After repeatedly expressing his disillusionment with filmmaking, Xavier Dolan suggests he’s finally folding up his director’s chair. The 34-year-old Québécois writer-director recently told a Spanish media outlet, El Pais that he no longer feels like “committing two years to a project that barely anyone sees. I put too much passion into it to have these…
Serge Toubiana is the doyen of cinephiles. The film critic who was born in Tunisia and grew up in France, is one of the most prominent cinema journalists worldwide who was appointed Commander of Order of Arts and bestowed with the highest order of merits in France, the Legion of Honour. Serge Toubiana was at…
Recently cinema has delivered several films where elderly characters express their support for euthanasia worldwide, from The Netherlands with Pink Moon, to India with It’s Time To Go and Japan with Plan 75. The latter, directed by Chie Hayakawa is set in a near-to-futuristic landscape in the Land of the Rising Sun. In this context,…
“1962…1963…1964” JULY 22 – AUGUST 11 AT FILM FORUM 3-WEEK, 35-FILM SERIES SPOTLIGHTS RICH PERIOD OF MOVIE HISTORY Includes films by Stanley Kubrick, David Lean, Federico Fellini, François Truffaut, Jacques Demy, John Ford, Richard Lester, Agnès Varda, Roman Polanski, Jean-Luc Godard, Tony Richardson, Sergio Leone, Luis Buñuel, Francis Ford Coppola, Alfred Hitchcock, and many others Presented…
Raindance, the largest independent film festival in the U.K., serves as platform for the international premiere of Jean Seberg: Actress Activist Icon. This documentary — produced by Emmy nominated and award-winning filmmakers Garry McGee, Kelly Rundle, and Tammy Rundle — is the first in its kind to delve into the private side of the Marshalltown,…
Bastille Day is the French celebration that marks the moment in history when the people uprose against the aristocracy; this revolutionary act led to the proclamation of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen. Despite it being a quintessentially francophone feast it is heartfelt all over the world, even in the…
After the world debut at the San Sebastian Film Festival (where the story is set) in September, the Spanish release in October, and December in the Russian and Dutch ones, Woody Allen’s new comedy, Rifkin’s Festival continues its European release, arriving in Italian cinemas on May 6th. The Italy-Spain co-production created by The Mediapro Studio,…
The most recent studies of 2020 (made on the American territory), demonstrated that male film critics outnumber female film critics by more than 65%. However the Women Film Critics Circle has always championed the work of female cinephile writers, by being an association of 80 women film critics and scholars from around the country and…
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