Neuer Look für das NaturVision Filmfestival in Ludwigsburg, an dessen Spitze seit Herbst 2023 Beatrix Wesle steht. Auch das Programm der 23. Ausgabe steht jetzt fest. Das Festival, das sich Filmen aus den Bereichen Natur, Wildlife und Nachhaltigkeit verschrieben hat, startet am 18. Juli.
Das 23. NaturVision Filmfestival startet am 18. Juli (Credit: NaturVision)
Unter dem Motto „Wasser – Lebensräume“ öffnet das NaturVision Filmfestival in Ludwigsburg am 18. Juli seine Tore zur 23. Ausgabe. Sie ist die erste unter neuer Leitung: Festivalgründer Ralph Thoms hatte vergangenen Herbst an Beatrix Wesle übergeben. Bei der Programmpräsentation zeigte sich der Festivalauftritt auch in neuem Look. Nicht nur folgen alle Nominierten für den NaturVision Kurzfilmpreis dem Thema Wasser, auch in allen anderen Wettbewerbssektionen spielt das flüssige Element eine zentrale Rolle. Im Festivalprogramm sind mehr als 100 Filme, 72 Davon in den verschiedenen Wettbewerbsreihen (ausgewählt aus fast 250 eingereichten Beiträgen). Die Entscheidung über die Gewinnerfilme fallen mehrere Jury: zwei Hauptjurys für die Bereiche Umwelt und Nachhaltigkeit,...
Das 23. NaturVision Filmfestival startet am 18. Juli (Credit: NaturVision)
Unter dem Motto „Wasser – Lebensräume“ öffnet das NaturVision Filmfestival in Ludwigsburg am 18. Juli seine Tore zur 23. Ausgabe. Sie ist die erste unter neuer Leitung: Festivalgründer Ralph Thoms hatte vergangenen Herbst an Beatrix Wesle übergeben. Bei der Programmpräsentation zeigte sich der Festivalauftritt auch in neuem Look. Nicht nur folgen alle Nominierten für den NaturVision Kurzfilmpreis dem Thema Wasser, auch in allen anderen Wettbewerbssektionen spielt das flüssige Element eine zentrale Rolle. Im Festivalprogramm sind mehr als 100 Filme, 72 Davon in den verschiedenen Wettbewerbsreihen (ausgewählt aus fast 250 eingereichten Beiträgen). Die Entscheidung über die Gewinnerfilme fallen mehrere Jury: zwei Hauptjurys für die Bereiche Umwelt und Nachhaltigkeit,...
- 6/14/2024
- by Barbara Schuster
- Spot - Media & Film
Modest Mouse’s Isaac Brock has been known to take as long as eight years between albums, but nearly three decades into his band’s career, he’s ready to pick up the pace. Three years after the release of the well-received The Golden Casket, he’s already recorded enough songs for a new Modest Mouse album with producers including Jacknife Lee and Dave Sardy, and intends to put one out by next spring. “In my early days of putting out records, I wrote music every fucking day,” he tells...
- 4/6/2024
- by Brian Hiatt
- Rollingstone.com
Top Cow Productions, Inc., the company behind Haunt You to the End, announced this morning that their acclaimed sci-fi miniseries Antarctica has received “ongoing series” status and will embark on a new story arc described as The Fugitive meets The Cabin in the Woods.
Antarctica, by award-winning screenwriter Simon Birks and Willi Roberts, followed “the journey of a young engineer named Hannah, whose life imploded the day her father failed to return from the secretive Smith-Petersen Research Station in Antarctica. Alone and on the street, she’s at her lowest ebb when a friend offers help. Retrained as an engineer, Hannah secures a job at the same Antarctic station to search for her father and stumbles headfirst into a conspiracy that threatens everything she’s ever believed.”
Expect the a tonal shift for the new greenlight series. The press release explained,” Though Antarctica has been a unique blend of Stargate and His Dark Materials,...
Antarctica, by award-winning screenwriter Simon Birks and Willi Roberts, followed “the journey of a young engineer named Hannah, whose life imploded the day her father failed to return from the secretive Smith-Petersen Research Station in Antarctica. Alone and on the street, she’s at her lowest ebb when a friend offers help. Retrained as an engineer, Hannah secures a job at the same Antarctic station to search for her father and stumbles headfirst into a conspiracy that threatens everything she’s ever believed.”
Expect the a tonal shift for the new greenlight series. The press release explained,” Though Antarctica has been a unique blend of Stargate and His Dark Materials,...
- 8/29/2023
- by Meagan Navarro
- bloody-disgusting.com
Director Benjamin Millepied’s “Carmen,” a musical starring Paul Mescal, will have its West Coast premiere March 25 at the 2023 Sonoma International Film Festival (Siff).
Another debut set to take place during the five-day festival is the world premiere of “Jules,” with director Marc Turtletaub and stars Ben Kingsley and Jane Curtin planning to make an appearance for the occasion. The screening will kick off the opening night of the festival on March 22.
Capping off the event are closing night films “The Eight Mountains,” which received a grand jury prize after its Cannes premiere, and Stephen Williams’ “Chevalier.”
Including the seven U.S. premieres slated for the festival, this year’s lineup features 110 films representative of 32 countries. In total, 38 narrative features, 20 documentary features and 52 short films were selected by the festival curators.
“For my first edition at the Sonoma International Film Festival, with a new curatorial team in place, we aimed...
Another debut set to take place during the five-day festival is the world premiere of “Jules,” with director Marc Turtletaub and stars Ben Kingsley and Jane Curtin planning to make an appearance for the occasion. The screening will kick off the opening night of the festival on March 22.
Capping off the event are closing night films “The Eight Mountains,” which received a grand jury prize after its Cannes premiere, and Stephen Williams’ “Chevalier.”
Including the seven U.S. premieres slated for the festival, this year’s lineup features 110 films representative of 32 countries. In total, 38 narrative features, 20 documentary features and 52 short films were selected by the festival curators.
“For my first edition at the Sonoma International Film Festival, with a new curatorial team in place, we aimed...
- 2/28/2023
- by Jazz Tangcay, Charna Flam and Katie Reul
- Variety Film + TV
“Behind A Barrier Of Antarctic Ice…A Paradise Of Hidden Terrors!” Universal-International laid out a pretty penny to film this elaborate spin on The Lost World, modernized to take in discoveries at the South Pole. It’s a showcase for fancy B&W opticals and traveling mattes … but the featured monster stars are a big letdown — a pathetic rubber costume for a T-Rex and a clunky mechanical water dragon. And the leading lady screams as she pretends to be entangled in a man woman-eating plant!
The Land Unknown
Blu-ray
Kl Studio Classics
1957 / B&W / 2:35 widescreen / 78 min. / Street Date , 2019 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95
Starring: Jock Mahoney, Shawn Smith, William Reynolds, Henry Brandon, Douglas Kennedy, Phil Harvey, Shirley Patterson.
Cinematography: Ellis W. Carter
Film Editor: Fred MacDowell
Visual Effects: Orien Ernest, Jack Kevan, Fred Knoth, Roswell A. Hoffman, Clifford Stine
Original Music: Henry Mancini, Heinz Roemheld, Hans J. Salter, Herman Stein
Written by László Görög,...
The Land Unknown
Blu-ray
Kl Studio Classics
1957 / B&W / 2:35 widescreen / 78 min. / Street Date , 2019 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95
Starring: Jock Mahoney, Shawn Smith, William Reynolds, Henry Brandon, Douglas Kennedy, Phil Harvey, Shirley Patterson.
Cinematography: Ellis W. Carter
Film Editor: Fred MacDowell
Visual Effects: Orien Ernest, Jack Kevan, Fred Knoth, Roswell A. Hoffman, Clifford Stine
Original Music: Henry Mancini, Heinz Roemheld, Hans J. Salter, Herman Stein
Written by László Görög,...
- 4/23/2019
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
In November 2014 Japanese Cinema lost two of its greatest: Ken Takakura and Bunta Sugawara. Since both legendary actors have had a great impact on the world of Japanese film and have starred in countless classic productions, I felt the need to write a short article about the matter and salute these two great actors.
On the 10th of November 2014, Ken Takakura passed away at the age of 83. He was known as the “Japanese Clint Eastwood”. Starting his career in 1955, Takakura became mostly known for his portrayal of tough but disciplined gangsters in the 1960s and 1970s. Most famous of these films is his performance as gangster Shinichi Tachibana in the Abashiri Prison series (1965-1972). This lead to him eventually working together with Sydney Pollack for the film The Yakuza (1974), his first international production.
But it wasn’t until 1989 before Takakura became internationally known by playing alongside Michael Douglas and Andy Garcia...
On the 10th of November 2014, Ken Takakura passed away at the age of 83. He was known as the “Japanese Clint Eastwood”. Starting his career in 1955, Takakura became mostly known for his portrayal of tough but disciplined gangsters in the 1960s and 1970s. Most famous of these films is his performance as gangster Shinichi Tachibana in the Abashiri Prison series (1965-1972). This lead to him eventually working together with Sydney Pollack for the film The Yakuza (1974), his first international production.
But it wasn’t until 1989 before Takakura became internationally known by playing alongside Michael Douglas and Andy Garcia...
- 12/8/2014
- by Thor
- AsianMoviePulse
Reviewer: Philip Tatler IV
Ratings (out of five):
Intimidation: ****
The Warped Ones: ***½
I Hate But Love: ***½
Black Sun: ****½
Thirst for Love: ***½
Set: ****
Koreyoshi Kurahara is most well-known for the 1983 ”sled dogs overcome cruel nature” piece Antarctica (Nankyoku Monogatari) which was Japan’s number one box office smash for over a decade. Diving into the five early Kurahara features featured in this set, however, it’s hard to imagine him being picked for such a Disneyesque enterprise.
The set begins simply enough with Intimidation (1960), a tamped-down caper that twists and turns right up to the last of its scant 65 minutes. Just as bank manager Mr. Takita (Nobuo Kaneko) is enjoying his ascension to the upper echelon of society, his past sins return to haunt him whilst compelling him to embezzle three million yen from his bank’s vault. Takita enlists his long-suffering “friend,” a pathetic underling named Nakaike (a heartbreaking,...
Ratings (out of five):
Intimidation: ****
The Warped Ones: ***½
I Hate But Love: ***½
Black Sun: ****½
Thirst for Love: ***½
Set: ****
Koreyoshi Kurahara is most well-known for the 1983 ”sled dogs overcome cruel nature” piece Antarctica (Nankyoku Monogatari) which was Japan’s number one box office smash for over a decade. Diving into the five early Kurahara features featured in this set, however, it’s hard to imagine him being picked for such a Disneyesque enterprise.
The set begins simply enough with Intimidation (1960), a tamped-down caper that twists and turns right up to the last of its scant 65 minutes. Just as bank manager Mr. Takita (Nobuo Kaneko) is enjoying his ascension to the upper echelon of society, his past sins return to haunt him whilst compelling him to embezzle three million yen from his bank’s vault. Takita enlists his long-suffering “friend,” a pathetic underling named Nakaike (a heartbreaking,...
- 8/30/2011
- by weezy
- GreenCine
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