Opening film As An Eilean
The 10th edition of the Folk Film Gathering in Edinburgh will be held at the at Cameo Picturehouse and the Scottish Storytelling Centre from 3 to 12 May this year, opening with 1993 Gaelic language feature As An Eilean. An exploration of Scottish island life, it will be introduced with traditional songs sung by one of its stars, Wilma Kennedy, and there's a great selection of additional musical performances scheduled to support other festival screenings.
The festival will feature the UK première of Katja Gauriloff's Skolt Sámi saga Je'vida, which deals with the impact of colonialism and the struggle to reclaim identity, and will be supported by a live concert with Finnish musicians Lau Nau and Pekko Käppi. Pat Collins’ documentary Songlines, which celebrates the songs and singers of the Irish traveller community, will see Jess Smith and Joss Cameron perform some of those songs live. And Alexander Dovzhenko’s.
The 10th edition of the Folk Film Gathering in Edinburgh will be held at the at Cameo Picturehouse and the Scottish Storytelling Centre from 3 to 12 May this year, opening with 1993 Gaelic language feature As An Eilean. An exploration of Scottish island life, it will be introduced with traditional songs sung by one of its stars, Wilma Kennedy, and there's a great selection of additional musical performances scheduled to support other festival screenings.
The festival will feature the UK première of Katja Gauriloff's Skolt Sámi saga Je'vida, which deals with the impact of colonialism and the struggle to reclaim identity, and will be supported by a live concert with Finnish musicians Lau Nau and Pekko Käppi. Pat Collins’ documentary Songlines, which celebrates the songs and singers of the Irish traveller community, will see Jess Smith and Joss Cameron perform some of those songs live. And Alexander Dovzhenko’s.
- 4/22/2024
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
From Sergei Eisenstein to Andrei Konchalovsky, Russian filmmakers perfected a formula for manufacturing social reality out of highly concentrated mixes of activist outrage and artistic chutzpah. Political hindsight overshadows their unparalleled toying with film language, but it also deepens great works of art like Aleksandr Dovzhenko’s Earth and Mikhail Kalatozov’s I Am Cuba. These two enthralling synergies of sight and sound were made with the support of a communist machine that would eventually fail the people of the Soviet Union and Cuba, but they’re first and foremost exaltations of the rebel spirit, hurled at audiences with a fierce conviction and belief in cinema as a propagandistic vehicle for change.
For the Soviet Union, I Am Cuba was an opportunity to promote socialism abroad during de-Stalinization in the Khrushchev era, and for Cuba it was a way of staking out a cinematic presence. So it is that the...
For the Soviet Union, I Am Cuba was an opportunity to promote socialism abroad during de-Stalinization in the Khrushchev era, and for Cuba it was a way of staking out a cinematic presence. So it is that the...
- 4/19/2024
- by Ed Gonzalez
- Slant Magazine
Clockwise from top left: Modern Times (screenshot), Newsies (screenshot), Norma Rae (20th Century Fox), Sorry To Bother You (Annapurna Pictures)Graphic: The A.V. Club
Just in time for Labor Day 2023, The A.V. Club has pulled together a rundown of the best films that celebrate the proletariat. Presented with all working class heroes in mind,...
Just in time for Labor Day 2023, The A.V. Club has pulled together a rundown of the best films that celebrate the proletariat. Presented with all working class heroes in mind,...
- 9/1/2023
- by The A.V. Club
- avclub.com
At a certain point you care less about world premieres and fixate mostly on a festival’s repertory slate. And even by the high standards set with Cannes Classics or NYFF Revivals is this year’s Venice Classics in a class of its own. We could start at the new cuts for three of the greatest directors ever: One from the Heart is the latest film to be given a revision by Francis Ford Coppola, following recuts of Apocalypse Now, Twixt, and Dementia 13––to say nothing of restorations like The Rain People, of which we’re hosting the New York premiere next weekend––while Andrei Tarkovsky’s Andrei Rublev will debut in “the reconstruction of the complete original version, which was censored before its release and has never been seen until now.” Meanwhile one of Yasujiro Ozu’s greatest films, There Was a Father, has been amended by “recent rediscovery...
- 7/21/2023
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
The first screening of the uncensored version of ’Andrei Rublev’ by Andrei Tarkovsky has also been programmed.
Venice Classics will include a screening of ‘The Exorcist’ and tributes to late filmmakers Ruggero Deodato and Carlos Saura as part of its line-up of restored features for the 2023 edition.
The Exorcist, by William Friedkin, returns in a restored version, to mark the 100th anniversary of its distributor, Warner Bros.
Italian genre master Deodato passed away last year. One of his most extreme films, Ultimo Mondo Cannibale, has been programmed in tribute. This edition also pays homage to Italian actor Gina Lollobrigida, who died in January,...
Venice Classics will include a screening of ‘The Exorcist’ and tributes to late filmmakers Ruggero Deodato and Carlos Saura as part of its line-up of restored features for the 2023 edition.
The Exorcist, by William Friedkin, returns in a restored version, to mark the 100th anniversary of its distributor, Warner Bros.
Italian genre master Deodato passed away last year. One of his most extreme films, Ultimo Mondo Cannibale, has been programmed in tribute. This edition also pays homage to Italian actor Gina Lollobrigida, who died in January,...
- 7/21/2023
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSUndine.Christian Petzold has begun filming The Red Sky, which will star Paula Beer of Transit and Undine. Set on the Baltic Sea, the film follows four young people sharing a vacation home surrounded by uncontrollable forest fires, navigating desire in the midst of environmental disaster.Production has also commenced on a new feature from Marco Bellocchio. The Conversion is inspired by the life of Edgardo Mortara, a young Jewish boy who was kidnapped by the Catholic Church in 1858. Steven Spielberg was previously attached to the project.Verso Books has acquired the debut novel from Love Witch director Anna Biller. Set to publish in September 2023, Bluebeard's Castle is a "contemporary gothic suspense novel" about a young mystery writer who falls in love with a dashing baron—only for their marriage to crumble disastrously in a remote castle.
- 7/6/2022
- MUBI
A double bill of films by Aleksandr Dovzhenko are showing April and May, 2020 on Mubi in most countries.Above: EarthIt’s disconcerting that the collected writings in English of one of the world’s greatest filmmakers currently sells for $852 on Amazon—or a whopping $980, if you opt for the paperback—while the only American book about him downgrades his work’s artistic value in its very title (Vance Kepley’s 1985 In the Service of the State: The Cinema of Alexander Dovzhenko). Look him up on Wikipedia, and you find that his name is shared by a poker player and a psychiatrist—hardly fit company for the epic, poetic Alexander Dovzhenko (1894-1956), a pagan mystic whose masterful films look as wildly experimental, as dreamlike, as hysterically funny, as fiercely tragic, and as beautiful today as they did a century ago.A Cold War casualty, often defined in the West as a...
- 4/21/2020
- MUBI
Foreplays is a column that explores under-known short films by renowned directors. Jean-Luc Godard & Anne-Marie Miéville's Liberté et Patrie (2002) is free to watch below. Mubi's retrospective For Ever Godard is showing from November 12, 2017 - January 16, 2018 in the United States.I. One of the most beautiful essay films ever made, Liberté et Patrie (2002) turns out to also be one of the most accessible collaborations of Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Miéville. The deeply moving lyricism of this short may astonish even those spectators who arrive to it casually, without any prior knowledge of the filmmakers’s oeuvre. Contrary to other works by the couple, Liberté et Patrie is built on a recognizable narrative strong enough to easily accommodate all the unconventionalities of the piece: a digressive structure full of bursts of undefined emotion; an unpredictable rhythm punctuated by sudden pauses, swift accelerations, intermittent blackouts and staccatos; a mélange of materials where...
- 12/11/2017
- MUBI
Above: Soviet poster for The Enchanted Desna (Yuliya Solntseva, Ussr, 1964). Artist: Grebenshikov.Nine years ago I was asked to participate in a film blogger thread about personal cinematic Holy Grails, and as my number one choice I selected, without hesitation, Yuliya Solntseva’s The Enchanted Desna (1964), a film I thought I might never see in any format, let alone on 70mm. But this weekend, dreams will indeed come true as New York’s Museum of the Moving Image plays Solntseva’s Ukrainian Trilogy in 70mm and 35mm. Solntseva (1901-1989) was an actress of note (she starred in the title roles of Aelita: Queen of Mars and The Cigarette Girl from Mosselprom in 1924) who, upon the death of her husband, the great Aleksandr Dovzhenko, in 1956, turned to directing to realize his unfinished scripts. The result, by all accounts, are among the most poetic and magical of films.You can read...
- 8/25/2017
- MUBI
Poem of an Inland Sea. Image courtesy of Gosfilmofond.Yuliya Solntseva, whose pseudonym is derived from Russian for ‘sun,’ has largely remained eclipsed by the fame of her husband and collaborator, Aleksandr Dovzhenko, one of the most original filmmakers that came from the Soviet silent cinema. She was also blessed by that union. Solntseva’s “Ukrainian Trilogy,” which New York’s Museum of the Moving Image will screen this weekend, was made from Dovzhenko’s scripts that he never produced, having died in 1956 right before principal shooting was scheduled to begin on Poem of a Sea. The project was picked up by Solntseva who completed the film in 1958—and went on to direct two more of her husband’s scripts, imbuing the films with a poetic sensibility that the two of them shared.MoMI added “Inland” to the sea of the name, which the original title lacks as an unnecessary specification.
- 8/24/2017
- MUBI
The American Skyscraper and Louis Sullivan. Courtesy of the filmmaker.It’s rare to come across such a humble yet cogent body of work as that of Manfred Kirchheimer. His career stretches across six decades but it would be a mistake to reduce his films to mere historical records, for they can enclose enthralling stories of ordinary New Yorkers or celebrate the beauty of urban structures all while confronting head-on layered questions on class, race and identity. Throughout the years, his subjects have fluctuated from workers pushing carts through New York’s Garment District, the docking of a transatlantic ocean liner or a community of Jewish émigrés in the Manhattan neighborhood of Washington Heights. As modest as his filmography might seem, one shouldn’t oversee its substantial contribution to American documentary and independent cinema.During a recent conversation, Kirchheimer told me he had recently retired as a teacher at the...
- 2/9/2017
- MUBI
The fourteenth entry in an on-going series of audiovisual essays by Cristina Álvarez López and Adrian Martin. Mubi will be showing Leos Carax's The Lovers on the Bridge (1991) May 10 - June 9 in the United States.Leos Carax’s Les amants du Pont-Neuf (The Lovers on the Bridge) is a true monument of 1990s cinema. It covers a lot of ground, on every level: starting down in the gutter and looking a little like a documentary about Paris’s homeless, it soon reaches a point where an inner switch is flicked and surrealistic, romantic poetry literally lights up the screen. Alex (Denis Lavant)—an emblematic tramp in the tradition of silent cinema, only muckier—spies the equally lost soul, Michèle (Juliette Binoche, never better than here), an artist who, due to encroaching blindness, is on the run from her bourgeois background. Once the film explodes with the rapture of their...
- 5/10/2016
- MUBI
Zhovten cinema was victim of arson attack during festival’s Lgbt sidebar; Baltic to Black Sea development network launched in Odessa.
Kiev’s historic Zhovten cinema could open its doors again at this year’s Molodist Film Festival (October 24 - November 1), a year after it was the victim of an arson attack during a screening of the French film Summer Nights by Mario Fanani during the festival’s Lgbt sidebar competition Sunny Bunny.
Speaking to Screen Daily at this week’s Odessa International Film Festival (Oiff), Molodist’s general director Andriy Khalpakhchi said: “We hope that we can have the cinema’s re-opened at our festival again because it is a very important venue for Molodist and for Kiev as the city’s oldest cinema.”
“At the time, I didn’t think that the Sunny Bunny was the reason for the attack. It was just a pretext for a lot of new businessmen who wanted the land...
Kiev’s historic Zhovten cinema could open its doors again at this year’s Molodist Film Festival (October 24 - November 1), a year after it was the victim of an arson attack during a screening of the French film Summer Nights by Mario Fanani during the festival’s Lgbt sidebar competition Sunny Bunny.
Speaking to Screen Daily at this week’s Odessa International Film Festival (Oiff), Molodist’s general director Andriy Khalpakhchi said: “We hope that we can have the cinema’s re-opened at our festival again because it is a very important venue for Molodist and for Kiev as the city’s oldest cinema.”
“At the time, I didn’t think that the Sunny Bunny was the reason for the attack. It was just a pretext for a lot of new businessmen who wanted the land...
- 7/14/2015
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov’s detention by the Russian authorities has been extended by yet another two months to July 11.
This decision was made by Nikolai Tkachuk, a judge of the Moscow City Court, claiming that the charged offence poses a particular hazard to the public.
Initially, it had been expected that Sentsov’s trial would start yesterday (May 11), the first anniversary after his arrest on the Crimean peninsula in May 2014.
However, Sentsov’s case will be kept in the public eye by the Ukrainian Pavilion at the International Village in Cannes’ Marché du Film in the next two weeks.
Visitors to the Pavilion will be invited to add their names to a petition calling for the 38-year-old director’s release.
This comes after the European Parliament passed a resolution in its plenary session in Strasbourg calling for the ¨immediate release¨ of all Ukrainian citizens illegally detained in Russia, including Sentsov and the Ukrainian pilot and MP...
This decision was made by Nikolai Tkachuk, a judge of the Moscow City Court, claiming that the charged offence poses a particular hazard to the public.
Initially, it had been expected that Sentsov’s trial would start yesterday (May 11), the first anniversary after his arrest on the Crimean peninsula in May 2014.
However, Sentsov’s case will be kept in the public eye by the Ukrainian Pavilion at the International Village in Cannes’ Marché du Film in the next two weeks.
Visitors to the Pavilion will be invited to add their names to a petition calling for the 38-year-old director’s release.
This comes after the European Parliament passed a resolution in its plenary session in Strasbourg calling for the ¨immediate release¨ of all Ukrainian citizens illegally detained in Russia, including Sentsov and the Ukrainian pilot and MP...
- 5/12/2015
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
“Yet if you should forget me for a whileAnd afterwards remember, do not grieveFor if the darkness and corruption leaveA vestige of the thoughts that once we hadBetter by far you should forget and smileThan that you should remember and be sad.”—Christina Rossetti, Remember (1862)An opening title card from director Thom Andesen’s new feature film, The Thoughts That Once We Had, directly identifies the cinematic writings of philosopher Gilles Deleuze as the project's primary subject and inspiration. Deleuze’s two volumes on film, Cinema 1: The Movement-Image (1983) and Cinema 2: The Time-Image (1985), are today synonymous with a certain modernist school of thought that, while integrated in academia to such a degree as to be all but understood, remains quite radical. Unquestionably dense and provocatively pedantic, the French empiricist’s filmic texts integrate an array of theories and conceptualizations into a fairly delineated taxonomy, and are therefore fairly conducive...
- 5/8/2015
- by Jordan Cronk
- MUBI
In the new La Furia Umana: a symposium on the future of cinema plus articles on Harun Farocki, Jerry Lewis and Paul Thomas Anderson's Inherent Vice. The new Brooklyn Rail features pieces on Tsai Ming-liang's Rebels of the Neon God and J.P. Sniadecki's The Iron Ministry, exhibitions of work by Michael Snow and cinematographer Gabriel Figueroa and an interview with John Giorno. Also today: With Mad Max: Fury Road opening next month, a Ballardian primer to the Mad Max Universe; Jonathan Rosenbaum on Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Aleksandr Dovzhenko and Leni Riefenstahl; Robert Greene on Steve James's Hoop Dreams and Michael Powell's Peeping Tom; and lots more. » - David Hudson...
- 4/6/2015
- Fandor: Keyframe
In the new La Furia Umana: a symposium on the future of cinema plus articles on Harun Farocki, Jerry Lewis and Paul Thomas Anderson's Inherent Vice. The new Brooklyn Rail features pieces on Tsai Ming-liang's Rebels of the Neon God and J.P. Sniadecki's The Iron Ministry, exhibitions of work by Michael Snow and cinematographer Gabriel Figueroa and an interview with John Giorno. Also today: With Mad Max: Fury Road opening next month, a Ballardian primer to the Mad Max Universe; Jonathan Rosenbaum on Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Aleksandr Dovzhenko and Leni Riefenstahl; Robert Greene on Steve James's Hoop Dreams and Michael Powell's Peeping Tom; and lots more. » - David Hudson...
- 4/6/2015
- Keyframe
New projects by the producers of Ida and Crulic are among 13 selected from Albania to Ukraine to be pitched at this year’s Connecting Cottbus East-West co-production market (November 6-7).
Poland’s Opus Film, which produced Pawel Pawlikowski’s multi-award winner Ida and co-produced Fatih Akin’s Venice competition title The Cut, and production partner Teamwork Production will be presenting leading Polish stage director Grzegorz Jarzyna’s Owl, The Baker’s Daughter, first pitched in public at the Polish Days in Wroclaw in July.
Romanian producer-director Anca Damian’s (Crulic) Aparte Film will be in Cottbus with In Perfect Health about the son of a judge looking for the reason for his father’s unexpected death and the rest of his life.
Other projects selected for the 16th edition include:
Alexander Kviria’s The Button, which is being produced by Ablabuda Film, the company set up last year by Tamara Tatishvili, the former...
Poland’s Opus Film, which produced Pawel Pawlikowski’s multi-award winner Ida and co-produced Fatih Akin’s Venice competition title The Cut, and production partner Teamwork Production will be presenting leading Polish stage director Grzegorz Jarzyna’s Owl, The Baker’s Daughter, first pitched in public at the Polish Days in Wroclaw in July.
Romanian producer-director Anca Damian’s (Crulic) Aparte Film will be in Cottbus with In Perfect Health about the son of a judge looking for the reason for his father’s unexpected death and the rest of his life.
Other projects selected for the 16th edition include:
Alexander Kviria’s The Button, which is being produced by Ablabuda Film, the company set up last year by Tamara Tatishvili, the former...
- 9/25/2014
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Konstantin Konovalov’s Odessa-set biopic about the Soviet film director Oleksandr Dovzhenko, Oleksandr Dovzhenko.Odessa-Debut, has already found co-producers in Finland and Argentina.
After first being pitched by Konovalov and his producer Volodymyr Filippov at last month’s Moscow Business Square co-production forum, the project, which is set in the Odessa of the mid-1920s when Dovzhenko was preparing to shoot his first feature The Diplomatic Pouch, was also presented in the programme of Odessa’s Film Industry Office on Thursday.
Born in today’s Ukraine, Dovzhenko - whose films include Earth and Arsenal - is on a par with such legendary early Soviet film-makers as Eisenstein and Pudovkin. The Dovzhenko Film Studios in Kiev were given his name after his death in 1956.
Speaking exclusively to Screen Daily, Konovalov confirmed that Rodrigo Vidal of Argentina’s Cinema 7 Films and Tony Valla of Finland’s Post Control are set to be partners in this project.
Producer Filippov...
After first being pitched by Konovalov and his producer Volodymyr Filippov at last month’s Moscow Business Square co-production forum, the project, which is set in the Odessa of the mid-1920s when Dovzhenko was preparing to shoot his first feature The Diplomatic Pouch, was also presented in the programme of Odessa’s Film Industry Office on Thursday.
Born in today’s Ukraine, Dovzhenko - whose films include Earth and Arsenal - is on a par with such legendary early Soviet film-makers as Eisenstein and Pudovkin. The Dovzhenko Film Studios in Kiev were given his name after his death in 1956.
Speaking exclusively to Screen Daily, Konovalov confirmed that Rodrigo Vidal of Argentina’s Cinema 7 Films and Tony Valla of Finland’s Post Control are set to be partners in this project.
Producer Filippov...
- 7/18/2014
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Konstantin Konovalov’s Odessa-set biopic about the Soviet film director Oleksandr Dovzhenko, Oleksandr Dovzhenko.Odessa-Debut, has already found co-producers in Finland and Argentina.
After first being pitched by Konovalov and his producer Volodymyr Filippov at last month’s Moscow Business Square co-production forum, the project, which is set in the Odessa of the mid-1920s when Dovzhenko was preparing to shoot his first feature The Diplomatic Pouch, was also presented in the programme of Odessa’s Film Industry Office on Thursday.
Born in today’s Ukraine, Dovzhenko - whose films include Earth and Arsenal - is on a par with such legendary early Soviet film-makers as Eisenstein and Pudovkin. The Dovzhenko Film Studios in Kiev were given his name after his death in 1956.
Speaking exclusively to Screen Daily, Konovalov confirmed that Rodrigo Vidal of Argentina’s Cinema 7 Films and Tony Valla of Finland’s Post Control are set to be partners in this project.
Producer Filippov...
After first being pitched by Konovalov and his producer Volodymyr Filippov at last month’s Moscow Business Square co-production forum, the project, which is set in the Odessa of the mid-1920s when Dovzhenko was preparing to shoot his first feature The Diplomatic Pouch, was also presented in the programme of Odessa’s Film Industry Office on Thursday.
Born in today’s Ukraine, Dovzhenko - whose films include Earth and Arsenal - is on a par with such legendary early Soviet film-makers as Eisenstein and Pudovkin. The Dovzhenko Film Studios in Kiev were given his name after his death in 1956.
Speaking exclusively to Screen Daily, Konovalov confirmed that Rodrigo Vidal of Argentina’s Cinema 7 Films and Tony Valla of Finland’s Post Control are set to be partners in this project.
Producer Filippov...
- 7/18/2014
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: The Battle of Sevastopol among ten projects being presented next week.
Sergei Mokritsky’s biopic-war drama The Battle of Sevastopol (working title) is among ten projects being presented as ‘works in progress’ at next week’s Film Industry Office programme (July 14-17), taking place during the fifth Odessa International Film Festival (July 11-19).
The €3.6m Ukrainian-Russian co-production between Kiev-based Kinorob and Russia’s New People had been pitched during last year’s Industry Office programme in Odessa, and has been shooting in Kiev and Odessa after an initial shoot on the Crimea at the end of the last year.
The historical drama centres on the life of Lyudmila Pavlichenko who killed over 300 Nazis during the Second World War as a highly decorated sniper.
Yulia Peresild has been cast as Pavlichenko, who enjoyed a 16-year friendship with Eleanor Roosevelt (played here by UK actress Joan Blackham) and inspired a song written by the legendary folk singer [link=nm...
Sergei Mokritsky’s biopic-war drama The Battle of Sevastopol (working title) is among ten projects being presented as ‘works in progress’ at next week’s Film Industry Office programme (July 14-17), taking place during the fifth Odessa International Film Festival (July 11-19).
The €3.6m Ukrainian-Russian co-production between Kiev-based Kinorob and Russia’s New People had been pitched during last year’s Industry Office programme in Odessa, and has been shooting in Kiev and Odessa after an initial shoot on the Crimea at the end of the last year.
The historical drama centres on the life of Lyudmila Pavlichenko who killed over 300 Nazis during the Second World War as a highly decorated sniper.
Yulia Peresild has been cast as Pavlichenko, who enjoyed a 16-year friendship with Eleanor Roosevelt (played here by UK actress Joan Blackham) and inspired a song written by the legendary folk singer [link=nm...
- 7/8/2014
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Veteran UK producer Patrick Cassavetti has boarded Marat Alykulov’s black comedy Lenin?!.
Cassavetti, producer on Terry Gilliam’s Brazil and Fear And Loathing in Las Vegas - agreed to become executive producer on the Kyrgyzstani project following talks in Cannes last month.
Speaking exclusively to ScreenDaily at this year’s Moscow Business Square (Mbs), producer Joanna Bence of Curb Denizen Productions said that Cassavetti will also offer new ‘perks’ to the ‘Help Bury Lenin?!’ crowdfunding campaign by giving burgeoning filmmakers the chance to receive personal feedback on their past or upcoming productions.
Bence also revealed that German-born, London-based DoP Stephan Bookas - who has worked on Maleficent and the upcoming Guardians of the Galaxy - is confirmed as cinematographer for the project, which was pitched at the Mbs’s co-production forum last year after having been presented at Busan’s Asian Project Market and Connecting Cottbus in autumn 2012.
Together with Curb Denizen producer partner [link=nm...
Cassavetti, producer on Terry Gilliam’s Brazil and Fear And Loathing in Las Vegas - agreed to become executive producer on the Kyrgyzstani project following talks in Cannes last month.
Speaking exclusively to ScreenDaily at this year’s Moscow Business Square (Mbs), producer Joanna Bence of Curb Denizen Productions said that Cassavetti will also offer new ‘perks’ to the ‘Help Bury Lenin?!’ crowdfunding campaign by giving burgeoning filmmakers the chance to receive personal feedback on their past or upcoming productions.
Bence also revealed that German-born, London-based DoP Stephan Bookas - who has worked on Maleficent and the upcoming Guardians of the Galaxy - is confirmed as cinematographer for the project, which was pitched at the Mbs’s co-production forum last year after having been presented at Busan’s Asian Project Market and Connecting Cottbus in autumn 2012.
Together with Curb Denizen producer partner [link=nm...
- 6/23/2014
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Think silent films reached a high point with The Artist? The pre-sound era produced some of the most beautiful, arresting films ever made. From City Lights to Metropolis, Guardian and Observer critics pick the 10 best
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10. City Lights
City Lights was arguably the biggest risk of Charlie Chaplin's career: The Jazz Singer, released at the end of 1927, had seen sound take cinema by storm, but Chaplin resisted the change-up, preferring to continue in the silent tradition. In retrospect, this isn't so much the precious behaviour of a purist but the smart reaction of an experienced comedian; Chaplin's films rarely used intertitles anyway, and though it is technically "silent", City Lights is very mindful of it own self-composed score and keenly judged sound effects.
At its heart,...
• Top 10 teen movies
• Top 10 superhero movies
• Top 10 westerns
• Top 10 documentaries
• Top 10 movie adaptations
• Top 10 animated movies
• More Guardian and Observer critics' top 10s
10. City Lights
City Lights was arguably the biggest risk of Charlie Chaplin's career: The Jazz Singer, released at the end of 1927, had seen sound take cinema by storm, but Chaplin resisted the change-up, preferring to continue in the silent tradition. In retrospect, this isn't so much the precious behaviour of a purist but the smart reaction of an experienced comedian; Chaplin's films rarely used intertitles anyway, and though it is technically "silent", City Lights is very mindful of it own self-composed score and keenly judged sound effects.
At its heart,...
- 11/22/2013
- The Guardian - Film News
★★★★★ Despite often being cited as one of the most important early Soviet filmmakers - primarily for his Soviet montage theory - the name Alexander Dovzhenko has failed to garner the same critical acclaim in the west as his contemporaries. However, thanks to Mr Bongo, his most revered and respected work is again available in the convenient Dovzhenko: War Trilogy box set. Despite being disregarded by Soviet critics on its initial release for its perceived 'counter-revolutionary' viewpoint, the three films included remain a testament to the pioneering work of this underrated director.
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- 9/25/2012
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
News.
The Aurora tragedy, in which a man took the lives of 14 people, and injured many others, in a horrific shooting at a midnight screening of The Dark Knight Rises, has devastated everyone. David Hudson rounds up some of the responses critics have offered in the wake of this unthinkable event. Issue 63 of Senses of Cinema is now available online for your perusal. Among the offerings are pieces on Herzog's Aguirre, the Wrath of God, Ferrara's Go Go Tales and an assortment of festival reports. Above: Jerry Lewis sure knows how to keep busy. The 86 year-old is hard at work on directing his first play, a stage adaptation of The Nutty Professor. Dave Itzkoff, who visited Lewis during rehearsals, has a piece on the subject in The New York Times. Claire Denis is set to begin shooting The Bastards, her next feature. We've yet to get any plot details, but...
The Aurora tragedy, in which a man took the lives of 14 people, and injured many others, in a horrific shooting at a midnight screening of The Dark Knight Rises, has devastated everyone. David Hudson rounds up some of the responses critics have offered in the wake of this unthinkable event. Issue 63 of Senses of Cinema is now available online for your perusal. Among the offerings are pieces on Herzog's Aguirre, the Wrath of God, Ferrara's Go Go Tales and an assortment of festival reports. Above: Jerry Lewis sure knows how to keep busy. The 86 year-old is hard at work on directing his first play, a stage adaptation of The Nutty Professor. Dave Itzkoff, who visited Lewis during rehearsals, has a piece on the subject in The New York Times. Claire Denis is set to begin shooting The Bastards, her next feature. We've yet to get any plot details, but...
- 7/25/2012
- MUBI
"Over eighty percent of silent films are lost. I've always considered a lost film as a narrative with no known final resting place — doomed to wander the landscape of film history, sad, miserable and unable to project itself to the people who might love it." That's Guy Maddin, as quoted by Kim Morgan, introducing Maddin's Spiritismes, happening now at the Centre Pompidou in Paris ("During 'séances'... Maddin and his actors will allow themselves to be possessed by the wandering spirits of the dead, to bring their movies back to life") through March 12:
Filmmaking, dead made undead, is happening live at the Centre — lost or unrealized films by directors as diverse as Jean Vigo, Kenji Mizoguchi, Lois Weber, William Wellman, von Stroheim (I will appear in that particular Poto-Poto), Alexandre Dovjenko and more are coming — rising from the dead, in their own unique way. Maddin will be shooting one film a day.
Filmmaking, dead made undead, is happening live at the Centre — lost or unrealized films by directors as diverse as Jean Vigo, Kenji Mizoguchi, Lois Weber, William Wellman, von Stroheim (I will appear in that particular Poto-Poto), Alexandre Dovjenko and more are coming — rising from the dead, in their own unique way. Maddin will be shooting one film a day.
- 2/24/2012
- MUBI
"Ah, the pungent odor, the fermented esprit, the sulfurous insanity of the New York Asian Film Fest!" exclaims Michael Atkinson, introducing his overview of the lineup in the Voice. "It's a new year for the city's favorite attack of the imported-irrational, and as always, the jejune state of the late-spring/early-summer box office gets a shot in the ass. The pulp is especially ripe this year, particularly from Japan, where manga-ness seems to have gone from a national pastime to a mass psychosis."
For R Emmet Sweeney, writing for TCM, "most of the revelations in this year's slate came in the Nyaff sidebar, Sea of Revenge: New Korean Thrillers, so I'll focus there." Michael J Anderson splits the difference, concentrating on Takashi Miike's Ninja Kids!!! and Na Hong-jin's The Chaser (image above). Time Out New York's got a slide of "titles worth cutting class for." Cinespect's Ryan Wells picks...
For R Emmet Sweeney, writing for TCM, "most of the revelations in this year's slate came in the Nyaff sidebar, Sea of Revenge: New Korean Thrillers, so I'll focus there." Michael J Anderson splits the difference, concentrating on Takashi Miike's Ninja Kids!!! and Na Hong-jin's The Chaser (image above). Time Out New York's got a slide of "titles worth cutting class for." Cinespect's Ryan Wells picks...
- 6/30/2011
- MUBI
In the 1920s and 30s it was a struggle against the censors to get the likes of Battleship Potemkin shown in the UK. Now the BFI is celebrating these pioneering Russian films
Some Russian films of the early 20th century that sent shockwaves through Europe, making an impact outside the realm of cinema, are celebrated in a two-month BFI Southbank season. John Lehmann, poet, Hogarth Press editor, and brother of novelist Rosamond, wrote in 1940 that their appearance in London "was an event that had a decisive formative influence on the minds of the most alert of the new generation". Yet the films' arrival was staggered to say the least.
Bedecked with endorsements from Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford, the world's most famous couple, Sergei Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin had done sensational business in Germany in 1926, but distributors' hopes of repeat success in Britain ran aground. "Officialdom," complained an out-of-character Daily Express,...
Some Russian films of the early 20th century that sent shockwaves through Europe, making an impact outside the realm of cinema, are celebrated in a two-month BFI Southbank season. John Lehmann, poet, Hogarth Press editor, and brother of novelist Rosamond, wrote in 1940 that their appearance in London "was an event that had a decisive formative influence on the minds of the most alert of the new generation". Yet the films' arrival was staggered to say the least.
Bedecked with endorsements from Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford, the world's most famous couple, Sergei Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin had done sensational business in Germany in 1926, but distributors' hopes of repeat success in Britain ran aground. "Officialdom," complained an out-of-character Daily Express,...
- 5/26/2011
- The Guardian - Film News
Alexander Dovzhenko, 1928/1929 (Mr Bongo Films, 12/15)
Alexander Dovzhenko (1894-1956), a Ukrainian of peasant stock, first became a schoolteacher and then, after joining the Communist party, turned to diplomacy, working at the Soviet embassies in Poland and Germany. He then became a newspaper cartoonist back in the Ukraine before finding his metier as a film-maker and becoming the most acclaimed poet of the Russian silent cinema. His most celebrated movie, Earth (released by Mr Bongo last year), is a tough, lyrical, unsentimental evocation of rural life, which provoked Soviet censors through its alleged pessimism. Earth completed an informal trilogy of silent classics about Ukraine that began with Zvenigora and continued with Arsenal.
Merging fantasy and realism, Zvenigora uses the rambling story of a search for a lost treasure to journey through Ukraine's distant past and revolutionary present. Arsenal, Dovzhenko's most complex, avant-garde work, is as revolutionary in its politics as in its style.
Alexander Dovzhenko (1894-1956), a Ukrainian of peasant stock, first became a schoolteacher and then, after joining the Communist party, turned to diplomacy, working at the Soviet embassies in Poland and Germany. He then became a newspaper cartoonist back in the Ukraine before finding his metier as a film-maker and becoming the most acclaimed poet of the Russian silent cinema. His most celebrated movie, Earth (released by Mr Bongo last year), is a tough, lyrical, unsentimental evocation of rural life, which provoked Soviet censors through its alleged pessimism. Earth completed an informal trilogy of silent classics about Ukraine that began with Zvenigora and continued with Arsenal.
Merging fantasy and realism, Zvenigora uses the rambling story of a search for a lost treasure to journey through Ukraine's distant past and revolutionary present. Arsenal, Dovzhenko's most complex, avant-garde work, is as revolutionary in its politics as in its style.
- 2/13/2011
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
Jan. 20
8:00 p.m.
Echo Park Film Center
1200 N. Alvarado Street (@ Sunset Blvd)
Los Angeles, CA
Hosted by: Amanda Movlai
Amanda Movlai, a Los Angeles-based experimental filmmaker and performance artist, will screen several of her short films, which will be accompanied by a live soundtrack performed by local musicians. The films are actually shot on film, both Super 8 and 16mm. The filmmaker will be in attendance.
While the full lineup of films screening at this event has not been released, one of them will be at least I Am the Fastest Man, an eight-minute Super 8 film about a track & field star dreaming about his bygone days of glory. (Image below)
According to the filmmaker’s official website, her films explore relationships between place, memory and time, reminisces of the way we remember the places we’ve been even if we’ve never been there before. Her films attempt to...
8:00 p.m.
Echo Park Film Center
1200 N. Alvarado Street (@ Sunset Blvd)
Los Angeles, CA
Hosted by: Amanda Movlai
Amanda Movlai, a Los Angeles-based experimental filmmaker and performance artist, will screen several of her short films, which will be accompanied by a live soundtrack performed by local musicians. The films are actually shot on film, both Super 8 and 16mm. The filmmaker will be in attendance.
While the full lineup of films screening at this event has not been released, one of them will be at least I Am the Fastest Man, an eight-minute Super 8 film about a track & field star dreaming about his bygone days of glory. (Image below)
According to the filmmaker’s official website, her films explore relationships between place, memory and time, reminisces of the way we remember the places we’ve been even if we’ve never been there before. Her films attempt to...
- 1/17/2011
- by screenings
- Underground Film Journal
Jan. 13
8:00 p.m.
Echo Park Film Center
1200 N. Alvarado Street (@ Sunset Blvd)
Los Angeles, CA
Hosted by: Tg Film Fest
Catch several of the short films from the first two Tg Film Fests, a festival devoted exclusively to work made by members of the “trans” community. The films range from comedies to dramas to documentaries to genre-bending experiments.
The festival is an extension of Trans/Giving, an organization here in Los Angeles that hosts performances and art shows featuring work trans community people, “trans” meaning in the words of Trans/Giving: “transgender, transsexual, transvestite, as in crossdressers, drag kings and queens, studs, and all those who identify as contributing members of gender fabulousness.”
Work showcased by Trans/Giving doesn’t necessarily mean that it has to deal specifically with gender issues, just as long as it was created by someone in the community. The film festival is already accepting entries for their 2011 edition,...
8:00 p.m.
Echo Park Film Center
1200 N. Alvarado Street (@ Sunset Blvd)
Los Angeles, CA
Hosted by: Tg Film Fest
Catch several of the short films from the first two Tg Film Fests, a festival devoted exclusively to work made by members of the “trans” community. The films range from comedies to dramas to documentaries to genre-bending experiments.
The festival is an extension of Trans/Giving, an organization here in Los Angeles that hosts performances and art shows featuring work trans community people, “trans” meaning in the words of Trans/Giving: “transgender, transsexual, transvestite, as in crossdressers, drag kings and queens, studs, and all those who identify as contributing members of gender fabulousness.”
Work showcased by Trans/Giving doesn’t necessarily mean that it has to deal specifically with gender issues, just as long as it was created by someone in the community. The film festival is already accepting entries for their 2011 edition,...
- 1/10/2011
- by screenings
- Underground Film Journal
It seems like only yesterday that the American Film Institute released their 100 Years...100 Movies [1] list. Actually though, it was over 10 years ago when we first got our look at that "definitive" list of the 100 best American movies. They then did a ten year anniversary of it in 2007 with only minor adjustments and both years Citizen Kane held the number one place as the best American movie. Of course, the problem with those lists is that they only list American films. While Hollywood might be considered the epicenter of film, the art form itself spans the globe, way beyond American borders. That's why the Toronto International Film Festival came up with their Essential 100 movies. Created by merging lists made by Toronto Film Festival supporters along with another made by their programmers, these are supposed to be the 100 essential movies every cinephile must see. And it starts off with a bang as Citizen Kane has been toppled.
- 12/22/2010
- by Germain Lussier
- Slash Film
Ok cinephiles. Who among you has seen all 100 on the Toronto International Film Festival's Essential 100? The full list is pasted below. True confession: I have seen all but the following 11, which I shame-facedly reveal below: 1. Pather Panchali Satyajit Ray (pictured) 2. La Jetee Chris Marker 3. Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom Pier Paolo Pasolini 4. Through the Olive Trees Abbas Kiarostami 5. Dust in the Wind Hou Hasaio-Hsien 6. Chronique d'un Ete Edgar Morin and Jean Rauch 7. La Noire de... Ousmane Sembene 8. Andre Rublev Andrei Tarkovsky 9. A Nos Amours Maurice Pialat 10. Earth Aleksandr Dovzhenko 11. Oldboy Park Chan-Wook The Essential 100 This list represents the merging of one 100 film list as determined by an ...
- 12/17/2010
- Thompson on Hollywood
Oct. 9
7:00 p.m.
Echo Park Film Center
1200 N. Alvarado Street (@ Sunset Blvd)
Los Angeles, CA
Hosted by: Laughtears
Attention Los Angeles Captain Beefheart fans! You can attend a rare live chat with Beefheart’s drummer John “Drumbo” French conducted by Gerry Fialka. Drumbo recently wrote a memoir about his time in the innovative band called Beefheart: Through the Eyes of Magic.
As for the screening portion of the evening, Fialka will be showing Crow’s Milk, the rare 2003 documentary about the Magic Band. The film includes nearly 20 classic Beefheart tunes, including favorites such as “Moonlight on Vermont,” “Big Eyed Beans From Venus,” “Evening Bell” and “Alice in Blunderland.” The documentary also has unique instrumental versions of the songs “I Wanna Find A Woman That’ll Hold My Big Toe Till I Have To Go,” “My Human Gets Me Blues” and “Steal Softly Thru Snow.”
Gerry Fialka is a Los...
7:00 p.m.
Echo Park Film Center
1200 N. Alvarado Street (@ Sunset Blvd)
Los Angeles, CA
Hosted by: Laughtears
Attention Los Angeles Captain Beefheart fans! You can attend a rare live chat with Beefheart’s drummer John “Drumbo” French conducted by Gerry Fialka. Drumbo recently wrote a memoir about his time in the innovative band called Beefheart: Through the Eyes of Magic.
As for the screening portion of the evening, Fialka will be showing Crow’s Milk, the rare 2003 documentary about the Magic Band. The film includes nearly 20 classic Beefheart tunes, including favorites such as “Moonlight on Vermont,” “Big Eyed Beans From Venus,” “Evening Bell” and “Alice in Blunderland.” The documentary also has unique instrumental versions of the songs “I Wanna Find A Woman That’ll Hold My Big Toe Till I Have To Go,” “My Human Gets Me Blues” and “Steal Softly Thru Snow.”
Gerry Fialka is a Los...
- 10/4/2010
- by screenings
- Underground Film Journal
September 23
7:00 p.m.
Goethe-Institut
5750 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90036
Hosted by: Center for Visual Music
The Center for Visual Music — the Los Angeles-based archive dedicated to the preservation and promotion of both classic and modern avant-garde and experimental media — is holding a special benefit to raise money for their Fischinger Preservation and Conservation Project. Tickets can be purchased directly from Event Brite. (To be clear: This event is Not a screening, so don’t go expecting to see a screening of Fischinger’s films. This is simply a benefit.)
The event is being held on the occasion of the 100th birthday of Elfriede Fischinger (1910 — 1999), the widow of experimental animation pioneer Oskar Fischinger (1900 — 1967). There will be paintings and unshot animation drawings by Oskar, but half of the exhibition will be about the life and work of Elfriede. Also, there will be a wine reception and a silent auction.
Oskar Fischinger...
7:00 p.m.
Goethe-Institut
5750 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90036
Hosted by: Center for Visual Music
The Center for Visual Music — the Los Angeles-based archive dedicated to the preservation and promotion of both classic and modern avant-garde and experimental media — is holding a special benefit to raise money for their Fischinger Preservation and Conservation Project. Tickets can be purchased directly from Event Brite. (To be clear: This event is Not a screening, so don’t go expecting to see a screening of Fischinger’s films. This is simply a benefit.)
The event is being held on the occasion of the 100th birthday of Elfriede Fischinger (1910 — 1999), the widow of experimental animation pioneer Oskar Fischinger (1900 — 1967). There will be paintings and unshot animation drawings by Oskar, but half of the exhibition will be about the life and work of Elfriede. Also, there will be a wine reception and a silent auction.
Oskar Fischinger...
- 9/20/2010
- by screenings
- Underground Film Journal
Aug. 21
8:00 p.m.
Echo Park Film Center
1200 N. Alvarado Street (@ Sunset Blvd)
Los Angeles, CA
Hosted by: Cut and Run
Cut and Run is a new touring program of experimental short films organized by curators Brenda Contreras and Mallary Abel. While I don’t have a full lineup of films that will be screening at this specific event, I do have a selection of them listed below, which looks like this will be a great show.
Contreras and Abel are hoping to make this a national traveling show and have started a Kickstarter campaign to raise funds. Both are seasoned curators with Contreras having worked for the Mission Underground Film Festival and Artists Television Access in San Francisco, while Abel has been an associate programmer for UnionDocs in Brooklyn.
The theme of the current touring program is “Evolution and Life of the Mind, Body, and Medium” and
focuses on cycles of minds,...
8:00 p.m.
Echo Park Film Center
1200 N. Alvarado Street (@ Sunset Blvd)
Los Angeles, CA
Hosted by: Cut and Run
Cut and Run is a new touring program of experimental short films organized by curators Brenda Contreras and Mallary Abel. While I don’t have a full lineup of films that will be screening at this specific event, I do have a selection of them listed below, which looks like this will be a great show.
Contreras and Abel are hoping to make this a national traveling show and have started a Kickstarter campaign to raise funds. Both are seasoned curators with Contreras having worked for the Mission Underground Film Festival and Artists Television Access in San Francisco, while Abel has been an associate programmer for UnionDocs in Brooklyn.
The theme of the current touring program is “Evolution and Life of the Mind, Body, and Medium” and
focuses on cycles of minds,...
- 8/16/2010
- by screenings
- Underground Film Journal
A quiet Monday in August is a fine day to catch up with the current issue of Electric Sheep, whose theme is "Propaganda" and features Peter Momtchiloff on Alexander Dovzhenko's Earth (1930; image above), Eleanor McKeown on Dziga Vertov's A Sixth Part of the World (1926), Robert Barry, briefly, on the soundtrack of Leni Riefenstahl's Triumph of the Will (1935) and Sarah Cronin on the "virtual absence of politics and/or propaganda" in current American war movies.
- 8/16/2010
- MUBI
April 22
8:00 p.m.
Echo Park Film Center
1200 N. Alvarado Street (@ Sunset Blvd)
Los Angeles, CA
Hosted by: Echo Park Film Center
What better way to celebrate Earth Day than to watch a film called simply Earth. No, it’s not a documentary. It’s the classic Soviet silent film by Alexander Dovzhenko made in 1930 about peasants trying to set up a farming collective despite the objections of the rich and powerful farmers.
Although Dovzhenko doesn’t quite get the respect that his comrade-in-filmmaking-arms Sergei Eisenstein does, he was nonetheless a significant figure in Russian revolutionary cinema. Earth is the third entry in his “Ukraine Trilogy” — after Zvenigora and Arsenal. You can read a nice appreciation on this typically overlooked pioneer in this piece written by Chris Fujiwara.
Below, I’ve embedded the first ten minutes of the film that I found on YouTube. The quality’s not that great,...
8:00 p.m.
Echo Park Film Center
1200 N. Alvarado Street (@ Sunset Blvd)
Los Angeles, CA
Hosted by: Echo Park Film Center
What better way to celebrate Earth Day than to watch a film called simply Earth. No, it’s not a documentary. It’s the classic Soviet silent film by Alexander Dovzhenko made in 1930 about peasants trying to set up a farming collective despite the objections of the rich and powerful farmers.
Although Dovzhenko doesn’t quite get the respect that his comrade-in-filmmaking-arms Sergei Eisenstein does, he was nonetheless a significant figure in Russian revolutionary cinema. Earth is the third entry in his “Ukraine Trilogy” — after Zvenigora and Arsenal. You can read a nice appreciation on this typically overlooked pioneer in this piece written by Chris Fujiwara.
Below, I’ve embedded the first ten minutes of the film that I found on YouTube. The quality’s not that great,...
- 4/19/2010
- by screenings
- Underground Film Journal
I don't think I'm alone in agreeing with whoever said, "I love work. I could watch it all day"
After watching the almost pristine print of Fritz Lang's Metropolis (1926) at the Berlinale a few weeks ago, it occurred to me that the lion's share of the time spent by the vast majority of the population of the world is seldom portrayed on screen. Namely, manual labourers and their work.
Why this neglect? After all, the very first film shown commercially was Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory (1895). The simplistic answer is that most audiences demand escapism and that the depiction of work is as tedious as the act. But I don't think I'm alone in agreeing with whoever said, "I love work. I could watch it all day."
Metropolis is set in a futuristic city where the downtrodden factory workers, all dressed in black, walk gloomily in lines towards a...
After watching the almost pristine print of Fritz Lang's Metropolis (1926) at the Berlinale a few weeks ago, it occurred to me that the lion's share of the time spent by the vast majority of the population of the world is seldom portrayed on screen. Namely, manual labourers and their work.
Why this neglect? After all, the very first film shown commercially was Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory (1895). The simplistic answer is that most audiences demand escapism and that the depiction of work is as tedious as the act. But I don't think I'm alone in agreeing with whoever said, "I love work. I could watch it all day."
Metropolis is set in a futuristic city where the downtrodden factory workers, all dressed in black, walk gloomily in lines towards a...
- 3/2/2010
- by Ronald Bergan
- The Guardian - Film News
Larisa Shepitko, notes Josef Braun, "studied under the greatAlexander Dovzhenko, director ofArsenal (1928) and Earth (30), but being an all-too-apt pupil, and part of what would prove an iconoclastic generation of Soviet filmmakers, she would not uphold or even reconfigure the traditions of her mentor so much as follow his example as an innovator and exacting aesthete, developing an utterly distinctive voice, one that would seek poetic methods of externalizing internal, individual transformations rather than, in accordance with official Soviet ideology, speak for the glory of a people."
"Privilege was all but dismissed by the critics as 'hysterical' and 'juvenile' and roundly denounced in the press... In [director Peter] Watkins's own words, 'The fact that everything shown or implied in the film has come about in Britain subsequent years - especially during Margaret Thatcher's nationalistic period - has not changed its status as a completely marginalized film in that country.'" Sean Axmaker for TCM.
"Privilege was all but dismissed by the critics as 'hysterical' and 'juvenile' and roundly denounced in the press... In [director Peter] Watkins's own words, 'The fact that everything shown or implied in the film has come about in Britain subsequent years - especially during Margaret Thatcher's nationalistic period - has not changed its status as a completely marginalized film in that country.'" Sean Axmaker for TCM.
- 9/3/2008
- by dwhudson
- GreenCine
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