The films are tipped for 2021 festivals.
Egyptian director Sameh Alaa’s coming-of-age story I Can Hear Your Voice… Still and Jordanian director Bassel Ghandour’s drama The Alleys, have led the awards at the Cairo Film Connection, the co-financing platform of the Cairo International Film Festival (Ciff).
Eleven projects in development and four works in post-production were showcased at the event which meted out prizes from some 19 organisations worth $250,000 in total
I Can Hear Your Voice… Still won the $10,000 Arab Radio Television (Art) prize, a $10,000 cash award from Egyptian production and distribution company Red Star Films, as well as participation...
Egyptian director Sameh Alaa’s coming-of-age story I Can Hear Your Voice… Still and Jordanian director Bassel Ghandour’s drama The Alleys, have led the awards at the Cairo Film Connection, the co-financing platform of the Cairo International Film Festival (Ciff).
Eleven projects in development and four works in post-production were showcased at the event which meted out prizes from some 19 organisations worth $250,000 in total
I Can Hear Your Voice… Still won the $10,000 Arab Radio Television (Art) prize, a $10,000 cash award from Egyptian production and distribution company Red Star Films, as well as participation...
- 12/10/2020
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Kenzo Takada, who created the international luxury fashion house Kenzo, died in Paris on Sunday from Covid-19 complications, according to a spokesperson for his K-3 brand. “It is with immense sadness that the brand K-3 announces the loss of its celebrated artistic director, Kenzo Takada. The world-renowned designer passed away on October 4th, 2020 due to Covid-19 related complications at the age of 81 at the American Hospital, in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France,” the company statement read. Takada appeared in numerous documentaries and TV series during his career. He also directed the 1981 film “Yume, yume no ato,” which he also wrote. In 1970, Takada debuted his namesake fashion line in Paris. His “Jungle Jap” featured loud colors and mismatched prints inspired by his travels around the world. It was an instant sensation. He opened a store in Paris’ Place des Victoires by 1976, and his empire grew from there, including the launch of a perfume.
- 10/4/2020
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
Antonio Ligabue holds an unusual place in the annals of mid-20th-century Italian art, championed by those who feel his boldly-colored, largely naive paintings are the product of a self-taught artist whose mental incapacities prove that natural spirit transcends training and intellect when wielding a paint brush. Wherever one falls on Ligabue’s talents, making a film about his life would always be tricky given the difficulty of depicting on-screen a linguistically challenged, differently-abled man prone to frequent eccentric outbursts without falling into the trap of implying we should celebrate his output simply because he was what would have been called in the past “simple minded.”
Yes, Elio Germano tackles — he seems to almost always tackle — the fiendishly difficult role with customary gusto, and the screenplay works hard to develop sympathy, yet Giorgio Diritti’s mélange of impressionistic episodes and straightforward biopic recreations make “Hidden Away” more a record of...
Yes, Elio Germano tackles — he seems to almost always tackle — the fiendishly difficult role with customary gusto, and the screenplay works hard to develop sympathy, yet Giorgio Diritti’s mélange of impressionistic episodes and straightforward biopic recreations make “Hidden Away” more a record of...
- 2/21/2020
- by Jay Weissberg
- Variety Film + TV
With “Guava Island,” producer Donald Glover and his “Atlanta” director Hiro Murai expanded on Glover’s Childish Gambino music persona. The hour-long short film/music video hybrid stars Glover and Rihanna in an adventure about a music festival with unexpected complications. Shot secretly in Cuba for four weeks, Glover and Murai chose to animate the opening titles and prologue to underscore “Guava Island”‘s unique cultural and historical backstory. Los Angeles animation studio Six Point Harness (Adult Swim’s “Apollo Gauntlet”) landed the gig by making an elaborate design pitch.
But with precious little information about the secretive project, Six Point Harness had to be boldly imaginative in hooking Glover and Murai. “We soaked up inspiration from numerous sources,” said Harness creative director, Greg Franklin, “from calypso-styled wall art of the 1960s and ’70s; to ephemeral, exotic travel posters by Pan Am; to diverse painters of fine and pop art,...
But with precious little information about the secretive project, Six Point Harness had to be boldly imaginative in hooking Glover and Murai. “We soaked up inspiration from numerous sources,” said Harness creative director, Greg Franklin, “from calypso-styled wall art of the 1960s and ’70s; to ephemeral, exotic travel posters by Pan Am; to diverse painters of fine and pop art,...
- 4/26/2019
- by Bill Desowitz
- Indiewire
With Georges Méliès as its subject, Martin Scorsese's Hugo – up for 11 Oscars – is a film that gives meaning to the cliché 'the magic of the movies'
Should you stay up for the Oscars, here's a surefire way to be hammered by the end: pour yourself a drink each time you hear the word "magic", and you'll be watching the winner's tearful acceptance speech in an alcoholic haze.
Is there a phrase more hackneyed than "the magic of the movies"? From the moment of their invention at the end of the 19th century, motion pictures have been perceived as simultaneously hyper natural and supernatural. The first films of the Lumiére brothers were simple recordings ("actualities") that established the photographic basis of the medium; those produced by the stage magician Georges Méliès, the subject of Martin Scorsese's impressive 3D spectacle Hugo, were fantastic and predicated on special effects – namely stop-motion,...
Should you stay up for the Oscars, here's a surefire way to be hammered by the end: pour yourself a drink each time you hear the word "magic", and you'll be watching the winner's tearful acceptance speech in an alcoholic haze.
Is there a phrase more hackneyed than "the magic of the movies"? From the moment of their invention at the end of the 19th century, motion pictures have been perceived as simultaneously hyper natural and supernatural. The first films of the Lumiére brothers were simple recordings ("actualities") that established the photographic basis of the medium; those produced by the stage magician Georges Méliès, the subject of Martin Scorsese's impressive 3D spectacle Hugo, were fantastic and predicated on special effects – namely stop-motion,...
- 2/25/2012
- by J Hoberman
- The Guardian - Film News
Martin Provost's life of the painter Séraphine de Senlis is a study in subtlety worthy of Flaubert, says Jason Solomons
A surprise winner of seven Césars – the French Oscars – including best film, Séraphine is a deceptively subtle tale based on the true story of the life and art of a simple maid discovered by a German art critic in the French town of Senlis on the eve of the First World War.
We first encounter Séraphine as she feels her way through a dark stream, fingering the weeds. Feet still wet, she hurries to church, where, beneath a stained glass rose window, she sings, devotedly though none too tunefully. The opening of Martin Provost's film contains little dialogue, but sets up his themes and his central character with graceful economy.
Returning from her cleaning job, Séraphine climbs a large tree, feeling the wind on her face. Another day,...
A surprise winner of seven Césars – the French Oscars – including best film, Séraphine is a deceptively subtle tale based on the true story of the life and art of a simple maid discovered by a German art critic in the French town of Senlis on the eve of the First World War.
We first encounter Séraphine as she feels her way through a dark stream, fingering the weeds. Feet still wet, she hurries to church, where, beneath a stained glass rose window, she sings, devotedly though none too tunefully. The opening of Martin Provost's film contains little dialogue, but sets up his themes and his central character with graceful economy.
Returning from her cleaning job, Séraphine climbs a large tree, feeling the wind on her face. Another day,...
- 11/30/2009
- by Jason Solomons
- The Guardian - Film News
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