Exclusive: Madsen documentary sells to Italy and Poland, with further deals close.
The Visit - An Alien Encounter by Michael Madsen - director of documentary Into Eternity: A Film for the Future and an episode of Cathedrals Of Culture - is to recevie its market premiere at Berlin’s European Film Market (Efm) (Feb 5-13) following its Sundance screenings.
New sales by Autlook have been secured in Italy (iWonder) and Poland (Against Gravity)prior to the Berlinale, following a deal in the UK (Metrodome), as revealed by ScreenDaily.
Autlook confirmed that negotiations are underway with German and reach buyers. The Us sales rep is Cinetic.
The Visit, shot in 4K, is billed as a hybrid form of documentary “about an an event that has never taken place – man’s first encounter with intelligent life from space”.
In Berlin, docs specialist Autlook is presenting two films in 3D.
One is head banging music documentary Wacken - The Movie...
The Visit - An Alien Encounter by Michael Madsen - director of documentary Into Eternity: A Film for the Future and an episode of Cathedrals Of Culture - is to recevie its market premiere at Berlin’s European Film Market (Efm) (Feb 5-13) following its Sundance screenings.
New sales by Autlook have been secured in Italy (iWonder) and Poland (Against Gravity)prior to the Berlinale, following a deal in the UK (Metrodome), as revealed by ScreenDaily.
Autlook confirmed that negotiations are underway with German and reach buyers. The Us sales rep is Cinetic.
The Visit, shot in 4K, is billed as a hybrid form of documentary “about an an event that has never taken place – man’s first encounter with intelligent life from space”.
In Berlin, docs specialist Autlook is presenting two films in 3D.
One is head banging music documentary Wacken - The Movie...
- 2/5/2015
- by geoffrey@macnab.demon.co.uk (Geoffrey Macnab)
- ScreenDaily
"This film documents an event that has never taken place..." Chills. This documentary explores the idea of what would happen, and how we would respond, if aliens came to Earth. Titled The Visit, from filmmaker (not actor) Michael Madsen (of Into Eternity: A Film for the Future), the documentary is premiering at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival in January and it looks like a must see (it's definitely on my radar now). As explained by Sundance, utilizing "unprecedented access to" the United Nations' Office for Outer Space Affairs (such an office exists?), and "leading space scientists and space agencies," the doc wonders how we would respond and what might happen. I can't wait. "Our scenario begins with the arrival. Your arrival." Here's the first official trailer for Michael Madsen's documentary The Visit, found via Twitch: The cinematography in this looks stunning, only adding more depth and intrigue. Impressive first trailer.
- 12/11/2014
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Time Out reported that Jim Jarmusch — the director behind Broken Flowers and Dead Man and a once-All Tomorrow’s Parties festival curator in New York — will release Concerning the Entrance Into Eternity on Feb. 28 through important records. The album will be a collaboration, with Jarmusch playing guitar and Jozef Van Wissem on lute. The two are expected to perform two sets in New York on Feb. 3 at the Issue Project Room.
- 2/1/2012
- Pastemagazine.com
Jodie Foster, Kate Winslet in Roman Polanski's Carnage The Artist, Kidnapped Mormon Missionary/Sex-Slave Documentary Tabloid Top Detroit Film Critics Awards Best Picture * The Artist The Descendants Hugo Take Shelter The Tree Of Life Best Director * Michel Hazanavicius – The Artist Terrence Malick – The Tree Of Life Jeff Nichols – Take Shelter Martin Scorsese– Hugo Nicholas Winding Refn – Drive Best Actor George Clooney– The Descendants Jean Dujardin – The Artist * Michael Fassbender – Shame Brad Pitt – Moneyball Michael Shannon – Take Shelter Best Actress Viola Davis – The Help Felicity Jones – Like Crazy Meryl Streep – The Iron Lady Charlize Theron – Young Adult * Michelle Williams – My Week With Marilyn Best Supporting Actor Kenneth Branagh – My Week With Marilyn Albert Brooks – Drive Ryan Gosling – Crazy Stupid Love Patton Oswalt – Young Adult * Christopher Plummer – Beginners Best Supporting Actress BÉRÉNICE Bejo – The Artist Jessica Chastain – Take Shelter * Carey Mulligan – Shame Vanessa Redgrave – Coriolanus Octavia Spencer – The Help Best Ensemble...
- 12/28/2011
- by Steve Montgomery
- Alt Film Guide
As we walk down towards the Super Bowl of the movie awards season aka the Academy Awards aka the Oscars, all the various critics associations and guilds release their own kudofest. It can get confusing and beguiling, so I created a nifty package for you -- I compiled all the nominees, winners of various award-giving bodies so you can make informed decision when it comes to predicting the Oscars.
Come and take the Awards Avenue with me!
And here we go (click on each link):
AFI Awards
Boston Society of Film Critics Awards
British Independent Film Awards
Cinema Eye Honors
Critics' Choice (Broadcast Film Critics Association)
Detroit Film Critics
European Film Awards
Gotham Awards
Houston Film Critics Awards
Ida Awards
Independent Spirit Award Nominations
Indiana Film Critics
Las Vegas Film Critics
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
National Board of Review
New York Film Critics Circle Awards
New York...
Come and take the Awards Avenue with me!
And here we go (click on each link):
AFI Awards
Boston Society of Film Critics Awards
British Independent Film Awards
Cinema Eye Honors
Critics' Choice (Broadcast Film Critics Association)
Detroit Film Critics
European Film Awards
Gotham Awards
Houston Film Critics Awards
Ida Awards
Independent Spirit Award Nominations
Indiana Film Critics
Las Vegas Film Critics
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
National Board of Review
New York Film Critics Circle Awards
New York...
- 12/12/2011
- by Manny
- Manny the Movie Guy
The Detroit Film Critics Society has announced their nominations for the Best of 2011. Leading with 6 nominations is "Take Shelter" including nods for Best Picture, Best Director for Jeff Nichols, and Best Actor for Michael Shannon.
We'll see if "Take Shelter" will top the Detroit Film Critics Award when the winners are announced on December 16th.
Here's the complete list of nominees for the Best of 2011 by the Detroit Film Critics Society:
Best Picture
"The Artist"
"The Descendants"
"Hugo"
"Take Shelter"
"The Tree of Life"
Best Director
Michel Hazanavicius, "The Artist"
Terrence Malick, "The Tree of Life"
Jeff Nichols, "Take Shelter"
Nicolas Winding Refn, "Drive"
Martin Scorsese, "Hugo"
Best Actor
George Clooney, "The Descendants"
Jean Dujardin, "The Artist"
Michael Fassbender, "Shame"
Brad Pitt, "Moneyball"
Michael Shannon, "Take Shelter"
Best Actress
Viola Davis, "The Help"
Felicity Jones, "Like Crazy"
Meryl Streep, "The Iron Lady"
Charlize Theron, "Young Adult"
Michelle Williams, "My Week with Marilyn...
We'll see if "Take Shelter" will top the Detroit Film Critics Award when the winners are announced on December 16th.
Here's the complete list of nominees for the Best of 2011 by the Detroit Film Critics Society:
Best Picture
"The Artist"
"The Descendants"
"Hugo"
"Take Shelter"
"The Tree of Life"
Best Director
Michel Hazanavicius, "The Artist"
Terrence Malick, "The Tree of Life"
Jeff Nichols, "Take Shelter"
Nicolas Winding Refn, "Drive"
Martin Scorsese, "Hugo"
Best Actor
George Clooney, "The Descendants"
Jean Dujardin, "The Artist"
Michael Fassbender, "Shame"
Brad Pitt, "Moneyball"
Michael Shannon, "Take Shelter"
Best Actress
Viola Davis, "The Help"
Felicity Jones, "Like Crazy"
Meryl Streep, "The Iron Lady"
Charlize Theron, "Young Adult"
Michelle Williams, "My Week with Marilyn...
- 12/12/2011
- by Manny
- Manny the Movie Guy
Jean Dujardin, Bérénice Bejo, The Artist
Best Picture
The Artist
The Descendants
Hugo
Take Shelter
The Tree Of Life
Best Director
Michel Hazanavicius – The Artist
Terrence Malick – The Tree Of Life
Jeff Nichols – Take Shelter
Martin Scorsese– Hugo
Nicholas Winding Refn – Drive
Best Actor
George Clooney– The Descendants
Jean Dujardin – The Artist
Michael Fassbender – Shame
Brad Pitt – Moneyball
Michael Shannon – Take Shelter
Best Actress
Viola Davis – The Help
Felicity Jones – Like Crazy
Meryl Streep – The Iron Lady
Charlize Theron – Young Adult
Michelle Williams – My Week With Marilyn
Best Supporting Actor
Kenneth Branagh – My Week With Marilyn
Albert Brooks – Drive
Ryan Gosling – Crazy Stupid Love
Patton Oswalt – Young Adult
Christopher Plummer – Beginners
Best Supporting Actress
BÉRÉNICE Bejo – The Artist
Jessica Chastain – Take Shelter
Carey Mulligan – Shame
Vanessa Redgrave – Coriolanus
Octavia Spencer – The Help
Best Ensemble
Carnage
Cedar Rapids
Crazy Stupid Love
The Help
Margin Call
Win Win
Breakthrough Performance
Jessica Chastain...
Best Picture
The Artist
The Descendants
Hugo
Take Shelter
The Tree Of Life
Best Director
Michel Hazanavicius – The Artist
Terrence Malick – The Tree Of Life
Jeff Nichols – Take Shelter
Martin Scorsese– Hugo
Nicholas Winding Refn – Drive
Best Actor
George Clooney– The Descendants
Jean Dujardin – The Artist
Michael Fassbender – Shame
Brad Pitt – Moneyball
Michael Shannon – Take Shelter
Best Actress
Viola Davis – The Help
Felicity Jones – Like Crazy
Meryl Streep – The Iron Lady
Charlize Theron – Young Adult
Michelle Williams – My Week With Marilyn
Best Supporting Actor
Kenneth Branagh – My Week With Marilyn
Albert Brooks – Drive
Ryan Gosling – Crazy Stupid Love
Patton Oswalt – Young Adult
Christopher Plummer – Beginners
Best Supporting Actress
BÉRÉNICE Bejo – The Artist
Jessica Chastain – Take Shelter
Carey Mulligan – Shame
Vanessa Redgrave – Coriolanus
Octavia Spencer – The Help
Best Ensemble
Carnage
Cedar Rapids
Crazy Stupid Love
The Help
Margin Call
Win Win
Breakthrough Performance
Jessica Chastain...
- 12/12/2011
- by Steve Montgomery
- Alt Film Guide
Director Rosie Jones has won the Award for Best Australian Documentary Film for her film The Triangle Wars at the inaugural Antenna International Documentary Film Festival.
The film follows the conflict between local government, big business and the community over the development of a ‘mega mall’ on the foreshore of St Kilda.
Danish filmmaker Michael Madsen won the Sbs Award for Best International Documentary Film for Into Eternity, looking at how Finland considers their options regarding the very real, very long-term issue of nuclear waste storage.
Matt Cooney took out the Best Australian Students Documentary Film Award for his film Ol’ Blue Eyes, about the life of Sydney taxi driver, Zachary Kryuchkov, who is a classically trained singer from Ukraine playing his CDs to his customers.
This year was the first outing for the Antenna Film Festival. Director David Rokach told Encore: “We felt there is a need for a...
The film follows the conflict between local government, big business and the community over the development of a ‘mega mall’ on the foreshore of St Kilda.
Danish filmmaker Michael Madsen won the Sbs Award for Best International Documentary Film for Into Eternity, looking at how Finland considers their options regarding the very real, very long-term issue of nuclear waste storage.
Matt Cooney took out the Best Australian Students Documentary Film Award for his film Ol’ Blue Eyes, about the life of Sydney taxi driver, Zachary Kryuchkov, who is a classically trained singer from Ukraine playing his CDs to his customers.
This year was the first outing for the Antenna Film Festival. Director David Rokach told Encore: “We felt there is a need for a...
- 10/11/2011
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
The Creative Impact award aims to honour those film-makers whose documentaries bring burning issues to our attention. But just how effective are they?
Movie people are forever telling the rest of us that movies can change the world – but they would say that, wouldn't they? It justifies the outrageous salaries, the decadent lifestyles and the grandiose awards acceptance speeches. Certainly, if James Cameron could point to figures detailing a fall in ocean-liner/iceberg collisions following Titanic's release, his "I'm the king of the world!" Oscar proclamation might have been more forgivable. But beyond the bluster of Hollywood and the joy of escapism, what kind of real-world impact can cinema really have?
The creators of the Puma Creative Impact award believe it can be massive. Its stated aim? "To honour the documentary film creating the most significant impact in the world." As the documentarist Morgan Spurlock, a juror for the award,...
Movie people are forever telling the rest of us that movies can change the world – but they would say that, wouldn't they? It justifies the outrageous salaries, the decadent lifestyles and the grandiose awards acceptance speeches. Certainly, if James Cameron could point to figures detailing a fall in ocean-liner/iceberg collisions following Titanic's release, his "I'm the king of the world!" Oscar proclamation might have been more forgivable. But beyond the bluster of Hollywood and the joy of escapism, what kind of real-world impact can cinema really have?
The creators of the Puma Creative Impact award believe it can be massive. Its stated aim? "To honour the documentary film creating the most significant impact in the world." As the documentarist Morgan Spurlock, a juror for the award,...
- 10/6/2011
- by Morgan Spurlock, Ellen E Jones
- The Guardian - Film News
The Antenna International Documentary Film Festival has announced their inaugural line-up for the event which runs 5-9 October.
Boasting 15 Australian premieres and 25 Sydney premieres with films from 18 different countries, there is $10,000 in prizes.
Opening night at the Dendy Opera Quays will screen Robert Nugent’s Memoirs of a Plague that looks at the relationship between humans and the locust.
Closing night will be Philip Cox’s The Bengali Detective followed by an awards presentation to announce the winner of the Sbs Award for International Documentary (worth $5000) and the Best Australian Documentary ($2500). Both films are in competition.
Other films in International Competition: Michael Madsen’s Into Eternity, Robin Hessman’s My Perestroika, Danfun Dennis’ Hell and Back Again and Marcus Linden’s Regretters – winner of the Prix Europa Best Documentary at Berlin 2010 about two transgender people regretting their decisions to undergo surgery.
In the international special screenings, see Alex Gibney’s...
Boasting 15 Australian premieres and 25 Sydney premieres with films from 18 different countries, there is $10,000 in prizes.
Opening night at the Dendy Opera Quays will screen Robert Nugent’s Memoirs of a Plague that looks at the relationship between humans and the locust.
Closing night will be Philip Cox’s The Bengali Detective followed by an awards presentation to announce the winner of the Sbs Award for International Documentary (worth $5000) and the Best Australian Documentary ($2500). Both films are in competition.
Other films in International Competition: Michael Madsen’s Into Eternity, Robin Hessman’s My Perestroika, Danfun Dennis’ Hell and Back Again and Marcus Linden’s Regretters – winner of the Prix Europa Best Documentary at Berlin 2010 about two transgender people regretting their decisions to undergo surgery.
In the international special screenings, see Alex Gibney’s...
- 9/6/2011
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
The Antenna International Documentary Film Festival will debut this year at Sydney’ Chauvel Cinema from 5 to 9 October.
The festival, with 28 feature documentaries will also include nearly $10,000 in prize money spread across three categories.
Films will compete for either the Sbs Award for Best International Documentary ($5,000), Award for Best Australian Documentary ($2500), or a student competition in association with Aftrs ($2,000).
In a statement, Antenna Founding Director David Rokach said, “I have seen the impact that documentary film festivals have in other countries, not just in the development of new audiences for documentary but also in the quality of the films being produced. We thought a festival dedicated exclusively to documentary would be a great contribution to Australia and we hope Antenna will become a fruitful platform for presenting the complexities of the world we live in. We look to present films that will challenge audiences, while also being relevant.”
Matchmaking mayors, pool parties,...
The festival, with 28 feature documentaries will also include nearly $10,000 in prize money spread across three categories.
Films will compete for either the Sbs Award for Best International Documentary ($5,000), Award for Best Australian Documentary ($2500), or a student competition in association with Aftrs ($2,000).
In a statement, Antenna Founding Director David Rokach said, “I have seen the impact that documentary film festivals have in other countries, not just in the development of new audiences for documentary but also in the quality of the films being produced. We thought a festival dedicated exclusively to documentary would be a great contribution to Australia and we hope Antenna will become a fruitful platform for presenting the complexities of the world we live in. We look to present films that will challenge audiences, while also being relevant.”
Matchmaking mayors, pool parties,...
- 7/29/2011
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
Selected, Nationwide
If you thought the Jarman Award was where you'd find the next big thing in British film art, you're one step behind. This touring initiative gets the four film-makers shortlisted for last year's Jarman – Spartacus Chetwynd, Ben Rivers, Zineb Sedira and Emily Wardill – to select moving-image artists they think we should be watching. The 10 names on the programme might not mean anything to the public yet as they're mostly up-and-coming, recently graduated art students (some of whom appear at screenings), but where else might you find a film that tries to invent a new colour or create a new manifesto based on capturing extragalactic rhythms?
Various venues, Tue to 30 Jun
Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, London
The poor, war-torn, landlocked republic of Chad is virtually unknown on the geographical map, let alone the film-making one, but Haroun is doing something about that. Influenced by calm, observational film-makers such as Hou Hsiao-hsien,...
If you thought the Jarman Award was where you'd find the next big thing in British film art, you're one step behind. This touring initiative gets the four film-makers shortlisted for last year's Jarman – Spartacus Chetwynd, Ben Rivers, Zineb Sedira and Emily Wardill – to select moving-image artists they think we should be watching. The 10 names on the programme might not mean anything to the public yet as they're mostly up-and-coming, recently graduated art students (some of whom appear at screenings), but where else might you find a film that tries to invent a new colour or create a new manifesto based on capturing extragalactic rhythms?
Various venues, Tue to 30 Jun
Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, London
The poor, war-torn, landlocked republic of Chad is virtually unknown on the geographical map, let alone the film-making one, but Haroun is doing something about that. Influenced by calm, observational film-makers such as Hou Hsiao-hsien,...
- 5/13/2011
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
Summary: An awe-inspiring journey into the birth of the human mind.
Leave it to Werner Herzog, professional blower of minds. It has been a while since I attended the screening of Cave of Forgotten Dreams, but I clearly remember my reaction: gobsmacked. Herzog has created a film that intrigues our imagination and intellect so profoundly, I fail to recall a cinematic experience anything like it, although the Danish nuclear storage documentary Into Eternity comes close.
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Leave it to Werner Herzog, professional blower of minds. It has been a while since I attended the screening of Cave of Forgotten Dreams, but I clearly remember my reaction: gobsmacked. Herzog has created a film that intrigues our imagination and intellect so profoundly, I fail to recall a cinematic experience anything like it, although the Danish nuclear storage documentary Into Eternity comes close.
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- 4/29/2011
- by Benny Gammerman
- Filmology
Source: FilmShaft - Open City London Film Festival Announces Line-Up
The inaugural and prestigious Open City London Documentary Festival (Open City) launches 16 - 19 June at University College London venues and the Prince Charles cinema, as a public-minded celebration of the best in documentary filmmaking. With a diverse programme centered around Obsessions, Crime & Punishment and The City, the festival presents a variety of award winning masterpieces and UK premieres, training workshops, live music events, as well as open air performances and food stalls.
Pawel Pawlikowski, multi-bafta award winning director and Open City judge:
"It’s great to have a new festival in London bringing together practitioners and a broad public audience. At its best documentary film goes beyond the familiar and the cliché to reveal the mystery, the poetry, the ambiguity beneath."
The festival will open with the internationally acclaimed Position Among The Stars (The Darwin Theatre, Ucl, Thurs 16 June), the...
The inaugural and prestigious Open City London Documentary Festival (Open City) launches 16 - 19 June at University College London venues and the Prince Charles cinema, as a public-minded celebration of the best in documentary filmmaking. With a diverse programme centered around Obsessions, Crime & Punishment and The City, the festival presents a variety of award winning masterpieces and UK premieres, training workshops, live music events, as well as open air performances and food stalls.
Pawel Pawlikowski, multi-bafta award winning director and Open City judge:
"It’s great to have a new festival in London bringing together practitioners and a broad public audience. At its best documentary film goes beyond the familiar and the cliché to reveal the mystery, the poetry, the ambiguity beneath."
The festival will open with the internationally acclaimed Position Among The Stars (The Darwin Theatre, Ucl, Thurs 16 June), the...
- 4/22/2011
- by Martyn Conterio
- FilmShaft.com
Werner Herzog finds a stunning world full of art and wonder beneath France. By Peter Bradshaw
It could almost be a modern Brit horror, a film that takes us on an eerie descent into an ancient cave to discover something strange, awe-inspiring and scary … Werner Herzog.
This director has scored another remarkable success with this documentary, using 3D to accentuate the massive, sculptural forms revealed to his camera. He and a minimal crew were allowed into the extraordinary Chauvet cave in the south of France, named after Jean-Marie Chauvet, the explorer who in 1994 made a Tutankhamun-level discovery: hundreds of pictures of animals drawn with flair, sophistication and detail by early man around 32,000 years ago.
It represents, as Herzog puts it in his unmistakable voice, "the beginnings of the modern human soul" and playfully remarks that the superimposed drawings of animals' legs in different positions create the sense of movement and...
It could almost be a modern Brit horror, a film that takes us on an eerie descent into an ancient cave to discover something strange, awe-inspiring and scary … Werner Herzog.
This director has scored another remarkable success with this documentary, using 3D to accentuate the massive, sculptural forms revealed to his camera. He and a minimal crew were allowed into the extraordinary Chauvet cave in the south of France, named after Jean-Marie Chauvet, the explorer who in 1994 made a Tutankhamun-level discovery: hundreds of pictures of animals drawn with flair, sophistication and detail by early man around 32,000 years ago.
It represents, as Herzog puts it in his unmistakable voice, "the beginnings of the modern human soul" and playfully remarks that the superimposed drawings of animals' legs in different positions create the sense of movement and...
- 3/25/2011
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: I celebrate all levels of trailers and hopefully this column will satisfactorily give you a baseline of what beta wave I’m operating on, because what better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising? Some of the best authors will tell you that writing a short story is a lot harder than writing a long one, that you have to weigh every sentence. What better medium to see how this theory plays itself out beyond that than with movie trailers? The City Dark Trailer Ian Cheney may have something. I never considered the idea about living where the stars are obscured by the blitz of big city light rushing upwards,...
- 3/19/2011
- by Christopher Stipp
- Slash Film
Into Eternity
Directed by Michael Madsen
2010, Denmark | Finland | Sweden | Italy
As human beings, we quantify the world in measurements relative to our biological experience of it. Distance is defined in terms of our physical ability to traverse it, and time is divided in to collective generations at one extreme, and individual acts of consumption at the other. The sinister joke is that many of the byproducts of our consumptions are not subject to a biological time scale, but to a geological one; those byproducts will in all likelihood outlast mankind, including the most pernicious: nuclear waste.
The current and future use of nuclear power to meet our energy needs is a political and moral issue, but the waste already derived from spent nuclear fuel is a material fact. A fact that the vast majority of us fail to appreciate because we have little idea what that waste is; we can...
Directed by Michael Madsen
2010, Denmark | Finland | Sweden | Italy
As human beings, we quantify the world in measurements relative to our biological experience of it. Distance is defined in terms of our physical ability to traverse it, and time is divided in to collective generations at one extreme, and individual acts of consumption at the other. The sinister joke is that many of the byproducts of our consumptions are not subject to a biological time scale, but to a geological one; those byproducts will in all likelihood outlast mankind, including the most pernicious: nuclear waste.
The current and future use of nuclear power to meet our energy needs is a political and moral issue, but the waste already derived from spent nuclear fuel is a material fact. A fact that the vast majority of us fail to appreciate because we have little idea what that waste is; we can...
- 3/10/2011
- by Louis Godfrey
- SoundOnSight
Feb. 18
8:00 p.m.
Chicago Filmmakers
5243 N. Clark St.
Chicago, Il 60640
Hosted by: Chicago Filmmakers
Into Eternity is a documentary directed by Michael Madsen (not the American actor) about the construction of an extensive underground containment system for radioactive waste in Finland.
However, instead of a straight-up scientific tour of the location or an examination of the political ramifications of constructing such a place, Madsen has crafted a poetic meditation on the nature of time as this underground bunker must store this deadly material for over 100,000 years.
The location that is being excavated is called Onkalo, or “hiding place,” and is situated near the Olkiluoto Nuclear Power Plant. It is being constructed in accordance of the Finnish Nuclear Energy Act, which mandates that all of Finland’s nuclear waste must be disposed of in country. Currently, the project is still in the process of excavating and examining the bedrock 520 metres beneath the Earth.
8:00 p.m.
Chicago Filmmakers
5243 N. Clark St.
Chicago, Il 60640
Hosted by: Chicago Filmmakers
Into Eternity is a documentary directed by Michael Madsen (not the American actor) about the construction of an extensive underground containment system for radioactive waste in Finland.
However, instead of a straight-up scientific tour of the location or an examination of the political ramifications of constructing such a place, Madsen has crafted a poetic meditation on the nature of time as this underground bunker must store this deadly material for over 100,000 years.
The location that is being excavated is called Onkalo, or “hiding place,” and is situated near the Olkiluoto Nuclear Power Plant. It is being constructed in accordance of the Finnish Nuclear Energy Act, which mandates that all of Finland’s nuclear waste must be disposed of in country. Currently, the project is still in the process of excavating and examining the bedrock 520 metres beneath the Earth.
- 2/16/2011
- by screenings
- Underground Film Journal
A haunting nonfiction elegy about the threat of the apocalypse, Michael Madsen’s “Into Eternity” explores the horrors of anticipating an unpredictable future. Madsen delves into the perilous crevices of Onkalo (which translates as “hiding place”), an ominous cave in Finland tasked with the permanent storage of nuclear waste. Since Onkalo must last 100,000 years, so too must the warnings that its contents are left undisturbed. Madsen focuses on the challenges ...
- 2/3/2011
- Indiewire
This interview was orignally published during last year's Tribeca Film Festival. Michael Madsen's documentary "Into Eternity" opens at Film Forum in New York today. Every day, the world over, large amounts of high-level radioactive waste created by nuclear power plants is placed in interim storages, which are vulnerable to natural disasters, man-made disasters, and to societal changes. In Finland the world's first permanent repository is being hewn out of solid ...
- 2/2/2011
- indieWIRE - People
This interview was orignally published during last year's Tribeca Film Festival. Michael Madsen's documentary "Into Eternity" opens at Film Forum in New York today and will roll out nationally in the near future. Every day, the world over, large amounts of high-level radioactive waste created by nuclear power plants is placed in interim storages, which are vulnerable to natural disasters, man-made disasters, and to societal changes. In Finland the world's ...
- 2/2/2011
- indieWIRE - People
This interview was orignally published during last year's Tribeca Film Festival. Michael Madsen's documentary "Into Eternity" opens at Film Forum in New York today and will roll out nationally in the near future. Every day, the world over, large amounts of high-level radioactive waste created by nuclear power plants is placed in interim storages, which are vulnerable to natural disasters, man-made disasters, and to societal changes. In Finland the world's ...
- 2/2/2011
- Indiewire
Michael Madsen's eerily elegant enviro-doc Into Eternity (which premiered at Tff 2010) is set for a two week run at Film Forum, February 2-15. Five kilometers below the earth, the people of Finland are constructing an enormous tomb as the final resting place for their share of the waste. Armed with his camera, Madsen (not That Michael Madsen) descends into the murky three-mile tunnel dubbed Onkalo (Finnish for "hiding place"), which should be sealed by the year 2100 and must remain untouched for at least 100,000 years. Through interviews with the men who blast the rock as well as top nuclear energy experts, Madsen raises many pressing questions about our world: How far into the future does our way of life have consequences? How can we warn civilizations of the distant future that the buried treasure of our nuclear era - unlike the pyramids and great tombs of pharaohs - must never,...
- 1/31/2011
- TribecaFilm.com
Michael Madsen's feature film debut, the documentary "Into Eternity," is set to hit North American theaters thanks to International Film Circuit. The film will premiere for U.S. audiences at New York City's Film Forum on February 2nd, followed by a national rollout. "Into Eternity" examines the issue of nuclear waste storage. The film was nominated for two Cinema Eye Honors and won the Green Screen Award at last year's Idfa ...
- 1/20/2011
- Indiewire
The distributor International Film Circuit has announced that it will release "Into Eternity" in theatrically in the Us and Canada. The film, directed by Danish filmmaker Michael Madsen, asks the question: What should we do with our vast amounts of nuclear waste? "Into Eternity" debuted on home turf at the 2009 Copenhagen Documentary Film Festival (Cph:dox) and garnered great critical acclaim along its extensive doc festival run. Last night, the ...
- 1/19/2011
- Indiewire
In a remote area in western Finland, a tunnel that ultimately will be three miles long and 1,600 feet deep is being drilled into the bedrock. The site is called Onkalo, "hiding place," and when it's completed, sometime in 2100, it will serve as a permanent resting place for the country's radioactive waste, a tomb the government plans to seal and leave undisturbed for at least 100,000 years.
The remarkable documentary "Into Eternity," directed by Danish conceptual artist/filmmaker Michael Madsen (who should start a club with "Hunger"'s Steve McQueen and "Reel Injun"'s Neil Diamond), isn't concerned with nuclear power or the politics the surround it. What's captured Madsen's imagination is the idea of creating something that's intended to last far beyond the existing span of human civilization. As remote as the pyramids are to us now, they're only a few thousand years old, nothing compared to the incomprehensible lengths of...
The remarkable documentary "Into Eternity," directed by Danish conceptual artist/filmmaker Michael Madsen (who should start a club with "Hunger"'s Steve McQueen and "Reel Injun"'s Neil Diamond), isn't concerned with nuclear power or the politics the surround it. What's captured Madsen's imagination is the idea of creating something that's intended to last far beyond the existing span of human civilization. As remote as the pyramids are to us now, they're only a few thousand years old, nothing compared to the incomprehensible lengths of...
- 1/19/2011
- by Alison Willmore
- ifc.com
Summary: Innovative filmmaking at its utmost, and an ideal companion piece to Werner Herzog's upcoming 'Cave of Forgotten Dreams.'
Danish filmmaker Michael Madsen (not, not that Michael Madsen) takes pleasure in blowing your mind in the most beautiful way possible. His part-documentary, part-predictive science fiction fantasy Into Eternity beckons the viewer deep into a futuristic subterranean abyss where man sheepishly and carefully stores the most dangerous byproduct of his global domination... nuclear waste.
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Danish filmmaker Michael Madsen (not, not that Michael Madsen) takes pleasure in blowing your mind in the most beautiful way possible. His part-documentary, part-predictive science fiction fantasy Into Eternity beckons the viewer deep into a futuristic subterranean abyss where man sheepishly and carefully stores the most dangerous byproduct of his global domination... nuclear waste.
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- 1/18/2011
- by Benny Gammerman
- Filmology
We Are What We Are (15)
(Jorge Michel Grau, 2010, Mexico) Francisco Barreiro, Alan Chávez, Paulina Gaitán, Carmen Beato. 90 mins
Vampires are so last season, so bring on the cannibals! Why get a shake when you can have a whole Happy Meal? The cannibal lifestyle is by no means glamourised here, but if there is a revival, this could be its Let The Right One In - a downbeat, realist horror in which a father's death forces his flesh-eating family to fend for themselves. We're in for nasty gore and a grimy wallow in Mexico's underclass, but despite a frustrating lack of detail, the setting is ripe for socio-political metaphors and inappropriate comedy.
brilliantlove (18)
(Ashley Horner, 2009, UK) 97 mins
You can tell by that lower-case title how envolope-pushingly edgy this wants to be. And sure enough there's strong sex and hipster protagonists named Manchester and Noon. At heart, though, it's a natural, unashamed...
(Jorge Michel Grau, 2010, Mexico) Francisco Barreiro, Alan Chávez, Paulina Gaitán, Carmen Beato. 90 mins
Vampires are so last season, so bring on the cannibals! Why get a shake when you can have a whole Happy Meal? The cannibal lifestyle is by no means glamourised here, but if there is a revival, this could be its Let The Right One In - a downbeat, realist horror in which a father's death forces his flesh-eating family to fend for themselves. We're in for nasty gore and a grimy wallow in Mexico's underclass, but despite a frustrating lack of detail, the setting is ripe for socio-political metaphors and inappropriate comedy.
brilliantlove (18)
(Ashley Horner, 2009, UK) 97 mins
You can tell by that lower-case title how envolope-pushingly edgy this wants to be. And sure enough there's strong sex and hipster protagonists named Manchester and Noon. At heart, though, it's a natural, unashamed...
- 11/13/2010
- by The guide
- The Guardian - Film News
This week, Jason Solomons meets the creators of the animated feature Chico & Rita: director Fernando Trueba and the graphic artist Javier Mariscal. The story tells of a talented duo – pianist Chico and singer Rita – who find love in pre-revolutionary Havana. Jason discovers Javier and Fernando's combined passion for Cuban music and culture. Guardian Extra is offering limited tickets to a preview of Chico & Rita on November 14.
Plus, Jason talks to director Michael Madsen about his haunting and profound documentary Into Eternity, which explores the logistics of storing nuclear waste for hundreds of thousands of years.
Xan Brooks joins Jason to review some of this week's other releases including the Mexican horror We Are What We Are, which takes the simple family meal to a darker place, Gérard Depardieu pigeons-and-literacy drama My Afternoons With Margueritte, and unconventional British indie romance brilliantlove.
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Plus, Jason talks to director Michael Madsen about his haunting and profound documentary Into Eternity, which explores the logistics of storing nuclear waste for hundreds of thousands of years.
Xan Brooks joins Jason to review some of this week's other releases including the Mexican horror We Are What We Are, which takes the simple family meal to a darker place, Gérard Depardieu pigeons-and-literacy drama My Afternoons With Margueritte, and unconventional British indie romance brilliantlove.
Do join us on Facebook, Film Weekly fans, where you...
- 11/11/2010
- by Jason Solomons, Xan Brooks, Jason Phipps
- The Guardian - Film News
A transformed festival is now a marketplace for deal-making and fundraising by doc-makers, as some fine films are recognised with awards
This year's Sheffield documentary festival ended with veteran film-makers scratching their heads. Since Doc/Fest was launched 16 years ago, both the festival and the industry it covers have changed beyond recognition.
In its early days, Doc/Fest showcased the output of what was still a structured world in which elite gatekeepers called the shots. This year, 65 films were still shown, including 15 world, five European and 23 British premieres. Yet the emphasis was on networking, tip-swapping, deal-making and fundraising by the film-makers themselves, all of whom were grappling with a world ever more in flux.
During recent years, the number of industry delegates to Doc/Fest has increased four-fold: this year it stood at around 2,000. In Sheffield's fabled MeetMarket, 175 power-brokers haggled over 64 projects with film-makers from 22 countries; a thousand meetings were...
This year's Sheffield documentary festival ended with veteran film-makers scratching their heads. Since Doc/Fest was launched 16 years ago, both the festival and the industry it covers have changed beyond recognition.
In its early days, Doc/Fest showcased the output of what was still a structured world in which elite gatekeepers called the shots. This year, 65 films were still shown, including 15 world, five European and 23 British premieres. Yet the emphasis was on networking, tip-swapping, deal-making and fundraising by the film-makers themselves, all of whom were grappling with a world ever more in flux.
During recent years, the number of industry delegates to Doc/Fest has increased four-fold: this year it stood at around 2,000. In Sheffield's fabled MeetMarket, 175 power-brokers haggled over 64 projects with film-makers from 22 countries; a thousand meetings were...
- 11/9/2010
- by David Cox
- The Guardian - Film News
With Fair Game, Into Eternity and Skyline, it's mutually assured destruction month at the box office
… and there's more nuclear armageddon thrills to come in Countdown To Zero
Call me paranoid, but there's something vaguely, menacingly apocalyptic about the forthcoming cinema schedules. In upcoming documentary Countdown To Zero we learn of internationally co-ordinated attempts to round up every last loose nuclear bomb on the planet (hence the tick-tick-tick title), in order to keep them away from people anxious to detonate one. It's a kind of "sensible adults save universe" scenario, filled with major-league, top-table talking heads like Gorby, Musharraf, his satanic midgetcy Lord Blair Of The Neverending Darkness, and old Mr Blood-Of-a-Generation-On-His-Hands, 1960s Us secretary of defence Bob McNamara.
That's an awful lot of tyrants and war criminals for a peacenik-sounding movie about securing loose nukes, but the presence of former spy Valerie Plame Wilson adds a touch of glamour, modernity and – I dunno – humanity, to an otherwise thoroughly unnerving documentary. At the very least, you...
Call me paranoid, but there's something vaguely, menacingly apocalyptic about the forthcoming cinema schedules. In upcoming documentary Countdown To Zero we learn of internationally co-ordinated attempts to round up every last loose nuclear bomb on the planet (hence the tick-tick-tick title), in order to keep them away from people anxious to detonate one. It's a kind of "sensible adults save universe" scenario, filled with major-league, top-table talking heads like Gorby, Musharraf, his satanic midgetcy Lord Blair Of The Neverending Darkness, and old Mr Blood-Of-a-Generation-On-His-Hands, 1960s Us secretary of defence Bob McNamara.
That's an awful lot of tyrants and war criminals for a peacenik-sounding movie about securing loose nukes, but the presence of former spy Valerie Plame Wilson adds a touch of glamour, modernity and – I dunno – humanity, to an otherwise thoroughly unnerving documentary. At the very least, you...
- 11/6/2010
- by John Patterson
- The Guardian - Film News
The Cinema Eye Honors, devoted to highlighting the best of the year's nonfiction films, have flipped for Lixin Fan's fantastic "Last Train Home," which follows a family of migrant workers as they struggle to stay connected while living separated by hundreds of miles. "Last Train Home" received the most nominations -- seven -- while Banksy's "Exit Through The Gift Shop" and Afghanistan documentary "Armadillo" each received six. The award ceremony will take place on January 18 at the Museum of the Moving Image in New York, and will be broadcast on the Documentary Channel.
Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking
Armadilllo
Directed by Janus Metz
Produced by Sara Stockmann and Ronnie Fridthjof
Exit Through The Gift Shop
Directed by Banksy
Produced by Jaimie D'Cruz
Last Train Home
Directed by Lixin Fan
Produced by Mila Aung-Thwin and Daniel Cross
Marwencol
Directed by Jeff Malmberg
Produced by Jeff Malmberg, Tom Putnam, Matt Radecki, Chris Shellen...
Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking
Armadilllo
Directed by Janus Metz
Produced by Sara Stockmann and Ronnie Fridthjof
Exit Through The Gift Shop
Directed by Banksy
Produced by Jaimie D'Cruz
Last Train Home
Directed by Lixin Fan
Produced by Mila Aung-Thwin and Daniel Cross
Marwencol
Directed by Jeff Malmberg
Produced by Jeff Malmberg, Tom Putnam, Matt Radecki, Chris Shellen...
- 11/5/2010
- by Alison Willmore
- ifc.com
The 2010 edition of the Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival has just announced their complete Noves Visions program. The program where the festival places the young, edgy material, this is the big discovery program of the festival. Here's the announcement!
Noves Visions, The Most Indie
And Daring Section At Sitges 2010
The 43rd Sitges - International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia, that will take place 7 to 17 October, presents its lineup for the Noves Visions section:
Noves Visions - FICCIÓ Section
Exploration of new territories in narration, placing emphasis on both thematic and formal aspects of films that are a vision of the present as well as a disturbing premonition of times to come.
A Horrible Way To Die (Adam Wingard, USA)
Chatroom (Hideo Nakata, UK)
Dispongo De Barcos (Juan Cavestany, Spain)
Earthling (Clay Liford, USA)
Everything Will Be Fine (Christoffer Boe, Denmark)
Finisterrae (Out of competition. Sergio Caballero, Spain)
Isolation (Stephen T. Kay,...
Noves Visions, The Most Indie
And Daring Section At Sitges 2010
The 43rd Sitges - International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia, that will take place 7 to 17 October, presents its lineup for the Noves Visions section:
Noves Visions - FICCIÓ Section
Exploration of new territories in narration, placing emphasis on both thematic and formal aspects of films that are a vision of the present as well as a disturbing premonition of times to come.
A Horrible Way To Die (Adam Wingard, USA)
Chatroom (Hideo Nakata, UK)
Dispongo De Barcos (Juan Cavestany, Spain)
Earthling (Clay Liford, USA)
Everything Will Be Fine (Christoffer Boe, Denmark)
Finisterrae (Out of competition. Sergio Caballero, Spain)
Isolation (Stephen T. Kay,...
- 9/24/2010
- Screen Anarchy
This year's Hot Docs [1] festival ended a couple of weeks ago, and and only now have we finally managed to purge our thoughts on the many documentaries that we've seen this year. Jay put up a much more comprehensive post over on The Documentary Blog [2], but I have taken a selection of these reviews and reposted them here for your convenience. If you like what you see, be sure to head over there and read the rest. Also, don't forget to check out previous reviews of the following films: Teenage Paparazzo [3] The People vs. George Lucas [4] Gasland [5] Arsy-Versy [6] Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage [7] American: The Bill Hicks Story [8] The Invention of Dr Nakamats [9] 12th & Delaware [10] The Oath [11] Secrets of the Tribe [12] Capsule reviews for more films including Steven Soderbergh's And Everything is Going Fine, Chris Hegedus and D.A. Pennebaker's Kings of Pastry, and the David Lynch transcendental meditation...
- 5/21/2010
- by Sean
- FilmJunk
The highlights of the 2010 Guth Gafa Festival have been announced. 30 international and Irish award-winning films will be screened at the event at which guests such as Sundance's Patricia Finneran and Cork Film Festival director Mick Hannigan will be present. Some of the award winning international films being screened at the Guth Gafa festival include Peter Kerekes' 'Cooking History'; Peter Liechti's 'The Sound of Insects – Record of a Mummy'; Rupert Isaacson's 'The Horse Boy'; Michael Madsen's 'Into Eternity'; Kaleo la Belle's 'Beyond this Place'; John Appel's 'The Player' and 'Steam of Life' from Joonas Berghäll and Mika Hotakainen.
- 5/13/2010
- IFTN
What will the inhabitants of Earth be like over the next 100,000 years? Will they even be human, or some other civilization of animal or alien being? These questions are at the heart of Into Eternity, a beautiful and extremely fascinating Danish documentary about Onkalo, the ambitious nuclear waste repository near Olkiluoto, Finaland, which will bury thousands of tons of spent uranium from a local power plant in an extensive underground tunnel system.
Directed by conceptual artist/filmmaker Michael Madsen (no, not the "Mr. Blonde" one) and co-written by Jesper Bergman, the film plays like science fiction, but it's alarmingly contemporary. For us, anyways, but Into Eternity is structured as if it's not intended for a modern audience. It's a relic-to-be. In an eerie narration, Madsen addresses future viewers, whether or not they will understand his English-spoken warnings and questions, urging them not to curiously venture into the tunnels as if it were an archaeological find,...
Directed by conceptual artist/filmmaker Michael Madsen (no, not the "Mr. Blonde" one) and co-written by Jesper Bergman, the film plays like science fiction, but it's alarmingly contemporary. For us, anyways, but Into Eternity is structured as if it's not intended for a modern audience. It's a relic-to-be. In an eerie narration, Madsen addresses future viewers, whether or not they will understand his English-spoken warnings and questions, urging them not to curiously venture into the tunnels as if it were an archaeological find,...
- 4/30/2010
- by Christopher Campbell
- Cinematical
Making its North American premiere at Tribeca, Michael Madsen's documentary "Into Eternity" offers audiences a probing look at the dangers surrounding a massive nuclear energy facility in Finland. With the nuclear era less than 70 years old, an estimated 300,000 tons of deadly radioactive waste already exist in the world today. Current above-ground storage facilities—subject to natural and man-made disasters—are only temporary solutions to a totally unprecedented problem. Five kilometers below ...
- 4/16/2010
- indieWIRE - People
Making its North American premiere at Tribeca, Michael Madsen's documentary "Into Eternity" offers audiences a probing look at the dangers surrounding a massive nuclear energy facility in Finland. With the nuclear era less than 70 years old, an estimated 300,000 tons of deadly radioactive waste already exist in the world today. Current above-ground storage facilities—subject to natural and man-made disasters—are only temporary solutions to a totally unprecedented problem. Five kilometers below ...
- 4/16/2010
- Indiewire
While most eyes are on Austin, Texas this week for SXSW, many people on the East Coast eagerly await a closer show as this year’s Tribeca Film Festival kicks off on April 21st. The festival is mainly for indie pictures, rather than the larger, blockbuster films, but is also a great place for up-and-coming directors and writers to showcase their work.
With the festival coming up in just over a month, they are already rolling out this year’s schedule and have announced the first 34 films out of a total of 85 feature length and 47 shorts screening at this year’s fest. Among the titles were those submitted to the World Narrative and Documentary competition, as well as the Showcase and Special Events.
Some of the titles look to be quite intriguing, and could include some of the bigger names of the next decade. Be sure to check out the...
With the festival coming up in just over a month, they are already rolling out this year’s schedule and have announced the first 34 films out of a total of 85 feature length and 47 shorts screening at this year’s fest. Among the titles were those submitted to the World Narrative and Documentary competition, as well as the Showcase and Special Events.
Some of the titles look to be quite intriguing, and could include some of the bigger names of the next decade. Be sure to check out the...
- 3/11/2010
- by Matt Raub
- The Flickcast
9th Annual Festival to Present 85 Feature-Length and 47 Short Film Selections from April 21 – May 2, 2010
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Tribeca Film Festival Virtual and Tribeca Film Boost Festival Reach
New York, NY [March 10, 2010] – The 2010 Tribeca Film Festival (Tff), presented by American Express®, the Founding Sponsor of the Festival, today announced the first 34 films to be presented among the 85 feature length and 47 short films at this year’s Festival. The 34 titles include 24 World Narrative and Documentary Competition films, as well as out-of-competition feature film selections in the Showcase and Special Events sections.
The 2010 Tff will take place from April 21 to May 2 in lower Manhattan. The 2010 film selection encompasses feature films from 38 different countries, including 45 World Premieres, 7 International Premieres, 14 North American Premieres, 6 U.S. Premieres and 12 New York Premieres, among which are 7 titles which are part of the fourth annual Tribeca/Espn Sports Film Festival. 96 directors will be presenting feature works at the Festival, with 38 of these filmmakers presenting...
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Tribeca Film Festival Virtual and Tribeca Film Boost Festival Reach
New York, NY [March 10, 2010] – The 2010 Tribeca Film Festival (Tff), presented by American Express®, the Founding Sponsor of the Festival, today announced the first 34 films to be presented among the 85 feature length and 47 short films at this year’s Festival. The 34 titles include 24 World Narrative and Documentary Competition films, as well as out-of-competition feature film selections in the Showcase and Special Events sections.
The 2010 Tff will take place from April 21 to May 2 in lower Manhattan. The 2010 film selection encompasses feature films from 38 different countries, including 45 World Premieres, 7 International Premieres, 14 North American Premieres, 6 U.S. Premieres and 12 New York Premieres, among which are 7 titles which are part of the fourth annual Tribeca/Espn Sports Film Festival. 96 directors will be presenting feature works at the Festival, with 38 of these filmmakers presenting...
- 3/10/2010
- Makingof.com
The 2010 Tribeca Film Festival has announced its scheduled lineup -- and just like its home, New York City, its got a little bit of everything.
The Festival will kick off with the world premiere of DreamWorks' 3D "Shrek Forever After."
But then it launches into a darker realm with documentaries like Alex Gibney's latest. The Oscar-winning director ("Taxi to the Dark Side") will screen his new untitled doc on the former New York Governor Elliot Spitzer, who resigned his post in 2008 due to a sex scandal, as a work-in-progress. The film will screen as one of three special events that festival organizers announced Wednesday (Mar. 10).
The Special Events section also includes another work-in-progress screening of "The Western Front." This documentary follows its writer/director and Marine, Zachary Iscol, who returns to his battle site in Iraq's Al Anbar province. David Lean's 1965 classic "Doctor Zhivago" got a make-over for its 45th anniversary,...
The Festival will kick off with the world premiere of DreamWorks' 3D "Shrek Forever After."
But then it launches into a darker realm with documentaries like Alex Gibney's latest. The Oscar-winning director ("Taxi to the Dark Side") will screen his new untitled doc on the former New York Governor Elliot Spitzer, who resigned his post in 2008 due to a sex scandal, as a work-in-progress. The film will screen as one of three special events that festival organizers announced Wednesday (Mar. 10).
The Special Events section also includes another work-in-progress screening of "The Western Front." This documentary follows its writer/director and Marine, Zachary Iscol, who returns to his battle site in Iraq's Al Anbar province. David Lean's 1965 classic "Doctor Zhivago" got a make-over for its 45th anniversary,...
- 3/10/2010
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
Tribeca International Film Festival announced the first 34 feature films of the 2010 festival slate. “This year’s competition, the core of the Festival, represents contemporary international filmmaking at its finest, bringing together fresh voices with established storytellers. These stories will leave audiences engaged, as well as entertained, which is what our Festival is all about,” said David Kwok, Director of Programming for the Tribeca Film Festival.
Representing 8 countries, this year’s World Narrative Feature Competition will be an international film collection created by many first- and second-time directors. 7 of the films here in this section are World Premieres. Road, Movie directed by Dev Benegal will be screened in ‘Showcase’ section of the festival. The lineup is as follows:
World Narrative Feature Competition "Buried Land," directed by Geoffrey Alan Rhodes and Steven Eastwood, written by Rhodes, Eastwood and Dzenan Medanovic. Set in a war-torn town in Bosnia that attracts tourists visiting ancient pyramids.
Representing 8 countries, this year’s World Narrative Feature Competition will be an international film collection created by many first- and second-time directors. 7 of the films here in this section are World Premieres. Road, Movie directed by Dev Benegal will be screened in ‘Showcase’ section of the festival. The lineup is as follows:
World Narrative Feature Competition "Buried Land," directed by Geoffrey Alan Rhodes and Steven Eastwood, written by Rhodes, Eastwood and Dzenan Medanovic. Set in a war-torn town in Bosnia that attracts tourists visiting ancient pyramids.
- 3/10/2010
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Alex Gibney's latest documentary, a portrait of former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer, who resigned his post in 2008 because of a sex scandal, will be spotlighted at the 2010 Tribeca Film Festival, which runs from April 21 to May 2 in New York.
The currently untitled film from the director of the Oscar-winning "Taxi to the Dark Side," will screen as a work-in-progress as one of three special events that festival organizers unveiled today.
"I think people will be really surprised," said David Kwok, the festival's director of programming. "It doesn't just focus on the scandal. It's more comprehensive than that, looking at Eliot Spitzer as a person and at his entire career."
Also playing in the fest's Special Events section are David Lean's 1965 epic "Doctor Zhivago," marking its 45th anniversary with a new restoration that will be released by Warner Home Video, and a work-in-progress screening of the doc "The Western Front,...
The currently untitled film from the director of the Oscar-winning "Taxi to the Dark Side," will screen as a work-in-progress as one of three special events that festival organizers unveiled today.
"I think people will be really surprised," said David Kwok, the festival's director of programming. "It doesn't just focus on the scandal. It's more comprehensive than that, looking at Eliot Spitzer as a person and at his entire career."
Also playing in the fest's Special Events section are David Lean's 1965 epic "Doctor Zhivago," marking its 45th anniversary with a new restoration that will be released by Warner Home Video, and a work-in-progress screening of the doc "The Western Front,...
- 3/10/2010
- by By Gregg Kilday
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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