This year's edition of the silent film festival featured Welles' previously-thought-lost Too Much Johnson amid a typically irreverent and varied selection
• Orson Welles's first professional film discovered in an Italian warehouse
• Review: Peter Bradshaw on Blancanieves
The first full day of the 32nd Giornate del Cinema Muto, the world's most prestigious silent-film festival, took place exactly 86 years after The Jazz Singer premiered in New York. There were no mournful faces in the town of Pordenone, Italy, where the Giornate is held, however. In this corner of the world, for one week only, it is not quite as if the talkies never arrived, but rather that they failed to stop the party. Silent cinema continues to reinvent itself, to surprise even its most protective guardians, and to multiply.
The opening gala night of the festival featured a recent film that paid tribute to European silent cinema, Pablo Berger's invigoratingly...
• Orson Welles's first professional film discovered in an Italian warehouse
• Review: Peter Bradshaw on Blancanieves
The first full day of the 32nd Giornate del Cinema Muto, the world's most prestigious silent-film festival, took place exactly 86 years after The Jazz Singer premiered in New York. There were no mournful faces in the town of Pordenone, Italy, where the Giornate is held, however. In this corner of the world, for one week only, it is not quite as if the talkies never arrived, but rather that they failed to stop the party. Silent cinema continues to reinvent itself, to surprise even its most protective guardians, and to multiply.
The opening gala night of the festival featured a recent film that paid tribute to European silent cinema, Pablo Berger's invigoratingly...
- 10/14/2013
- by Pamela Hutchinson
- The Guardian - Film News
For short films, the Tribeca Film Festival is a must. Winning the award for Narrative Short or Best Documentary Short automatically qualifies a film for the Academy Awards. Their track record isn’t too bad either. Shawn Christensen’s Curfew had its New York premiere at the Festival and went on to win the Academy Award.
This year, Tribeca will show 60 short films in eight categories, from a variety of new and returning directors (including Christensen with Grandma’s Not A Toaster), and featuring performances from a number of Hollywood stars. Elijah Wood plays a standup comic who attempts a daring set in Setup,...
This year, Tribeca will show 60 short films in eight categories, from a variety of new and returning directors (including Christensen with Grandma’s Not A Toaster), and featuring performances from a number of Hollywood stars. Elijah Wood plays a standup comic who attempts a daring set in Setup,...
- 3/11/2013
- by Lindsey Bahr
- EW - Inside Movies
'Good Vibrations', 'The Girl with the Mechanical Maiden' and 'Citadel' Win Big At Galway Film Fleadh
Irish films 'Good Vibrations', 'The Girl with the Mechanical Maiden' and 'Citadel' were among the big winners as the 24th Galway Film Fleadh closed last night with the announcement of its annual awards. Mark O'Connor's 'Stalker' received second place in the Audience Award category for Best Irish Feature. Writer, director and cinematographer Andrew Legge picked up The Tiernan McBride Award for Best Short Drama for his film 'The Girl with the Mechanical Maiden'. 'The Wire' star Dominic West features alongside Serena Brabazon and Ingrid Craigie. Legge wrote and directed the short, with Ciara Whelan producing. Other winners included Art O'Briain's 'Natural Grace'; Hannah Patterson won the Galway Film Fleadh Pitching Award with her idea for 'Resistance', and feature film 'Pilgrim Hill' won director Gerard Barrett the Bingham Ray New Talent Award.
- 7/16/2012
- IFTN
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