by Cláudio Alves
We live in a time when what was once conjecture is becoming a perilous reality, dreams of advanced tech crashing into the nightmare of actual artificial intelligence. Facing these newborn terrors of our digital age, the Criterion Channel looks back. Spanning fifty years of film history, a collection of 17 titles investigates how cineastes have approached the topic of AI, from decades when it was just narrative device or metaphor, to our present state of sci-fi as a direct response to concrete real-world anxieties.
This cinematic tasting menu of techno-cinema offers many gustative possibilities, though none more surprising than Lynn Hershman-Leeson's Teknolust. Criminally underseen upon its 2002/2003 release, the unorthodox comedy posits a scenario where Tilda Swinton plays four roles, mad scientist Rosetta Stone and her three cybernetic creations cum clones – Ruby, Marinne, and Olive…...
We live in a time when what was once conjecture is becoming a perilous reality, dreams of advanced tech crashing into the nightmare of actual artificial intelligence. Facing these newborn terrors of our digital age, the Criterion Channel looks back. Spanning fifty years of film history, a collection of 17 titles investigates how cineastes have approached the topic of AI, from decades when it was just narrative device or metaphor, to our present state of sci-fi as a direct response to concrete real-world anxieties.
This cinematic tasting menu of techno-cinema offers many gustative possibilities, though none more surprising than Lynn Hershman-Leeson's Teknolust. Criminally underseen upon its 2002/2003 release, the unorthodox comedy posits a scenario where Tilda Swinton plays four roles, mad scientist Rosetta Stone and her three cybernetic creations cum clones – Ruby, Marinne, and Olive…...
- 7/10/2023
- by Cláudio Alves
- FilmExperience
Mubi has announced its lineup of streaming offerings for next month and amongst the highlights are a Ricky D’Ambrose double bill, including his new film The Cathedral, as well as a trio of films by Maurice Pialat, Gaspar Noé’s Vortex, David Osit’s Mayor, Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master, an expansion of their Tilda Swinton series, and more.
Also including films by Tsai Ming-liang, Sky Hopinka, Nacho Vigalondo, Anton Corbijn, and more check out the lineup below and get 30 days free here.
September 1 – Classical Period, directed by Ted Fendt | Ted Fendt Focus
September 2 – 2 Days in New York, directed by Julie Delpy
September 3 – Timecrimes, directed by Nacho Vigalondo
September 4 – Małni – Towards the Ocean, Towards the Shore, directed by Sky Hopinka
September 6 – Mayor, directed by David Osit
September 7 – Friendship’s Death, directed by Peter Wollen | The One and Only: Tilda Swinton
September 8 – Hideous, directed by Yann Gonzalez | Brief Encounters
September 9 – The Cathedral,...
Also including films by Tsai Ming-liang, Sky Hopinka, Nacho Vigalondo, Anton Corbijn, and more check out the lineup below and get 30 days free here.
September 1 – Classical Period, directed by Ted Fendt | Ted Fendt Focus
September 2 – 2 Days in New York, directed by Julie Delpy
September 3 – Timecrimes, directed by Nacho Vigalondo
September 4 – Małni – Towards the Ocean, Towards the Shore, directed by Sky Hopinka
September 6 – Mayor, directed by David Osit
September 7 – Friendship’s Death, directed by Peter Wollen | The One and Only: Tilda Swinton
September 8 – Hideous, directed by Yann Gonzalez | Brief Encounters
September 9 – The Cathedral,...
- 8/29/2022
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Next month’s lineup at The Criterion Channel has been unveiled, featuring no shortage of excellent offerings. Leading the pack is a massive, 20-film retrospective dedicated to John Huston, featuring a mix of greatest and lesser-appreciated works, including Fat City, The Dead, Wise Blood, The Man Who Would Be King, and Key Largo. (The Treasure of the Sierra Madre will join the series on October 1.)
Also in the lineup is series on the works of Budd Boetticher (specifically his Randolph Scott-starring Ranown westerns), Ephraim Asili, Josephine Baker, Nikos Papatakis, Jean Harlow, Lee Isaac Chung (pre-Minari), Mani Kaul, and Michelle Parkerson.
The sparkling new restoration of La Piscine will also debut, along with Amores perros, Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s To the Ends of the Earth, Cate Shortland’s Lore, both Oxhide films, Moonstruck, and much more.
See the full list of August titles below and more on The Criterion Channel.
Abigail Harm,...
Also in the lineup is series on the works of Budd Boetticher (specifically his Randolph Scott-starring Ranown westerns), Ephraim Asili, Josephine Baker, Nikos Papatakis, Jean Harlow, Lee Isaac Chung (pre-Minari), Mani Kaul, and Michelle Parkerson.
The sparkling new restoration of La Piscine will also debut, along with Amores perros, Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s To the Ends of the Earth, Cate Shortland’s Lore, both Oxhide films, Moonstruck, and much more.
See the full list of August titles below and more on The Criterion Channel.
Abigail Harm,...
- 7/26/2021
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Keep up with the always-hopping film festival world with our weekly Film Festival Roundup column. Check out last week’s Roundup right here.
Lineup Announcements
– The Sarasota Film Festival has announced its full lineup, including its Narrative Feature Competition, Independent Visions Competition, Documentary Feature Competition, World and Us Cinema Narrative, World and Us Cinema Documentary, Spotlight, and Short Films. The festival also announced its three Sff Focus Panels–Lgbtq Community; Environment, Science, & Sustainability; and Sports In Cinema – along with its Closing Night Awards. The 19th annual Sarasota Film Festival will take place from March 31 – April 9. You can find out more information at their official site.
“Film has an integral role in helping us analyze social and political issues in our society that demand attention, thought and dialogue” said Mark Famiglio, President of the Sarasota Film Festival. “Our program is designed to use the art of cinema as a catalyst for important conversations,...
Lineup Announcements
– The Sarasota Film Festival has announced its full lineup, including its Narrative Feature Competition, Independent Visions Competition, Documentary Feature Competition, World and Us Cinema Narrative, World and Us Cinema Documentary, Spotlight, and Short Films. The festival also announced its three Sff Focus Panels–Lgbtq Community; Environment, Science, & Sustainability; and Sports In Cinema – along with its Closing Night Awards. The 19th annual Sarasota Film Festival will take place from March 31 – April 9. You can find out more information at their official site.
“Film has an integral role in helping us analyze social and political issues in our society that demand attention, thought and dialogue” said Mark Famiglio, President of the Sarasota Film Festival. “Our program is designed to use the art of cinema as a catalyst for important conversations,...
- 3/17/2017
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
We've gathered in one entry links to interviews with Alejandro Jodorowsky, Peter Bogdanovich, Jean-Claude Carrière, Claire Denis, Gaspar Noé, Roy Andersson, Catherine Breillat, Isaach de Bankolé, Hu Jie, Jason Segel, Samantha Fuller, Joshua Safdie and Ben Safdie and their Heaven Knows What star, Arielle Holmes, Bill Plympton, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Caveh Zahedi, Desiree Akhavan, Judd Apatow, Hiromasa Yonebayashi, Bob Byington, André Gregory and Wallace Shawn and the team behind Results, Andrew Bujalski, Guy Pearce and Kevin Corrigan. » - David Hudson...
- 6/3/2015
- Fandor: Keyframe
We've gathered in one entry links to interviews with Alejandro Jodorowsky, Peter Bogdanovich, Jean-Claude Carrière, Claire Denis, Gaspar Noé, Roy Andersson, Catherine Breillat, Isaach de Bankolé, Hu Jie, Jason Segel, Samantha Fuller, Joshua Safdie and Ben Safdie and their Heaven Knows What star, Arielle Holmes, Bill Plympton, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Caveh Zahedi, Desiree Akhavan, Judd Apatow, Hiromasa Yonebayashi, Bob Byington, André Gregory and Wallace Shawn and the team behind Results, Andrew Bujalski, Guy Pearce and Kevin Corrigan. » - David Hudson...
- 6/3/2015
- Keyframe
For our roundup of current goings on, we begin in New York, where you can see Ginger Rogers, Katharine Hepburn, Eve Arden and Lucille Ball in Gregory La Cava’s Stage Door (1937), surveys of the careers of John Carpenter, Lynn Hershman Leeson and John Boorman, a car company promo by Nagisa Oshima, Jim Jarmusch riffing on Man Ray and documentaries by Wang Bing and Lav Diaz at MoMA. Plus: Billy Wilder in Berkeley, Lewis Klahr in San Francisco, James Benning in Hamburg, Noël Burch in Brussels and more. » - David Hudson...
- 2/16/2015
- Fandor: Keyframe
For our roundup of current goings on, we begin in New York, where you can see Ginger Rogers, Katharine Hepburn, Eve Arden and Lucille Ball in Gregory La Cava’s Stage Door (1937), surveys of the careers of John Carpenter, Lynn Hershman Leeson and John Boorman, a car company promo by Nagisa Oshima, Jim Jarmusch riffing on Man Ray and documentaries by Wang Bing and Lav Diaz at MoMA. Plus: Billy Wilder in Berkeley, Lewis Klahr in San Francisco, James Benning in Hamburg, Noël Burch in Brussels and more. » - David Hudson...
- 2/16/2015
- Keyframe
The recipient of the 2014 St. Louis International Film Festival’s Women in Film Award is producer Katie Mustard.
Mustard has two feature films screening at Sliff – Growing Up And Other Lies and I Believe In Unicorns.
She joins previous Women in Film Award winners Yvonne Welbon, Barbara Hammer, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Marsha Hunt, Ry Russo-Young, Pamela Yates, Ricki Stern and Annie Sundberg, and Nina Davenport.
Directors Darren Grodsky & Danny Jacobs Growing Up And Other Lies stars Adam Brody (The O.C.), Josh Lawson (House of Lies), Wyatt Cenac (The Daily Show), Amber Tamblyn (Two and a Half Men). After living for years as a struggling artist in New York City, Jake is calling it quits and returning home to Ohio. On his last day in the city, he persuades his three oldest friends to help him retrace their greatest adventure together: a walk down the entire length of Manhattan. The film shows Sat.
Mustard has two feature films screening at Sliff – Growing Up And Other Lies and I Believe In Unicorns.
She joins previous Women in Film Award winners Yvonne Welbon, Barbara Hammer, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Marsha Hunt, Ry Russo-Young, Pamela Yates, Ricki Stern and Annie Sundberg, and Nina Davenport.
Directors Darren Grodsky & Danny Jacobs Growing Up And Other Lies stars Adam Brody (The O.C.), Josh Lawson (House of Lies), Wyatt Cenac (The Daily Show), Amber Tamblyn (Two and a Half Men). After living for years as a struggling artist in New York City, Jake is calling it quits and returning home to Ohio. On his last day in the city, he persuades his three oldest friends to help him retrace their greatest adventure together: a walk down the entire length of Manhattan. The film shows Sat.
- 11/18/2014
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Short-listed projects included On Screen Off Screen and How To Kill Uffie.
Interactive documentary The Flickering Flame, exploring Ken Loach’s 50-year career, has won the Arte International Prize at the Pixel Market.
The website, app and film is being overseen by Ken Loach’s long-time producer Rebecca O’Brien at Sixteen Films in collaboration with Paris-based digital production house Upian.
As previously reported by ScreenDaily, the production will explore Loach’s career through the battles he and his team faced to make his films.
The filmmaker’s son Jim Loach, whose own credits include Oranges and Sunshine and episodes of TV series such as Shameless and Dci Banks, is directing the central, interview-led documentary.
The Flickering Flame was among eight projects in the running for the Arte prize, all of which were pitched at the Pixel Market Finance Forum on Wednesday (Oct 8) and then discussed in one-to-one meetings in the Pixel Market the following day.[p...
Interactive documentary The Flickering Flame, exploring Ken Loach’s 50-year career, has won the Arte International Prize at the Pixel Market.
The website, app and film is being overseen by Ken Loach’s long-time producer Rebecca O’Brien at Sixteen Films in collaboration with Paris-based digital production house Upian.
As previously reported by ScreenDaily, the production will explore Loach’s career through the battles he and his team faced to make his films.
The filmmaker’s son Jim Loach, whose own credits include Oranges and Sunshine and episodes of TV series such as Shameless and Dci Banks, is directing the central, interview-led documentary.
The Flickering Flame was among eight projects in the running for the Arte prize, all of which were pitched at the Pixel Market Finance Forum on Wednesday (Oct 8) and then discussed in one-to-one meetings in the Pixel Market the following day.[p...
- 10/10/2014
- ScreenDaily
Power to the Pixel event to include a major Nordic delegation.Scroll down for full list of projects
Power to the Pixel (PttP) has announced the 32 cross-media projects from across Europe, the Us, Canada, the Middle East, Australia and South America selected to participate in The Pixel Market (Oct 8-9).
The two-day finance and co-production market is run as part of 8th Power to the Pixel: The Cross-Media Forum (Oct 7-10), held in association with the 58th BFI London Film Festival (Oct 8-19).
From the 32 teams, PttP has selected the top eight to compete for the Arte International Prize for The Pixel Market, a €6,000 ($7,800) award sponsored by the French/German broadcaster.
The producers and creators will present to a panel of international commissioning executives, financiers and experts who will use these projects as a backdrop to discuss successful finance strategies, sustainable business models and the companies actively investing in new media.
The winning team will be...
Power to the Pixel (PttP) has announced the 32 cross-media projects from across Europe, the Us, Canada, the Middle East, Australia and South America selected to participate in The Pixel Market (Oct 8-9).
The two-day finance and co-production market is run as part of 8th Power to the Pixel: The Cross-Media Forum (Oct 7-10), held in association with the 58th BFI London Film Festival (Oct 8-19).
From the 32 teams, PttP has selected the top eight to compete for the Arte International Prize for The Pixel Market, a €6,000 ($7,800) award sponsored by the French/German broadcaster.
The producers and creators will present to a panel of international commissioning executives, financiers and experts who will use these projects as a backdrop to discuss successful finance strategies, sustainable business models and the companies actively investing in new media.
The winning team will be...
- 9/17/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Sundance Institute today announced that the organization is deepening its commitment to its New Frontier program for artists innovating the art and form of storytelling, including the appointment of Shari Frilot and Kamal Sinclair as Co-Directors of the program.
New Frontier at Sundance Institute is a cross-programmatic initiative created to identify and foster independent artists working at the convergence of film, art, media, live performance, music and technology. Since 2007, the New Frontier exhibition at the Sundance Film Festival has provided the highest level of curation in the field, incorporating fiction, non-fiction and hybrid storytelling to showcase multi-media installations, performances and films. Sundance Institute established the New Frontier Story Lab in 2011 to deepen its support of storytellers pioneering new ways of working across various media and engaging with technology and in 2014 began the New Frontier Flash Lab and Artist Residency programs.
Highlights of work shown at the Festival include the first large-scale public exhibition of Oculus Rift Vr technology, the world premiere of Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s hitRECord, Nfb/interactive’s "Bear 71", and the U.S. premiere of "The Source (evolving)" by renowned artist Doug Aitken, as well as works by Isaac Julien, Pierre Huyghe, Aaron Koblin, Jennifer Steinkamp, Lynn Hershman Leeson, and Matthew Barney. Among the artists supported at the New Frontier Story Lab are Chris Milk, Hank Willis Thomas, Gary Baseman, Roger Ross Williams, The Goggles and Yung Jake.
Robert Redford, President & Founder of Sundance Institute, said, “Artists continue to challenge us to immerse ourselves in new ways of experiencing stories. The Sundance Institute New Frontier program was created to discover, support and showcase those artists working at the forefront of this exciting new area.”
Keri Putnam, Executive Director of Sundance Institute, said, “New Frontier provides a unique and rich platform of support to artists who harness new technologies to develop interactive and immersive projects. Kamal and Shari will be instrumental in designing and implementing the future of our New Frontier program, allowing us to continue to evolve along with this dynamic field of storytelling.”
As Co-Directors, New Frontier, Frilot and Sinclair will collaborate on activities including cultivating and building relationships with artists and technologists, researching trends, and leading strategic planning and growth for the program.
Frilot will continue to curate New Frontier exhibition activities. A filmmaker, curator and festival programmer for events including Mix International Festivals and La’s Outfest, she is presently in her 15 th year as a Senior Programmer for the Sundance Film Festival. Frilot has been a pioneer in the development of immersive cinematic environments and the creative force behind New Frontier since its inception. She is an alumna of Harvard/Radcliffe University, and the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program.
Sinclair will oversee the annual New Frontier Story Lab, Flash Labs and Artist Residencies. She is a transmedia producer, theatrical director, community arts leader and multi-disciplinary artist. She served as artist and producer on the "Question Bridge: Black Males" collaborative transmedia art project and worked at 42 Entertainment on projects such as "Legends of Alcatraz" and "Random Acts of Fusion." She graduated with her Bfa from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and her Mba from Georgia State University’s Robinson College of Business.
Sundance Institute
Sundance Institute is a global nonprofit organization founded by Robert Redford in 1981. Through its artistic development programs for directors, screenwriters, producers, composers and playwrights, the Institute seeks to discover and support independent film and theatre artists from the United States and around the world, and to connect audiences to their work. The Institute promotes independent storytelling as art and as a compelling and powerful way to inform, inspire and unite people. Internationally recognized for its annual Sundance Film Festival, Sundance Institute has supported such projects as "Beasts of the Southern Wild," "Fruitvale Station," "Sin Nombre," "The Invisible War," "The Square," "Dirty Wars," "Spring Awakening," "A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder" and "Fun Home." Join Sundance Institute on Facebook, Instagram,Twitter and YouTube.
New Frontier at Sundance Institute is a cross-programmatic initiative created to identify and foster independent artists working at the convergence of film, art, media, live performance, music and technology. Since 2007, the New Frontier exhibition at the Sundance Film Festival has provided the highest level of curation in the field, incorporating fiction, non-fiction and hybrid storytelling to showcase multi-media installations, performances and films. Sundance Institute established the New Frontier Story Lab in 2011 to deepen its support of storytellers pioneering new ways of working across various media and engaging with technology and in 2014 began the New Frontier Flash Lab and Artist Residency programs.
Highlights of work shown at the Festival include the first large-scale public exhibition of Oculus Rift Vr technology, the world premiere of Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s hitRECord, Nfb/interactive’s "Bear 71", and the U.S. premiere of "The Source (evolving)" by renowned artist Doug Aitken, as well as works by Isaac Julien, Pierre Huyghe, Aaron Koblin, Jennifer Steinkamp, Lynn Hershman Leeson, and Matthew Barney. Among the artists supported at the New Frontier Story Lab are Chris Milk, Hank Willis Thomas, Gary Baseman, Roger Ross Williams, The Goggles and Yung Jake.
Robert Redford, President & Founder of Sundance Institute, said, “Artists continue to challenge us to immerse ourselves in new ways of experiencing stories. The Sundance Institute New Frontier program was created to discover, support and showcase those artists working at the forefront of this exciting new area.”
Keri Putnam, Executive Director of Sundance Institute, said, “New Frontier provides a unique and rich platform of support to artists who harness new technologies to develop interactive and immersive projects. Kamal and Shari will be instrumental in designing and implementing the future of our New Frontier program, allowing us to continue to evolve along with this dynamic field of storytelling.”
As Co-Directors, New Frontier, Frilot and Sinclair will collaborate on activities including cultivating and building relationships with artists and technologists, researching trends, and leading strategic planning and growth for the program.
Frilot will continue to curate New Frontier exhibition activities. A filmmaker, curator and festival programmer for events including Mix International Festivals and La’s Outfest, she is presently in her 15 th year as a Senior Programmer for the Sundance Film Festival. Frilot has been a pioneer in the development of immersive cinematic environments and the creative force behind New Frontier since its inception. She is an alumna of Harvard/Radcliffe University, and the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program.
Sinclair will oversee the annual New Frontier Story Lab, Flash Labs and Artist Residencies. She is a transmedia producer, theatrical director, community arts leader and multi-disciplinary artist. She served as artist and producer on the "Question Bridge: Black Males" collaborative transmedia art project and worked at 42 Entertainment on projects such as "Legends of Alcatraz" and "Random Acts of Fusion." She graduated with her Bfa from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and her Mba from Georgia State University’s Robinson College of Business.
Sundance Institute
Sundance Institute is a global nonprofit organization founded by Robert Redford in 1981. Through its artistic development programs for directors, screenwriters, producers, composers and playwrights, the Institute seeks to discover and support independent film and theatre artists from the United States and around the world, and to connect audiences to their work. The Institute promotes independent storytelling as art and as a compelling and powerful way to inform, inspire and unite people. Internationally recognized for its annual Sundance Film Festival, Sundance Institute has supported such projects as "Beasts of the Southern Wild," "Fruitvale Station," "Sin Nombre," "The Invisible War," "The Square," "Dirty Wars," "Spring Awakening," "A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder" and "Fun Home." Join Sundance Institute on Facebook, Instagram,Twitter and YouTube.
- 8/26/2014
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
At the Cannes Film Festival we rest on the first day, not the seventh day. Traditionally the first Wednesday of the fest sees an onslaught of two types of travellers: film people that are a. recovering from jet lag or b. landing at the Aéroport Nice Côte d’Azur. Opening day festivities include: the opening film (we will get to this in a minute), the presentation of the jury to the media (see my recap below) and the start of the Market screenings (peppered around the town’s handful of movie theatres). It’s an ideal way for journos to catch up on select Sundance and Berlin titles they might have missed. Our Blake Williams and Nicholas Bell (who had to deal with unfortunate upgrade and downgrade badge issues) will be venturing into select titles. The badge system here in Cannes is a complex one — all media organizations including the web,...
- 5/14/2014
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
The long developing boxing movie "Southpaw" is finally gaining momentum, landing Jake Gyllenhaal in the lead role, and now it's time to find his leading ladies. Rachel McAdams and Oscar winner Lupita Nyong'o are being sought/wishlisted for the movie the rise of a lefty welterweight all the way to a championship title as he battles various tragedies in his personal life, and wins back the love of his daughter. Forest Whitaker is set to co-star with Antoine Fuqua directing. Richard Wenk ("The Equalizer") is currently doing a rewrite of the script. [Deadline] Tilda Swinton can do anything Tilda Swinton wants to do and so she'll take on her most Tilda Swinton-y role yet: playing a cat. Yep, the actress will go full feline for Lynn Hershman Leeson's "The Infinity Engine." Sounds weird, right? Well it is. The movie follows "a rebel talking cat that glows because she has genetic code from a jellyfish.
- 5/14/2014
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Mubi is excited and proud to announce a partnership with the Human Rights Watch Film Festival, whose London festival begins today and runs through March 28. To celebrate the 2014 festival, Mubi is mounting a retrospective of highlights from the festival's past. The following films—all shown at the Human Rights Watch Film Festival—will be given 30-day runs on Mubi in an extensive range of countries around the world beginning today.
Moloch Tropical (Raoul Peck, 2009)
The Red Chapel (Mads Brügger, 2009)
! Women Art Revolution (Lynn Hershmann-Leeson, 2010)
5 Broken Cameras (Emad Burnat, Guy Davidi, 2011)
Brother Number One (Annie Goldson, Peter Gilbert, 2011)
99% - The Occupy Wall Street Collaborative Film (Aaron Aites, Audrey Ewell, Nina Krstic, Lucian Read, 2013)
Alias Ruby Blade: A Story of Love and Revolution (Alex Meillier, 2013)
Tall as the Baobab Tree (Jeremy Teicher, 2013)
The festival will continue its on-the-ground events throughout the year, including its other central film festival in New York in June.
Moloch Tropical (Raoul Peck, 2009)
The Red Chapel (Mads Brügger, 2009)
! Women Art Revolution (Lynn Hershmann-Leeson, 2010)
5 Broken Cameras (Emad Burnat, Guy Davidi, 2011)
Brother Number One (Annie Goldson, Peter Gilbert, 2011)
99% - The Occupy Wall Street Collaborative Film (Aaron Aites, Audrey Ewell, Nina Krstic, Lucian Read, 2013)
Alias Ruby Blade: A Story of Love and Revolution (Alex Meillier, 2013)
Tall as the Baobab Tree (Jeremy Teicher, 2013)
The festival will continue its on-the-ground events throughout the year, including its other central film festival in New York in June.
- 3/18/2014
- by Notebook
- MUBI
When it was announced earlier this month that San Francisco's famed Roxie Theater would be launching a Kickstarter campaign with endorsements from such film luminaries as John Waters, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Michael Tully and more, we were promised a video endorsement from the king of trash cinema. In his video endorsement of the Roxie Theater, which is seeking funds to convert into a sustainable non-profit organization, Waters says that anyone that doesn't support the Roxie is "an asshole" and notes some of the extracurricular activities in which Roxie patrons could engage themselves -- namely, self-pleasure and cruising. Check the video out below and visit the Roxie Theater Kickstarter campaign here. ...
- 11/16/2012
- by Bryce J. Renninger
- Indiewire
San Fransisco's Roxie Theater, the oldest continuously running cinema in the United States and the second oldest theater in the world, has launched a Kickstarter campaign with the hope of raising $60,000 by Dec. 12. Any contributions made in the name of the Roxie Theater will support the final phase of its transition into a sustainable 501c3 non-profit organization and help to keep the unique venue a bastion of independent filmmaking. Each week, in order to rally further donations and enthusiasm, the Roxie Theater campaign will feature shorts by filmmakers who have been affected positively by the Roxie's support, such as John Waters, Barry Jenkins, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Valerie Soe, Jane Reed, Zachary Booth, Everything is Terrible, Scarlett Shepard, Mike Ott and Michael Tully. Though differing in approach, the shorts represent each filmmaker and his or her relationship to the theater (Valerie Soe's nostalgic clip highlights her first Hong Kong movie at the Roxie in.
- 11/13/2012
- by Justin Krajeski
- Indiewire
Who can forget Carrie Fisher’s gold, swirly, shamelessly skimpy bikini as a slave girl held captive by Jabba the Hutt in 1983’s Return of the Jedi? Cue sex icon posters of Fisher taped to salivating fanboys’ walls. Fast forward almost 30 years later, with both fanboys and fangirls, er fanmen and fanwomen at this point, awaiting an upcoming Star Wars: Episode VII by 2015, following Tuesday’s huge announcement about Disney acquiring Lucasfilm.
It’s a new world for women in sci-fi fantasy since the metal bikini days, or even since George Lucas’ Star Wars prequels, released in 1999, 2002 and 2005, which starred...
It’s a new world for women in sci-fi fantasy since the metal bikini days, or even since George Lucas’ Star Wars prequels, released in 1999, 2002 and 2005, which starred...
- 11/2/2012
- by Solvej Schou
- EW - Inside Movies
Female filmmakers in the sci-fi and fantasy genre will be celebrated with the first ever Etheria Film Festival, to be held in September 2012.
Etheria is the brainchild of film journalist Heidi Honeycutt and the Viscera Organisation, a not-for-profit group dedicated to increasing the visibility of female genre filmmakers.
Last month, the Viscera Film Festival Carpet Ceremony put the spotlight on up-and-coming women directors in the horror genre with a programme of new short films and a celebrity judging panel of industry veterans.
A Viscera spokeswoman said: "The Viscera Film Festival has been showcasing the best in emerging female horror film talent since 2007.
"But why stop with horror? There are talented women filmmakers across every genre. The Etheria Film Festival is the only film festival in the world that screens, exclusively, the best new short science fiction and fantasy films directed by women from around the globe."
Etheria is co-presented by...
Etheria is the brainchild of film journalist Heidi Honeycutt and the Viscera Organisation, a not-for-profit group dedicated to increasing the visibility of female genre filmmakers.
Last month, the Viscera Film Festival Carpet Ceremony put the spotlight on up-and-coming women directors in the horror genre with a programme of new short films and a celebrity judging panel of industry veterans.
A Viscera spokeswoman said: "The Viscera Film Festival has been showcasing the best in emerging female horror film talent since 2007.
"But why stop with horror? There are talented women filmmakers across every genre. The Etheria Film Festival is the only film festival in the world that screens, exclusively, the best new short science fiction and fantasy films directed by women from around the globe."
Etheria is co-presented by...
- 7/23/2012
- by David Bentley
- The Geek Files
DVD Release Date: March 20, 2012
Price: DVD $29.99
Studio: Zeitgeist
The ladies talk it over in !Women Art Revolution.
The 2010 documentary film !Women Art Revolution illuminates the under-explored feminist art movement through conversations, observations, archival footage and works of visionary artists, historians, curators and critics.
Starting from its roots in 1960s antiwar and civil rights protests, !Women Art Revolution details developments in women’s art through the 1970s and explores how the determination of the the pioneering artists of the time resulted in what is now widely regarded as one of the more significant art movements of the late 20th century.
The film was directed by artist/filmmaker Lynn Hershman Leeson (Teknolust), who tapped her archive of some 40-plus years of interviews she conducted with her contemporaries and molded then into a feature-length portrait.
Popping up in the movie are such female artists as Miranda July (The Future), The Guerilla Girls, Yvonne Rainer,...
Price: DVD $29.99
Studio: Zeitgeist
The ladies talk it over in !Women Art Revolution.
The 2010 documentary film !Women Art Revolution illuminates the under-explored feminist art movement through conversations, observations, archival footage and works of visionary artists, historians, curators and critics.
Starting from its roots in 1960s antiwar and civil rights protests, !Women Art Revolution details developments in women’s art through the 1970s and explores how the determination of the the pioneering artists of the time resulted in what is now widely regarded as one of the more significant art movements of the late 20th century.
The film was directed by artist/filmmaker Lynn Hershman Leeson (Teknolust), who tapped her archive of some 40-plus years of interviews she conducted with her contemporaries and molded then into a feature-length portrait.
Popping up in the movie are such female artists as Miranda July (The Future), The Guerilla Girls, Yvonne Rainer,...
- 1/4/2012
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
Zeitgeist Films has acquired 2012 Sundance world documentary competition title "Payback" by Jennifer Baichwal. The New York-based distributor is planning a late April 2012 release. The film will play New York's Film Forum beginning April 25. Based on Margaret Atwood’s best-selling book, "Payback" "explores how debt is a central organizing principle in our lives – influencing relationships, societies, governing structures and the very fate of this planet," according to a Sundance Film Festival description of the film, which will have its world premiere at the event in January. Baichwal has previously attended Sundance with her films "The True Meaning of Pictures: Shelby Lee Adams' Appalachia" and "Manufactured Landscapes." In 2011 Zeitgeist released Margarethe Von Trotta's "Vision," Lynn Hershman Leeson's "Women Art Revolution," Jonathan Lee's "Paul Goodman...
- 12/16/2011
- Indiewire
Texas is known for some great film festivals. apart from SXSW and Fantastic Fest, both held in Austin – Houston also hosts some wonderful events. Among them is the Cinema Arts Festival. This year’s line-up is extremely strong, with titles that include Pina, David Cronenberg’s A Dangerous Method, The Artist and the World Premiere of Art Car: The Movie. Sadly we do not have any contributors over in Houston, but I did feel the need to quickly promote the festival. Here is the press release.
Houston – Now in its third year, Cinema Arts Festival Houston, which runs from November 9 to 13, 2011 will bring an ambitious program of films by and about artists to the vibrant Texas city known internationally for its dynamic art scene. From painting and dance to classical music and multimedia work, this edition will also include appearances by directors, actors, musicians, and special tributes to Ethan Hawke and documentary master Patricio Guzman.
Houston – Now in its third year, Cinema Arts Festival Houston, which runs from November 9 to 13, 2011 will bring an ambitious program of films by and about artists to the vibrant Texas city known internationally for its dynamic art scene. From painting and dance to classical music and multimedia work, this edition will also include appearances by directors, actors, musicians, and special tributes to Ethan Hawke and documentary master Patricio Guzman.
- 10/31/2011
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
A new documentary looks back at the battle for recognition of figures including Carolee Schneemann and the Guerrila Girls
As Brooklyn-based artist Marni Kotak plans to give birth publicly in the name of art and Tacita Dean takes over the Turbine Hall of the Tate Modern following Tracey Emin's much praised retrospective at the Hayward Gallery over the summer, it doesn't feel like a bad time for female artists. However, until recently it was a rare treat to find women's art in galleries at all, as a new documentary film shows.
!Women Art Revolution recalls the young American female artists of the 1960s who fought for change in a male-dominated art world. From Carolee Schneemann's radical performances, via Martha Rosier's brilliantly aggressive Semiotics of the Kitchen to the Guerrilla Girls' campaigns that shamed major art institutions, it shows how the personal became political.
Lynn Hershman Leeson, feminist artist...
As Brooklyn-based artist Marni Kotak plans to give birth publicly in the name of art and Tacita Dean takes over the Turbine Hall of the Tate Modern following Tracey Emin's much praised retrospective at the Hayward Gallery over the summer, it doesn't feel like a bad time for female artists. However, until recently it was a rare treat to find women's art in galleries at all, as a new documentary film shows.
!Women Art Revolution recalls the young American female artists of the 1960s who fought for change in a male-dominated art world. From Carolee Schneemann's radical performances, via Martha Rosier's brilliantly aggressive Semiotics of the Kitchen to the Guerrilla Girls' campaigns that shamed major art institutions, it shows how the personal became political.
Lynn Hershman Leeson, feminist artist...
- 10/14/2011
- by Sarah Phillips
- The Guardian - Film News
After the feast of design from the 1920s and 30s over the past two weeks I thought it was time to return to the present and look at a few of the more interesting new and recent posters out there. First up, two terrific optical illusions for two of the most anticipated serious-minded films of the fall (each premiering in Venice): George Clooney’s The Ides of March and Tomas “Let the Right One In” Alfredson’s Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. Ides, the story of a Presidential candidate and his ambitious young press secretary, puts a clever spin on the Big Head poster and nicely solves the problem of having to give equal wall space to both Ryan Gosling and George Clooney. I like the way the last letters of Time magazine puts a big Me over the candidate’s face. The Tinker, Tailor poster, best seen up close,...
- 7/29/2011
- MUBI
Updated through 6/12.
Let's begin this quick run through goings on in New York and with J Hoberman in the Voice: "Dennis Hopper changed the game with Easy Rider (1969), blew up his career with The Last Movie (1971), and then, through a never clearly explained series of events, took over and reconfigured a Canadian tax-shelter project for which he had been hired to act, thus contriving a dialectical comeback with his brutal, accomplished Out of the Blue (1980)."
"Widely banned and/or shoved under the rug at the time of its limited release primarily due to its violently bonkers ending, the film's alternately herky-jerky and languid cadence is suggestive of a terminally wounded body undergoing a death rattle." Joseph Jon Lanthier in Slant: "This produces a look and feel that communicates the blind rage and ennui out of which punk's jabby power chords and raucous lyrics sprang. But the film's punk apotheosis — the...
Let's begin this quick run through goings on in New York and with J Hoberman in the Voice: "Dennis Hopper changed the game with Easy Rider (1969), blew up his career with The Last Movie (1971), and then, through a never clearly explained series of events, took over and reconfigured a Canadian tax-shelter project for which he had been hired to act, thus contriving a dialectical comeback with his brutal, accomplished Out of the Blue (1980)."
"Widely banned and/or shoved under the rug at the time of its limited release primarily due to its violently bonkers ending, the film's alternately herky-jerky and languid cadence is suggestive of a terminally wounded body undergoing a death rattle." Joseph Jon Lanthier in Slant: "This produces a look and feel that communicates the blind rage and ennui out of which punk's jabby power chords and raucous lyrics sprang. But the film's punk apotheosis — the...
- 6/12/2011
- MUBI
Updated through 6/10.
Colin Beckett: "Whether by design or circumstance, this June has become Thai Cinema Month in New York, with an array of the city's art houses and museums boasting otherwise hard-to-see gems from the Thai film renaissance that began in the late 1990s. But the biggest cause for celebration is the belated arrival of two films by Uruphong Raksasad — Agrarian Utopia (2009), running at Anthology Film Archives June 10 - 15, and Stories from the North (2006), which plays Museum of the Moving Image on June 5 [this afternoon at 3] — whose formal ingenuity and geopolitical urgency make the familiar generalizations about national cinemas seem quaint, if not willfully narrow."
Updates, 6/10: For Michael Joshua Rowin, writing for Artforum, "here is an undeniably stunning work of visual art, a premiere example of the equal footing hi-def digital video now holds with celluloid filmmaking. Acting as his own cinematographer, Uruphong finds intimate wonder in lush, verdant hills; in twilights...
Colin Beckett: "Whether by design or circumstance, this June has become Thai Cinema Month in New York, with an array of the city's art houses and museums boasting otherwise hard-to-see gems from the Thai film renaissance that began in the late 1990s. But the biggest cause for celebration is the belated arrival of two films by Uruphong Raksasad — Agrarian Utopia (2009), running at Anthology Film Archives June 10 - 15, and Stories from the North (2006), which plays Museum of the Moving Image on June 5 [this afternoon at 3] — whose formal ingenuity and geopolitical urgency make the familiar generalizations about national cinemas seem quaint, if not willfully narrow."
Updates, 6/10: For Michael Joshua Rowin, writing for Artforum, "here is an undeniably stunning work of visual art, a premiere example of the equal footing hi-def digital video now holds with celluloid filmmaking. Acting as his own cinematographer, Uruphong finds intimate wonder in lush, verdant hills; in twilights...
- 6/10/2011
- MUBI
Box Office Weekend Preview: X-Men Lands with Naked Mystique, Indies Beginners and Submarine Are Must-Sees. Rethinking 3-D: Audiences Rebel at Crap Movies, Ebert Protests, Sony Explains, 2-D Loses Luster. X-Men Writer Kinberg Talks First Class Secrets, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, Blomkamp’s Elysium Early Reviews: X-Men: First Class Earns Top Grades. Super 8 Early Reviews: “Genuinely Frightening, Not Perfect, Mindblowing Nostalgic Experience”. Tree of Life Update: Staying Power, Malick’s Next Moves. Cannes Restless Reaction: Managing Expectations for Van Sant Tweener, Silent Version on DVD Interview: Lynn Hershman Leeson Talks !Women Art Revolution, Feminism, Outtakes of History. Box Office Breaks Memorial Day Weekend Record, Hangover Part II Leads Holiday Surge. Production & Upcoming Scorsese’s Furious Love for Elizabeth Taylor & Richard Burton: The Impossible Casting, Love Letters, ...
- 6/3/2011
- Thompson on Hollywood
Reviewed by Andra Zadnik
(June 2011)
Directed/Written by: Lynn Hershman-Leeson
How many female artists can you name? Let’s try for three: Frida Kahlo — yeah, we all know her; Georgia O’Keeffe — good one … Any others? That is the very first question posed in Lynn Hershman-Leeson’s documentary “!Women Art Revolution.” By the end of it, you may be able to not only name artists like Judy Chicago, Carolee Schneemann and the Guerrilla Girls but also describe their work.
“!Women Art Revolution” follows a very basic format: talking heads that lead into video clips and back to talking heads again. Hershman-Leeson proudly states several times throughout the film that she has been compiling these interviews since the early 1960s when the feminist (art) movement began, and her effort and love of the project shows. “!Women Art Revolution” is, as she admits throughout, a compilation of her own art.
But the film,...
(June 2011)
Directed/Written by: Lynn Hershman-Leeson
How many female artists can you name? Let’s try for three: Frida Kahlo — yeah, we all know her; Georgia O’Keeffe — good one … Any others? That is the very first question posed in Lynn Hershman-Leeson’s documentary “!Women Art Revolution.” By the end of it, you may be able to not only name artists like Judy Chicago, Carolee Schneemann and the Guerrilla Girls but also describe their work.
“!Women Art Revolution” follows a very basic format: talking heads that lead into video clips and back to talking heads again. Hershman-Leeson proudly states several times throughout the film that she has been compiling these interviews since the early 1960s when the feminist (art) movement began, and her effort and love of the project shows. “!Women Art Revolution” is, as she admits throughout, a compilation of her own art.
But the film,...
- 6/2/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Magazine
Reviewed by Andra Zadnik
(June 2011)
Directed/Written by: Lynn Hershman-Leeson
How many female artists can you name? Let’s try for three: Frida Kahlo — yeah, we all know her; Georgia O’Keeffe — good one … Any others? That is the very first question posed in Lynn Hershman-Leeson’s documentary “!Women Art Revolution.” By the end of it, you may be able to not only name artists like Judy Chicago, Carolee Schneemann and the Guerrilla Girls but also describe their work.
“!Women Art Revolution” follows a very basic format: talking heads that lead into video clips and back to talking heads again. Hershman-Leeson proudly states several times throughout the film that she has been compiling these interviews since the early 1960s when the feminist (art) movement began, and her effort and love of the project shows. “!Women Art Revolution” is, as she admits throughout, a compilation of her own art.
But the film,...
(June 2011)
Directed/Written by: Lynn Hershman-Leeson
How many female artists can you name? Let’s try for three: Frida Kahlo — yeah, we all know her; Georgia O’Keeffe — good one … Any others? That is the very first question posed in Lynn Hershman-Leeson’s documentary “!Women Art Revolution.” By the end of it, you may be able to not only name artists like Judy Chicago, Carolee Schneemann and the Guerrilla Girls but also describe their work.
“!Women Art Revolution” follows a very basic format: talking heads that lead into video clips and back to talking heads again. Hershman-Leeson proudly states several times throughout the film that she has been compiling these interviews since the early 1960s when the feminist (art) movement began, and her effort and love of the project shows. “!Women Art Revolution” is, as she admits throughout, a compilation of her own art.
But the film,...
- 6/2/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Network
Janine Antoni is among the artists featured in “!Women Art Revolution”
Lynn Hershman Leeson is the quintessential Renaissance woman. Her artwork is held in numerous collections at galleries across the globe. Her work in new media earned her the Digital Art Museum in Berlin’s 2010 d.velop digital art award, the most distinguished honor for lifetime achievement in the field of new media. Leeson’s films have screened at many of the world’s most renowned film festivals, and she has been a Sundance Screenwriter Lab Fellow and recipient of the Alfred P. Sloan Prize for writing and directing the 2002 film “Teknolust.” Her latest effort, “!Women Art Revolution,” premiered at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival and is screening at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. It is a collection of 40 years’ worth of interviews with those who pioneered the feminist art movement. Here, she writes for Moving Pictures about how she came to make the film.
Lynn Hershman Leeson is the quintessential Renaissance woman. Her artwork is held in numerous collections at galleries across the globe. Her work in new media earned her the Digital Art Museum in Berlin’s 2010 d.velop digital art award, the most distinguished honor for lifetime achievement in the field of new media. Leeson’s films have screened at many of the world’s most renowned film festivals, and she has been a Sundance Screenwriter Lab Fellow and recipient of the Alfred P. Sloan Prize for writing and directing the 2002 film “Teknolust.” Her latest effort, “!Women Art Revolution,” premiered at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival and is screening at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. It is a collection of 40 years’ worth of interviews with those who pioneered the feminist art movement. Here, she writes for Moving Pictures about how she came to make the film.
- 6/1/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Magazine
Janine Antoni is among the artists featured in “!Women Art Revolution”
Lynn Hershman Leeson is the quintessential Renaissance woman. Her artwork is held in numerous collections at galleries across the globe. Her work in new media earned her the Digital Art Museum in Berlin’s 2010 d.velop digital art award, the most distinguished honor for lifetime achievement in the field of new media. Leeson’s films have screened at many of the world’s most renowned film festivals, and she has been a Sundance Screenwriter Lab Fellow and recipient of the Alfred P. Sloan Prize for writing and directing the 2002 film “Teknolust.” Her latest effort, “!Women Art Revolution,” premiered at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival and is screening at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. It is a collection of 40 years’ worth of interviews with those who pioneered the feminist art movement. Here, she writes for Moving Pictures about how she came to make the film.
Lynn Hershman Leeson is the quintessential Renaissance woman. Her artwork is held in numerous collections at galleries across the globe. Her work in new media earned her the Digital Art Museum in Berlin’s 2010 d.velop digital art award, the most distinguished honor for lifetime achievement in the field of new media. Leeson’s films have screened at many of the world’s most renowned film festivals, and she has been a Sundance Screenwriter Lab Fellow and recipient of the Alfred P. Sloan Prize for writing and directing the 2002 film “Teknolust.” Her latest effort, “!Women Art Revolution,” premiered at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival and is screening at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. It is a collection of 40 years’ worth of interviews with those who pioneered the feminist art movement. Here, she writes for Moving Pictures about how she came to make the film.
- 6/1/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Network
Exclusive Interview: Lynn Hershman Leeson Talks !Women Art Revolution, Feminism, Outtakes of History
Lynn Hershman Leeson’s new documentary about feminism in the art world of the 1960s, !Women Art Revolution, will make its theatrical debut at NYC's IFC Center June 1, followed by showings across the country (schedule below, along with the trailer) via Zeitgeist Films. The film premiered at the Toronto Film Festival last September, and also screened at Sundance and Berlin. Sophia Savage spoke with the filmmaker, who says the film "exposes the previously obscured and often indiscernible limits of access and voice that were imposed on a selected group of artists," and shows "how presumed restrictions to freedom of expression were triumphantly surmounted." As for whether the art world has--by 2011--made any progress, she says: "Yes, but slowly. Much too slowly." Our interview is below: THR ...
- 6/1/2011
- Thompson on Hollywood
Exclusive Interview: Lynn Hershman Leeson Talks !Women Art Revolution, Feminism, Outtakes of History
Lynn Hershman Leeson’s new documentary about feminism in the art world of the 1960s, !Women Art Revolution, will make its theatrical debut at NYC's IFC Center June 1, followed by showings across the country (schedule below, along with the trailer) via Zeitgeist Films. The film premiered at the Toronto Film Festival last September, and also screened at Sundance and Berlin. Sophia Savage spoke with the filmmaker, who says the film "exposes the previously obscured and often indiscernible limits of access and voice that were imposed on a selected group of artists," and shows "how presumed restrictions to freedom of expression were triumphantly surmounted." As for whether the art world has--by 2011--made any progress, she says: "Yes, but slowly. Much too slowly." Our interview is below: THR ...
- 5/18/2011
- Thompson on Hollywood
Microcinema will release the The Color of Your Socks: A Year With Pipilotti Rist, a 55-minute documentary film on the noted Swiss video artist, on DVD on June 28.
Video artist Pipilotti Rist mounts a show in The Color of Your Socks.
The movie follows Ms. Rist as she prepares for a major show at New York’s Museum of Modern Art in 2008. Since winning the Duemila Prize at the Biennale di Venezia in 1997, Rist has established herself as a major presence in video art.
For the first time, she lets a documentary filmmaker into her world, providing insight into her creative process, the development of projects and the collaboration with her team. Pipilotti’s playful personality and colorful creation are captured here by director Michael Hegglin, who provides unique insight into an artist in her element.
No bonus features have been scheduled for the DVD, which carries a retail price...
Video artist Pipilotti Rist mounts a show in The Color of Your Socks.
The movie follows Ms. Rist as she prepares for a major show at New York’s Museum of Modern Art in 2008. Since winning the Duemila Prize at the Biennale di Venezia in 1997, Rist has established herself as a major presence in video art.
For the first time, she lets a documentary filmmaker into her world, providing insight into her creative process, the development of projects and the collaboration with her team. Pipilotti’s playful personality and colorful creation are captured here by director Michael Hegglin, who provides unique insight into an artist in her element.
No bonus features have been scheduled for the DVD, which carries a retail price...
- 4/28/2011
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
By John Esther
(April 2011)
As some film festivals diminish in size or structure during these woeful economic times, the San Francisco International Film Festival (Sfiff), the longest-running film festival in the Americas, launched its 54th version April 21 with a screening of writer-director Mike Mills’ “Beginners,” starring Mélanie Laurent, Ewan McGregor, Christopher Plummer and Goran Visnjic.
The next day, Sfiff was in full force, screening films from around the world in several different venues in San Francisco and beyond, and will continue until May 5.
Some of the European highlights in the festival are writer-director Athina Rachel Tsangari’s delightfully quirky film “Attenberg,” about a 23-year-old Greek woman, Marina (Ariane Labed), coming to terms with sex, death and decay in its various forms, and Régis Sauder’s “Children of teh Princess of Cleves,” a rather fascinating documentary about a group of working-class French teenagers who find value in themselves, literature and art...
(April 2011)
As some film festivals diminish in size or structure during these woeful economic times, the San Francisco International Film Festival (Sfiff), the longest-running film festival in the Americas, launched its 54th version April 21 with a screening of writer-director Mike Mills’ “Beginners,” starring Mélanie Laurent, Ewan McGregor, Christopher Plummer and Goran Visnjic.
The next day, Sfiff was in full force, screening films from around the world in several different venues in San Francisco and beyond, and will continue until May 5.
Some of the European highlights in the festival are writer-director Athina Rachel Tsangari’s delightfully quirky film “Attenberg,” about a 23-year-old Greek woman, Marina (Ariane Labed), coming to terms with sex, death and decay in its various forms, and Régis Sauder’s “Children of teh Princess of Cleves,” a rather fascinating documentary about a group of working-class French teenagers who find value in themselves, literature and art...
- 4/28/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Magazine
By John Esther
(April 2011)
As some film festivals diminish in size or structure during these woeful economic times, the San Francisco International Film Festival (Sfiff), the longest-running film festival in the Americas, launched its 54th version April 21 with a screening of writer-director Mike Mills’ “Beginners,” starring Mélanie Laurent, Ewan McGregor, Christopher Plummer and Goran Visnjic.
The next day, Sfiff was in full force, screening films from around the world in several different venues in San Francisco and beyond, and will continue until May 5.
Some of the European highlights in the festival are writer-director Athina Rachel Tsangari’s delightfully quirky film “Attenberg,” about a 23-year-old Greek woman, Marina (Ariane Labed), coming to terms with sex, death and decay in its various forms, and Régis Sauder’s “Children of teh Princess of Cleves,” a rather fascinating documentary about a group of working-class French teenagers who find value in themselves, literature and art...
(April 2011)
As some film festivals diminish in size or structure during these woeful economic times, the San Francisco International Film Festival (Sfiff), the longest-running film festival in the Americas, launched its 54th version April 21 with a screening of writer-director Mike Mills’ “Beginners,” starring Mélanie Laurent, Ewan McGregor, Christopher Plummer and Goran Visnjic.
The next day, Sfiff was in full force, screening films from around the world in several different venues in San Francisco and beyond, and will continue until May 5.
Some of the European highlights in the festival are writer-director Athina Rachel Tsangari’s delightfully quirky film “Attenberg,” about a 23-year-old Greek woman, Marina (Ariane Labed), coming to terms with sex, death and decay in its various forms, and Régis Sauder’s “Children of teh Princess of Cleves,” a rather fascinating documentary about a group of working-class French teenagers who find value in themselves, literature and art...
- 4/28/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Network
Check out the links below — and check back often — for all the latest blogs, reviews, video interviews and filmmaker features from the 2011 Sundance Film Festival.
Actors scheduled to appear in the Moving Pictures Media Studio on Park City’s Main Street during the fest include Elizabeth Banks, Kate Bosworth, Steve Buscemi, Patrick Dempsey, Zooey Deschanel, Paul Giamatti, Ed Helms, Rashida Jones, Ashley Judd, Ray Liotta, Emma Roberts, Paul Rudd, Alicia Silverstone, Liv Tyler and Rita Wilson (talent subject to change). Do you have a question for one of our guests? Leave it in the comment box below for the chance to connect with a Sundance star!
Preview
‘Be There’ or Be Square: Festival director John Cooper and programming director Trevor Groth are making Sundance the gem of indie fests. Read our interview with the duo for insider tips on how to Sundance, from in-depth programming notes to what to pack...
Actors scheduled to appear in the Moving Pictures Media Studio on Park City’s Main Street during the fest include Elizabeth Banks, Kate Bosworth, Steve Buscemi, Patrick Dempsey, Zooey Deschanel, Paul Giamatti, Ed Helms, Rashida Jones, Ashley Judd, Ray Liotta, Emma Roberts, Paul Rudd, Alicia Silverstone, Liv Tyler and Rita Wilson (talent subject to change). Do you have a question for one of our guests? Leave it in the comment box below for the chance to connect with a Sundance star!
Preview
‘Be There’ or Be Square: Festival director John Cooper and programming director Trevor Groth are making Sundance the gem of indie fests. Read our interview with the duo for insider tips on how to Sundance, from in-depth programming notes to what to pack...
- 1/28/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Network
Check out the links below — and check back often — for all the latest blogs, reviews, video interviews and filmmaker features from the 2011 Sundance Film Festival.
Actors scheduled to appear in the Moving Pictures Media Studio on Park City’s Main Street during the fest include Elizabeth Banks, Kate Bosworth, Steve Buscemi, Patrick Dempsey, Zooey Deschanel, Paul Giamatti, Ed Helms, Rashida Jones, Ashley Judd, Ray Liotta, Emma Roberts, Paul Rudd, Alicia Silverstone, Liv Tyler and Rita Wilson (talent subject to change). Do you have a question for one of our guests? Leave it in the comment box below for the chance to connect with a Sundance star!
Preview
‘Be There’ or Be Square: Festival director John Cooper and programming director Trevor Groth are making Sundance the gem of indie fests. Read our interview with the duo for insider tips on how to Sundance, from in-depth programming notes to what to pack...
Actors scheduled to appear in the Moving Pictures Media Studio on Park City’s Main Street during the fest include Elizabeth Banks, Kate Bosworth, Steve Buscemi, Patrick Dempsey, Zooey Deschanel, Paul Giamatti, Ed Helms, Rashida Jones, Ashley Judd, Ray Liotta, Emma Roberts, Paul Rudd, Alicia Silverstone, Liv Tyler and Rita Wilson (talent subject to change). Do you have a question for one of our guests? Leave it in the comment box below for the chance to connect with a Sundance star!
Preview
‘Be There’ or Be Square: Festival director John Cooper and programming director Trevor Groth are making Sundance the gem of indie fests. Read our interview with the duo for insider tips on how to Sundance, from in-depth programming notes to what to pack...
- 1/28/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Magazine
Though it slipped past us somehow the 2011 Berlin Film Festival released the first block of titles from their Panorama section yesterday and there are some very familiar names in there, among them Ryoo Seung-Wan's The Unjust, Jorge Padilha's Elite Squad 2, Angelique Bosio's The Advocate For Fagdom and Hugo Olsson's The Black Power Mixtape - all of which have received coverage here in the pages of Twitch. You want the complete list? Here it is:
Panorama Main Programme + Panorama Special Bu-dang-geo-rae (The Unjust) by Seung-wan Ryoo, Republic of Koreawith Jung-min Hwang, Seung-bum Ryoo, Hae-jin Yoo Chang-Pi-Hae (Ashamed) by Soo-hyun Kim, Republic of Koreawith Hyo-jin Kim, Kkobbi Kim Dance Town by Kyu-hwan Jeon, Republic of Koreawith Mir-an Ra, Seong-tae Oh The Devil's Double by Lee Tamahori, Belgiumwith Dominic Cooper, Ludivine Sagnier Dirty Girl by Abe Sylvia, USAwith Juno Temple, Milla Jovovich, William H. Macy, Dwight Yoakam, Mary Steenburgen, Jeremy Dozier...
Panorama Main Programme + Panorama Special Bu-dang-geo-rae (The Unjust) by Seung-wan Ryoo, Republic of Koreawith Jung-min Hwang, Seung-bum Ryoo, Hae-jin Yoo Chang-Pi-Hae (Ashamed) by Soo-hyun Kim, Republic of Koreawith Hyo-jin Kim, Kkobbi Kim Dance Town by Kyu-hwan Jeon, Republic of Koreawith Mir-an Ra, Seong-tae Oh The Devil's Double by Lee Tamahori, Belgiumwith Dominic Cooper, Ludivine Sagnier Dirty Girl by Abe Sylvia, USAwith Juno Temple, Milla Jovovich, William H. Macy, Dwight Yoakam, Mary Steenburgen, Jeremy Dozier...
- 1/4/2011
- Screen Anarchy
.When the definitive book on media arts is written, San Francisco artist Lynn Hershman Leeson deserves a long chapter... San Francisco Chronicle
Lynn Hershman Leeson.s new film !Women Art Revolution will screen at the upcoming Sundance Film Festival. In addition to the screening Sundance will feature an installation titled Rawwar. Rawwar is a live participatory environment that allows users to .bring light. to lost or invisible histories of women in art with virtual flashlight controllers accessing an interactive community-curated archive.
!Women Art Revolution was recently acquired by Zeitgeist Films for North American distribution after premiering at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival to critical acclaim. Zeitgeist Co-President Nancy Gerstman notes, .There is so much about the history of the Feminist Art Movement that has been unacknowledged up to now and Lynn Hershman Leeson has done a great service in enriching our understanding of the pioneering heroines from the `70s until today.
Lynn Hershman Leeson.s new film !Women Art Revolution will screen at the upcoming Sundance Film Festival. In addition to the screening Sundance will feature an installation titled Rawwar. Rawwar is a live participatory environment that allows users to .bring light. to lost or invisible histories of women in art with virtual flashlight controllers accessing an interactive community-curated archive.
!Women Art Revolution was recently acquired by Zeitgeist Films for North American distribution after premiering at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival to critical acclaim. Zeitgeist Co-President Nancy Gerstman notes, .There is so much about the history of the Feminist Art Movement that has been unacknowledged up to now and Lynn Hershman Leeson has done a great service in enriching our understanding of the pioneering heroines from the `70s until today.
- 12/30/2010
- by Melissa Howland
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Sundance's lineup of films selected to screen at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival (January 20-30 in Park City, Utah) are not sucky this year as they include two awesome docs about women in media, one lesbian space alien adventure directed by Madeliene Olnek, a dark western by Kelly Reichardt, and two thrillers by chicks (I can say 'chicks' because of third wave feminism, apparently) plus some of our favorite male genre directors defy gender stereotypes and film convention with their brave new films.
Sundance, the super-over-hyped and most pretentious of all film festivals in the United States, occasionally has a moment of clarity and recognizes the value of some of the brand new movies made by intelligent, funny, and interesting women. As we previously ranted about Miss Representation, we're excited about the USA premiere of !Women Art Revolution by Lynn Hershman Leeson, One part of a transmedia project that includes the...
Sundance, the super-over-hyped and most pretentious of all film festivals in the United States, occasionally has a moment of clarity and recognizes the value of some of the brand new movies made by intelligent, funny, and interesting women. As we previously ranted about Miss Representation, we're excited about the USA premiere of !Women Art Revolution by Lynn Hershman Leeson, One part of a transmedia project that includes the...
- 12/3/2010
- by Superheidi
- Planet Fury
Though I secretly wish that I could just dump in favor of the huge tentpole world preems that are the focus of our site, the New Frontier Section is unfortunately the section that I rarely venture into. Publicists would be kind enough to push me to reconsider this decision. As we previously reported, Lynn Hershman Leeson's Tiff debuted doc will be showing up at the fest, below we have Matthew Lessner's wacko The Woods (see trailer) promises several laughs and Sundance 2011 appears to be Rutger Hauer year - as he is coming to the fest with not one (Hobo with a Shotgun), but The Mill & the Cross as well. Jess + Moss /U.S.A. (Director: Clay Jeter; Screenwriters: Clay Jeter and Debra Jeter) Jess (18) and Moss (12) are second cousins who have spent their summers together since either of them can remember. Without immediate families that they can relate to,...
- 12/2/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
Sundance is always a little queer inclusive, but 2011 is poised to be even more gay than usual. This morning, I told you that Pariah would be part of the festival competition. Today, programmers announcedwill see the premieres of My Idiot Brother, starring Zooey Deschanel and Rashida Jones as girlfriends; Becoming Chaz, a documentary following Chaz Bono's transition; and Kaboom, Greg Arraki's sci-fi thriller featuring a main lesbian character, Stella, played by Haley Bennett. (It won the Queer Palms Award at Cannes two years ago, but this is its Us premiere.)
Kaboom
Another film of interest is Codependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same from Madeleine Olnek (Hold Up, Countertransference). Here's the premise: A shy greeting card store employee unknowingly falls for a lesbian space alien while two government agents closely track their romance. The cast includes Lisa Haas, Susan Ziegler, Jackie Monahan and Cynthia Kaplan.
And !Women Art Revolution will also...
Kaboom
Another film of interest is Codependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same from Madeleine Olnek (Hold Up, Countertransference). Here's the premise: A shy greeting card store employee unknowingly falls for a lesbian space alien while two government agents closely track their romance. The cast includes Lisa Haas, Susan Ziegler, Jackie Monahan and Cynthia Kaplan.
And !Women Art Revolution will also...
- 12/2/2010
- by Trish Bendix
- AfterEllen.com
Lynn Hershman's 40 years in the making docu which I missed at Tiff this year, has not only been acquired by Zeitgeist Films and is set with a June release date, but !Women Art Revolution will have a further festival date in the U.S premiere at the Sundance Film Festival. The mention of this being at Sundance is good news, because it may also confirm this Sundance forecast of mine, that Miranda July who is among the artists featured in this doc film, will undoubtably premiere her sophomore film, The Future. Gist: A treasure trove of material waiting to see the light, Hershman Leeson’s film draws from hundreds of hours of in-the-moment interviews with her contemporaries—visionary artists, historians, curators and critics—and presents an intimate portrayal of their fight to break down barriers facing women both in the art world and society at large. Worth Noting: Along with July,...
- 11/11/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
Lynn Hershman's 40 years in the making docu which I missed at Tiff this year, has not only been acquired by Zeitgeist Films and is set with a June release date, but !Women Art Revolution will have a further festival date in the U.S premiere at the Sundance Film Festival. The mention of this being at Sundance is good news, because it may also confirm this Sundance forecast of mine, that Miranda July who is among the artists featured in this doc film, will undoubtably premiere her sophomore film, The Future. Gist: A treasure trove of material waiting to see the light, Hershman Leeson’s film draws from hundreds of hours of in-the-moment interviews with her contemporaries—visionary artists, historians, curators and critics—and presents an intimate portrayal of their fight to break down barriers facing women both in the art world and society at large. Worth Noting: Along with July,...
- 11/11/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
Following its world premiere at this year's Toronto International Film Festival (Tiff) in September, Lynn Hershman Leeson's "!Women Art Revolution" has been acquired by Zeitgeist Films for North American distribution. The film will makes its U.S. premiere next year at the upcoming Sundance Film Festival, and will open at New York's IFC Center in June, 2011, with a national release to follow. Filmed over four decades, Leeson's documentary chronicles the ...
- 11/11/2010
- Indiewire
Works by James Franco and Lance Weiler will be part of the 2011 Sundance Film Festival New Frontier Program. The following is the full list as announced Monday.
“A Machine to See With”
Blast Theory (United Kingdom)
“All That is Solid Melts into Air”
Mark Boulos (United Kingdom, The Netherlands)
“We Like America and America Likes Us” (The Corpse)
The Bruce High Quality Foundation (U.S.A.)
“Spin” and “Hipocampo 2”
Daniel Canogar (Spain)
“Three’s Company: The Drama”
James Franco
“After Ghostcatching”
Bill T. Jones and OpenEnded Group (U.S.A.)
“Theater III + Edgar”
Avish Khebrehzadeh (U.S.A.)
“Moony”
Akio Kamisato, Satoshi Shibata and Takehisa Mashimo (Japan)
“The Johnny Cash Project” and “The Wilderness Downtown”
Aaron Koblin & Chris Milk (U.S.A.)
“!Women Art Revolution” and “Raw/War”
Lynn Hershman Leeson (U.S.A.)
“Myth and Infrastructure” and “Dreaming of Lucid Living”
Miwa Matreyek (U.S.A.)
“Glowing Pathfinder Bugs...
“A Machine to See With”
Blast Theory (United Kingdom)
“All That is Solid Melts into Air”
Mark Boulos (United Kingdom, The Netherlands)
“We Like America and America Likes Us” (The Corpse)
The Bruce High Quality Foundation (U.S.A.)
“Spin” and “Hipocampo 2”
Daniel Canogar (Spain)
“Three’s Company: The Drama”
James Franco
“After Ghostcatching”
Bill T. Jones and OpenEnded Group (U.S.A.)
“Theater III + Edgar”
Avish Khebrehzadeh (U.S.A.)
“Moony”
Akio Kamisato, Satoshi Shibata and Takehisa Mashimo (Japan)
“The Johnny Cash Project” and “The Wilderness Downtown”
Aaron Koblin & Chris Milk (U.S.A.)
“!Women Art Revolution” and “Raw/War”
Lynn Hershman Leeson (U.S.A.)
“Myth and Infrastructure” and “Dreaming of Lucid Living”
Miwa Matreyek (U.S.A.)
“Glowing Pathfinder Bugs...
- 11/1/2010
- Moving Pictures Magazine
Last year, Joseph Gordon-Levitt ruled Sundance's experimental, installation-based New Frontier Program with selections from his crowdsourced, collaborative hitRECord project. This year, the big name is everyone's favorite adorably droopy-eyed multi-hyphenate James Franco, whose "Three's Company: The Drama" is "a multi-media examination of the classic 70s sit-com" that Franco hopes will gives us "a slightly oblique perspective" on the medium of television.
Here's the entire line-up, descriptions courtesy of the festival.
A Machine to See With
Blast Theory (United Kingdom)
Mixing documentary material, stolen thriller clichés and the films of Jean-Luc Godard, A Machine to See With invites the audience to take risks, play games and connect the fantasy of a thriller movie with the political questions that each one of us must face through interaction with an automated system of interaction and control that navigates the participant through the underbelly of the city. A Machine to See With premiered at the 2010 01Sj Biennial.
Here's the entire line-up, descriptions courtesy of the festival.
A Machine to See With
Blast Theory (United Kingdom)
Mixing documentary material, stolen thriller clichés and the films of Jean-Luc Godard, A Machine to See With invites the audience to take risks, play games and connect the fantasy of a thriller movie with the political questions that each one of us must face through interaction with an automated system of interaction and control that navigates the participant through the underbelly of the city. A Machine to See With premiered at the 2010 01Sj Biennial.
- 11/1/2010
- by Alison Willmore
- ifc.com
DVD Playhouse September 2010
By
Allen Gardner
The Girl Who Played With Fire (Music Box Films) Follow up to the hit The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo finds Lisabeth Salander (Noomi Rapace) and Mikael Blomkvist (Michael Nyqvist) joining forces once again as Blomkvist is about to break a story on Sweden’s sex trade, which leads unexpectedly to a dark secret from Elizabeth’s past. Starts off well, then quickly nose-dives into sensationalism and downright silliness, with a pair of villains who are straight out of a Roger Moore-era James Bond film. A real letdown for those of us who felt Dragon Tattoo had finally breathed life into the cinema’s long-stagnant genre of the thriller. Bonuses: English language track; Trailer. Widescreen. Dolby 5.1 surround.
The Killer Inside Me (IFC Films) Michael Winterbottom’s adaptation of Jim Thompson’s classic, and notorious, novel about the psychotic mind of a small town sheriff (Casey Affleck,...
By
Allen Gardner
The Girl Who Played With Fire (Music Box Films) Follow up to the hit The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo finds Lisabeth Salander (Noomi Rapace) and Mikael Blomkvist (Michael Nyqvist) joining forces once again as Blomkvist is about to break a story on Sweden’s sex trade, which leads unexpectedly to a dark secret from Elizabeth’s past. Starts off well, then quickly nose-dives into sensationalism and downright silliness, with a pair of villains who are straight out of a Roger Moore-era James Bond film. A real letdown for those of us who felt Dragon Tattoo had finally breathed life into the cinema’s long-stagnant genre of the thriller. Bonuses: English language track; Trailer. Widescreen. Dolby 5.1 surround.
The Killer Inside Me (IFC Films) Michael Winterbottom’s adaptation of Jim Thompson’s classic, and notorious, novel about the psychotic mind of a small town sheriff (Casey Affleck,...
- 9/25/2010
- by The Hollywood Interview.com
- The Hollywood Interview
Rachel Weisz in The Whistleblower The Toronto International Film Festival has added even more films to their line-up today as the complete line-up was announced, which ended up causing the festival's server to crash, but I was lucky enough to get in and get out before missing out on the information.
First off, the festival's Mavericks line-up is quite interesting, which includes a series of guest presentations and this year will see Edward Norton interview Bruce Springsteen, NBA All-Star and native Canadian Steve Nash will present his hour-long film Into the Wind, Apichatpong Weerasethakul will talk with the audience as his Cannes Palm d'Or-winning film Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall his Past Lives was just added to the Masters programme, Ken Loach and Paul Laverty will be interviewed by Michael Moore on politics and cinema and Philip Seymour Hoffman will have his own panel. Also on hand will be Bill Gates,...
First off, the festival's Mavericks line-up is quite interesting, which includes a series of guest presentations and this year will see Edward Norton interview Bruce Springsteen, NBA All-Star and native Canadian Steve Nash will present his hour-long film Into the Wind, Apichatpong Weerasethakul will talk with the audience as his Cannes Palm d'Or-winning film Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall his Past Lives was just added to the Masters programme, Ken Loach and Paul Laverty will be interviewed by Michael Moore on politics and cinema and Philip Seymour Hoffman will have his own panel. Also on hand will be Bill Gates,...
- 8/24/2010
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
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