Selection also pays tribute to late UK filmmaker and cinema theorist Peter Wollen.
Hong Kong director Wong Kar-wai’s award-winning romantic drama In The Mood For Love is among the 25 narrative titles and seven documentaries selected for Cannes Classics 2020, the cinema heritage programe of the Cannes Film Festival.
The festival said many of the titles would now play at the Festival Lumière in Lyon, which Cannes Film Festival’s delegate general Thierry Frémaux oversees and runs October 10-18 this year.
Some of the works will also screen at the long-running Rencontres Cinématographiques de Cannes, scheduled for November 23 to 26.
The festival...
Hong Kong director Wong Kar-wai’s award-winning romantic drama In The Mood For Love is among the 25 narrative titles and seven documentaries selected for Cannes Classics 2020, the cinema heritage programe of the Cannes Film Festival.
The festival said many of the titles would now play at the Festival Lumière in Lyon, which Cannes Film Festival’s delegate general Thierry Frémaux oversees and runs October 10-18 this year.
Some of the works will also screen at the long-running Rencontres Cinématographiques de Cannes, scheduled for November 23 to 26.
The festival...
- 7/15/2020
- by 1100388¦Melanie Goodfellow¦69¦
- ScreenDaily
The Cannes Film Festival has unveiled the lineup for the 17th edition of Cannes Classics, a popular sidebar dedicated to restored heritage movies and documentaries that forms part of the Official Selection.
This year’s roster comprises 25 feature films and seven documentaries. The highlights are Wong Kar-wai’s “In the Mood for Love,” which celebrates its 25th anniversary, as well as Jean-Luc Godard’s “Breathless” and Michelangelo Antonioni’s “L’Aventura,” which are both turning 60. Cannes Classics will also turn the spotlight on Federico Fellini, the Italian master who would have turned 100 in 2020. Two films by Fellini are part of the selection, “La strada” and “Luci del varietà,” along with the documentary “Fellini of the Spirits” directed by Anselma dell’Olio.
Cannes Classics will also spotlight rare films such as Peter Wollen’s “Friendship’s Death” in which Tilda Swinton delivered a breakthrough performance in 1987, and “The Story of a Three-Day Pass,...
This year’s roster comprises 25 feature films and seven documentaries. The highlights are Wong Kar-wai’s “In the Mood for Love,” which celebrates its 25th anniversary, as well as Jean-Luc Godard’s “Breathless” and Michelangelo Antonioni’s “L’Aventura,” which are both turning 60. Cannes Classics will also turn the spotlight on Federico Fellini, the Italian master who would have turned 100 in 2020. Two films by Fellini are part of the selection, “La strada” and “Luci del varietà,” along with the documentary “Fellini of the Spirits” directed by Anselma dell’Olio.
Cannes Classics will also spotlight rare films such as Peter Wollen’s “Friendship’s Death” in which Tilda Swinton delivered a breakthrough performance in 1987, and “The Story of a Three-Day Pass,...
- 7/15/2020
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Selection also pays tribute to late UK filmmaker and cinema theorist Peter Wollen.
Hong Kong director Wong Kar-wai’s award-winning romantic drama In The Mood For Love is among the 25 narrative titles and seven documentaries selected for Cannes Classics 2020, the cinema heritage programe of the Cannes Film Festival.
The festival said many of the titles would now play at the Festival Lumière in Lyon, which Cannes Film Festival’s delegate general Thierry Frémaux oversees and runs October 10-18 this year.
Some of the works will also screen at the long-running Rencontres Cinématographiques de Cannes, scheduled for November 23 to 26.
The festival...
Hong Kong director Wong Kar-wai’s award-winning romantic drama In The Mood For Love is among the 25 narrative titles and seven documentaries selected for Cannes Classics 2020, the cinema heritage programe of the Cannes Film Festival.
The festival said many of the titles would now play at the Festival Lumière in Lyon, which Cannes Film Festival’s delegate general Thierry Frémaux oversees and runs October 10-18 this year.
Some of the works will also screen at the long-running Rencontres Cinématographiques de Cannes, scheduled for November 23 to 26.
The festival...
- 7/15/2020
- by 1100388¦Melanie Goodfellow¦69¦
- ScreenDaily
German sales outfits Studio Hamburg Enterprises and Picture Tree International announced a new strategic partnership Thursday that will see the two companies join forces to promote and distribute titles worldwide.
The collaboration kicks off with the jazz documentary It Must Schwing! The Blue Note Story, directed by Eric Friedler and executive produced by Wim Wenders. The film tells the story of two young emigres from Berlin, Alfred Lion and Francis Wolff, who founded the iconic jazz label Blue Note Records in New York 80 years ago, recording such musical pioneers as Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk and Quincy Jones.
The ...
The collaboration kicks off with the jazz documentary It Must Schwing! The Blue Note Story, directed by Eric Friedler and executive produced by Wim Wenders. The film tells the story of two young emigres from Berlin, Alfred Lion and Francis Wolff, who founded the iconic jazz label Blue Note Records in New York 80 years ago, recording such musical pioneers as Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk and Quincy Jones.
The ...
German sales outfits Studio Hamburg Enterprises and Picture Tree International announced a new strategic partnership Thursday that will see the two companies join forces to promote and distribute titles worldwide.
The collaboration kicks off with the jazz documentary It Must Schwing! The Blue Note Story, directed by Eric Friedler and executive produced by Wim Wenders. The film tells the story of two young emigres from Berlin, Alfred Lion and Francis Wolff, who founded the iconic jazz label Blue Note Records in New York 80 years ago, recording such musical pioneers as Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk and Quincy Jones.
The ...
The collaboration kicks off with the jazz documentary It Must Schwing! The Blue Note Story, directed by Eric Friedler and executive produced by Wim Wenders. The film tells the story of two young emigres from Berlin, Alfred Lion and Francis Wolff, who founded the iconic jazz label Blue Note Records in New York 80 years ago, recording such musical pioneers as Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk and Quincy Jones.
The ...
Berlin-based sales agency Picture Tree Intl. (Pti) has forged a strategic partnership with Studio Hamburg Enterprises (She), which kicks off with jazz documentary “It Must Schwing! The Blue Note Story,” executive produced by Wim Wenders and directed by Eric Friedler.
The film is about the two young émigrés from Berlin, Alfred Lion and Francis Wolff, who founded the iconic jazz label Blue Note Records in New York 80 years ago. The label’s stars included Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, Thelonious Monk and Quincy Jones. Pic makes its market premiere in Berlin.
“At a time when African-American musicians were discriminated against in the U.S., Blue Note Records respected them as artists and equals and thereby contributed to the civil-rights movement,” said Picture Tree in a statement.
Pti and She will present the film jointly as the start of a long-term cooperation that will focus on feature films and television formats.
The film is about the two young émigrés from Berlin, Alfred Lion and Francis Wolff, who founded the iconic jazz label Blue Note Records in New York 80 years ago. The label’s stars included Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, Thelonious Monk and Quincy Jones. Pic makes its market premiere in Berlin.
“At a time when African-American musicians were discriminated against in the U.S., Blue Note Records respected them as artists and equals and thereby contributed to the civil-rights movement,” said Picture Tree in a statement.
Pti and She will present the film jointly as the start of a long-term cooperation that will focus on feature films and television formats.
- 2/7/2019
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Title: Berlin 36 Directed By: Kaspar Heidelbach Written By: Lothar Kurzawa, story by Eric Friedler Cast: Karoline Herfurth, Sebastian Urzendowsky, Axel Prahl, August Zimer, Maria Happel Screened at: Critics’ DVD, NYC, 8/27/11 Opens: September 16, 2011 at New York’s Quad Cinema If you’ve ever had a fight with your family in your one-tv home-you want to watch the Jets game and Mom insists on seeing the 6.30 news with Scott Pelley-you’d get the idea that sports and politics exist in two separate worlds. And they do for the most part, but sometimes they intersect. In one motion picture example, Tony Richardson’s “The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, a marathon...
- 8/28/2011
- by Brian Corder
- ShockYa
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