By Behind The Scenes TV on Aug 30, 2010 in Film Festival | 0 Comments
What the Venice film festival lacks in star power this year it hopes to make up for with an unusually young list of directors and the appearance of some of Hollywood’s more enigmatic figures.
With the irrepressible Quentin Tarantino heading the jury that hands out the coveted Golden Lion at the end of the September 1-11 [...]
By Behind The Scenes TV on May 24, 2010 in Awards, Film Festival, International Cinema, News | 0 Comments
Thai film “Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives” won the coveted Palme d’Or for best picture at the Cannes film festival Sunday.
The mystical exploration of themes related to reincarnation as a well-to-do farmer confronts his imminent death was directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul.
The director, who has won other prizes in Cannes before, said during [...]
By Behind The Scenes TV on May 21, 2010 in Film Festival, New Movies | 0 Comments
In “Fair Game,” Doug Liman mostly avoids delivering a political treatise.
Instead, he strips the Valerie Plame affair down to its essential elements: the bare facts of the case, the uneasy mix of the public and private lives of a D.C.-area family where Mom is a spy and the life-changing upheaval — including a marital rift [...]
By Behind The Scenes TV on Feb 17, 2010 in Film Festival | 0 Comments
Berlin and the Internet have been abuzz with rumors of a Martin Scorsese-Robert De Niro-Lars Von Trier collaboration — and, at least for the time being, they appear to be true.
The idea behind the project is similar to the film “The Five Obstructions” that Von Trier and Danish helmer Jorgen Leth made in 2003. In [...]
By Behind The Scenes TV on Feb 5, 2010 in Actors, Film Festival | 0 Comments
Mike Starr has done his share of mob movies. The veteran character actor and onetime Chicagoan starred in the local “Osso Bucco” and has done supporting turns in “Goodfellas” and dozens of features and TV shows.
When the young filmmakers of Beverly Ridge Pictures approached him in 2007 to co-star in their take on the genre, [...]
By Behind The Scenes TV on Feb 4, 2010 in Film Festival, Producers | 0 Comments
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By Behind The Scenes TV on Jan 28, 2010 in Film Business, Film Festival | 0 Comments
The starkest picture to emerge from the opening days of this year’s Sundance Film Festival may be of an independent film business forced to stretch in untested directions because its old distribution model no longer works.
Standard operating procedure over the years at Sundance, the cinematic bazaar now under way in this resort town, has been simple: show [...]
By Behind The Scenes TV on Jan 27, 2010 in Commentary, Film Festival | 0 Comments
Only a few years ago, a first-time filmmaker might bring a good movie or fresh idea to the Sundance Film Festival and, simply because they made it into the event, walk away with a paycheck. But not anymore.
Sundance, the top U.S. gathering for independent film, headed into the second-half of its 10-day run on Tuesday with [...]
By Behind The Scenes TV on Jan 26, 2010 in Film Festival | 0 Comments
The snow is piling up in Park City, Utah, almost as fast as the Sundance Film Festival’s unsold movies—especially among the festival’s most prominent titles. But a number of smaller, more personal films, along with one low-budget genre title — are beginning to emerge as the talk of Park City.
The Ryan Reynolds thriller “Buried” screened very [...]
By Behind The Scenes TV on Jan 25, 2010 in Documentary, Film Festival | 0 Comments
When Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, the richest man in the United States, came to the Sundance Film Festival here this week, it wasn’t movies on his mind, it was education — your kids’ education.
A new documentary, “Waiting For Superman,” by director Davis Guggenheim (”An Inconvenient Truth“) looks at what Gates and Guggenheim say is a U.S. public school system [...]