The festival’s 25th edition will feature a contribution from Ai Weiwei and competition titles including Whiplash, Nightcrawler and Foxcatcher.
The Stockholm International Film Festival (Nov 5-16) is to present its Achievement Award to Us actress Uma Thurman.
The Kill Bill star will will visit Stockholm to receive the prestigious Bronze Horse and meet the audience during an exclusive “Face2Face”.
Thurman will also take part in the inauguration ceremony, which will include the unveiling of an ice sculpture by Chinese artist Ai Weiwei.
Weiwei was a Stockholm jury member last year but since he wasn’t allowed to leave China, he sent an empty chair named ”The Chair for Non-attendance” as symbol of his absence.
He is still not allowed to leave China so will send a design that will be portrayed in the form of a large ice sculpture symbolising this years’ Spotlight theme - Hope.
Brazil
The festival will focus this year on Brazil...
The Stockholm International Film Festival (Nov 5-16) is to present its Achievement Award to Us actress Uma Thurman.
The Kill Bill star will will visit Stockholm to receive the prestigious Bronze Horse and meet the audience during an exclusive “Face2Face”.
Thurman will also take part in the inauguration ceremony, which will include the unveiling of an ice sculpture by Chinese artist Ai Weiwei.
Weiwei was a Stockholm jury member last year but since he wasn’t allowed to leave China, he sent an empty chair named ”The Chair for Non-attendance” as symbol of his absence.
He is still not allowed to leave China so will send a design that will be portrayed in the form of a large ice sculpture symbolising this years’ Spotlight theme - Hope.
Brazil
The festival will focus this year on Brazil...
- 10/16/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
In Wang Chao's Fantasia, one family's struggle to overcome a personal crisis, inevitably worsened by the father's progressive terminal illness, serves its purpose as a catalyst for the director to weave a tale of seemingly great social significance. Even though Chao's gorgeously lensed little indie fits perfectly into the description of the Chinese new wave, its strangely familiar and often perfunctory narrative structure doesn't really make the picture a standout example of this increasingly interesting cinematic movement.Zhao (Zhang Xu) is a loyal factory worker leading a peaceful life along with a loving wife and two children, until his world is completely shattered by a disease that causes him to underperform at work, which in turn leads to a very serious money problem. Desperation, anxiety and...
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- 10/13/2014
- Screen Anarchy
Never mind the title: Wang Chao hasn't steered away from his trademark social-realist aesthetics for his latest film. In fact, it ranks as perhaps the mainland Chinese director's most uncontroversial, stripped-down and – sadly – non-descript affair yet: revolving around the slow and spiraling fortunes of an ordinary working-class family when the father is diagnosed as having leukemia, Fantasia offers subtle family drama devoid of the twists and turns of Wang's previous offerings, or the increasingly explosive outings of his fellow so-called Sixth Generation Chinese filmmakers. Photos: The Party Scene at Cannes 2014 In one
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- 5/21/2014
- by Clarence Tsui
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Of the 85 feature films screening across Cannes this year, there are just eight from Asian directors, and only two from China, Zhang Yimou’s Coming Home and Wang Chao’s Un Certain Regard title Fantasia. Compare that ratio with Asia’s majority share of the global population — 4.3 billion of the world’s 7 billion — and the region appears grossly underrepresented. Undeterred, China aggressively has tried to assert itself as a more influential player on the Croisette. This year an estimated 400 Chinese sales agents and execs are in attendance and the country co-sponsored the Cannes market’s opening-night
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- 5/19/2014
- by Clifford Coonan, Patrick Brzeski
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Exclusive: Wang Chao’s feature to premiere in Un Certain Regard.
Paris-based sales company has picked up international sales rights to Wang Chao’s Fantasia ahead of its premiere in Un Certain Regard in Cannes this year.
Set against the backdrop of a contemporary, Chinese industrial city, the film revolves around a family pushed to the limits, socially and economically, by the father’s hospitalisation. Against this background, the youngest son escapes into fantasy world.
It is the second time Wang’s work has screened in Un Certain Regard, after Luxury Car which premiered in the section in 2006, picking up one of the peripheral prizes.
The director is currently developing a road movie set between Beijing, Tibet, Paris and Provence called Looking for Rohmer, in which French actor Jérémie Elkaim and Chinese actor Gen Han are set to co-star.
Other Official Selection titles on Les Films Du Losange’s slate include Tony Gatlif’s Geronimo, about a young...
Paris-based sales company has picked up international sales rights to Wang Chao’s Fantasia ahead of its premiere in Un Certain Regard in Cannes this year.
Set against the backdrop of a contemporary, Chinese industrial city, the film revolves around a family pushed to the limits, socially and economically, by the father’s hospitalisation. Against this background, the youngest son escapes into fantasy world.
It is the second time Wang’s work has screened in Un Certain Regard, after Luxury Car which premiered in the section in 2006, picking up one of the peripheral prizes.
The director is currently developing a road movie set between Beijing, Tibet, Paris and Provence called Looking for Rohmer, in which French actor Jérémie Elkaim and Chinese actor Gen Han are set to co-star.
Other Official Selection titles on Les Films Du Losange’s slate include Tony Gatlif’s Geronimo, about a young...
- 5/8/2014
- ScreenDaily
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