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Articles tagged "film festivals" NewsScaled-back Chicago International Film Festival still has plenty to offerby Mark Caro [Chicago Tribune (MCT)][8.Oct.09] :. CHICAGO — The Chicago International Film Festival is not immune to the spate of “glass half full or empty” thinking going on in the movie world. Just as the overall box office...  NewsIt’s a wrap: Toronto International Film Festival 2009by Moira Macdonald [The Seattle Times (MCT)][28.Sep.09] :. The Toronto International Film Festival ended last week, after 10 days of frantic activity that included hundreds of movies, filmmakers, actors, publicists, cellphone-clutching fans and an endless... NewsStars align for the Toronto International Film Festivalby Moira Macdonald [The Seattle Times (MCT)][9.Sep.09] :. Last September, “Slumdog Millionaire” won the audience award at the Toronto International Film Festival, kicking off a season of acclaim that culminated in an Academy Award. TIFF, a... News10-day Toronto International Film Festival opens Thursdayby John Anderson [Newsday (MCT)][8.Sep.09] :. The Toronto International Film Festival opens Thursday with 335 films from 64 countries, a star-studded array of guests and enough paparazzi to fill Lake Ontario. It also has something a lot of...  NewsMichael Moore’s film fest includes premieres, director tributes , and comfy seatsby Michael Phillips [Chicago Tribune (MCT)][3.Aug.09] :. TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — Want to treat your behind like royalty? Introduce it to a seat in the State Theatre in downtown Traverse City sometime, preferably during the annual Traverse City Film...  Film Feature2009 Silverdocs Documentary Festivalby Chris Barsanti[29.Jun.09] :. Silverdocs 2009 was a rewarding and refreshing event, offering classic and independent documentaries and previewing several that will crop up over the next year or two on TV and art house screens. Cannes offers one-stop shopping for the next big little movieby Michael Phillips [Chicago Tribune (MCT)][11.May.09] :. The yacht rentals and high-end Hotel du Cap parties will be scarcer this year, and those who attend the world’s premier annual film festival for social reasons more than cinematic ones may... Near Misses and Gems: 2009 Tribeca Film Festivalby Chris Barsanti[7.May.09] :. Selecting just 85 feature films for screening, this year's Tribeca Film Festival increased the quality quotient, cutting the number of embarrassing failures that once studded the schedule like a minefield. Robert De Niro’s film festival returns for eighth seasonby John Anderson [Newsday (MCT)][21.Apr.09] :. In 2002, Robert De Niro, producer Jane Rosenthal and Rosenthal’s husband, real estate developer Craig Hatkoff, started the Tribeca Film Festival with the idea of resuscitating their downtown... Dallas’ upstart film festival is poised for greatnessby Christopher Kelly [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)][24.Mar.09] :. DALLAS - For its first edition, in 2007, the AFI Dallas International Film Festival did the unthinkable: It managed to carve an instant niche in the cluttered film-festival landscape, mainly by... The Way of All Flesh: Notes on the 2009 Victoria Film Festivalby Josh Timmermann[17.Feb.09] :. In non-Hollywood cinema, there’s less emphasis placed on svelte figures and chiseled cheekbones. But that doesn’t mean the physical form can’t play just as significant a role on-screen. It’s a wrap: This year, indie film festival reflected the state of the economyby Christopher Kelly [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)][24.Jan.09] :. PARK CITY, Utah - The weather was picture perfect, with temperatures in the 40s and not a single snowflake in the sky. The stars were out in full force, among them Jim Carrey, Susan Sarandon, John... Now in theaters: a slimmed-down Sundance Film Festivalby John Anderson [Newsday (MCT)][15.Jan.09] :. With “Wall-E” poised for a best picture nod, and greater Hollywood rotating like a sunflower toward the warm profitability of the cartoon, what does it mean that the Sundance Film... Personal Epics: The 46th Annual New York Film Festivalby Michael Buening[7.Nov.08] :. Shafted by the current events taking place outside its theaters, the New York Film Festival was agreeably low-key this year, demonstrating that art, at its best, can serve as valuable provocation when we try to make sense of a bewildering world. Not Fade Away: Notes on the 27th Vancouver International Film Festivalby Josh Timmermann[24.Oct.08] :. The films at this year's VIFF were dominated by the idea of memory -- how it works, why it works the way it does, why certain events linger in our brain or come back to haunt us. Toronto International Film Festival 08: Day Fiveby Matt Mazur[12.Sep.08] :. This is the end, my friends. TIFF 08 fades away with a whimper and few Oscar prospects. Toronto International Film Festival 08: Day Fourby Matt Mazur[10.Sep.08] :. Mazur reviews (and likes) three upcoming releases from Toronto that don't star women in the lead roles. Mickey Rourke for the Oscar?! What is the world coming to? Toronto International Film Festival 08: Day Threeby Matt Mazur[9.Sep.08] :. Multiculturalism is fun! Familial tensions, not so much... Toronto International Film Festival 2008: Day Oneby Matt Mazur[5.Sep.08] :. Cutting My Teeth and My Venison: A Introductory Guide to TIFF 08! Will Toronto deliver another bumper crop?by Steven Rea [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)][4.Sep.08] :. Last year’s Toronto International Film Festival launched more than a few exceptionally good, and, as things turned out, Oscar-contending titles: “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly,”... World’s most prestigious film festival, in its 61st year, opens Wednesdayby Michael Phillips [Chicago Tribune (MCT)][14.May.08] :. “The climate is so odd,” Clint Eastwood once wrote about the world’s most famous and influential film festival. He wasn’t referring to the breezes coming off the... It 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... Censorship 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... Sundance 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,... True 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... Live 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... Out 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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