The recent rise of Telluride and Venice Film Fest has been hurting the status and clout of Toronto Film Fest.
Venice Film Fest 2016: Final Cut Funds to Six Films from Africa and Arab World
September 7, 2016 by
The awards by the Venice Production Bridge’s Final Cut in Venice workshop are set aside for films from Africa and the Arab world.
La La Land: How Crucial is Toronto Film Fest to Turn the Musical into Oscar Favorite
September 7, 2016 by
With Nate Parker’s The Birth of a Nation possibly sidelined by controversy, caused by his rape accusation in 1999, Damian Chazelle’s La La Land, his love letter to the Hollywood film industry, the musical genre (both American and foreign), and Los Angeles as a City of Dreams, has emerged as the movie to beat this awards season. […]
Venice Film Fest 2016: Italian Films in Critics Week–Invisible and Le Ultime Cose
September 5, 2016 by
The Italian critic Giona Nazzaro, who heads the Venice Critics’ Week, disagrees with those who lament the absence of a potent new generation of Italian helmers after Sorrentino and Matteo Garrone. “Compared with Sorrentino and Garrone’s generation, there is a different type of Italian cinema now,” he said. “There is a generation that grew up working […]
Louder than Bombs: Joachim Trier’s Family Melodrama Wins Top Norwegian Film Award
August 27, 2016 by
August 26, 2016–Norwegian director Joachim Trier’s Louder than Bombs, which in 2015 was Norway’s first Cannes Competition entry in 36 years, won four Norwegian national film prizes, dubbed the Amandas, August 26 on the closing night of the 44th Norwegian International Film Fest in Haugesund, Norway. Trier’s third feature, and first English-language pic, starred an international cast: Gabriel Byrne, […]
