Sarasota
International Film Festival
January 10 - 14, 2001
The Sarasota Film Festival 2001 is set to kickoff on January 10,
2001 in Sarasota, Florida for five days of morning-to-night programs
celebrating the vision, excitement and spirit of one the world's
greatest art forms -- the motion picture.
Presented by Regal Cinemas, the fest is a non-competitive...
International Film Festival Mannheim - Heidelberg
November 9 - 18 (Germany)
In
The Ultimate Film Festival Guide author Adam Langer describes
Mannheim "as willing to take risks on unknown or little-known
films." Known for screening newcomer directors, the festival
will once again celebrate the spirit of discovery, screening 78
films from 48 countries including ...
Black
Nights Film Festival
December 3 - 10 (Estonia)
"Black night is falling, the sun is going down," sings Björk in
Lars von Trier's musical Dancer
in the Dark. It would have been difficult to find a more
appropriate film for the opening night of the 4th Black Nights Film
Festival.
Drawing
the largest crowds and winning the Audience Award...
International Film Festival Mannheim - Heidelberg
November 9 - 18 (Germany)
For
the many first or second time directors present - 17 of the 20 filmmakers
in competition, this ten-day event drew high marks for its quality
film programming and atmosphere conducive to exchanges between each
other. To such a point that Alain de Halleux, director of Don't
Cry Germaine which won...
Academy
Awards
March 25 (Los Angeles)
A
record 46 countries have submitted films to the Academy of Motion
Picture Arts and Sciences for Academy Award consideration as Best
Foreign Language Film of 2000, announced Academy President Robert
Rehme announced today. Each country is invited to submit its best
film of the year to the Academy. Selection of those e...
National
Board of Review of Motion Pictures
December 6, 2000
The
National Board of Review of Motion Pictures named Philip Kaufman's
Quills the top film of 2000. Starring Geoffrey Rush and Kate
Winslet, the film is a story about the life of the Marquis de Sade.
The award for best foreign film went to Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger
Hidden Dragon (out in US theatre...
Golden Horse Awards
December 2
The
37th Golden Horse Film Award was held on Dec 2 in Taiwan, and the
media was mad for the brilliant presence of all the Chinese cinema
vips who appeared in couples such as Maggie Cheung Man-yuk and Tony
Leung Chiu-wai (In
the Mood for Love), Sammi Cheng Sau-man and Andy Law de-war
(Needing you), and the Bond girl Michelle Yeong Zi-King (Cro...
Thessaloniki International Film Festival
November 10 - 19 (Greece)
With daily temperatures of 26-27 degrees
C and nightly festivities fuelled by the generous flowing of sponsors'
highly drinkable products, Thessaloniki's 's 41st International
Film Festival proved a lively fin de saison event thay not only
showcased a strong selection of features from other festivals bu...
Festival of Young East European Cinema
November 1 - 5 (Cottbus,
Germany)
The
10th jubilee edition of the only festival devoted to new East European
cinema got off to a fiery start with folk musicians and fire-eaters
adding a characteristically quirky note to the opening event.
Eight
juries gave out awards totalling 45,000 DMs ...
New
Yorkers Vote for Traffic
After
five hours of deliberation, the 35 members of the New York Film
Critics Circle have announced their award winners for the year 2000.
The group, the oldest of its kind in the United States, has been
around since 1935. Steven
Soderbergh's Traffic, about the international drug trade,
was named best picture and Soderbergh w...
Flanders Int'l Film Festival
Ghent (Belgium), October 10 -21, 2000
In what is becoming a worldwide trend, Alejandro Gonzales
Inarritu's Amores
Perros (Love's A Bitch) grabbed the Grand Prize at
yet another festival -- the 27th Flanders International Film Festival
in Ghent. The Mexican director personally claimed the award at an
intimate ceremony held in the Festival Vill...
Stockholm
International Film Festival
November 9 - 19 (Sweden)
The highlight of the 11th Stockholm
International Film Festival was the Lifetime Achievement award given
to Lauren Bacall: "for her memorable portrayal of timeless female
beauty and refinedelegance." Six films she selected were shown in
a Bacall retrospective, and her film noir stills were the festival
...
The Hollywood
Foreign Press Association today announced its nominees for the 58th annual Golden
Globes, the ceremony considered the harbinger of Oscar glory. Traffic
by Steven Soderbergh and Gladiator by Ridley Scott led the list with
five nods each. The films nominated for Best Motion Picture are Billy Elliot,
Erin Brockovich, Gladiator, Sunshine, Traffic, and
Wonder Boys. Julia Roberts was nominated for Best Actress in a Drama
for her role in Erin Brockovich. Others...
Academy Vice
President Sid Ganis will chair the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences'
post-awards dinner-dance, the Governors Ball, for the sixth straight year. The
dinner for winners, nominees, presenters and participants of the 73rd Academy
Awards Presentation will immediately follow the annual Awards telecast on Sunday,
March 25, 2001. Again joining Ganis is lyricist Alan Bergman, who has been appointed
vice-chair and will work closely with Ganis to create the l...
Bush supporters have taken out a full page ad in The Hollywood Reporter
this week, wishing Alec Baldwin a happy four years abroad and a "Bon Voyage
Mr. Baldwin." The message to the actor was sparked by a comment his wife Kim Basinger
made in the months prior to the US Presidential election. In an interview with a German magazine, Basinger reportedly said that her husband would "leave the country for four
years" if Bush were elected. ...
The ultra-violent, ultra-popular, and ultra-controversial Japanese film Battle
Royale will have its international premiere at the Film Festival Rotterdam in early
2001. The story follows two teenagers who are stranded on an island and forced
to kill each other until only one survives. When it was released, Japanese politicians called for it to be banned from theaters. Nevertheless, the film grossed $5.5 million opening weekend. ...
Following her success
with Crouching
Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Michelle Yeoh is now in talks for the Matrix
role that had originally been reserved for Jet Li. According to Variety,
the Matrix team is interested in the switch because Li's price is too high:
he wanted $13 million, and was talked down to $3 million -- still a hefty sum
considering that Keanu Reeves is already guaranteed $30 million to star in the
sequel. ...
Director of Billy Elliot, big winner on the festival circuit in 2000, talks
about family as the battleground, about the character played by Jamie Bell,
about setting the story during a miner's strike, about theatre vs movie
making.
...
A look at the making of Billy Elliot with comments by Stephen Daldry....
Background information on the miner's strike in 1984, the backdrop for the
film Billy Elliot....
After her collapse last week on the set of TV show "Ally McBeal,"
actress Calista Flockhart is said to be recovering in her home. The actress
was rushed to a hospital in Torrance, California where she was treated for dehydration
and exhaustion, and was put on a drip for a few hours....
Actor Edward James Olmos has been honored with a plaque on the Latino Walk of
Fame. The Walk of Fame is located on Whittier Boulevard, and features Cesar
Chavez and former Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Fernando Valenzuela. Olmos is
known to audiences for his starring role as a teacher in Stand and Deliver
(1987) and for his charity work throughout Los Angeles....
It may cost her $100,000, but Elizabeth Hurley is still in the Screen Actors
Guild after all. The actress was fined the six-figure sum for filming an ad
for Estee Lauder cosmetics during the six-month strike. She claimed to have
not known about the strike, and donated $25,000 shortly after her mistake. This
donation will be used toward her fine. Hurley has just renewed her contract
with Estee Lauder and was seen most recently in the film Bedazzled....
Steve Martin will host the 73rd Academy Awards. "If you can't win 'em, join
'em," said Martin, who has not yet been nominated for an Oscar. Although he
has made several appearances as a presenter at the Oscars, this will be his
first time as host. ...
Written and directed by Lone Scherfig, Italian for Beginners has been
been slated to be screened in competition at Berlin 2001, according to Screen
Daily. The film presents a comic look at singles that meet up in an Italian
evening course and has faired quite well after its recent domestic release.
Sherfig is no newcomer to Berlin, having won the Kinderfilmfest prize for On Our Own in 1999. ...
