards, it went through many international film festivals such as:
* Munich Film Festival , Germany, 2000, European Premiere
* Karlovy Vary Film Festival ,Czech Republic, 2000
* Moscow Film Festival , Russia, 2000
* Sao Paolo Film Festival , Brazil, 2000
* Milano Film Festival , Italy, 2000
* Mannheim Film Festival , ...
In this dark and dangerous Film Noir-meets-German Expressionism directorial debut from veteran visual effects man Les Bernstien, paunchy ex-con Joe Butcher (John Voldstad – “The Newhart Show”) heads South of the Border, tumbling head first into the boiling vat of corruption that supports Tijuana’s thriving snuff film industry. Through a booze-induced haze, Butcher encounters a Mexican spitfire, a grizzled drunk, a villainous dwarf and an obese sexpot, as he frantically retraces his brot...
Les Bernstien schooled and worked in graphic design and photography in New York City until moving to Los Angeles to pursue a career as a Visual Effects Director of Photography on such varied works as The Hollow Man , Stuart Little , Fight Club , Small Soldiers , City of Angels , The Game , Dante’s Peak , Contact , Batman Forever , Ghostbusters I and II , along with many other films and commercials.
In television, Les has won an Emmy for Star Trek: The Next Generation , as well a...
In March 1999, Night Train began its film festival journey. To date, 87% of all screenings have been on an invitation basis (Official Selections).
Following is a list of all Film Festival screenings, beginning with the most recent first:
*Invited to the Exground Filmfest 2000 in Germany, where they used a still from Nigh Train to design the festival poster
*Invited to the Stockholm International Film Festival 2000 in Sweden
*Invited to the MIFF Milano International Film Festival 2000 i...
Jean-Jacques
Annaud's Enemy at the Gates will open the Berlin Film Festival on February
7, 2001 in a world premiere screening. By selecting this film, shot exclusively
in Germany and for the most part at Babelsberg Studios, the Berlinale would
like to call attention to Germany as a centre for film and media production.
Festival Director Mortiz de Hadeln explained, "Although we know that everyone
is against war, we cannot ignore the gruesome events of the past. With th...
The Film Critics Circle of Australia has announced its nominees for this year's
awards. Chopper
and The
Dish led the annual awards nominations with nine nominations each, including
best film and director. The foreign film nominations in the English-language category
are: American
Beauty, Ride
With The Devil, The
Sixth Sense and Three
Kings. The films nominated for Best Foreign (non-lanuage film) went to
Crouching
Tiger, Hidden Dragon, All
About My Mother, The
Widow Of S...
Lars von Trier’s Dancer
In The Dark led the way for the Danish Oscar nominations, with ten,
incuding Best Film, Best Actress (Bjork), and Best Supporting Actress (Shobka
Fallon). The award ceremony takes place on February 4 in Copenhagen. ...
One of Hollywood's most talked-about star couples, Kim Basinger and Alec Baldwin,
have filed for divorce after seven years of marriage. A publicist announced the
couple were citing irreconcilable differences as the reason for the break-up.
The Oscar-winning actress and actor were married in 1993 after meeting on the
set of The Marrying Man in 1991. Baldwin, 42, is apparently staying at
the couple's New York residence, while Basinger, 47, is living in Los Angeles
with the couple's fiv...
With worldwide praise for his Crouching
Tiger, Hidden Dragon as background noise, Ang Lee has signed on to direct
the film of the Marvel comic book character the Hulk for Universal Pictures. In
the works for some time now, the project is expected to have a long preproduction
period for special effects and a 2003 release. ...
The much awaited US release of O, a modern version of Othello, has been
pushed back once again for concerns over the film's violence. Although the release
was originally set for fall 1999, people at Dimension Films are now talking about
a spring 2001 release date. The producers apparently esteem that a graphic rape
and murder scene is too acute a reminder of the real-life violence that took place
in Colorado in 1999. ...
Robert De Niro will soon be added to the ever-growing list of Hollywood actors
to grace the London stage. The actor has apparently agreed to star in "Art",
the phenomenally successful play by French playwright Yasmina Reza. The story
centers on three men's friendship after one of them purchases a highly minimalist
painting. De Niro has reportedly bought an apartment in London's Docklands neighborhood,
which is beginning to be known as Little Hollywood. ...
The stars are heading
to Sundance ... and we don't mean the celestial ones. The Los Angeles Times
reported today that the Park City festival is expecting an all-star guest list,
including Julia Roberts, Elizabeth Hurley, Mick Jagger, Patrick Swayze, and
Forest Whitaker. Roberts will be in town to support her niece, whose short film
was accepted into the festival. In case you've been stuck in a snowstorm, Sundance
kicks off January 18 and runs through January 28. More than...
The Academy of Motion
Picture Arts and Sciences announced today the seven films being considered for
the Sound Editing Oscar at the 73rd Academy Awards. They are: Cast
Away, Gladiator,
Mission Impossible
II, The Perfect Storm, Space
Cowboys, U-571, and Unbreakable.
Ten-minute clip reels from each film will be screened for the Sound Editing Award
Nominating Committee on February 6th. The members may nominate up to three of
the seven films for Oscar consideration, recommend a sin...
Cannes may have snubbed Italy for the Official competition, but Berlin sure isn't repeating the gesture. The International Film Festival, which kicks off next month, will
screen two Italian films in competition, out of a total field of nine Italian
pics. Malena from Miramax starring Monica Bellucci and and Ferzan Ozpetek's
drama Ignorant Fairies (Fate Ignoranti) are the two official competition
films. Other Italian films on the program include Francesco Dal Bosco's Commesso
...
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 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 quickly established itself as...
French actress Jeanne Moreau on Wednesday became the first woman to be inducted
into France's prestigious Academie des Beaux Arts. The ceremony was studded with
stars such as academy member Roman Polanski, actress Fanny Ardant, and fashion
designers Sonia Rykiel and Pierre Cardin. At 72, Moreau has enjoyed a career in
cinema and theater spanning 50 years and some 100 films, including Louis Malle's
classic Ascenseur pour l'échafaud.
...
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 will
be hosted by John
Waters. ...
Oscar-winning director John Schlesinger has been hospitalized in California following
a stroke. Acclaimed for his 1970 film Midnight Cowboy, starring Dustan
Hoffman and Jon Voight, the 74-year-old British filmmaker is said to be in stable
condition. His illness will cause him to miss the upcoming Palm
Springs Film Festival, which has scheduled screenings of his films as part
of a tribute to him....
Actor Jon Voight has signed on to play the late Howard Cosell in Ali, which
began shooting this week. Directed by Michael Mann, the Columbia Pictures biopic
stars Will Smith in the title role. A controversial figure in American sports
broadcasting, Cosell, who died in 1995, was one of the first to publicly acknowledge
boxer Casius Clay's Muslim name....
Usually sequels
are the domain of big Hollywood studios, but it seems as if Russia is following
suit. After having had a taste of big-budgeted productions with The
Barber of Siberia, Nikita Milkhalkov intends to embark on the sequel
of Burnt by the Sun (winner of the Jury Grand Prize at Cannes 1994),
according to the Russian television station RTR. The heroine of the sequel,
a nurse taking care of the wounded on a battlefield during W.W.II, will be played
by Nadia, th...
Why bother covering film festivals, anyway? What's the big deal about
Cannes? How does Cannes compare with Berlin, Sundance, Venice, Deauville,
Chicago, Toronto, et al? See what Ruda Dauphin (Deauville), Robert Altman
(Venice, Deauville, Chicago), Piers Handling (Cannes, Toronto), Maria de
Medeiros (Cannes), Lloyd Kaufman (Cannes), Karyn Kusama (Sundance, Cannes,
Deauville), Bob Swaim (Chicago), Ben Younger (Deauville), Christopher Nolan
(Rotterdam, Venice, Deauville), Raymond de Fellita...
Fresh-faced pop star Britney Spears will make her feature acting debut in a coming-of-age
film for director Tamra Davis. Spears' own record company, Jive, will co-finance
and produce the $10 million project. The script centers on a teenage threesome
that sings its way across the country. Shooting is slated for March of this year.
...
John Cusack has signed up for double duty on the film Cosmic Banditos.
Last seen on the screen in High
Fidelity, Cusack will star in and produce the feature, about the misadventures
of some Colombian marijuana smugglers. The story is based on a soon-to-be-republished
novel by A.C. Weisbecker. ...
The 51st Berlin film festival will open on February 7 with the world premiere
of Enemy at the Gates, a German-American co-production about the pivotal
World War II battle of Stalingrad. Starring Jude Law, Joseph Fiennes and Ed Harris,
the English-language feature was directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud. It is said to
be one of the most expensive films ever made in Germany. ...
Sources in Hollywood say that Kurt Russell has been offered $5 million to play
opposite Sharon Stone in Basic Instinct 2. Just a few days ago, word had
it the film was to be dropped from the MGM roster due to complications in finding
a male match for Stone, who is reportedly receiving $15 million to get back into
the role of icepick-wielding novelist Catherine Trammel. ...
