Exclusive: Here’s a strong first English-language trailer for director Rama Burshtein’s (Fill The Void) anticipated TV debut Fire Dance, which has just been announced for Series Mania’s main competition.
The story of impossible love set in a tight-knit ultra-Orthodox religious community heralds from Shtisel, Fauda and Your Honor outfit Yes Studios. Launch is lined up for spring of this year.
Laced with fantasy, the seven-part series tells the coming-of-age story of a troubled young woman, Faigie, who’s grown up in a broken home and falls passionately in love with Nathan, the 35-year-old married son of the leader of the ultra-orthodox community where they both live. Nathan is also the owner of a workshop which employs seamstresses who live with mental illness, run by Faigie’s mother, Rayzee. Following a failed suicide attempt, Faigie becomes part of Nathan’s household, helping to run the home while Nathan’s wife,...
The story of impossible love set in a tight-knit ultra-Orthodox religious community heralds from Shtisel, Fauda and Your Honor outfit Yes Studios. Launch is lined up for spring of this year.
Laced with fantasy, the seven-part series tells the coming-of-age story of a troubled young woman, Faigie, who’s grown up in a broken home and falls passionately in love with Nathan, the 35-year-old married son of the leader of the ultra-orthodox community where they both live. Nathan is also the owner of a workshop which employs seamstresses who live with mental illness, run by Faigie’s mother, Rayzee. Following a failed suicide attempt, Faigie becomes part of Nathan’s household, helping to run the home while Nathan’s wife,...
- 2/17/2022
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Rama Burshtein, the critically acclaimed New York-born Israeli filmmaker of “Fill The Void,” has teamed with Yes Studios on her TV drama debut, “Fire Dance.” Now in post, the show will be a Yes Studios original series and will be launching at the end of 2021 or early 2022.
“Fire Dance,” written and directed by Burshtein, is a vivid tale of impossible love set in a tight-knit ultra-Orthodox religious sect. Laced with fantasy, the seven-part series tells the coming-of-age story of a troubled young woman, Faigie, who’s grown up in a broken home and falls passionately in love with Nathan, the 35-year-old married son of the leader of the ultra-orthodox community in which they both live. Nathan is also the owner of a workshop which employs seamstresses who live with mental illness, run by Faigie’s mother, Rayzee.
Following a failed suicide attempt, Faigie becomes part of Nathan’s household, helping...
“Fire Dance,” written and directed by Burshtein, is a vivid tale of impossible love set in a tight-knit ultra-Orthodox religious sect. Laced with fantasy, the seven-part series tells the coming-of-age story of a troubled young woman, Faigie, who’s grown up in a broken home and falls passionately in love with Nathan, the 35-year-old married son of the leader of the ultra-orthodox community in which they both live. Nathan is also the owner of a workshop which employs seamstresses who live with mental illness, run by Faigie’s mother, Rayzee.
Following a failed suicide attempt, Faigie becomes part of Nathan’s household, helping...
- 5/21/2021
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
The Israeli cinema veteran is stepping down at the end of the year.
Renen Schorr has just enjoyed his last edition of the Cannes Film Festival in his role as director of the prestigious Sam Spiegel School for Cinema and Television in Jerusalem, which he has spearheaded over the past 30 years.
The Israeli cinema industry veteran announced his departure in the Israeli press on the eve of the festival and is now on a swansong tour.
“I will be stepping down from the school in five months’ time, around November, December time,” Schorr told Screen. ”Until then I am working...
Renen Schorr has just enjoyed his last edition of the Cannes Film Festival in his role as director of the prestigious Sam Spiegel School for Cinema and Television in Jerusalem, which he has spearheaded over the past 30 years.
The Israeli cinema industry veteran announced his departure in the Israeli press on the eve of the festival and is now on a swansong tour.
“I will be stepping down from the school in five months’ time, around November, December time,” Schorr told Screen. ”Until then I am working...
- 5/24/2019
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Michal Aviad on Glenn Close and Michael Douglas in Adrian Lyne's Fatal Attraction and Demi Moore and Douglas in Barry Levinson's Disclosure: "Before writing and while writing and researching I looked for films that deal with sexual harassment." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Michal Aviad's Working Woman, co-written with Sharon Azulay Eyal and Michal Vinik, shot by Daniel Miller, stars Liron Ben-Shlush (Asaf Korman's Next to Her), Menashe Noy (Ronit Elkabetz and Shlomi Elkabetz' Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem), and Oshri Cohen with Irit Sheleg (Rama Burshtein's Fill The Void), and is produced by Amir Harel (Eytan Fox's Walk On Water which starred Lior Ashkenazi) and Ayelet Kait.
Michal Aviad on Liron Ben-Shlush as Orna in Working Woman: "I want to know how does it feel to be inside the female protagonist and try to look at it from her point of view.
Michal Aviad's Working Woman, co-written with Sharon Azulay Eyal and Michal Vinik, shot by Daniel Miller, stars Liron Ben-Shlush (Asaf Korman's Next to Her), Menashe Noy (Ronit Elkabetz and Shlomi Elkabetz' Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem), and Oshri Cohen with Irit Sheleg (Rama Burshtein's Fill The Void), and is produced by Amir Harel (Eytan Fox's Walk On Water which starred Lior Ashkenazi) and Ayelet Kait.
Michal Aviad on Liron Ben-Shlush as Orna in Working Woman: "I want to know how does it feel to be inside the female protagonist and try to look at it from her point of view.
- 4/2/2019
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
A widower struggles to reclaim his child in this authentic and affectionate portrait of New York’s Orthodox Jewish community
This terrifically authentic look at life inside New York’s Yiddish-speaking Hasidic community is a bittersweet treat – a vibrantly engaging portrait of down-to-earth lives that is affectionate, amusing and ultimately very moving. A million miles removed from such peripherally comparable fare as Sidney Lumet’s A Stranger Among Us or Boaz Yakin’s A Price Above Rubies, Joshua Z Weinstein’s fiction-feature debut gets right under the skin of its characters, gently unpicking themes of social conformity and religious responsibility with melancholy wit and wry, tragicomic insight.
Populated by first-time performers playing close-to-home roles, it combines the poetry of John Cassavetes with the grit of Ken Loach, along with a touch of the cultural intimacy that Rama Burshtein brought to Fill the Void and Through the Wall.
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This terrifically authentic look at life inside New York’s Yiddish-speaking Hasidic community is a bittersweet treat – a vibrantly engaging portrait of down-to-earth lives that is affectionate, amusing and ultimately very moving. A million miles removed from such peripherally comparable fare as Sidney Lumet’s A Stranger Among Us or Boaz Yakin’s A Price Above Rubies, Joshua Z Weinstein’s fiction-feature debut gets right under the skin of its characters, gently unpicking themes of social conformity and religious responsibility with melancholy wit and wry, tragicomic insight.
Populated by first-time performers playing close-to-home roles, it combines the poetry of John Cassavetes with the grit of Ken Loach, along with a touch of the cultural intimacy that Rama Burshtein brought to Fill the Void and Through the Wall.
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- 12/10/2017
- by Mark Kermode, Observer film critic
- The Guardian - Film News
In 2017, we’ve seen five specialized subtitled films gross over $1 million. But the languages aren’t French, or German, or from anywhere in western Europe: The winners are Turkish, Farsi, Yiddish, and Hebrew.
These films came from Turkey, Iran, Israel, and even the United States, and played at conventional “art house” theaters (as opposed to releases from India, China, Mexico, and elsewhere, which aim at ethnically similar audiences).
Once upon a time, $100 million and more (in adjusted grosses) was possible for films like “La Dolce Vita,” “Life Is Beautiful,” and “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon”: more recently, “Amelie,” “Pan’s Labyrinth,” and “The Motorcycle Diaries” easily surpassed $20 million. However, over the last few decades we’ve seen the subtitled market shift from decline to near collapse.
Read More:Why French Cinema Faces an Uncertain Future in America
What happened this year shows some revival in the market, but with some twists.
These films came from Turkey, Iran, Israel, and even the United States, and played at conventional “art house” theaters (as opposed to releases from India, China, Mexico, and elsewhere, which aim at ethnically similar audiences).
Once upon a time, $100 million and more (in adjusted grosses) was possible for films like “La Dolce Vita,” “Life Is Beautiful,” and “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon”: more recently, “Amelie,” “Pan’s Labyrinth,” and “The Motorcycle Diaries” easily surpassed $20 million. However, over the last few decades we’ve seen the subtitled market shift from decline to near collapse.
Read More:Why French Cinema Faces an Uncertain Future in America
What happened this year shows some revival in the market, but with some twists.
- 9/20/2017
- by Tom Brueggemann
- Indiewire
As evidenced by her resonant drama Fill The Void, writer/director Rama Burshtein knows how to craft first rate storytelling with an impending marriage as its backdrop. With The Wedding Plan we follow the misadventures of Michal (a standout performance from Noa Koler), a strong minded and stubborn woman who is determined to get [...]...
- 9/17/2017
- by Hollywood Outbreak
- HollywoodOutbreak.com
Search for Mr. Right when the Rotten Tomatoes Certified Fresh romantic comedy The Wedding Plan arrived on Digital HD August 22 and will arrive on DVD September 5 from Lionsgate. From award-winning Irsaeli writer and director Rama Burshtein (Fill the Void) comes the Venice Film Festival® Best Picture 2016 nominee and New York Times Critic Pick starring Noa Koler as Michal, an Israeli woman looking for love after her fiancé calls off the wedding with only a month’s notice. “Charming, humorous and enjoyable” (The Hollywood Reporter), The Wedding Plan DVD will be available for the suggested retail price of $19.98. Now you can own The Wedding Plan on DVD. We Are Movie Geeks has four copies to give away. All you have to do is leave a comment answering this question: What is your favorite movie with the word ‘Wedding’ in the title? (mine is The Wedding Crashers!). It’s so easy! Good Luck!
- 9/8/2017
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Search for Mr. Right when the Rotten Tomatoes Certified Fresh romantic comedy The Wedding Plan arrived on Digital HD August 22 and will arrive on DVD September 5 from Lionsgate. From award-winning Irsaeli writer and director Rama Burshtein (Fill the Void) comes the Venice Film Festival® Best Picture 2016 nominee and New York Times Critic Pick starring Noa Koler as Michal, an Israeli woman looking for love after her fiancé calls off the wedding with only a month’s notice. “Charming, humorous and enjoyable” (The Hollywood Reporter), The Wedding Plan DVD will be available for the suggested retail price of $19.98.
The Wedding Plan is a poignant and funny romantic comedy about love, marriage, and faith in life’s infinite possibilities. Michal, blindsided by her fiancé’s decision to call off their wedding with only a month’s notice, is unwilling to return to single life. Michal decides to put her trust in fate...
The Wedding Plan is a poignant and funny romantic comedy about love, marriage, and faith in life’s infinite possibilities. Michal, blindsided by her fiancé’s decision to call off their wedding with only a month’s notice, is unwilling to return to single life. Michal decides to put her trust in fate...
- 8/25/2017
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
The Year's First Half Is Over! But rather than wait for this "halfway mark" for year in review listicles we started at the end of the 1st quarter so you'll have to combine those lists (movies / actresses / actors) with the highlights from your host's April through June screenings for a complete "halfway mark" take. Got it? Unlike many critics orgs and the Oscars, The Film Experience believes that moviegoing is a 12 month long activity and each month can hold worthy efforts. Here are 4 or 5 highlights of what we've seen the past three months per Oscar category in alpha order. How will they measure up to what's still to come?
Key movies I regret missing this quarter: Beatriz at Dinner, Hero, Gifted, Manifesto, and Their Finest
Picture and/or Director and/or Screenplay
(i couldn't decide which to cut so this first grouped selection is 6 wide)
Baby Driver (Edgar Wright)
The Big Sick...
Key movies I regret missing this quarter: Beatriz at Dinner, Hero, Gifted, Manifesto, and Their Finest
Picture and/or Director and/or Screenplay
(i couldn't decide which to cut so this first grouped selection is 6 wide)
Baby Driver (Edgar Wright)
The Big Sick...
- 7/1/2017
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
When thirty-two-year-old Michal is blindsided by her fiancé, when he calls off their wedding barely a month before the scheduled date, the determined young woman decides to carry on with her preparations, trusting that fate will find her a suitable groom. Such is the setup for The Wedding Plan, one of the more unorthodox, yet wildly rewarding romantic comedies you may see this summer.
During the month following being prematurely left at the altar, Michal (played with irresistible charm by Noa Koler) must not only plan her wedding, but she also decides to put her happiness on the line to find someone special to spend the rest of her life with. She predictably encounters a few would-be suitors, having a couple near catastrophic dates along the way, and, of course, learns a few things about herself as well.
On the surface, The Wedding Plan is exactly the kind of movie...
During the month following being prematurely left at the altar, Michal (played with irresistible charm by Noa Koler) must not only plan her wedding, but she also decides to put her happiness on the line to find someone special to spend the rest of her life with. She predictably encounters a few would-be suitors, having a couple near catastrophic dates along the way, and, of course, learns a few things about herself as well.
On the surface, The Wedding Plan is exactly the kind of movie...
- 5/27/2017
- by Mike Tyrkus
- CinemaNerdz
We’re less than a week away from June, the big wedding month, so let’s head, not to the chapel, but to the multiplex to catch a new nuptials flick. This new one is about an ultra-determined bride who has set a deadline to walk down the aisle. The non-refundable deposit is down for the hall, the reception, and the facilities, but the only part of her plan that’s missing is the groom. Ah, another zany, frothy “rom-com”, much in the style of 27 Dresses and Bride Wars (perhaps Heigl, or Hudson are in this one). you would think. Well, you would be wrong. Sure there are flashes of humor, but this new film ties the wedding to a test of faith. For this new take on “the big day” is from Israel, and its heroine is an Orthodox Jew. There are no wacky hi-jinks involving cake tasting and...
- 5/26/2017
- by Jim Batts
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
After a jam-packed weekend of new Specialty releases last week, the tide continues with a full roster of new limited roll-outs just as the summer blockbuster season heads into full swing. The weekend’s largest Specialty debuts include Amazon Studios/Roadside Attractions’ The Wall by Doug Liman and starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson and John Cena, which will open in north of five hundred locations, as well as Bh Tilt’s Lowriders by Ricardo de Montreuil with Eva Longoria, Demián Bichir and Gabriel Chavarria with nearly three hundred runs. Sony Classics is going traditional with the New York and L.A. bow of Diane Lane starrer Paris Can Wait, which the distributor is hoping will tap a collective societal need to escape — in this case, to the French countryside. Cate Blanchett plays 13 different characters in artist-director Julian Rosefeldt’s Manifesto (FilmRise), which is based on his multi-screen installation presented in New York...
- 5/12/2017
- by Brian Brooks
- Deadline Film + TV
The Wedding Plan (Laavor et hakir) Roadside Attractions Reviewed by: Harvey Karten, Shockya Grade: B- Director: Rama Burshtein Written by: Rama Burshtein Cast: Noa Koler, Dafi Alferon, Noa Kooler, Oded Leopold, Ronny Merhavi, Udi Persi, Jonathan Rozen, Irit Sheleg, Amos Tamam, Oz Zehavi Screened at: Review 1, NYC, 4/18/17 Opens: May 12, 2017 Rami Bushstein, […]
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- 4/25/2017
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
Opening in Beverly Hills on April 26 and continuing to May 3, the Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival will showcase contemporary and classic films highlighting the best in Jewish Cinema.Of the 27 films showing, 14 are Los Angeles premieres. One World Premiere, one North American Premiere and one U.S. Premiere make for some great discoveries.
An opportunity for film lovers to celebrate the rich tapestry of Jewish history, Jewish heritage and Jewish characters, the Opening Night Red Carpet Reception at Laemmle’s Ahrya Fine Arts Theater in Beverly Hills evening will honor one of the entertainment industry’s most beloved figures, Ed Asner, with the Los Angeles premiere of the documentary “My Friend Ed”, directed by Sharon Baker and executive produced by Liza Asner.
For his distinguished body of work as an actor, and for his relentless commitment to activism and to preserving Jewish life.
Ed Asner
You know him best as Lou Grant,...
An opportunity for film lovers to celebrate the rich tapestry of Jewish history, Jewish heritage and Jewish characters, the Opening Night Red Carpet Reception at Laemmle’s Ahrya Fine Arts Theater in Beverly Hills evening will honor one of the entertainment industry’s most beloved figures, Ed Asner, with the Los Angeles premiere of the documentary “My Friend Ed”, directed by Sharon Baker and executive produced by Liza Asner.
For his distinguished body of work as an actor, and for his relentless commitment to activism and to preserving Jewish life.
Ed Asner
You know him best as Lou Grant,...
- 4/20/2017
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
"What about your heart?" Roadside Attractions has debuted a trailer for a romantic comedy indie film titled The Wedding Plan, from director Rama Burshtein (Fill the Void). This is one of those perfectly cheesy romantic comedy concepts that actually looks somewhat enjoyable. A woman begins planning her elaborate wedding, until the groom backs out. But she decides to go ahead with the wedding anyway, in hopes that the right man will appear within the 30 days left until the big day. Israeli actress Noa Kooler stars as the lead character Michal, with a huge ensemble cast including Amos Tamam, Oz Zehavi, Irit Sheleg, Ronny Merhavi, Dafi Alpern, Karin Serrouya and Erez Drigues. This may actually be worth a watch. Enjoy. Here's the first official trailer (+ poster) for Rama Burshtein's The Wedding Plan, in high def from Apple: At 32, Michal is finally looking forward to the comfort and security of marriage,...
- 2/10/2017
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
In a disappointing follow-up to the acclaimed Fill the Void, Rama Burshtein attempts an orthodox Jewish take on a too-familiar formula
Israeli-American director Rama Burshtein follows her impressive debut, Fill the Void – a drama about marriage set in Jerusalem’s Haredi community – with another picture dealing with relationships set against an orthodox Jewish backdrop. But this time, the power of her storytelling is diluted by a not-entirely-successful comic approach. The aim is clearly a Hassidic take on the Bridget Jones formula. Michal (Noa Kooler) is an unmarried thirtysomething who longs for love and respectability. When her fiance jilts her a few weeks before their wedding, she decides to carry on planning her marriage alone in the hope that God will provide a groom. It’s sporadically funny – Michal’s job as the proprietor of a mobile petting zoo offers some snake-based amusement – but pacing issues, dead scenes and an absolute...
Israeli-American director Rama Burshtein follows her impressive debut, Fill the Void – a drama about marriage set in Jerusalem’s Haredi community – with another picture dealing with relationships set against an orthodox Jewish backdrop. But this time, the power of her storytelling is diluted by a not-entirely-successful comic approach. The aim is clearly a Hassidic take on the Bridget Jones formula. Michal (Noa Kooler) is an unmarried thirtysomething who longs for love and respectability. When her fiance jilts her a few weeks before their wedding, she decides to carry on planning her marriage alone in the hope that God will provide a groom. It’s sporadically funny – Michal’s job as the proprietor of a mobile petting zoo offers some snake-based amusement – but pacing issues, dead scenes and an absolute...
- 12/18/2016
- by Wendy Ide
- The Guardian - Film News
Gentle comedy turns to high tension as a woman who is desperate to get married organises the ceremony without having a fiance
In her debut movie, Fill the Void (2012), the Israeli writer-director Rama Burshtein showed a connoisseur’s eye for the way women and men respond to the universal and overwhelming pressure to get married. She returns to that theme in this gentler and more indulgent comedy, which takes a little time to grow on you. It looks like a rather traditional romcom, and concludes in that vein, but via unexpected detours and red herrings and a very tense, strange wedding scene.
Mischal (Noa Kooler) is a single woman who quirkily runs a petting zoo. She is desperate to get married. So lonely and desperate, in fact, after a string of awful dates and a failed engagement, that she eventually books a wedding hall for a certain date and invites guests,...
In her debut movie, Fill the Void (2012), the Israeli writer-director Rama Burshtein showed a connoisseur’s eye for the way women and men respond to the universal and overwhelming pressure to get married. She returns to that theme in this gentler and more indulgent comedy, which takes a little time to grow on you. It looks like a rather traditional romcom, and concludes in that vein, but via unexpected detours and red herrings and a very tense, strange wedding scene.
Mischal (Noa Kooler) is a single woman who quirkily runs a petting zoo. She is desperate to get married. So lonely and desperate, in fact, after a string of awful dates and a failed engagement, that she eventually books a wedding hall for a certain date and invites guests,...
- 12/15/2016
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
The 27th edition of the Stockholm International Film Festival (Nov 9 - 20) will present 200 films from 70 countries.
The Stockholm International Film Festival will kick-off with Ken Loach’s Palme d’Or winner I, Daniel Blake, followed by a mid-festival ‘middle film’ screening in the shape of Nate Parker’s Birth of A Nation, and will close with Kenneth Lonergan’s Manchester By The Sea.
Directors attending the festival include Francis Ford Coppola (who will receive the lifetime achievement award, present a public talk, and screen Apocalypse Now), Ken Loach, Francois Ozon (who receives the festival’s Visionary Award), Ira Sachs, Alice Lowe, Mark Cousins, Anne Fontaine, Gabe Klinger, and many more.
The festival’s main competition line-up is:
A Decent Woman by Lukas Valenta Rinner (Arg, S Kor, Aus)A Taste Of Ink by Morgan Simon (Fr)Albüm by Mehmet Can Mertoğlu (Tur, Fr, Rom)Are We Not Cats by Xander Robin (Us)Birth Of A Nation by [link...
The Stockholm International Film Festival will kick-off with Ken Loach’s Palme d’Or winner I, Daniel Blake, followed by a mid-festival ‘middle film’ screening in the shape of Nate Parker’s Birth of A Nation, and will close with Kenneth Lonergan’s Manchester By The Sea.
Directors attending the festival include Francis Ford Coppola (who will receive the lifetime achievement award, present a public talk, and screen Apocalypse Now), Ken Loach, Francois Ozon (who receives the festival’s Visionary Award), Ira Sachs, Alice Lowe, Mark Cousins, Anne Fontaine, Gabe Klinger, and many more.
The festival’s main competition line-up is:
A Decent Woman by Lukas Valenta Rinner (Arg, S Kor, Aus)A Taste Of Ink by Morgan Simon (Fr)Albüm by Mehmet Can Mertoğlu (Tur, Fr, Rom)Are We Not Cats by Xander Robin (Us)Birth Of A Nation by [link...
- 10/18/2016
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Roadside Attractions is closing a deal to acquire the U.S. and Canadian rights to Though The Wall, an Israeli comedy that just premiered at the Venice Film Festival and then made its U.S. debut at Telluride. The film got strong reaction at both fests, and it is a 2016 nominee for an Ophir, the Israeli Academy Award. The romantic comedy is directed by Fill The Void helmer Rama Burshtein, and it’s produced by Assaf Amir, who worked with Burshtein on Fill The Void…...
- 9/9/2016
- Deadline
The distributor is expected to finalise a North American deal with The Match Factory for Rama Burshtein’s Venice premiere on Saturday morning.
Through The Wall, a 2016 nominee for an Israeli Academy Ophir award, is a rom-com about a young religious woman who keeps her wedding date and resolves to find a new spouse when her former betrothed gets cold feet with one month to go.
The film also played at Telluride and stars Noa Koler, Amos Tamam, Oz Zehavi, Irit Sheleg Roni Merhavi and Dafi Alpern.
Burshtein and producer Assaf Amir of Norma Productions won numerous awards including the Venice Coppa Volpi for their first film Fill The Void, including the 2012 best picture Ophir in Israel.
Through The Wall, a 2016 nominee for an Israeli Academy Ophir award, is a rom-com about a young religious woman who keeps her wedding date and resolves to find a new spouse when her former betrothed gets cold feet with one month to go.
The film also played at Telluride and stars Noa Koler, Amos Tamam, Oz Zehavi, Irit Sheleg Roni Merhavi and Dafi Alpern.
Burshtein and producer Assaf Amir of Norma Productions won numerous awards including the Venice Coppa Volpi for their first film Fill The Void, including the 2012 best picture Ophir in Israel.
- 9/9/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
There are 27 features and documentaries amongst this year’s festival selection.
Haifa International Film Festival (Oct 15-24) has revealed the line-up of Israeli titles for its 32nd edition.
The programme will include 13 Israeli feature films, 14 Israeli documentary films, 48 shorts and animated films and 10 student and recent graduate films.
See the full list below, including synopses.
Full line-up of Israeli titles:
Israeli feature film competition:
(Synopses provided by festival)
Antenna, dir. Arik Rotstein (Wp)
On a bright morning, Joshua, an 80-year-old Holocaust survivor, discovers that a cellular communications antenna has been installed on the roof of his home. It turns out that his neighbor has leased his part of the roof to a cellular company. Joshua feels that a terrible injustice was done. The radiation must be the cause for all his aches and pains. There is nothing for it - Joshua declares war on the offending neighbor and drags his wife Sarah and three adult sons with...
Haifa International Film Festival (Oct 15-24) has revealed the line-up of Israeli titles for its 32nd edition.
The programme will include 13 Israeli feature films, 14 Israeli documentary films, 48 shorts and animated films and 10 student and recent graduate films.
See the full list below, including synopses.
Full line-up of Israeli titles:
Israeli feature film competition:
(Synopses provided by festival)
Antenna, dir. Arik Rotstein (Wp)
On a bright morning, Joshua, an 80-year-old Holocaust survivor, discovers that a cellular communications antenna has been installed on the roof of his home. It turns out that his neighbor has leased his part of the roof to a cellular company. Joshua feels that a terrible injustice was done. The radiation must be the cause for all his aches and pains. There is nothing for it - Joshua declares war on the offending neighbor and drags his wife Sarah and three adult sons with...
- 9/8/2016
- ScreenDaily
Into the InfernoThe lineup for the 2016 Telluride Film Festival (September 2nd - 5th) have been announced:Arrival (Denis Villeneuve, Us)The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman's Portrait Photography (Errol Morris, Us)Bleed For This (Ben Younger, Us)California Typewriter (Doug Nichol, Us)Chasing Trane (John Scheinfeld, Us)The End of Eden (Angus Macqueen, UK)Finding Oscar (Ryan Suffern, Us)Fire at Sea (Gianfranco Rosi, Italy/France)Frantz (François Ozon, France)Gentleman Rissient (Benoît Jacquot, Pascal Mérigeau, Guy Seligmann, France)Graduation (Cristian Mungiu, Romania/France/Belgium)Into the Inferno (Werner Herzog, UK/Austria)The Ivory Game (Kief Davidson, Richard Ladkani, Austria/Us)La La Land (Damien Chazelle, Us)Lost in Paris (d. Fiona Gordon, Dominique Abel, France/Belgium)Manchester by the Sea (Kenneth Lonergan, Us)Maudie (Aisling Walsh, Canada/Ireland)Men: A Love Story (Mimi Chakarova, Us)Moonlight (Barry Jenkins, Us)My Journey through French Cinema (Bertrand Tavernier, France)Neruda (Pablo Larraín,...
- 9/1/2016
- MUBI
Kenneth Lonergan’s Sundance hit, Denis Villeneuve’s Venice selection, and Pablo Larrain’s acclaimed Chilean biopic are among select titles heading to Colorado this weekend.
The 43rd edition of the Telluride Film Festival includes Clint Eastwood’s Tom Hanks starrer Sully, Barry Jenkins’ anticipated triptych Moonlight and Maren Ade’s Cannes triumph Toni Erdmann.
Joining them are Aisling Walsh’s Maudie, Gianfranco Rosi’s Berlin Golden Bear winner Fire At Sea, Damien Chazelle’s Venice opener La La Land and also from the Lido, Rama Burshtein’s Through The Wall.
Telluride runs from September 2-5. The main slate line-up appears below.
Arrival (Denis Villeneuve, Us, 2016)The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman’s Portrait Photography (Errol Morris, Us 2016)Bleed For This (Ben Younger, Us, 2016)California Typewriter (Doug Nichol, Us, 2016)Chasing Trane (John Scheinfeld, Us, 2016)The End Of Eden (Angus Macqueen, UK, 2016)Finding Oscar (Ryan Suffern, Us, 2016)Fire At Sea (Gianfranco Rosi, Italy-France, 2016)Frantz ([link...
The 43rd edition of the Telluride Film Festival includes Clint Eastwood’s Tom Hanks starrer Sully, Barry Jenkins’ anticipated triptych Moonlight and Maren Ade’s Cannes triumph Toni Erdmann.
Joining them are Aisling Walsh’s Maudie, Gianfranco Rosi’s Berlin Golden Bear winner Fire At Sea, Damien Chazelle’s Venice opener La La Land and also from the Lido, Rama Burshtein’s Through The Wall.
Telluride runs from September 2-5. The main slate line-up appears below.
Arrival (Denis Villeneuve, Us, 2016)The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman’s Portrait Photography (Errol Morris, Us 2016)Bleed For This (Ben Younger, Us, 2016)California Typewriter (Doug Nichol, Us, 2016)Chasing Trane (John Scheinfeld, Us, 2016)The End Of Eden (Angus Macqueen, UK, 2016)Finding Oscar (Ryan Suffern, Us, 2016)Fire At Sea (Gianfranco Rosi, Italy-France, 2016)Frantz ([link...
- 9/1/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Buoyed by its worldwide premiere at the ongoing Venice Film Festival – early reviews are praising the musical as an audacious, deeply romantic feature – Damien Chazelle’s Whiplash follow-up La La Land has booked its place at Telluride 2016.
The picture, one that stars Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling in central roles, is one of the many soon-to-be-released features to be locked in for the imminent film festival, joining the ranks alongside Manchester By the Sea, Moonlight, Things to Come, Bleed For This and Clint Eastwood’s airborne thriller Sully. It is, without question, a fairly stacked lineup, which only has us all the more excited for the onset of the Toronto International Film Festival later this month.
But over the coming weekend, it is Telluride that will take center stage. Similar to La La Land, today’s unveiling confirms a second festival appearance for Denis Villeneuve’s intriguing sci-fi pic Arrival.
The picture, one that stars Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling in central roles, is one of the many soon-to-be-released features to be locked in for the imminent film festival, joining the ranks alongside Manchester By the Sea, Moonlight, Things to Come, Bleed For This and Clint Eastwood’s airborne thriller Sully. It is, without question, a fairly stacked lineup, which only has us all the more excited for the onset of the Toronto International Film Festival later this month.
But over the coming weekend, it is Telluride that will take center stage. Similar to La La Land, today’s unveiling confirms a second festival appearance for Denis Villeneuve’s intriguing sci-fi pic Arrival.
- 9/1/2016
- by Michael Briers
- We Got This Covered
One of the last question marks of the early fall film festival onslaught was Telluride Film Festival, who announces their line-up just a day before the event kicks off. Today now brings the slate for the 43rd edition of the festival, which runs from Friday through Monday.
Featuring the world premiere of Clint Eastwood‘s Sully, there’s also the Venice favorites La La Land and Arrival, as well as past festival highlights and some highly-anticipated dramas headed to Tiff, including Manchester By the Sea, Moonlight, Things to Come, Bleed For This, Toni Erdmann, Una, Neruda, and more. Check out the line-up below, along with links to our reviews where available.
Line-Up
Arrival (d. Denis Villeneuve, U.S., 2016)
The B-side: Elsa Dorfman’S Portrait Photography (d. Errol Morris, U.S., 2016)
Bleed For This (d. Ben Younger, U.S., 2016)
California Typewriter (d. Doug Nichol, U.S., 2016)
Chasing Trane (d. John Scheinfeld,...
Featuring the world premiere of Clint Eastwood‘s Sully, there’s also the Venice favorites La La Land and Arrival, as well as past festival highlights and some highly-anticipated dramas headed to Tiff, including Manchester By the Sea, Moonlight, Things to Come, Bleed For This, Toni Erdmann, Una, Neruda, and more. Check out the line-up below, along with links to our reviews where available.
Line-Up
Arrival (d. Denis Villeneuve, U.S., 2016)
The B-side: Elsa Dorfman’S Portrait Photography (d. Errol Morris, U.S., 2016)
Bleed For This (d. Ben Younger, U.S., 2016)
California Typewriter (d. Doug Nichol, U.S., 2016)
Chasing Trane (d. John Scheinfeld,...
- 9/1/2016
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Screen reveals the burning questions ahead of this year’s festival…
Anticipation for the 73rd Venice Film Festival (Aug 31 - Sept10) has been building for weeks.
Now, ahead of the world’s oldest film showcase (and the autumn’s first major awards barometer), Screen highlights ten burning questions…
1. Awards race under orders…
This year’s awards race will get underway in earnest on the Lido. In the last three years the festival has kickstarted major Oscar runs for three movies: Gravity, Birdman and Spotlight, while last year’s crop also included popular awards titles The Danish Girl and Anomalisa.
This year’s line-up is starrier than ever with Venice’s competition alone featuring Damien Chazelle’s La La Land (more of which below), Tom Ford’s blue ribbon drama Nocturnal Animals, Jacqueline Kennedy biopic Jackie, starring Natalie Portman, Denis Villeneuve’s big-budget sci-fi Arrival and Michael Fassbender-Alicia Vikander romance The Light Between Oceans.
Which films, if...
Anticipation for the 73rd Venice Film Festival (Aug 31 - Sept10) has been building for weeks.
Now, ahead of the world’s oldest film showcase (and the autumn’s first major awards barometer), Screen highlights ten burning questions…
1. Awards race under orders…
This year’s awards race will get underway in earnest on the Lido. In the last three years the festival has kickstarted major Oscar runs for three movies: Gravity, Birdman and Spotlight, while last year’s crop also included popular awards titles The Danish Girl and Anomalisa.
This year’s line-up is starrier than ever with Venice’s competition alone featuring Damien Chazelle’s La La Land (more of which below), Tom Ford’s blue ribbon drama Nocturnal Animals, Jacqueline Kennedy biopic Jackie, starring Natalie Portman, Denis Villeneuve’s big-budget sci-fi Arrival and Michael Fassbender-Alicia Vikander romance The Light Between Oceans.
Which films, if...
- 8/25/2016
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
The full list of this year's Venice Film Festival has been announced with high-profile titles from Mel Gibson, Tom Ford, Terrence Malick, Derek Cianfrance, Pablo Larrain, Denis Villenueve, Antoine Fuqua, Damian Chazelle, Emir Kusturica, Antoine Fuqua, Ana Lily Amirpour, Francois Ozon, and Wim Wenders all making the grade.
Amongst the films in competition are Chazelle's Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone-led musical "La La Land," Ford's second film "Nocturnal Animals," the high-profile book adaptation "The Light Between Oceans," the mysterious sci-fi title "Arrival," and Malick's doco "Voyage of Time". Screening outside of competition are Gibson's "Hacksaw Ridge," Fuqua's "The Magnificent Seven," and the first two episodes of Paolo Sorrentino's "The Young Pope". Here's the full line-up:
In Competition
"The Bad Batch," Ana Lily Amirpour (U.S.)
"Une Vie," Stephan Brizé (France, Belgium)
"La La Land," Damien Chazelle (U.S.)
"The Light Between Oceans," Derek Cianfrance (U.S., Australia, New Zealand)
"El ciudadano ilustre,...
Amongst the films in competition are Chazelle's Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone-led musical "La La Land," Ford's second film "Nocturnal Animals," the high-profile book adaptation "The Light Between Oceans," the mysterious sci-fi title "Arrival," and Malick's doco "Voyage of Time". Screening outside of competition are Gibson's "Hacksaw Ridge," Fuqua's "The Magnificent Seven," and the first two episodes of Paolo Sorrentino's "The Young Pope". Here's the full line-up:
In Competition
"The Bad Batch," Ana Lily Amirpour (U.S.)
"Une Vie," Stephan Brizé (France, Belgium)
"La La Land," Damien Chazelle (U.S.)
"The Light Between Oceans," Derek Cianfrance (U.S., Australia, New Zealand)
"El ciudadano ilustre,...
- 7/28/2016
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
The selection for the 2016 Venice Film Festival has been announced, with new films by Terrence Malick, Pablo Larraín, Lav Diaz, Wang Bing, Amat Escalante, Tom Ford, and more.COMPETITIONVoyage of TimeThe Bad Batch (Ana Lily Amirpour)Une vie i (Stéphane Brizé)La La Land (Damien Chazelle)The Light Between Oceans (Derek Cianfrance)El ciudadano ilustre (Mariano Cohn, Gastón Duprat)Spira Mirabilis (Massimo D'Anolfi, Martina Parenti)The Woman Who Left (Lav Diaz)La región salvaje (Amat Escalante)Nocturnal Animals (Tom Ford)Piuma (Roan Johnson)Paradise (Andrei Konchalovsky)Brimstone (Martin Koolhoven)Jackie (Pablo Larraín)Voyage of Time (Terrence Malick)El Cristo Ciego (Christopher Murray)Frantz (François Ozon)Questi Giorni (Giuseppe Piccioni)Arrival (Denis Villeneuve)Les beaux jours D'Aranjuez (Wim Wenders)Out Of COMPETITIONSafariOur War (Bruno Chiaravolloti, Claudio Jampaglia, Benedetta Argentieri)I Called Him Morgan (Kasper Collin)One More Time with Feeling (Andrew Dominik)The Bleeder (Philippe Falardeau)The Magnificent Seven (Antoine Fuqua...
- 7/28/2016
- MUBI
Is there a best picture winner in the bunch? The Venice Film Festival has unveiled its 2016 lineup, including both in competition and out of competition offerings, and with the festival’s strong track record of debuting recent best picture winners — from “Spotlight” to “Birdman” — there might be another big winner among the slate’s ranks.
As had been previously announced, the festival will open with Damien Chazelle’s “La La Land,” which will later hit Toronto (and, presumably, also Telluride). The festival will close with Antoine Fuqua’s “The Magnificent Seven,” which kicks off its own festival run days earlier, when it will open Tiff.
Read More: Tiff Reveals First Slate of 2016 Titles, Including ‘Magnificent Seven,’ ‘American Honey,’ ‘La La Land’ and ‘Birth of A Nation’
Other picks that will also do the Venice-tiff two-step include Tom Ford’s “Nocturnal Animals,” Denis Villeneuve’s “Arrival,” Francois Ozon’s “Frantz,” Nick Hamm...
As had been previously announced, the festival will open with Damien Chazelle’s “La La Land,” which will later hit Toronto (and, presumably, also Telluride). The festival will close with Antoine Fuqua’s “The Magnificent Seven,” which kicks off its own festival run days earlier, when it will open Tiff.
Read More: Tiff Reveals First Slate of 2016 Titles, Including ‘Magnificent Seven,’ ‘American Honey,’ ‘La La Land’ and ‘Birth of A Nation’
Other picks that will also do the Venice-tiff two-step include Tom Ford’s “Nocturnal Animals,” Denis Villeneuve’s “Arrival,” Francois Ozon’s “Frantz,” Nick Hamm...
- 7/28/2016
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Exclusive: Rome-based distributor Cinema pre-bought six new titles at Cannes.
Italian distribution veteran Valerio De Paolis may have completed the sale of his company Bim to Wild Bunch two years ago but he shows no intention of retiring on the proceeds from the deal.
The distributor has announced a slew of Cannes acquisitions for his burgeoning Rome-based distribution label Cinema.
Pre-buys at Cannes included David Robert Mitchell’s La-set thriller Under The Silver Lake; Michel Hazanavicius’s 1960s-set Jean-Luc Godard tribute Redoubtable from Wild Bunch and Aki Kaurismaki’s The Other Side Of Hope from The Match Factory.
“I love...
Italian distribution veteran Valerio De Paolis may have completed the sale of his company Bim to Wild Bunch two years ago but he shows no intention of retiring on the proceeds from the deal.
The distributor has announced a slew of Cannes acquisitions for his burgeoning Rome-based distribution label Cinema.
Pre-buys at Cannes included David Robert Mitchell’s La-set thriller Under The Silver Lake; Michel Hazanavicius’s 1960s-set Jean-Luc Godard tribute Redoubtable from Wild Bunch and Aki Kaurismaki’s The Other Side Of Hope from The Match Factory.
“I love...
- 6/13/2016
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Rome-based distributor Cinema pre-bought six new titles at Cannes.
Italian distribution veteran Valerio De Paolis may have completed the sale of his company Bim to Wild Bunch two years ago but he shows no intention of retiring on the proceeds from the deal.
The distributor has announced a slew of Cannes acquisitions for his burgeoning Rome-based distribution label Cinema.
Pre-buys at Cannes included David Robert Mitchell’s La-set thriller Under The Silver Lake; Michel Hazanavicius’s 1960s-set Jean-Luc Godard tribute Redoubtable from Wild Bunch and Aki Kaurismaki’s The Other Side Of Hope from The Match Factory.
“I love...
Italian distribution veteran Valerio De Paolis may have completed the sale of his company Bim to Wild Bunch two years ago but he shows no intention of retiring on the proceeds from the deal.
The distributor has announced a slew of Cannes acquisitions for his burgeoning Rome-based distribution label Cinema.
Pre-buys at Cannes included David Robert Mitchell’s La-set thriller Under The Silver Lake; Michel Hazanavicius’s 1960s-set Jean-Luc Godard tribute Redoubtable from Wild Bunch and Aki Kaurismaki’s The Other Side Of Hope from The Match Factory.
“I love...
- 6/13/2016
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Rome-based distributor pre-bought six new titles at Cannes.
Italian distribution veteran Valerio De Paolis may have completed the sale of his company Bim to Wild Bunch two years ago but he shows no intention of retiring on the proceeds from the deal.
The distributor has announced a slew of Cannes acquisitions for his burgeoning Rome-based distribution label Cinema.
Pre-buys at Cannes included David Robert Mitchell’s La-set thriller Under The Silver Lake; Michel Hazanavicius’s 1960s-set Jean-Luc Godard tribute Redoubtable from Wild Bunch and Aki Kaurismaki’s The Other Side Of Hope from The Match Factory.
“I love Godard...
Italian distribution veteran Valerio De Paolis may have completed the sale of his company Bim to Wild Bunch two years ago but he shows no intention of retiring on the proceeds from the deal.
The distributor has announced a slew of Cannes acquisitions for his burgeoning Rome-based distribution label Cinema.
Pre-buys at Cannes included David Robert Mitchell’s La-set thriller Under The Silver Lake; Michel Hazanavicius’s 1960s-set Jean-Luc Godard tribute Redoubtable from Wild Bunch and Aki Kaurismaki’s The Other Side Of Hope from The Match Factory.
“I love Godard...
- 6/13/2016
- ScreenDaily
More than half of the Independent Filmmaker Project’s (Ifp) 140 titles at the upcoming Project Forum in Septembers’ Ifp Independent Film Week hail from women.
Announcing the slate on Wednesday, Ifp executive director Joana Vicente noted the strong representation of women when she praised the organisation’s “long-standing history of supporting diverse voices.”
In recent years Ifp has played a key role in launching the first films of many of today’s most adventurous women filmmakers including Desiree Akhavan, Anna Boden, Rama Burshtein, Debra Granik, Leah Meyerhoff, Laura Poitras, Gillian Robespierre and Dee Rees.
Under the curatorial leadership of deputy director/head of programming Amy Dotson and senior director of programming Milton Tabbot, this year’s nexus for filmmakers and executives comprises Rbc’s Emerging Storytellers programme, No Borders International Co-Production Market and Spotlight On Documentaries.
Rbc’s Emerging Storytellers highlights creative visionaries and showcases narrative features and web series in development new to the independent scene.
Short...
Announcing the slate on Wednesday, Ifp executive director Joana Vicente noted the strong representation of women when she praised the organisation’s “long-standing history of supporting diverse voices.”
In recent years Ifp has played a key role in launching the first films of many of today’s most adventurous women filmmakers including Desiree Akhavan, Anna Boden, Rama Burshtein, Debra Granik, Leah Meyerhoff, Laura Poitras, Gillian Robespierre and Dee Rees.
Under the curatorial leadership of deputy director/head of programming Amy Dotson and senior director of programming Milton Tabbot, this year’s nexus for filmmakers and executives comprises Rbc’s Emerging Storytellers programme, No Borders International Co-Production Market and Spotlight On Documentaries.
Rbc’s Emerging Storytellers highlights creative visionaries and showcases narrative features and web series in development new to the independent scene.
Short...
- 7/23/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
More than half of the Independent Filmmaker Project’s (Ifp) 140 titles at the upcoming Project Forum in Septembers’ Ifp Independent Film Week hail from women.
Announcing the slate on Wednesday, Ifp executive director Joana Vicente noted the strong representation of women when she praised the organisation’s “long-standing history of supporting diverse voices.”
In recent years Ifp has played a key role in launching the first films of many of today’s most adventurous women filmmakers including Desiree Akhavan, Anna Boden, Rama Burshtein, Debra Granik, Leah Meyerhoff, Laura Poitras, Gillian Robespierre and Dee Rees.
Under the curatorial leadership of deputy director/head of programming Amy Dotson and senior director of programming Milton Tabbot, this year’s nexus for filmmakers and executives comprises Rbc’s Emerging Storytellers programme, No Borders International Co-Production Market and Spotlight On Documentaries.
Rbc’s Emerging Storytellers highlights creative visionaries and showcases narrative features and web series in development new to the independent scene.
Short...
Announcing the slate on Wednesday, Ifp executive director Joana Vicente noted the strong representation of women when she praised the organisation’s “long-standing history of supporting diverse voices.”
In recent years Ifp has played a key role in launching the first films of many of today’s most adventurous women filmmakers including Desiree Akhavan, Anna Boden, Rama Burshtein, Debra Granik, Leah Meyerhoff, Laura Poitras, Gillian Robespierre and Dee Rees.
Under the curatorial leadership of deputy director/head of programming Amy Dotson and senior director of programming Milton Tabbot, this year’s nexus for filmmakers and executives comprises Rbc’s Emerging Storytellers programme, No Borders International Co-Production Market and Spotlight On Documentaries.
Rbc’s Emerging Storytellers highlights creative visionaries and showcases narrative features and web series in development new to the independent scene.
Short...
- 7/22/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
The institution of marriage, and therefore divorce, in Israel is regulated exclusively religiously, with rabbinical consent needed to sanction both marriage and divorce. In Fill the Void, rabbinical authorisation is first denied, then granted to an arranged marriage, while Gett tracks a woman’s Kafkaesque divorce proceedings as the years go by.
Premiering at the Venice Film Festival in 2012 and currently showing at The London Israeli Film & Television Festival, Fill the Void was billed as the first fiction film by a Hassidic filmmaker intended for general release, with head-scarfed writer/director Rama Burshtein and her Orthodox-garbed husband an unwonted red-carpet scene. At Venice, it won a Best Actress award for newcomer Hadas Yaron, while Asaf Sudry’s cinematography was rewarded at the European Film Awards.
Family and offspring, the core prerogative of Hassidic womenfolk (and a staple of the Jane Austen novels that inspired the film) are at the centre...
Premiering at the Venice Film Festival in 2012 and currently showing at The London Israeli Film & Television Festival, Fill the Void was billed as the first fiction film by a Hassidic filmmaker intended for general release, with head-scarfed writer/director Rama Burshtein and her Orthodox-garbed husband an unwonted red-carpet scene. At Venice, it won a Best Actress award for newcomer Hadas Yaron, while Asaf Sudry’s cinematography was rewarded at the European Film Awards.
Family and offspring, the core prerogative of Hassidic womenfolk (and a staple of the Jane Austen novels that inspired the film) are at the centre...
- 11/20/2014
- by Zornitsa
- SoundOnSight
Ifp announced its 2014 slate of 133 new films in development and works in progress selected for its esteemed Project Forum at Independent Film Week. This one-of-a-kind event brings the international film and media community to New York City to advance new projects by nurturing the work of both emerging and established independent artists and filmmakers. Through the Project Forum, creatives connect with financiers, executives, influencers and decision-makers in film, television, new media and cross-platform storytelling that can help them complete their latest works and connect with audiences. Under the curatorial leadership of Deputy Director/Head of Programming Amy Dotson & Senior Director of Programming Milton Tabbot, this one-of-a-kind event takes place September 14-18, 2014 at Lincoln Center supporting bold new content from a wide variety of domestic and international artists.
“As we set to embark on our 36th Independent Film Week, we are impressed by the outstanding slate of both U.S. and international projects selected for this year’s Project Forum,” said Joana Vicente, Executive Director of Ifp. “We know that the industry will be as excited as we are with the accomplished storytellers and their diverse and boundary pushing films.”
Featured works at the 2014 Independent Film Week include filmmakers and content creators from a variety of backgrounds and experiences. From documentarians Tony Gerber ("Full Battle Rattle"), Pamela Yates ("Granito: How To Nail A Dictator"), and Penny Lane ("Our Nixon") to Michelangelo Frammartino ("Quattro Volte") and Alexis Dos Santos ("Unmade Beds"), as well as new work from critically acclaimed artists and directors Aurora Guerrero ("Mosquita y Mari"), Barry Jenkins ("Medicine for Melancholy"), Travis Matthews ("Interior. Leather. Bar") and Yen Tan ("Pit Stop").
Independent Film Week brings the international film and media community to New York City to advance new documentary and narrative works-in-progress and support the future of storytelling. The program nurtures the work of both emerging and established independent artists and filmmakers through the facilitation of over 3,500+ custom, one-to-one meetings with the financiers, executives, influencers and decision-makers in film, television, new media and cross-platform storytelling that can help them complete their latest works and connect with audiences. In recent years, it has also played a vital role in launching the first films of many of today’s rising stars on the independent scene including Rama Burshtein ("Fill The Void"), Derek Cianfrance ("Blue Valentine"), Marshall Curry ("If A Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth LIberation Front"), Laura Poitras ("The Oath"), Denis Villeneuve ("Incendies") and Benh Zeitlin ("Beasts of the Southern Wild").
For the full 2014 Project Forum slate visit Here
New For 2014
Evenly split between documentary and narrative features, selected projects hail from throughout the U.S., Europe and Canada, as well Africa, Asia, South America, and the Middle East. New this year, Ifp will be including web series in it programming, as well as spotlighting Latin & Central American artists and content with 15 projects featured across all programs in the Forum.
In a joint effort to recognize the importance of career and creative sustainability, Ifp and Durga Entertainment have partnered on a new $20,000 filmmaker grant for an alumnus of Ifp. The grant is intended for active, working filmmakers who are also balancing a filmmaking career with parenting. The grant provides a $20,000 unrestricted prize to encourage the recipient to continue on her or his career path of making quality independent films. American directors or screenwriters working in narrative film who have participated in the Ifp Filmmaker Labs or Ifp Independent Film Week's Emerging Storytellers or No-Borders International Co-Production market are encouraged to apply by the deadline of August 8, 2014.
Narrative Feature Highlights
Narrative features and webseries in Rbc’s Emerging Storytellers and No Borders International Co-Production Market sections highlight new work from top emerging and established creative visionaries on the U.S. and international independent scene.
This year’s slate includes new feature scripts featuring directors Dev Benegal ("Road, Movie"), Alexis Dos Santos ("Unmade Beds"), Jason Cortlund and Julia Halperin ("Now, Forager"), Michelangelo Frammartino ("Le Quattro Volte"),Terry George ("Hotel Rwanda"), Rashaad Ernesto Green ("Gun Hill Road"), Aurora Guerrero ("Mosquita Y Mari"), Barry Jenkins ("Medicine for Melancholy"),Alison Klayman ("Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry"), Travis Mathews ("Interior. Leather Bar"), Stacie Passon ("Concussion"), Yen Tan ("Pit Stop"), as well as up-an-coming actor/directors Karrie Crouse ("Land Ho!") and Peter Vack ("Fort Tilden""I Believe in Unicorns").
Producers and executive producers of note attached to participating projects include Jennifer Dubin and Cora Olson ("Good Dick"), Jonathan Duffy and Kelly Williams ("Hellion"),Laura Heberton ("Gayby"), Dan Janvey ("Beasts of the Southern Wild"), Kishori Rajan ("Gimme the Loot"), Adele Romanski ("The Myth of the American Sleepover"), Kim Sherman ("A Teacher"), Susan Stover ("High Art"), and Alicia Van Couvering ("Tiny Furniture").
Web Storytellers Highlights
For the first time this year, Ifp presents a dedicated spotlight within the Rbc’s Emerging Storytellers program for creators developing episodic content for digital platforms. The inaugural slate for the Web Storytellers spotlight includes new works from filmmakers Desiree Akhavan ("Appropriate Behavior", HBO’s Girls), Calvin Reeder ("The Rambler"), and Gregory Bayne ("Person of Interest"), as well as producers Elisabeth Holm ("Obvious Child"), Susan Leber ( "Down to the Bone"), and Amanda Warman ("The Outs,"Whatever This Is"). Two of the series participating are currently in post-production, and will be making their online debut in the coming months – Rachel Morgan’s Middle Americans, starring Scott Thompson, Carlen Altman, and Alex Rennie, and Daniel Zimbler and Elisabeth Gray’s Understudies, starring Richard Kind and David Rasche. [p Spotlight On Documentaries Highlights
The documentary selection includes new work from seasoned non-fiction directors such as Emmy winners Robert Bahar andAlmudena Carracedo ("Made in La"), Pamela Yates ("Granito: How to Nail a Dictator"),Ramona Diaz ("Imelda," "Don’t Stop Believin’") Gini Reticker ("Pray the Devil Back to Hell") Tony Gerber ("Full Battle Rattle"); from producers such as Court 13’s Benh Zeitlin and Dan Janvey ("Beasts of the Southern Wild"), Liran Atzmor ("The Law in These Parts"), Tim Williams ("Once In A Lifetime") and Hilla Medalia ("Web Junkie"), and follow-up second features from recent doc world “breakouts”Steve Hoover ("Blood Brother") Penny Lane ("Our Nixon"), Michael Collins ("Give Up Tomorrow"), and Michael Nichols and Christopher Walker ("Flex is Kings").
Exciting new work from debut documentary directors previously known for fiction films include Alex Sichel ("All over Me") with her personal doc The Movie about Anna, Lisa Cortés (producer, "Precious") with "Mothership: The Untold Story of Women and Hip Hop," and Daniel Patrick Carbone ("Hide Your Smiling Faces") with Phantom Cowboys.
Sponsors
Independent Film Week’s Premier sponsors are Royal Bank of Canada (Rbc) and HBO. Gold sponsors are A&E IndieFilms and SAGIndie. Silver sponsors are Durga Entertainment, Eastman Kodak Company, National Film & Video Foundation of South Africa and Telefilm Canada. Official Independent Film Week Partner is Film Society of Lincoln Center. Independent Film Week is supported, in part, by funds provided by the Ford Foundation, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, New York State Council for the Arts and Time Warner Foundation.
About Ifp
The Independent Filmmaker Project (Ifp) champions the future of storytelling by connecting artists with essential resources at all stages of development and distribution. The organization fosters a vibrant and sustainable independent storytelling community through its year-round programs, which include Independent Film Week, Filmmaker Magazine, the Gotham Independent Film Awards and the Made in NY Media Center by Ifp, a new incubator space developed with the Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment. Ifp represents a growing network of 10,000 storytellers around the world, and plays a key role in developing 350 new feature and documentary works each year. During its 35-year history, Ifp has supported over 8,000 projects and offered resources to more than 20,000 filmmakers, including Debra Granik, Miranda July, Michael Moore, Dee Rees, and Benh Zeitlin. More info at www.ifp.org.
“As we set to embark on our 36th Independent Film Week, we are impressed by the outstanding slate of both U.S. and international projects selected for this year’s Project Forum,” said Joana Vicente, Executive Director of Ifp. “We know that the industry will be as excited as we are with the accomplished storytellers and their diverse and boundary pushing films.”
Featured works at the 2014 Independent Film Week include filmmakers and content creators from a variety of backgrounds and experiences. From documentarians Tony Gerber ("Full Battle Rattle"), Pamela Yates ("Granito: How To Nail A Dictator"), and Penny Lane ("Our Nixon") to Michelangelo Frammartino ("Quattro Volte") and Alexis Dos Santos ("Unmade Beds"), as well as new work from critically acclaimed artists and directors Aurora Guerrero ("Mosquita y Mari"), Barry Jenkins ("Medicine for Melancholy"), Travis Matthews ("Interior. Leather. Bar") and Yen Tan ("Pit Stop").
Independent Film Week brings the international film and media community to New York City to advance new documentary and narrative works-in-progress and support the future of storytelling. The program nurtures the work of both emerging and established independent artists and filmmakers through the facilitation of over 3,500+ custom, one-to-one meetings with the financiers, executives, influencers and decision-makers in film, television, new media and cross-platform storytelling that can help them complete their latest works and connect with audiences. In recent years, it has also played a vital role in launching the first films of many of today’s rising stars on the independent scene including Rama Burshtein ("Fill The Void"), Derek Cianfrance ("Blue Valentine"), Marshall Curry ("If A Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth LIberation Front"), Laura Poitras ("The Oath"), Denis Villeneuve ("Incendies") and Benh Zeitlin ("Beasts of the Southern Wild").
For the full 2014 Project Forum slate visit Here
New For 2014
Evenly split between documentary and narrative features, selected projects hail from throughout the U.S., Europe and Canada, as well Africa, Asia, South America, and the Middle East. New this year, Ifp will be including web series in it programming, as well as spotlighting Latin & Central American artists and content with 15 projects featured across all programs in the Forum.
In a joint effort to recognize the importance of career and creative sustainability, Ifp and Durga Entertainment have partnered on a new $20,000 filmmaker grant for an alumnus of Ifp. The grant is intended for active, working filmmakers who are also balancing a filmmaking career with parenting. The grant provides a $20,000 unrestricted prize to encourage the recipient to continue on her or his career path of making quality independent films. American directors or screenwriters working in narrative film who have participated in the Ifp Filmmaker Labs or Ifp Independent Film Week's Emerging Storytellers or No-Borders International Co-Production market are encouraged to apply by the deadline of August 8, 2014.
Narrative Feature Highlights
Narrative features and webseries in Rbc’s Emerging Storytellers and No Borders International Co-Production Market sections highlight new work from top emerging and established creative visionaries on the U.S. and international independent scene.
This year’s slate includes new feature scripts featuring directors Dev Benegal ("Road, Movie"), Alexis Dos Santos ("Unmade Beds"), Jason Cortlund and Julia Halperin ("Now, Forager"), Michelangelo Frammartino ("Le Quattro Volte"),Terry George ("Hotel Rwanda"), Rashaad Ernesto Green ("Gun Hill Road"), Aurora Guerrero ("Mosquita Y Mari"), Barry Jenkins ("Medicine for Melancholy"),Alison Klayman ("Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry"), Travis Mathews ("Interior. Leather Bar"), Stacie Passon ("Concussion"), Yen Tan ("Pit Stop"), as well as up-an-coming actor/directors Karrie Crouse ("Land Ho!") and Peter Vack ("Fort Tilden""I Believe in Unicorns").
Producers and executive producers of note attached to participating projects include Jennifer Dubin and Cora Olson ("Good Dick"), Jonathan Duffy and Kelly Williams ("Hellion"),Laura Heberton ("Gayby"), Dan Janvey ("Beasts of the Southern Wild"), Kishori Rajan ("Gimme the Loot"), Adele Romanski ("The Myth of the American Sleepover"), Kim Sherman ("A Teacher"), Susan Stover ("High Art"), and Alicia Van Couvering ("Tiny Furniture").
Web Storytellers Highlights
For the first time this year, Ifp presents a dedicated spotlight within the Rbc’s Emerging Storytellers program for creators developing episodic content for digital platforms. The inaugural slate for the Web Storytellers spotlight includes new works from filmmakers Desiree Akhavan ("Appropriate Behavior", HBO’s Girls), Calvin Reeder ("The Rambler"), and Gregory Bayne ("Person of Interest"), as well as producers Elisabeth Holm ("Obvious Child"), Susan Leber ( "Down to the Bone"), and Amanda Warman ("The Outs,"Whatever This Is"). Two of the series participating are currently in post-production, and will be making their online debut in the coming months – Rachel Morgan’s Middle Americans, starring Scott Thompson, Carlen Altman, and Alex Rennie, and Daniel Zimbler and Elisabeth Gray’s Understudies, starring Richard Kind and David Rasche. [p Spotlight On Documentaries Highlights
The documentary selection includes new work from seasoned non-fiction directors such as Emmy winners Robert Bahar andAlmudena Carracedo ("Made in La"), Pamela Yates ("Granito: How to Nail a Dictator"),Ramona Diaz ("Imelda," "Don’t Stop Believin’") Gini Reticker ("Pray the Devil Back to Hell") Tony Gerber ("Full Battle Rattle"); from producers such as Court 13’s Benh Zeitlin and Dan Janvey ("Beasts of the Southern Wild"), Liran Atzmor ("The Law in These Parts"), Tim Williams ("Once In A Lifetime") and Hilla Medalia ("Web Junkie"), and follow-up second features from recent doc world “breakouts”Steve Hoover ("Blood Brother") Penny Lane ("Our Nixon"), Michael Collins ("Give Up Tomorrow"), and Michael Nichols and Christopher Walker ("Flex is Kings").
Exciting new work from debut documentary directors previously known for fiction films include Alex Sichel ("All over Me") with her personal doc The Movie about Anna, Lisa Cortés (producer, "Precious") with "Mothership: The Untold Story of Women and Hip Hop," and Daniel Patrick Carbone ("Hide Your Smiling Faces") with Phantom Cowboys.
Sponsors
Independent Film Week’s Premier sponsors are Royal Bank of Canada (Rbc) and HBO. Gold sponsors are A&E IndieFilms and SAGIndie. Silver sponsors are Durga Entertainment, Eastman Kodak Company, National Film & Video Foundation of South Africa and Telefilm Canada. Official Independent Film Week Partner is Film Society of Lincoln Center. Independent Film Week is supported, in part, by funds provided by the Ford Foundation, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, New York State Council for the Arts and Time Warner Foundation.
About Ifp
The Independent Filmmaker Project (Ifp) champions the future of storytelling by connecting artists with essential resources at all stages of development and distribution. The organization fosters a vibrant and sustainable independent storytelling community through its year-round programs, which include Independent Film Week, Filmmaker Magazine, the Gotham Independent Film Awards and the Made in NY Media Center by Ifp, a new incubator space developed with the Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment. Ifp represents a growing network of 10,000 storytellers around the world, and plays a key role in developing 350 new feature and documentary works each year. During its 35-year history, Ifp has supported over 8,000 projects and offered resources to more than 20,000 filmmakers, including Debra Granik, Miranda July, Michael Moore, Dee Rees, and Benh Zeitlin. More info at www.ifp.org.
- 7/25/2014
- by Peter Belsito
- Sydney's Buzz
★★★★☆Tradition and duty are the themes of Fill the Void (2012), a tightly observed family drama and Rama Burshtein's debut feature. Set in a Orthodox Jewish community in Tel Aviv, the film draws a sympathetic portrayal of a young girl Shira (Hadas Yaron) who must come to terms with the sudden death of her sister, Esther (Renana Raz) and the position it puts her in of potentially obeying the imperative of the title and taking her place as her brother-in-law's new wife and step mother to her sister's child. The business of marriage is mediated via a series of match makers and family members and yet below the surface complex emotions are bubbling and Shira's dilemma is further complicated by her own family.
- 4/14/2014
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
As tense and gripping as many a thriller, Rama Burshtein's Fill the Void (2012) is a breathtaking exploration of the struggle between familial bonds and individual freedoms. The drama has garnered innumerable festival awards, including an seven Israeli Academy Awards as well as the Best Actress prize at the Venice Film Festival (for Hadas Yaron). To celebrate the long-awaited DVD and Blu-ray release of Fill the Void this coming Monday (14 April), we have Three copies of Burshtein's debut to give away to our worldly readers, courtesy of the fantastic team at distributors Artificial Eye. This is an exclusive competition for our Facebook and Twitter fans, so if you haven't already, 'Like' us at facebook.com/CineVueUK or follow us @CineVue before answering the question below.
- 4/11/2014
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
The influence of Jane Austen is apparent in Rama Burshtein's moving tale of a young woman living within the strict confines of Tel Aviv's ultra-Orthodox community
A perfectly pitched performance from Hadas Yaron and ethereal close-quarters cinematography by Asaf Sudry elevate this warm and sympathetic portrait of a young woman's struggle to balance personal fulfilment with family duty into the realms of something very special. Set within the Orthodox Hasidic community of Tel Aviv, and offering an intimate insider's view of a world which remains little seen in mainstream cinema, Fill the Void is an intelligent and moving examination of the possibilities of personal freedom within the strict confines of religion and tradition.
When personal tragedy strikes during the joyous celebrations of Purim, 18-year-old Shira finds her plans for the future thrown into disarray. Having long envisaged an ideal, match-made marriage comparable to that of her beloved big sister Esther,...
A perfectly pitched performance from Hadas Yaron and ethereal close-quarters cinematography by Asaf Sudry elevate this warm and sympathetic portrait of a young woman's struggle to balance personal fulfilment with family duty into the realms of something very special. Set within the Orthodox Hasidic community of Tel Aviv, and offering an intimate insider's view of a world which remains little seen in mainstream cinema, Fill the Void is an intelligent and moving examination of the possibilities of personal freedom within the strict confines of religion and tradition.
When personal tragedy strikes during the joyous celebrations of Purim, 18-year-old Shira finds her plans for the future thrown into disarray. Having long envisaged an ideal, match-made marriage comparable to that of her beloved big sister Esther,...
- 12/15/2013
- by Mark Kermode
- The Guardian - Film News
The Hobbit | Fill The Void | The Innocents | The Christmas Candle | Cinema Paradiso | Tamla Rose
The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug (12A)
(Peter Jackson, 2013, Us/Nz) Martin Freeman, Ian McKellen, Richard Armitage, Benedict Cumberbatch. 161 mins
If the first Hobbit movie felt padded out, that didn't seem to put anyone off: its global box-office take was more than $1bn. But now all that protracted set-up is out of the way this middle section hits the ground running and barely lets up, as Freeman and his dwarves hack their way through a theme park's worth of action adventures to close in on the Lonely Mountain. It's a giddy ride, for sure, but we also get a fuller sense of Middle Earth's landscape and inhabitants. Oh yes, and there's a dragon…
Fill The Void (U)
(Rama Burshtein, 2012, Isr) Hadas Yaron, Yiftach Klein, Irit Sheleg. 91 mins
The strictures of ultra-orthodox Judaism give this modern-day story a curiously archaic feel,...
The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug (12A)
(Peter Jackson, 2013, Us/Nz) Martin Freeman, Ian McKellen, Richard Armitage, Benedict Cumberbatch. 161 mins
If the first Hobbit movie felt padded out, that didn't seem to put anyone off: its global box-office take was more than $1bn. But now all that protracted set-up is out of the way this middle section hits the ground running and barely lets up, as Freeman and his dwarves hack their way through a theme park's worth of action adventures to close in on the Lonely Mountain. It's a giddy ride, for sure, but we also get a fuller sense of Middle Earth's landscape and inhabitants. Oh yes, and there's a dragon…
Fill The Void (U)
(Rama Burshtein, 2012, Isr) Hadas Yaron, Yiftach Klein, Irit Sheleg. 91 mins
The strictures of ultra-orthodox Judaism give this modern-day story a curiously archaic feel,...
- 12/14/2013
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
Set in Tel Aviv, this is an intriguing story about a Jewish family and the cult of marriage
Rama Burshtein is a first-time director whose debut feature may call to mind Jane Austen's famous line about a certain truth universally acknowledged. It is set in Tel Aviv within an Orthodox Hasidic family; but here, Judaism and religion seem subordinate to the cult of marriage. Unmarried women and their mothers are obsessed with it; married women and their families are also obsessed, on the singletons' behalf. The unmarried state is something to be borne sorrowfully: news of impending nuptials is greeted like a rollover Lottery win to be shared out. Esther (Renana Raz) is the daughter of a respected rabbi; she is happily married to Yochay (Yiftach Klein) and heavily pregnant, and she and her kid sister Shira (Hadas Yaron) are loved by their parents. When tragedy strikes, Shira and...
Rama Burshtein is a first-time director whose debut feature may call to mind Jane Austen's famous line about a certain truth universally acknowledged. It is set in Tel Aviv within an Orthodox Hasidic family; but here, Judaism and religion seem subordinate to the cult of marriage. Unmarried women and their mothers are obsessed with it; married women and their families are also obsessed, on the singletons' behalf. The unmarried state is something to be borne sorrowfully: news of impending nuptials is greeted like a rollover Lottery win to be shared out. Esther (Renana Raz) is the daughter of a respected rabbi; she is happily married to Yochay (Yiftach Klein) and heavily pregnant, and she and her kid sister Shira (Hadas Yaron) are loved by their parents. When tragedy strikes, Shira and...
- 12/13/2013
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
The writer-director Rama Burshtein’s drama about arranged marriage is set in an Orthodox Hassidic community in Tel Aviv. Burshtein, an American Israeli film-maker who is part of such a community herself, gives us an insight into Orthodox life that no documentary could provide. It helps that this is an insider’s view and that she is dealing with such primal emotions as love and bereavement. “It is not a matter of feelings,” one character declares as a marriage is planned. “It is only a matter of feelings,” is the response.
- 12/12/2013
- The Independent - Film
★★★☆☆New York-born, Jerusalem-raised director Rama Burshtein's feature debut, Fill the Void (2012), is an accomplished social drama with potential appeal for international audiences. Set in contemporary Tel Aviv, where the local orthodox Jewish community continues the traditional practice of matchmaking, we begin with 28-year-old Esther (Renana Raz), married to Yochay (Yiftach Klein), dying during childbirth, delaying Esther's younger sister Shira's (Hadas Yaron) own engagement. Shira's mother learns that the community has planned for Yochay to marry a woman from Belgium - an unthinkable scenario for those involved.
- 12/12/2013
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
It’s fair to say that Hasidic Judaism is a subject matter somewhat untapped in cinema, as a world and culture relatively overlooked. There is therefore a distinct sense of intrigue attached to Rama Burshtein’s Fill the Void, as it finally makes its way to British cinemas. Though despite the uniquity that exists, this pensive drama remains relatable, as the themes explored can be translated in a variety of ways, as the pure, human emotion on show is universal.
When Shira (Hadas Yaron) comes of age, by tradition, the devout 18-year-old Israeli is now expected to marry. Though content and acceptant of such a fate, her world is thrown into disarray when her older sister Esther (Renana Raz) passes away during childbirth. Pressure then mounts on the young girl’s shoulders to enter into an arranged, levirate marriage with her sister’s widow Yochay (Yiftach Klein) and care for his motherless son.
When Shira (Hadas Yaron) comes of age, by tradition, the devout 18-year-old Israeli is now expected to marry. Though content and acceptant of such a fate, her world is thrown into disarray when her older sister Esther (Renana Raz) passes away during childbirth. Pressure then mounts on the young girl’s shoulders to enter into an arranged, levirate marriage with her sister’s widow Yochay (Yiftach Klein) and care for his motherless son.
- 12/10/2013
- by Stefan Pape
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
These days you can watch any movie you desire online. Yet there's still one thing the magical wonders of instant streaming haven't solved for indecisive movie-lovers: what the heck to watch! Moviefone is here to recommend the best streaming movies from Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Instant and new digital releases from iTunes and Vudu each week in Moviefone's Digital Download.
This week's Digital Download picks range from goofy '90s rom-coms and tongue-in-cheek cabin scares, to martial arts flicks and outlaws on the run. Check out our suggestions below, and happy streaming!
Comedy: 'Clueless' (1995)
Revisiting the high school misadventures of Cher and Dionne, including their impeccable driving (not) and boy hunting, may be the best time you'll have this weekend (but we sorta hope not). Starring Alicia Silverstone, Stacey Dash, Paul Rudd, and the late Brittany Murphy, "Clueless" is everything you love and miss about the '90s.
This week's Digital Download picks range from goofy '90s rom-coms and tongue-in-cheek cabin scares, to martial arts flicks and outlaws on the run. Check out our suggestions below, and happy streaming!
Comedy: 'Clueless' (1995)
Revisiting the high school misadventures of Cher and Dionne, including their impeccable driving (not) and boy hunting, may be the best time you'll have this weekend (but we sorta hope not). Starring Alicia Silverstone, Stacey Dash, Paul Rudd, and the late Brittany Murphy, "Clueless" is everything you love and miss about the '90s.
- 10/17/2013
- by Erin Whitney
- Moviefone
Moviefone's Top DVD of the Week:
"Iron Man 3"
What's It About? Directed by Shane Black ("Lethal Weapon 2"), the third installment of the "Iron Man" franchise follows Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) as his world is torn apart by the terrorist the Mandarin (Ben Kingsley). When Stark's family life is affected by the evil villain, he embarks on a journey to find out who is responsible.
Why We're In: "Iron Man 3," Moviefone's #1 movie of 2013 so far, is different from its two predecessors in that it shows a new, vulnerable side of Tony Stark we'd yet to see. Filled with more serious emotion rarely found in superhero films, this third installment was a refreshing and much needed surprise to the genre.
Moviefone's Top Blu-ray of the Week:
"3 Films by Roberto Rossellini Starring Ingrid Bergman: 'Stromboli - Terra Di Dio' | 'Europe '51' | 'Journey to Italy'" (Criterion Collection)
What's It About?...
"Iron Man 3"
What's It About? Directed by Shane Black ("Lethal Weapon 2"), the third installment of the "Iron Man" franchise follows Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) as his world is torn apart by the terrorist the Mandarin (Ben Kingsley). When Stark's family life is affected by the evil villain, he embarks on a journey to find out who is responsible.
Why We're In: "Iron Man 3," Moviefone's #1 movie of 2013 so far, is different from its two predecessors in that it shows a new, vulnerable side of Tony Stark we'd yet to see. Filled with more serious emotion rarely found in superhero films, this third installment was a refreshing and much needed surprise to the genre.
Moviefone's Top Blu-ray of the Week:
"3 Films by Roberto Rossellini Starring Ingrid Bergman: 'Stromboli - Terra Di Dio' | 'Europe '51' | 'Journey to Italy'" (Criterion Collection)
What's It About?...
- 9/24/2013
- by Erin Whitney
- Moviefone
European Film Academy reveals titles of the films on this year’s selection list.Scroll down for full list
The European Film Academy and Efa Productions have announced the titles of the 46 films on this year’s selection list - the list of films recommended for a nomination for the European Film Awards 2013.
A total of 32 European countries are represented. In the 20 countries with the most Efa Members, these members have voted one national film directly into the selection list. To complete the list, a selection committee consisting of Efa Board Members and invited experts have included further films.
In the coming weeks, the 2,900 Efa members will vote for the nominations in the categories European Film, Director, Actor, Actress and Screenwriter. The nominations will then be announced on Nov 9 at the Seville European Film Festival in Spain.
A seven-member jury will decide on the awards recipients in the categories European Cinematographer, Editor, Production...
The European Film Academy and Efa Productions have announced the titles of the 46 films on this year’s selection list - the list of films recommended for a nomination for the European Film Awards 2013.
A total of 32 European countries are represented. In the 20 countries with the most Efa Members, these members have voted one national film directly into the selection list. To complete the list, a selection committee consisting of Efa Board Members and invited experts have included further films.
In the coming weeks, the 2,900 Efa members will vote for the nominations in the categories European Film, Director, Actor, Actress and Screenwriter. The nominations will then be announced on Nov 9 at the Seville European Film Festival in Spain.
A seven-member jury will decide on the awards recipients in the categories European Cinematographer, Editor, Production...
- 9/9/2013
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
(Rns) In most parts of the world, arranged marriages are a time-honored expression of religious and cultural orthodoxy. Even in modern-day Israel, with its educated and affluent population, the tradition endures in the Hasidic community. But “Fill the Void” is not the critique of sexist repression we might have expected. It’s an artful, character-driven drama that constitutes a minor miracle of empathy.
The source of that empathy is director Rama Burshtein’s own life. She is the first ultra-Orthodox Israeli woman to direct a feature film, and the yearning for independent identity is embodied in her heroine, Shira (Hadas Yaron).
The pretty preschool teacher is 18, the age at which it is appropriate to consider offers of marriage. Shira’s mother (Irit Sheleg) sifts through the businesslike proposals, hoping to find a gem among the bearded, black-hatted men in their tightknit Tel Aviv community.
The gold standard among men is...
The source of that empathy is director Rama Burshtein’s own life. She is the first ultra-Orthodox Israeli woman to direct a feature film, and the yearning for independent identity is embodied in her heroine, Shira (Hadas Yaron).
The pretty preschool teacher is 18, the age at which it is appropriate to consider offers of marriage. Shira’s mother (Irit Sheleg) sifts through the businesslike proposals, hoping to find a gem among the bearded, black-hatted men in their tightknit Tel Aviv community.
The gold standard among men is...
- 7/17/2013
- by St. Louis Post-Dispatch
- Huffington Post
Growing up gay as a suburban teenager in the mid 90s, my access to queer culture was severely limited (ie nonexistent). Before the proliferation of the internet, one relied on the “gay” section in bookstores and video stores, if there even was one, to seek out examples of visible representation in the media throughout the years. I remember one day as a high school junior skipping class to go see The Object of My Affection at the local mall, a Jennifer Aniston rom-com in which Paul Rudd plays a gay character. I knew nothing about the movie or Paul Rudd (odds are that in 1998 if he were famous he wouldn’t have been playing gay), but the fact that there was a movie playing at the local multiplex with a gay character in it was enough to drive identification-starved me to ditch school. It was a formative experience at the time,...
- 6/11/2013
- by John Oursler
- SoundOnSight
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