Speedball The
Movie, written, directed and produced by Drago Lazetich, has become the
#1 top most requested trailer to watch (from over 1000 entries) on Reelplay.com.
What is unique
is that this independent project was the only movie named on the Top 10 list
which is in development. All the rest were either already on the big screen
or completed.
The film has tremendous potential for distribution since Paintball is a popular
sport in more than 60 countries, an...
In a move that recalled their city's film festival, the Toronto Film Critics gave
the top nod to Ang Lee's Crouching
Tiger, Hidden Dragon. The film also won the top prize, the Audience Award
at this year's Toronto International Film Festival. The runner-up film was Steven
Soderbergh's Traffic, while the best Canadian film award went to Gary Burns's
waydowntown. ...
The entries to the Nordic competition section at the Göteborg Film Festival
(January 26 - February 4) have been decided. The films compete for a number
of prizes, including the Göteborgs-Posten's Nordic Competition Award, in co-operation
with Göteborg Film Festival (SEK 100.000 and the statuette "The Film Fox"),
for the best film; the Kodak Nordic Vision Award (SEK 50.000) for best photography;
and the Canal+ Nordic Script Prize (SEK 50.000) for the best screenplay. The
...
American director Steven Spielberg will be knighted on behalf of Britain's Queen
Elizabeth II to honor all that he has done for the UK's film industry. The ceremony
will take place January 29 at the British Embassy in Washington, DC. His knighthood
will be an honorary one only, because this honor is typically reserved for British
citizens only. ...
Twenty-one year old actress Kate Hudson, the star of Almost Famous, was
married December 31 to Chris Robinson, the 34 year-old lead singer of the Black
Crowes. Their wedding (the first for each) took place in Aspen, Colorado. Hudson's
mother, Goldie Hawn, and her longtime partner Kurt Russell were among the 70 guests
in attendance at the wedding. Hudson will next be seen in the war drama Four
Feathers, which also stars Wes Bentley and Heath Ledger. ...
Israeli filmmaker Amos Gitai and legendary American playwright (and screenwriter)
Arthur Miller working together to adapt Miller’s story, Homely Girl for
the big screen, reported Screendaily. The story is originally set in
New York, but Gitai and Miller have moved the setting to Israel in the 30s.
The story follows a woman who tries to resolve her conflicts with her father,
a Jewish immigrant, played by Miller. The film version will be called Plain
Jane....
Danish director
Thomas Vinterberg has chosen the female lead for his upcoming foray into English-language
filmmaking. American actress Claire Danes (Little Women) will star in
his fantastical romance, It’s All About Love as a world famous
ice skater who tries deperately to save her relationship. Shooting is set to
begin in April and will take place in studios in Denmark and in Sweden. ...
On the occasion of its 30th edition and in the context of Rotterdam 2001, Cultural
Capital of Europe, the International Film Festival Rotterdam (Wednesday, January
24th - Sunday, February 4th 2001) will present On the Waterfront, the first
of several special programmes to be announced. On the Waterfront is a thematic
programme building upon the inspiration of Rotterdam as one of the great ports
of the world. By selecting Roy Andersson for Filmmakers in Focus, the Filmfestival...
San Diego Film Critics Society Chooses Best of 2000 Almost
Famous, the loosely autobiographical story of former teenage Rolling
Stone journalist Cameron Crowe, was chosen December 20 as the best film
of 2000 by the San Diego Film Critics Society. The critics also chose Crowe
as best director, and his own screenplay for the film as best screenplay of
the year. The society, comprising newspaper, television, magazine, radio and
Internet critics working in San Diego County, c...
The Hollywood premiere of a three-hour Hindi-language musical comedy marks what
may be the beginning of a new era in Indian film. Though the Bombay-based movie
industry cranks out hundreds of films each year, Raju Chacha is the first Indian
film marketed directly toward affluent Indian expatriates in the US. The Internet
boom has brought some 100,000 Indian engineers to the States in the last three
years alone, bringing the community's population to around 1.5 million. ...
After (short) studies I've worked in a TV channel and learnt the video editing.
And I've made teaching video with my Kung Fu instructor 5 Tapes of 60 Min actually.
I then bought my editing video station and I started making some stuffs about
kungfu : The Bite his eye series was born. In association with
some friends we created a Radio /TV on web (www.krashtest.org) about numeric
creation : Graphism, video, music, everything that could be "reworked"
on computers. This e...
Ben (22) and Chris (19) Blaine have been working together
for roughly 19 years, largely on projects involving lego. However in recent
years their joint interests have turned more toward film. They started Charlie
Productions Ltd in 1997 with money won cheating at poker in school and set about
making short films with no film education save a couple of decent paperbacks.
Look
at the filmpage
...
Laurent Bécue-Renard's remarkable documentary, Living Afterwards, follows
three Bosnian women who have lost their husbands in the massacres. No
explosions there, no gruesome dismemberments in front of the camera... but
the tears and confessions of Sedina, Jasmina and Senada are tantamount to
anything exposed during the conflict. Living Afterwards was awarded the
Planet Prize at the Marseille International Documentary Film Festival, was
screened at several others and is headed to Goteborg ...
For the first time in history, the international organization of critics (FIPRESCI)
will establish a jury at the Palm Springs International Film Festival. The jury
will focus on all films submitted to the foreign language Academy Award (and
presented by the festival) and will decide the International Critics' Prize
(FIPRESCI Prize) for the best non-English language film submitted to the Academy.
The jury members are: Derek Malcolm (UK, president), Gideon Bachmann (USA/Ger...
From bad boy to fest guest, the transformation has been spectacular for Johnny Waters, although the person is still as shocking as always. The King of Filth was a hot celebrity on the fest circuit this year. From Cannes to London to Fort Lauderdale, he dazzled audiences with his snappy sense of humor, candid answers to tough questions, and the most outrageous monologues....
"Film" doesn't mean what it used
to. While it may still be, in the words of Jean-Luc Godard, "truth
at 24 frames per second" audiences no longer need to pay $8
to see the truth. Movies can be digital, cost less to make than
a Ford Taurus (as we all learned from The Blair Witch), and
they can be screened on your very own computer. With this changing
technology, the film festival cir...
New
York in September. I was one of 50 invited guests who were brought
in to sample the new digital video projection technology developed
by Sony that, they say, will ultimately replace 35mm film as the standard
for viewing of "films".
I have
been one of the skeptics in this area, a stalwart defender of 35mm
optics as the highest standard of visual appreciation. Many of colleagues
have trump...
You
can't judge a book by its cover, but can you judge a festival by
its website? That's what we wondered when we set out to explore
the websites of the many festivals on the circuit. With more than
1,000 festivals in our festival directory, we examined a selection
of 100 fest websites in hopes of sorting out what options festivals
make available to their global visitors.
Of
...
More
than a dozen Iranian filmmakers captured top prizes at major
international film festivals in 2000. This should not come
as a big surprise; the post-revolutionary Iranian cinema has
been a festival favorite for more than a decade now, and its
dominance shows no sign of abating. Indeed, the more favorable
production climate following President Khatami's 1997 elec...
One
of India's prominent filmmakers, Buddhadeb Dasgupta was named Best
Director at the Indian National Awards this year "for his skillful
weaving of different strands of life through metaphors, symbols
and folk icons in Uttara."
His
films have gained increased festival exposure over the years, landing
several audience prizes (at Fribourg and Nantes for example), a
nota...
Stephen
Daldry's debut, Billy
Elliot, was a highlight of Edinburgh, not least because of
its upbeat yet honest narrative and a startling performance from Jamie
Bell. Having wowed Cannes, Edinburgh and Toronto, the film is already
being eyed-up for next year's BAFTA (British Academy Awards) and Oscar
spots. Asked
to name the two bright lights of British theater, many would say Sam
Mende...
Jia Zhang Ke's
three-hour film Platform
was
screened at the Venice International Film Festival and was the recent
winner at the Festival
des Trois Continents in Nantes, France. Jia
Zhang Ke is no stranger to the
festival however, having already won its top prize, the Montgolfier
d'Or two years earlier for Pickpocket. Robin Gatto caught up
with Jia Zhang Ke and cinematogra...
"Some people say 'It's a road movie.' I say, it's a movie
on the road."
Don't
Cry Germaine is turning up a winning film on both sides
of the Atlantic, winning the People's Choice Award
at Flanders
and Mannheim,
as well as Best Actor at Ft
Lauderdale. For Belgian director Alain de Halleux, this is
his feature debut and these prizes confirm ...
Roy
Disney, nephew of Walt, and Chairman of Disney's feature animation,
has worked for the 'Mouse House' for over thirty years. Responsible for
everything from Toy Story to The Lion King, Roy is an unashamed lover
of comedy and escapist family entertainment. While in Belfast to open
Cinemagic, and in his only interview for online media, Roy talked with
us about IMAX and the future of Fantasia, the problems with Dinosaur,
the s...
After a few
screenings of Amores Perros in the Critics' Week section at Cannes,
director Alejandro González Iñárritu went from being an obscure director
to an overbooked and highly-sought one. FilmFestivals.com reporter Christophe
Pinol managed to catch up with Iñárritu at Cannes, back when the buzz
was just beginning.
Since then,
this now-famous Mexican director has won the Critics Week, the Grand Prize
at Edinbu...
