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Venice Classics in Venezia72
Venice Classics is the section of the Venice Film Festival that since 2012 has presented, with growing success, a world premiere selection of restored classic films. The section brings back to light...
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#Venezia72 Check No. 1 - The Italians Part 1
Series IntroAs the Cannes Series gave a more detailed view of the films in the main competition, today decided to start another "Check Series" this time for Venice International Film Festival, also...
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#Venezia72 Check No. 1 - The Italians Part 2
In the second part of the Italian directors in #Venezia72 competition will check Luca Guadagnino and Marco Bellocchio.Luca GuadagninoBorn in Palermo, Sicily, Italy in 1971 but spent his childhood in...
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#Venezia72 Check No. 2 - The French
The 2015 Biennale has in the main competition two French directors, Christian Vincent and Xavier Giannoli, which I'm not really much familiar with; but, have seen some of their earlier films because I...
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#Venezia72 Check No. 3 - Latin American Directors
Latin American cinema will be represented in this year's Venezia72 competition with two directors, well-known Pablo Trapero and Lorenzo Vigas with his debut feature film.Pablo TraperoBorn on October 4,...
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68th Festival del Film Locarno Award Winners
A few minutes ago, organizers announced the winners for this edition and my first reaction is that winners tend to be more from Asian cinema than from any other cinema in the world, as most awards in...
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#Venezia72 Check No. 4 - The Europeans
As we already covered four (4) Italian directors and two (2) French directors, lets research now the other two (2) European directors, one from Poland, Jerzy Skolimowski, and one from UK, Tom Hooper....
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63rd San Sebastian International Film Festival Lineup
In the last few weeks organizers have been announcing drop by drop the films in the many sections of the festival. Seems that finally today the last drop was announced, so decided to do the post that...
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40th Toronto International Film Festival Platform Line-Up
We all know that Toronto fest has been a non-competitive festival but in their 40th edition there will be a competition, which -if continues to happen in the future- takes fest into the road of...
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#Venezia72 Check No. 5 - From Europe and Asia
Turn to check two (2) bi-continental directors, Emin Alpert from Turkey and outstanding Aleksandr Sokurov from RussiaEmin AlperNot much info about this director but here are the basics; most data comes...
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#Venezia72 Check No. 6 - The Female Directors
There are only two female directors in Venezia 72 competition, Sue Brooks from Australia and Laurie Anderson from USA. I'm not familiar with them so this exercise will help to meet them.Sue BrooksBorn...
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#Venezia72 Check No. 7 - The Asians
There are two directors from Asia, Amos Gitaï from Israel and Zhao Liang from China. Besides geography both have in common the fact of being politically committed, thus controversial in their own...
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9th Queer Lion Award News
The 9th Queer Lion Award will take place from September 2nd to September 12th, 2015, during the 72. Venice International Film Festival; competing for the award, as usual, will be all the movies with...
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#Venezia72 Check No. 8 - The Auteurs
Was checking the meaning of auteur in the English language and surprise, check what it says: "a filmmaker whose personal influence and artistic control over a movie are so great that the filmmaker is...
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#Venezia72 Check No. 9 - The Americans
There are three directors that come from America or better said United States of America, two directed one film -the only animated film in competition- and one has a film that spontaneously look -very-...
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#Venezia72 Check No. 10 - The Canadian
The last check of the Venice series is about a Canadian director that of course I'm familiar with but not really enjoy much, so let's see what's all the fuzz and buzz about his latest opus that opens...
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2015 Nordic Council Film Prize Nominations
The 2015 nominees for the Nordic Council Film Prize have been announced. From the Nordisk Film & TV Fund, the Nordic Council Film Prize is “The purpose of the Nordic Council Film Prize is to...
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2015 European Film Academy People's Choice Award
Every year, the EFA People’s Choice Award allows film fans across Europe to elect their favorite film and a few moments ago the Academy announced the tiles in the selection. This year there are ten...
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2015 FIPRESCI Grand Prix Winner
Today FIPRESCI announced the annual Grand Prix - Best Film of the Year award winner and to my HUGE surprise Mad Max: Fury Road is the winner! Yes, my spontaneous initial reaction was tinted with the...
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Day 1 #Venezia72
Finally today the oldest film festival in the world starts with the premier of a 3D film to be screened after the opening ceremony. But press has already seen film so there are reactions to Everest all...
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