This Week in Home VideoPlus 9 more new releases to watch at home this week on Blu-ray/DVD.
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Pick of the WeekApocalypse Child
What is it? A young man in the Filipino town of Baler suspects he may have been fathered by a certain American director who filmed a Vietnam war epic in town several years prior.
Why buy it? The identity of finding the truth about his father is a catalyst of sorts here, but it’s far from the focus of Mario Cornejo and co-writer Monster Jimenez’s beautiful, raw, and affecting film. Instead it’s the idea of escaping one’s past through self-deception and distraction that pervades the screen alongside gorgeous visuals and performances. You can’t look away no matter how much you may want to. There...
Welcome to this week in home video! Click the title to buy a Blu-ray/DVD from Amazon and help support Fsr in the process!
Pick of the WeekApocalypse Child
What is it? A young man in the Filipino town of Baler suspects he may have been fathered by a certain American director who filmed a Vietnam war epic in town several years prior.
Why buy it? The identity of finding the truth about his father is a catalyst of sorts here, but it’s far from the focus of Mario Cornejo and co-writer Monster Jimenez’s beautiful, raw, and affecting film. Instead it’s the idea of escaping one’s past through self-deception and distraction that pervades the screen alongside gorgeous visuals and performances. You can’t look away no matter how much you may want to. There...
- 4/18/2017
- by Rob Hunter
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Half way through David Blaine’s latest ABC special, the famed magician is seen visiting his dentist, who gives him an order: Stop eating glass.
Indeed, in one segment, Blaine bites into a wine glass in front of Arnold Schwarzenegger, who is a tad shocked. And even Blaine admits that it’s starting to take a toll on his body.
“That one I have to stop,” he admitted to IndieWire. “Every time I drink hot and cold, I really feel it. That one I’ll agree with [the dentist] on. It doesn’t mean that I’ll stop. But I’ll agree with him.”
“David Blaine: Beyond Magic” follows Blaine as he attempts to perfect the challenge of catching a bullet in his mouth. It’s not easy, and viewers will see Blaine struggle with it: “It’s a very dark note for an ABC special,” he admitted. (But spoiler alert: Blaine is still alive.
Indeed, in one segment, Blaine bites into a wine glass in front of Arnold Schwarzenegger, who is a tad shocked. And even Blaine admits that it’s starting to take a toll on his body.
“That one I have to stop,” he admitted to IndieWire. “Every time I drink hot and cold, I really feel it. That one I’ll agree with [the dentist] on. It doesn’t mean that I’ll stop. But I’ll agree with him.”
“David Blaine: Beyond Magic” follows Blaine as he attempts to perfect the challenge of catching a bullet in his mouth. It’s not easy, and viewers will see Blaine struggle with it: “It’s a very dark note for an ABC special,” he admitted. (But spoiler alert: Blaine is still alive.
- 11/15/2016
- by Michael Schneider
- Indiewire
Go west, young man. Above and below, check out these photos from the 10-episode first season of the Westworld TV show on HBO. Created for television by executive producers and writers Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy, the series was inspired by the 1973 feature film written and directed by Michael Crichton. J.J. Abrams, Jerry Weintraub, and Bryan Burk are executive producing. Nolan also directs. Westworld season one premieres on HBO, Sunday, October 2, 2016 at 9:00pm Et/Pt.HBO says Westworld is,"...a dark odyssey about the dawn of artificial consciousness and the evolution of sin, exploring a world in which every human appetite, no matter how noble or depraved, can be indulged." The cast includes: Anthony Hopkins, Jeffrey Wright, Thandie Newton, James Marsden, Evan Rachel Wood, Ed Harris, Jimmi Simpson,...
- 8/20/2016
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
The Locarno Film Festival, taking place in a small lakeside Swiss town every August, is one of the world’s premiere venues for celebrating bold, adventurous cinema. During the latest edition Mubi is exclusively presenting a series of gems from the 2015 and 2016 festivals, most of which will be available in countries around the world.Above and Below (Nicolas Steiner, Germany), July 20 & August 11 (United Kingdom)Above and Below is a rough and rhythmic roller coaster ride seating five survivors in their daily hustle through an apocalyptic world. A mind-blowing, cinematic exploration of contemporary existence in the Us.Los Hongos (Oscar Ruíz Navia, Columbia), August 8Ras is a construction worker, but after work, he sprays graffitis on his neighborhood walls in east Cali, Colombia. When he steals several cans of paint to finish a huge mural, he is fired from his job. Without a dime, he sets off on a journey across...
- 8/11/2016
- MUBI
This is a new project that I wasn’t aware of before today; but I’ll definitely be watching for any future updates on it. Above and below are first look pics at Condola Rashad in veteran Macedonian filmmaker Milcho Manchevski’s “Bikini,”… Continue Reading →...
- 6/22/2016
- by Tambay Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
With a seemingly endless amount of streaming options — not only the titles at our disposal, but services themselves — we’ve taken it upon ourselves to highlight the titles that have recently hit the interwebs. Every week, one will be able to see the cream of the crop (or perhaps some simply interesting picks) of streaming titles (new and old) across platforms such as Netflix, iTunes, Amazon Instant Video, and more (note: U.S. only). Check out our rundown for this week’s selections below.
10 Cloverfield Lane (Dan Trachtenberg)
Forget the Cloverfield connection. The actors who were in this film didn’t even know what the title was until moments before the first trailer dropped. Producer J.J. Abrams used that branding as part of the wrapping for its promotional mystery box, but the movie stands perfectly alone from 2008’s found-footage monster picture. Hell, 10 Cloverfield Lane perhaps doesn’t even take place...
10 Cloverfield Lane (Dan Trachtenberg)
Forget the Cloverfield connection. The actors who were in this film didn’t even know what the title was until moments before the first trailer dropped. Producer J.J. Abrams used that branding as part of the wrapping for its promotional mystery box, but the movie stands perfectly alone from 2008’s found-footage monster picture. Hell, 10 Cloverfield Lane perhaps doesn’t even take place...
- 6/3/2016
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
Nazi hunter thriller wins best film at the annual ‘Lolas’.
Lars Kraume’s Nazi hunter thriller, The People Vs. Fritz Bauer, won six Lola statuettes at this year’s German Film Awards after being tipped as the evening’s hot ticket with nine nominations.
The co-production between Berlin’s zero one film and Cologne-based Terz Film picked up the evening’s top award - the Lola in Gold for Best Film - as well as the statuettes for Best Screenplay, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor (Ronald Zehrfeld), Best Production Design (Cora Pratz), and Best Costume Design (Esther Walz).
Accepting the Gold statuette from the hands of Germany’s State Minister for Culture and Media Monika Grütters, producer Thomas Kufus dedicated the award to the memory of Fritz Bauer.
Kurth knocks out Klaußner
While many thought that it was foregone conclusion that Burghart Klaußner would take the Lola home for his portrayal of the state prosecutor Fritz Bauer, nobody...
Lars Kraume’s Nazi hunter thriller, The People Vs. Fritz Bauer, won six Lola statuettes at this year’s German Film Awards after being tipped as the evening’s hot ticket with nine nominations.
The co-production between Berlin’s zero one film and Cologne-based Terz Film picked up the evening’s top award - the Lola in Gold for Best Film - as well as the statuettes for Best Screenplay, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor (Ronald Zehrfeld), Best Production Design (Cora Pratz), and Best Costume Design (Esther Walz).
Accepting the Gold statuette from the hands of Germany’s State Minister for Culture and Media Monika Grütters, producer Thomas Kufus dedicated the award to the memory of Fritz Bauer.
Kurth knocks out Klaußner
While many thought that it was foregone conclusion that Burghart Klaußner would take the Lola home for his portrayal of the state prosecutor Fritz Bauer, nobody...
- 5/31/2016
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Lars Kraume’s drama has nine nominations, including Best Film and Best Director; Colonia, A Heavy Heart and Me & Kaminski score five nominations.
Lars Kraume’s Nazi hunter thriller The People vs. Fritz Bauer (Der Staat Gegen Fritz Bauer) is the hot ticket for this year’s German Film Awards (aka Lolas) after garnering nine nominations.
The co-production between Berlin’s zero one film and Cologne-based Terz Film attracted nods in the categories for Best Feature Film, Best Screenplay, Best Direction, Best Lead Actor (Burghart Klaußner), and Best Supporting Actor (Ronald Zehrfeld) as well for production design, costume design, make-up, and the film score.
Kraume’s film – which is being handled internationally by Beta Cinema - had its world premiere on Locarno’s Piazza Grande last August where it won the Audience Award, and was named by the Best German Film of 2015 by the German Film Critics Association at their annual awards ceremony during February’s Berlinale...
Lars Kraume’s Nazi hunter thriller The People vs. Fritz Bauer (Der Staat Gegen Fritz Bauer) is the hot ticket for this year’s German Film Awards (aka Lolas) after garnering nine nominations.
The co-production between Berlin’s zero one film and Cologne-based Terz Film attracted nods in the categories for Best Feature Film, Best Screenplay, Best Direction, Best Lead Actor (Burghart Klaußner), and Best Supporting Actor (Ronald Zehrfeld) as well for production design, costume design, make-up, and the film score.
Kraume’s film – which is being handled internationally by Beta Cinema - had its world premiere on Locarno’s Piazza Grande last August where it won the Audience Award, and was named by the Best German Film of 2015 by the German Film Critics Association at their annual awards ceremony during February’s Berlinale...
- 4/20/2016
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Lars Kraume’s drama has nine nominations, including Best Film and Best Director; Colonia, A Heavy Heart and Me & Kaminski score five nominations.
Lars Kraume’s Nazi hunter thriller The People vs. Fritz Bauer (Der Staat Gegen Fritz Bauer) is the hot ticket for this year’s German Film Awards (aka Lolas) after garnering nine nominations.
The co-production between Berlin’s zero one film and Cologne-based Terz Film attracted nods in the categories for Best Feature Film, Best Screenplay, Best Direction, Best Lead Actor (Burghart Klaußner), and Best Supporting Actor (Ronald Zehrfeld) as well for production design, costume design, make-up, and the film score.
Kraume’s film – which is being handled internationally by Beta Cinema - had its world premiere on Locarno’s Piazza Grande last August where it won the Audience Award, and was named by the Best German Film of 2015 by the German Film Critics Association at their annual awards ceremony during February’s Berlinale...
Lars Kraume’s Nazi hunter thriller The People vs. Fritz Bauer (Der Staat Gegen Fritz Bauer) is the hot ticket for this year’s German Film Awards (aka Lolas) after garnering nine nominations.
The co-production between Berlin’s zero one film and Cologne-based Terz Film attracted nods in the categories for Best Feature Film, Best Screenplay, Best Direction, Best Lead Actor (Burghart Klaußner), and Best Supporting Actor (Ronald Zehrfeld) as well for production design, costume design, make-up, and the film score.
Kraume’s film – which is being handled internationally by Beta Cinema - had its world premiere on Locarno’s Piazza Grande last August where it won the Audience Award, and was named by the Best German Film of 2015 by the German Film Critics Association at their annual awards ceremony during February’s Berlinale...
- 4/20/2016
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
[caption id="attachment_47651" align="aligncenter" width="424"] Reign TV show on The CW. Episode 3.11, "Succession." Adelaide Kane as Mary, Queen of Scots. Photo: Sven Frenzel/The CW. © 2016 The CW Network, LLC. All rights reserved./caption]
The king is dead. Long live the king! Above and below, check out our photos of the Reign season 3B premiere, from The CW. Watch a promo, too. Reign, season three episode 11, "Succession," premieres Monday, April 25th at 8:00pm Et/Pt.
The cast of Reign includes: Adelaide Kane, Anna Popplewell, Rachel Skarsten, Megan Follows, Craig Parker, Rose Williams, Celina Sinden, Ben Geurens, Torrance Coombs, Charlie Carrick, and Jonathan Keltz. Spencer MacPherson guest stars as King Charles IX.
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The king is dead. Long live the king! Above and below, check out our photos of the Reign season 3B premiere, from The CW. Watch a promo, too. Reign, season three episode 11, "Succession," premieres Monday, April 25th at 8:00pm Et/Pt.
The cast of Reign includes: Adelaide Kane, Anna Popplewell, Rachel Skarsten, Megan Follows, Craig Parker, Rose Williams, Celina Sinden, Ben Geurens, Torrance Coombs, Charlie Carrick, and Jonathan Keltz. Spencer MacPherson guest stars as King Charles IX.
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- 4/19/2016
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
With this year’s True/False Film Festival officially in our rearview mirror and the Art Of The Real festival set to commence in New York City, the very best and most challenging pictures in the world of non-fiction cinema are on the collective tip of the film world’s tongue. And thankfully, one of these documentaries that is both genuinely superlative and also defiantly testing just what it means to be a “documentary” is arriving in theaters.
Entitled Above and Below, director Nicolas Steiner goes off the grid with his subjects, five people who are on the outermost reaches of American society. Taking a poetically surreal look into the lives of people ranging from a couple living in a Las Vegas drainage tunnel to a man living in an abandoned military bunker in the California desert, Steiner’s film feels as much influenced by the nonfiction tradition as it...
Entitled Above and Below, director Nicolas Steiner goes off the grid with his subjects, five people who are on the outermost reaches of American society. Taking a poetically surreal look into the lives of people ranging from a couple living in a Las Vegas drainage tunnel to a man living in an abandoned military bunker in the California desert, Steiner’s film feels as much influenced by the nonfiction tradition as it...
- 4/16/2016
- by Joshua Brunsting
- CriterionCast
The Playlist Podcast returns for an in-depth conversation with Nicolas Steiner, director of the great documentary "Above and Below." The film opens in limited release today and will expand in the weeks ahead. Read More: 15 Movies To See In April "Above and Below" is easily one of the best and most cinematic documentaries to come out this year so far, the rare nonfiction film that demands to be seen on a big screen, and even offers a tremendous auditory experience as well. The film follows five characters, credited as April, Dave, Cindy, Rick, and The Godfather, and is loosely connected by their voluntary off-the-grid lifestyles that the film weaves together beautifully. It's a small film, but one that I highly recommend to any movie fan. In the following interview, I talk with Nicolas Steiner about constructing beautiful shots for a nonfiction work, the power of good sound design and how he got distribution for his.
- 4/15/2016
- by Erik McClanahan
- The Playlist
Writer-director Nicolas Steiner’s graduation film has nothing to do about moving on to new stages of life. Above and Below, his dramatized documentary, rather hones in on lives in stagnation.
The title and the connection between his subjects are contained within one gorgeously constructed shot about three-quarters through the film, moving from an upside-down April, trapped on another planet in a Mars simulation, down to the desert with David stuck right there on it, before dissolving beneath the dust to the small hovel tarpaulined off in Rick and Cindy’s sewage tunnel and culminating in the Gollum-like blackness harboring Godfather Lalo.
Five people, four homeless, whose lives stand still.
While the camerawork often frames whichever of the five happens to be on screen in some sort of isolation, either within the confines of a costume space helmet or the tight circle of a drain pipe, the people in the...
The title and the connection between his subjects are contained within one gorgeously constructed shot about three-quarters through the film, moving from an upside-down April, trapped on another planet in a Mars simulation, down to the desert with David stuck right there on it, before dissolving beneath the dust to the small hovel tarpaulined off in Rick and Cindy’s sewage tunnel and culminating in the Gollum-like blackness harboring Godfather Lalo.
Five people, four homeless, whose lives stand still.
While the camerawork often frames whichever of the five happens to be on screen in some sort of isolation, either within the confines of a costume space helmet or the tight circle of a drain pipe, the people in the...
- 4/14/2016
- by Jacob Oller
- The Film Stage
The best stories come from the unlikeliest of places, and the upcoming documentary "Above And Below" goes to the fringes to tell the story of five people who have chosen to live far off the beaten path, with the picture offering a fascinating glimpse at their lives. Directed by Nicolas Steiner, edited by Kaya Inan, lensed by Dp Markus Nestroy, and featuring a carefully crafted sound design by five credited sound artists, "Above And Below" hangs somewhere between documentary and fiction, following April, Dave, Cindy, Rick, and someone known only as "the Godfather," as they exist off the grid. Here's the official synopsis: This not-quite-documentary takes place far away and out of sight, on the margins and off the grid of American society. It tells the stories of April, Dave, Cindy, Rick and a man who calls himself ‘the Godfather.’ From a couple scraping by in the depths of the...
- 4/11/2016
- by Edward Davis
- The Playlist
Advance word on Nicolas Steiner‘s Above and Below has been largely enthusiastic, which is all the more pleasing once one becomes intrigued by its premise. Part-documentary and part-sci-fi, it tracks Las Vegas’ homeless citizens, a man living in an abandoned military bunker, and at various points goes “to a place where Mars and Earth have become one and the same place.”
The what, how, and why of this approach won’t be expanded upon a great deal in the preview, instead teased with a series of images that range from more traditionally “documentary-like” to abstract and, given the nature of what’s displayed therein, staged. Regardless of specifics that may or may not be available at this very moment, signs point towards Above and Below proving a shocking experience.
See the trailer below:
Synopsis:
This not-quite-documentary takes place far away and out of sight, on the margins and off the grid of American society.
The what, how, and why of this approach won’t be expanded upon a great deal in the preview, instead teased with a series of images that range from more traditionally “documentary-like” to abstract and, given the nature of what’s displayed therein, staged. Regardless of specifics that may or may not be available at this very moment, signs point towards Above and Below proving a shocking experience.
See the trailer below:
Synopsis:
This not-quite-documentary takes place far away and out of sight, on the margins and off the grid of American society.
- 3/24/2016
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
Above and below, check out these set and episode photos from the new Underground TV series, premiering Wednesday, March 9, 2016, at 10:00pm Et/Pt. The 10-episode historical series features the heroes of the Underground Railroad.
The cast of Underground includes: Jurnee Smollett-Bell, Aldis Hodge, Christopher Meloni, Alano Miller, Jessica De Gouw, Marc Blucas, Adina Porter, Mykelti Williamson, Amirah Vann, Johnny Ray Gill, Chris Chalk, Reed Diamond, Theodus Crane, Renwick Scott, and Jussie Smollett.
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The cast of Underground includes: Jurnee Smollett-Bell, Aldis Hodge, Christopher Meloni, Alano Miller, Jessica De Gouw, Marc Blucas, Adina Porter, Mykelti Williamson, Amirah Vann, Johnny Ray Gill, Chris Chalk, Reed Diamond, Theodus Crane, Renwick Scott, and Jussie Smollett.
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- 3/3/2016
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
Jj Abrams, you sneaky sumbitch. If reports from around the country are true, then Jj Abrams and Bad Robot managed to sneak a trailer for a film called 10 Cloverfield Lane into theaters in front of the new Michael Bay film 13 Hours tonight. The first time around with Cloverfield, I stumbled right into the middle of their super-secret trailer release and accidentally gave away the whole game without knowing what I was doing. I didn't really know what the movie was that the trailer was for, and was just intrigued by the idea that the trailer was actually shot before they had made the actual film, and that they had put together this sort of "what the hell is this?" teaser that was designed to just land without any advance warning. I always felt bad about pulling back the curtain on something that was meant to arrive without any advance warning.
- 1/15/2016
- by Drew McWeeny
- Hitfix
Sir Alan Sugar is back on the hunt for business talent on The Apprentice this week, and as usual he's sparing no expense.
This year's luxurious Apprentice house has been identified on Zoopla, and the listing gives viewers a sneak peak of what's to come on the new series.
The Apprentice 2015: 10 Very important teasers about the first episode
The Apprentice 2015: Former winner Mark Wright's 11 tips for not getting fired, from not being a muppet to "natural beauty"
Above and below are some of the rooms where we'll be hearing talk of giving 110%, being a team player and having superhuman levels of passion for making money.
The amazing six-bedroom property on John Street in West London has an estimated value of £7,627,000, and was available to rent for £17,117 a month.
Elsewhere, The Apprentice winner Mark Wright has claimed that former victors of the BBC business series are in talks...
This year's luxurious Apprentice house has been identified on Zoopla, and the listing gives viewers a sneak peak of what's to come on the new series.
The Apprentice 2015: 10 Very important teasers about the first episode
The Apprentice 2015: Former winner Mark Wright's 11 tips for not getting fired, from not being a muppet to "natural beauty"
Above and below are some of the rooms where we'll be hearing talk of giving 110%, being a team player and having superhuman levels of passion for making money.
The amazing six-bedroom property on John Street in West London has an estimated value of £7,627,000, and was available to rent for £17,117 a month.
Elsewhere, The Apprentice winner Mark Wright has claimed that former victors of the BBC business series are in talks...
- 10/13/2015
- Digital Spy
Swiss films have punched above their weight on the international stage this year but the industry continues to face challenges.
The year got off to an auspicious start. Stefan Haupt’s local box office hit and Swiss Films champion The Circle, produced by Contrast Film, was sold to Netflix in North America after Wide House cut a number of international deals.
Swiss films remain in demand for festivals at home and abroad. Two films play in international competition in Zurich – Micha Lewinsky’s A Decent Man (Nichts Passiert) and Ruxandra Zenide’s The Miracle Of Tekir – while Guadalajara festival director Ivan Trujillo is in town scouting films for a Swiss focus at the Mexican showcase in March.
Swiss titles have also been long-listed for European Film Academy awards.
The four Swiss documentaries in contention for nominations are: Nicola Bellucci’s Grozny Blues; Marcel Gisler’s Electroboy; Above And Below from Nicolas Steiner; and co-production The Good Life from German...
The year got off to an auspicious start. Stefan Haupt’s local box office hit and Swiss Films champion The Circle, produced by Contrast Film, was sold to Netflix in North America after Wide House cut a number of international deals.
Swiss films remain in demand for festivals at home and abroad. Two films play in international competition in Zurich – Micha Lewinsky’s A Decent Man (Nichts Passiert) and Ruxandra Zenide’s The Miracle Of Tekir – while Guadalajara festival director Ivan Trujillo is in town scouting films for a Swiss focus at the Mexican showcase in March.
Swiss titles have also been long-listed for European Film Academy awards.
The four Swiss documentaries in contention for nominations are: Nicola Bellucci’s Grozny Blues; Marcel Gisler’s Electroboy; Above And Below from Nicolas Steiner; and co-production The Good Life from German...
- 9/26/2015
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
A new promo for American Horror Story: Lady Gaga Hotel has hit the interwebs, shedding new light on the pop star’s creepy character — while simultaneously introducing about 100 new questions.
VideosAmerican Horror Story: Hotel Trailer: Lady Gaga & More Residents Revealed
Ominously titled “Above and Below,” this new promo finds leading lady Elizabeth bouncing between two different environments: The first is a light, fashion-centric room reminiscent of one of Lady Gaga‘s music videos. The other is a dark, twisted underworld in which Elizabeth appears to be feeding off the souls of children. (Ok, I guess they’re both reminiscent of Gaga videos.
VideosAmerican Horror Story: Hotel Trailer: Lady Gaga & More Residents Revealed
Ominously titled “Above and Below,” this new promo finds leading lady Elizabeth bouncing between two different environments: The first is a light, fashion-centric room reminiscent of one of Lady Gaga‘s music videos. The other is a dark, twisted underworld in which Elizabeth appears to be feeding off the souls of children. (Ok, I guess they’re both reminiscent of Gaga videos.
- 9/16/2015
- TVLine.com
We thought that maybe FX was taking a break from the endless stream of promos they typically release for each new season of “American Horror Story,” but that’s not the case. Up now is another teaser for “Ahs: Hotel,” and… Continue Reading →
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- 9/16/2015
- by Debi Moore
- DreadCentral.com
A total of 15 European documentaries selected for European Film Awards 2015.
The European Film Academy and Efa Productions have announced the first ever Efa Documentary Selection, a list of 15 European documentaries recommended for a nomination for this year’s European Film Awards.
The change follows a decision by the Efa Board to “acknowledge the growing importance of European documentary cinema”.
The titles include Asif Kapadia’s Amy Winehouse documentary, Amy, which has broken box office records in the UK and Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Look Of Silence, a follow-up to award-winning The Act Of Killing.
A further development is the involvement of 10 documentary festivals that recommended to the committee up to three films each which have had their world premiere at the respective festival’s latest edition. Chosen in co-operation with the European Documentary Network Edn, these festivals are:
Idfa (the Netherlands)Cph:dox (Denmark)Visions du Réel (Switzerland)DokLeipzig (Germany)Docslisboa (Portugal)Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival (Greece)Jihlava...
The European Film Academy and Efa Productions have announced the first ever Efa Documentary Selection, a list of 15 European documentaries recommended for a nomination for this year’s European Film Awards.
The change follows a decision by the Efa Board to “acknowledge the growing importance of European documentary cinema”.
The titles include Asif Kapadia’s Amy Winehouse documentary, Amy, which has broken box office records in the UK and Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Look Of Silence, a follow-up to award-winning The Act Of Killing.
A further development is the involvement of 10 documentary festivals that recommended to the committee up to three films each which have had their world premiere at the respective festival’s latest edition. Chosen in co-operation with the European Documentary Network Edn, these festivals are:
Idfa (the Netherlands)Cph:dox (Denmark)Visions du Réel (Switzerland)DokLeipzig (Germany)Docslisboa (Portugal)Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival (Greece)Jihlava...
- 9/16/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Above And Below director Nicolas Steiner with Swiss Consul Thomas Schneider in New York Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg of Dogme fame, Roy Andersson, Baltasar Kormákur, Dagur Kári's Virgin Mountain, Pablo Larrain's El Club, Buster Keaton's The General, The Rescuers' albatross, The Lion King, over lunch at Café Select in Nolita, where a scene from Marc Webb's The Amazing Spider-Man 2 was filmed, had to compete with cows fighting as topic of conversation.
In his anthropological documentary, Above And Below, Nicolas Steiner tells a story about five people surviving this world in their own way - in the sewers underneath Las Vegas, Nevada, in the California desert, and in a Utah facility that prepares for a mission to Mars. Over Swiss fare, Nicolas told me about the mountainous region he comes from and how that relates to the desert, a childhood cinema trauma,...
Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg of Dogme fame, Roy Andersson, Baltasar Kormákur, Dagur Kári's Virgin Mountain, Pablo Larrain's El Club, Buster Keaton's The General, The Rescuers' albatross, The Lion King, over lunch at Café Select in Nolita, where a scene from Marc Webb's The Amazing Spider-Man 2 was filmed, had to compete with cows fighting as topic of conversation.
In his anthropological documentary, Above And Below, Nicolas Steiner tells a story about five people surviving this world in their own way - in the sewers underneath Las Vegas, Nevada, in the California desert, and in a Utah facility that prepares for a mission to Mars. Over Swiss fare, Nicolas told me about the mountainous region he comes from and how that relates to the desert, a childhood cinema trauma,...
- 8/5/2015
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
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: What better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising? This week […]
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The post This Week In Trailers: Hot Girls Wanted, Walt Disney, An Open Secret, Above and Below, Cartel Land appeared first on /Film.
- 6/9/2015
- by Christopher Stipp
- Slash Film
I haven’t traveled all I have to Buenos Aires and back to tell you about how this festival, alongside Mar del Plata and Valdivia (this last one in Chile), form the triad of the most important festivals of Latin America, because if you know about it, you know about it. People that have travelled to Argentina for the past 17 years in April have felt the presence of cinema in the streets—and Buenos Aires is a big city. The importance of a festival that brings over 300 titles, some of them for the first time crossing an ocean, is fundamental for the Latino viewer, as well for those who want to make the effort and come to see the movies that play here. On a closer look, what plays here may seem to be eclectic at times, it is purely due to what seems to be the motto of the festival: discovery.
- 6/8/2015
- by Jaime Grijalba Gómez
- MUBI
Ewan McGregor, Jane Seymour, Malcolm McDowell and Hong Kong director Johnnie To among the guests set to attend the festival.Scroll down for competition titles
The line-up for the 69th Edinburgh International Film Festival (Eiff) has been unveiled this morning by new artistic director Mark Adams.
This year’s Eiff (June 17-28) will comprise 164 features from 36 countries, including 24 world premieres, eight international premieres, 16 European premieres and 84 UK premieres.
Highlights including the UK premiere of Asif Kapadia’s documentary Amy, about the life of singer Amy Winehouse; the latest Disney-Pixar animation Inside Out; Arnold Schwarzenegger in zombie drama Maggie; comedy The D-Train, starring Jack Black and James Marsden; and a biopic of The Beach Boys’ Brian Wilson, Love & Mercy, in which John Cusack and Paul Dano play different aged versions of the musician.
Classic Screenings will include a rare outing for Noel Marshall’s Roar, a cult 1981 big cat movie.
Star power
This year’s Eiff will present...
The line-up for the 69th Edinburgh International Film Festival (Eiff) has been unveiled this morning by new artistic director Mark Adams.
This year’s Eiff (June 17-28) will comprise 164 features from 36 countries, including 24 world premieres, eight international premieres, 16 European premieres and 84 UK premieres.
Highlights including the UK premiere of Asif Kapadia’s documentary Amy, about the life of singer Amy Winehouse; the latest Disney-Pixar animation Inside Out; Arnold Schwarzenegger in zombie drama Maggie; comedy The D-Train, starring Jack Black and James Marsden; and a biopic of The Beach Boys’ Brian Wilson, Love & Mercy, in which John Cusack and Paul Dano play different aged versions of the musician.
Classic Screenings will include a rare outing for Noel Marshall’s Roar, a cult 1981 big cat movie.
Star power
This year’s Eiff will present...
- 5/27/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Both the title and premise of Swiss director Nicolas Steiner’s latest documentary mildly echoes the recently released and quickly disregarded found footage horror schlock As Above, So Below, but his Rotterdam premiered endeavor is more heady, heartfelt and a hell of a lot more beautiful in every respect. Weaving together the unconventional lives of the unfortunates subsisting in the subterranean underbelly of Las Vegas and the desolate deserts that surround the city of sin, Above and Below evokes the sly scifi documentation of the daily routine found in Yuri Ancarani’s evocative Platform Moon while posing its own inquisitions into the social stratospheres of dereliction by casting its varying subjects as nothing less than aliens autonomously banished for shame or self preservation.
Steiner’s focus rotates between the dark and soggy sewer dwelling couple Rick and Cindy, their respected tunnel bound neighbor, Godfather Lalo, a former drug addicted truck...
Steiner’s focus rotates between the dark and soggy sewer dwelling couple Rick and Cindy, their respected tunnel bound neighbor, Godfather Lalo, a former drug addicted truck...
- 5/11/2015
- by Jordan M. Smith
- IONCINEMA.com
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