Created by the filmmaker Jia Zhang-ke (A Touch of Sin, Mountains May Depart) with former Venice festival head Marco Muller serving as the artistic director, Pingyao Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon International Film Festival (Pyiff) is being described as "the first boutique Chinese film festival“. The inaugural edition of the festival kicks off October 28, and will be held in Pingyao Ancient City. Located between Beijing and Xi´an, Pingyao is listed on the World Cultural Heritage map. A major tourist destination, the city was chosen to embrace the dialogue between non-Western and Western film communities with its 2700 years of history. The festival was established with an intention to bridge together the Chinese film industry with those of emerging countries. Named after Ang Lee´s film, the...
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- 9/25/2017
- Screen Anarchy
A movie is only as good as its ending. At the very least, that’s certainly how it can feel right after you finish watching one. Of course, each film demands a different kind of finale, and it would be futile to try and generically describe what makes for a “good” one — you know one when you see it. Some stories are best served by ending with a jarring twist that makes you reconsider everything you’ve seen before it. Others require the perfect note of ambiguity, or that immortal line of dialogue to help seal the deal. Every great film ends on its own terms, but all of them do so in a way that ultimately makes the whole experience impossible to forget. Here are the 20 best movie endings of the 21st Century.
Note: Needless to say, there’s a five-alarm spoiler alert in effect for the rest of this article.
Note: Needless to say, there’s a five-alarm spoiler alert in effect for the rest of this article.
- 8/18/2017
- by David Ehrlich, Eric Kohn, Michael Nordine, Chris O'Falt and Jude Dry
- Indiewire
French auteur premiered his most recent feature, Kommunisten, at the festival in 2014.
French director Jean-Marie Straub will be presented with the Leopard of Honor at the 70th Locarno Film Festival (August 2-12).
Born in France but having worked primarily in Germany, Italy and Switzerland, his filmmaking career has spanned more than sixty years.
Straub, who regularly collaborated with his partner Danielle Huillet (who died in 2006), was known for radical and political films, including From The Clouds To The Resistance in 1968 and Sicilia! in 1999, both of which premiered in the Un Certain Regard strand at the Cannes Film Festival.
His full...
French director Jean-Marie Straub will be presented with the Leopard of Honor at the 70th Locarno Film Festival (August 2-12).
Born in France but having worked primarily in Germany, Italy and Switzerland, his filmmaking career has spanned more than sixty years.
Straub, who regularly collaborated with his partner Danielle Huillet (who died in 2006), was known for radical and political films, including From The Clouds To The Resistance in 1968 and Sicilia! in 1999, both of which premiered in the Un Certain Regard strand at the Cannes Film Festival.
His full...
- 6/22/2017
- ScreenDaily
The most prestigious award at the Cannes Film Festival every year is the Palme d’Or, which this year went to Ruben Östlund’s “The Square,” but no Cannes is complete without the presentation of the highly coveted Palme de Whiskers, awarded annually in recognition of the Best Feline Performance. This year’s prize went to Mimi, from Agnès Varda’s “Faces Places,” RogerEbert.com reports. The documentary also won the Golden Eye prize, which recognizes a documentary from across all of the festival’s sidebars.
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The other award given by the Fffa (Feline Film Festivals Authority), the Kittycat Peace Prize, went to Baby, the kitten from “The Square.” The award was presented by Mrow, the Tehran street cat who won last year’s award for his performance in Asghar Farhadi’s “The Salesman.
Read More: The 2017 IndieWire Cannes Bible: Every Review, Interview and News Item Posted During the Festival
The other award given by the Fffa (Feline Film Festivals Authority), the Kittycat Peace Prize, went to Baby, the kitten from “The Square.” The award was presented by Mrow, the Tehran street cat who won last year’s award for his performance in Asghar Farhadi’s “The Salesman.
- 5/30/2017
- by Graham Winfrey
- Indiewire
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