Documentarist – Istanbul Documentary Days, Turkey’s largest documentary film festival, was held for the fourth time from May 31 to June 5, 2011. The festival has been garnering more attention internationally and widening the scope of its programme every year. The result of prodigious efforts undertaken by the founders as well as a large team [...]
Last Saturday, June 27th, the awards of the 4th annual Cinema City International Film Festival were announced at the closing ceremony in Novi Sad, Serbia. The festival gives its signature Ibis Awards in several categories to films in its three competition sections: ‘National Class’ (contemporary Serbian cinema), ‘Exit Point’ (international art cinema) and ‘Up to [...]
In 1931 Austrian mathematician Kurt Gödel proved what is now known as the Incompleteness Theorem. He demonstrated that within any given system, a robot for example, there would always be at least one proposition, which is true, but which cannot be proven using the rules and axioms of the system itself. Gödel used a variation [...]
The Cinema City film festival in Novi Sad, Serbia, hosted a panel discussion on the future of film criticism with director Gerald Peary, following the screening of his documentary, For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism (2009). The film offers a useful summary of the different roles of the film critic [...]
Maria Sødahl has made an assured feature debut with Limbo (2010) at the Cinema City film festival, Novi Sad, Serbia. The film was previously screened at Montreal and Thessaloniki. Set in the 1970s, Limbo centres on a Norwegian woman named Sonia who, with her two children, goes to Trinidad to join her husband Joe who [...]
Last night the opening ceremony took place for the 4th annual Cinema City film festival in Novi Sad, Serbia. The festival introduced the members of its three main juries, who will award prizes to films from three of the festival’s sections: ‘National Class’ (Serbian films), ‘Exit Point’ (international auteur cinema, this year showcasing films about [...]
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences voted Tuesday to make another change to the nomination phase of the Best Picture competition. Anywhere from five to 10 films will now be nominated, and that number won’t be announced until January when the rest of the nominations are revealed. The change [...]
Despite their renown, some famous films are able to surprise new generations of filmgoers. A first-time viewer of The Graduate might only know of the character of Mrs. Robinson, familiar from the Simon and Garfunkel song written specifically for the film. The name and song have also been used as shorthand in other movies involving [...]
“Black Swan” director Darren Aronofsky is seeking financing for a new film about the Biblical story Noah’s Ark. After “Black Swan,” which grossed $315 million worldwide on a $12 million budget and brought the arthouse director international fame, Aronofsky was attached briefly to direct “The Wolverine,” the sequel to the Hugh Jackman vehicle, “X-Men Origins: [...]
“I was dealing with human beings, and they’re a pretty fucked up breed.” It probably wouldn’t surprise a lot of people if it were revealed that Ralph Zavadil, the source of the above quotation, weren’t human after all. (He made a name for himself by snorting raw eggs, squirting chocolate syrup on the backs of [...]
We’ll always have Casablanca
‘Carnage’ slaughters dialogue with theatrics
Loco: London’s 1st Comedy Film Festival
Orlando: Does Sex Matter?
A soothing demise: Lars von Trier’s ‘Melancholia’ considered
The Power of Limits in The Five Obstructions
Surviving ‘Surviving Life’
‘The Other’ at The 2nd London Iranian Film Festival
‘Leaving’: Made in Prague
A Step Forward: New African Film in Paris
