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Articles tagged "film festivals"NewsIt may not be in TriBeCa, but it’s still the TriBeCa Film Festivalby John Anderson [Newsday (MCT)][22.Apr.08] :. The most poignant movie experience of the TriBeCa Film Festival, which opens Wednesday, may turn out to be an 89-minute documentary about a trapeze artist, made up largely of black-and-white still... NewsCensorship battles, fund-raising fights haven’t dimmed the Ann Arbor Film Festivalby John Monaghan [Detroit Free Press (MCT)][24.Mar.08] :. In the back of a vintage yellow truck on a sunny October day, Gary Glitter wanna-bes in Spandex, hairspray and platform shoes moved their lips to “All the Young Dudes” and “Fat...  NewsSundance Film Festival gets mixed reviewsby John Anderson [Newsday (MCT)][1.Feb.08] :. PARK CITY, Utah - The 2008 Sundance Film Festival has been put to bed (was that “Taps” we heard down around the Starbucks?), but its echoes are heard all year long - longer, sometimes,...  NewsTrue story: Documentaries rule at Sundanceby Aaron Barnhart [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)][28.Jan.08] :. PARK CITY, Utah—I don’t think it’s any accident that the films embraced by audiences at this year’s Sundance Film Festival weren’t the usual quirky comedies and... NewsLive from Sundance: Regrets, I have a few …by Aaron Barnhart [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)][25.Jan.08] :. PARK CITY, Utah—An old-timer, by which I mean someone five years older than me, was telling me the other day how the Sundance Film Festival used to be 10 days of nonstop movie premieres and... NewsOut of the celebrity glare, finding the festival’s true purpose: moviesby Aaron Barnhart [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)][21.Jan.08] :. PARK CITY, Utah—There is a Sundance Film Festival that is formed in our minds by journalists who seem to write the same story every year. It is the Sundance that Hollywood flies in for.... Directors hope to revisit past Sundance Film Festival gloryby Jan Stuart [Newsday (MCT)][17.Jan.08] :. Getting a movie into Sundance is not unlike making the hurdle into a prestigious school or high-profile street gang: once in, it’s almost as tough to get out. When your film is one of 210... Coping Strategies: Notes on the 26th Vancouver International Film Festival - Part Twoby Josh Timmermann[10.Oct.07] :. Like Jarhead, Sam Mendes's underappreciated Gulf War film, Brian De Palma's Redacted clearly understands pop culture's real-life effect on soldiers serving in the post-Vietnam era. Coping Strategies: The 26th Vancouver International Film Festival - Part Oneby Josh Timmermann[8.Oct.07] :. Most of the films we saw, in one way or another, are about coping -- with guilt, with war, with torture, with disease, with unrequited love, with social perception, with political change, with death, with history. Telluride festival screens some of the year’s best filmsby Andrew Wineke [The Gazette (Colorado Springs, Colo.) (MCT)][21.Sep.07] :. TELLURIDE, Colo.—Want to know what movies you’ll be talking about in 2008? Want to know who’ll be holding Oscar statues? Check out which movies were hits at the recent Telluride... A film feast for the rest of usby Terry Lawson [Detroit Free Press (MCT)][18.Sep.07] :. TORONTO—The Toronto International Film Festival was scheduled to close Saturday night with a gala screening of “Emotional Arithmetic,” a drama starring Susan Sarandon and Max Von... Iraq was the focus of a grim Toronto film festivalby Christopher Kelly [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)][17.Sep.07] :. TORONTO—It didn’t take much effort to identify the dominant trend at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, which concluded its 32nd edition Saturday. This year, you... 10 days of film in Torontoby Terry Lawson [Detroit Free Press (MCT)][5.Sep.07] :. For working journalists, the Toronto International Film Festival can be pleasure and pain, trying to squeeze the movies you want to see in between those you have to see and the interviews you have to... Michael Moore’s film festival benefits Michigan townby John Monaghan [Detroit Free Press (MCT)][30.Jul.07] :. When Michael Moore launched the Traverse City Film Festival two summers ago, many locals were skeptical. It was bad enough that the aggressively liberal filmmaker, an Oscar-winner for 2002’s... Miami’s gay film fest a challenge for director Coombesby Lydia Martin [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)][3.May.07] :. MIAMI - For weeks now, folks have been pestering Carol Coombes, director of the Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, to keep saying “Itty Bitty Titty Committee.” It’s a gas, the... Full Frame 1: Enlightenment Sought in Darkened Theatresby By Kevin Greer, Jyllian Gunther, and Isaac Miller[27.Apr.07] :. Our trio hunkers down comfortably in climate-controlled theatres to view the beautiful (and not so beautiful, and seldom as comfortable) chaos of the outside world through the gaze of the modern documentarian. And Michael Moore, nice fellow that he is, shares his slurpy. |
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