Twitch (Free subscription) | 07/04/2009
The San Francisco Film Society’s longstanding working relationship with Film Movement ensures the theatrical exhibition of several festival-lauded films on the Sundance Kabuki’s SFFS Screen . For this, Bay Area audiences should be especially grateful. Recently, Film Movement’s collaboration with SFFS provided Munyurangabo ; this week they’re providing Eldorado (July 3-9); and...
The Evening Class (Free subscription) | 07/04/2009
The San Francisco Film Society's longstanding working relationship with Film Movement ensures the theatrical exhibition of several festival-lauded films on the Sundance Kabuki's SFFS Screen . For this, Bay Area audiences should be especially grateful. Recently, Film Movement's collaboration with SFFS provided Munyurangabo ; this week they're providing Eldorado (July 3-9); and in future weeks they'll...
Fin de Cinema (Free subscription) | 05/24/2009
The 62nd annual Cannes Film Festival has ended, and while the main competition prizes won't be given out until later today, the sidebars have already announced their winners. They are as follows. Un Certain Regard Prix Un Certain Regard : Dogtooth [ Kynodontas ] - d. Yorgos Lanthimos - Greece Prix du jury : Police, adjective [ Intermediar ] - d. Corneliu Porumboiu - Romania Prix special Un Certain...
[CinemaRatty] Lattest Articles (Free subscription) | 05/24/2009
The 62nd annual Cannes Film Festival has ended, and while the main competition prizes won't be given out until later today, the sidebars have already announced their winners. They are as follows Un...
The Bourne Cinema Conspiracy (Free subscription) | 05/23/2009
(All synopses from the official Director's Fortnight site .) The King of Escape (Le Roi de l'évasion) (Alain Guiraudie) Armand Lacourtade, a 43-year-old farm equipment salesman, can no longer bear his homosexual bachelorhood. When he meets Curly, a plucky teenage girl, he changes orientations. With everyone pursuing them, they defy dangers of all kinds to live their forbidden love. They make...
The Bourne Cinema Conspiracy (Free subscription) | 05/23/2009
(All synopses from the official Director's Fortnight site .) Carcasses (Denis Côté) For more than 40 years now, Jean-Paul Colmor has collecting hundreds of automobile carcasses on his lot. More than just recycling and selling car parts, Colmor has created an unthinkable site, full of memories. Every day he visits his lot, carts scrap iron, inventories his parts and other rusting gems....
Fin de Cinema (Free subscription) | 04/24/2009
More films playing at the 62nd annual Festival International de Cannes were revealed today. The line-up of both the Quinzaine des Réalisateurs, aka Directors' Fortnight, and La Semaine de la Critique, aka The International Critics' Week, have been announced. Contrary to early reports, Francis Ford Coppola's Tetro will make a showing at Cannes this year, opening the Quinzaine. Coppola's company...
Critic After Dark (Free subscription) | 06/01/2008
The director of the brilliant Indio Nacional (2005) has made it not to the official Cannes festival, but to a parallel festival, the Quinzaine des realisateurs , or Director's Fortnight, which has its own more eclectic reputation, that of being the discoverer new, quirkier talent, where the Cannes festival is more likely to screen the works of established filmmakers. This meant the French debut of...
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