The first trailer for Paul Thomas Anderson's Phantom Thread, starring the director's There Will Be Blood star Daniel Day-Lewis, has been unveiled.
The visually stunning preview focuses on Day-Lewis' dressmaker, whose life and art becomes unraveled after meeting a young woman played by actress Vicky Krieps. "Her arrival has cast a very long shadow," the dressmaker says in the trailer.
"You can sew almost anything into the canvas of a coat. When I was a boy, I started to hide things in the lining of the garments," Day-Lewis' character says in voiceover.
The visually stunning preview focuses on Day-Lewis' dressmaker, whose life and art becomes unraveled after meeting a young woman played by actress Vicky Krieps. "Her arrival has cast a very long shadow," the dressmaker says in the trailer.
"You can sew almost anything into the canvas of a coat. When I was a boy, I started to hide things in the lining of the garments," Day-Lewis' character says in voiceover.
- 10/23/2017
- Rollingstone.com
Hours and hours and hours phone talking with customer service for whatever’s gone wrong this time and the wrong gets righted — for a while. Then more and more and more. And things never stay fixed. And my soul (where/what ever that is) grows weary.
As a chap I once shared an office with — that would be our own Mike Gold — can testify, O’Neil is not a technology dude. Not big on toys, either. I just want the Whatever to do whatever task I need done and I don’t require a foot rub to accompany said task. Just, please, do the job and then, please, stop existing until I need you again.
Some of the niggly chores that have been eating my lunch are part of the process of publishing a novel in paperback. I thought I was finished working on that book, but…What! Amazon wants more information?...
As a chap I once shared an office with — that would be our own Mike Gold — can testify, O’Neil is not a technology dude. Not big on toys, either. I just want the Whatever to do whatever task I need done and I don’t require a foot rub to accompany said task. Just, please, do the job and then, please, stop existing until I need you again.
Some of the niggly chores that have been eating my lunch are part of the process of publishing a novel in paperback. I thought I was finished working on that book, but…What! Amazon wants more information?...
- 8/17/2017
- by Dennis O'Neil
- Comicmix.com
Mubi is showing the retrospective The Inner Demons of Ingmar Bergman from June 8 - August 28, 2017 in the United Kingdom.I've told this brief story of how I fell under the spell of cinema so many times I've become brazen to it. At eighteen years, in February 1993, I found Ingmar Bergman's Cries and Whispers (dubbed) at the video store. As Woody Allen spoke of the Swede in hushed tones, I decided I should try a film. Ninety minutes later I sat stunned and spellbound, not sure what to do or think, but surely sure I must be onto something. Cinematic rapture still has a psychical aspect for me, the torque the sedentary body goes through while coping with the images before it. I can always tell how good a film is if my armpits smell after. The body doesn't lie. Ingmar Bergman is an easy crush—one writer I know...
- 6/20/2017
- MUBI
Orlando Bloom "could not be more grateful" for his son, Flynn.
The 40-year-old actor took to Instagram on Monday to share a rare pic of his 6-year-old son and their dog, Mighty.
Watch: Orlando Bloom Rides Roller Coasters With Son Flynn After Katy Perry Breakup
"Mighty monday the morning mash up...these moments at 6am...
The 40-year-old actor took to Instagram on Monday to share a rare pic of his 6-year-old son and their dog, Mighty.
Watch: Orlando Bloom Rides Roller Coasters With Son Flynn After Katy Perry Breakup
"Mighty monday the morning mash up...these moments at 6am...
- 5/11/2017
- Entertainment Tonight
Flynn is a total Daddy’s boy.
In a Tuesday post on Orlando Bloom‘s Instagram account, the Unlocked actor shared a sweet snap of himself and his only child, accompanied by a meaningful message about the 6-year-old.
“Mighty monday the morning mash up…these moments at 6am...
In a Tuesday post on Orlando Bloom‘s Instagram account, the Unlocked actor shared a sweet snap of himself and his only child, accompanied by a meaningful message about the 6-year-old.
“Mighty monday the morning mash up…these moments at 6am...
- 5/10/2017
- by Jen Juneau
- PEOPLE.com
When I was a boy, my sister's electronic dog stopped working. Thinking he was being helpful, my dad removed the fuzz and fixed it. Problem was, he had trouble putting the fur back on. What my sister then saw was a deformed "Franken Pup" barking at her, which made her shriek in terror.
This kid seems relatively unfazed by the destruction of this Teddy Ruxpin doll, and that makes me super concerned. I guess part of the reason could be that Teddy Ruxpin is the number one creepiest toy of all time, so seeing one meet its end is almost a blessing.
All kidding aside, if you've ever wondered what made those '80s toys work, you've come to the right place, as YouTube channel "What's Inside?" takes a look inside your childhood and unleashes some real nightmare fuel in the process.
Thanks to Geekologie for the tip!
This kid seems relatively unfazed by the destruction of this Teddy Ruxpin doll, and that makes me super concerned. I guess part of the reason could be that Teddy Ruxpin is the number one creepiest toy of all time, so seeing one meet its end is almost a blessing.
All kidding aside, if you've ever wondered what made those '80s toys work, you've come to the right place, as YouTube channel "What's Inside?" takes a look inside your childhood and unleashes some real nightmare fuel in the process.
Thanks to Geekologie for the tip!
- 10/19/2016
- by Mick Joest
- GeekTyrant
Music makes the people come together… and so does an all-new TVLine Mixtape.
What follows is a collection of songs recently featured on your favorite shows, complete with artist and album information — and a Spotify playlist — in case you want to add them to your own playlist.
Spoilers abound, and we chose songs we liked — but we always love to hear your thoughts and suggestions.
So hit the comments with songs that have stood out to you this summer. And remember: You can always submit questions or suggestions about TV music on Twitter @sarahhearon.
RelatedTVLine Mixtape Throwback Edition: Your Favorite Songs From Grey’s,...
What follows is a collection of songs recently featured on your favorite shows, complete with artist and album information — and a Spotify playlist — in case you want to add them to your own playlist.
Spoilers abound, and we chose songs we liked — but we always love to hear your thoughts and suggestions.
So hit the comments with songs that have stood out to you this summer. And remember: You can always submit questions or suggestions about TV music on Twitter @sarahhearon.
RelatedTVLine Mixtape Throwback Edition: Your Favorite Songs From Grey’s,...
- 6/26/2016
- TVLine.com
Jeff Lynne's Elo stopped by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon Wednesday to perform a pair of tracks, including a web-exclusive rendition of Electric Light Orchestra's 1977 hit, "Mr. Blue Sky."
Lynne and company delivered a faithful, spirited rendition of the jaunty "Mr. Blue Sky," with the frontman showing off his guitar chops and still striking a delicate falsetto. Lynne's sizable band — which included a small string section — provided phenomenal support, with his back-up singers and instrumentalists conjuring an array of harmonies and his keyboardist delivering the track's delightful talk box hook.
Lynne and company delivered a faithful, spirited rendition of the jaunty "Mr. Blue Sky," with the frontman showing off his guitar chops and still striking a delicate falsetto. Lynne's sizable band — which included a small string section — provided phenomenal support, with his back-up singers and instrumentalists conjuring an array of harmonies and his keyboardist delivering the track's delightful talk box hook.
- 11/19/2015
- Rollingstone.com
Ken Jacobs. Photo by María Meseguer.This past June in A Coruña, Spain (S8) 6th Mostra de Cinema Periferico hosted a retrospective of Ken Jacobs. A legend of experimental filmmaking, this New Yorker gave a master-class about the influence of abstract paintings on his work, presented a broad selection of films in his filmography to the audience, and premiered New Paintings by Ken Jacobs (2015), a new film performance using his famous Nervous Magic Lantern, consisting of a series of abstract slides that he projects with a special device of his own creation. The program focused on Jacobs’ first films, close to a kind of Brakhage-like documentary style, the long series he made along with Jack Smith as an actor/performer, and his experiments with 3D, both in film and digital formats. After all these screenings, we had a coffee or two with him and talked about the films in the program.
- 6/30/2015
- by Víctor Paz Morandeira
- MUBI
Welcome to The Gasp Menagerie! Recently I discovered that I share with our co-founder, leader, and resident pop-culture icon Uncle Creepy a passion for all things paranormal. Ghosts, cryptozoology, the unexplained... all that creepy stuff. Hence, our beefed up coverage of that realm of the weird under the title The Gasp Menagerie.
First up, one from my own childhood: The Vaile Mansion in Independence, Missouri, just a few miles from the hospital I was born in and the house I lived in as a child.
I'll start off by saying this: The details surrounding this house are straight out of a horror film. Some of this is legend, but most of it is historical fact, and I say that because many of you aren't going to believe me. It sounds too much like viral marketing for a new film to be true, but a great deal of this is verifiable fact.
First up, one from my own childhood: The Vaile Mansion in Independence, Missouri, just a few miles from the hospital I was born in and the house I lived in as a child.
I'll start off by saying this: The details surrounding this house are straight out of a horror film. Some of this is legend, but most of it is historical fact, and I say that because many of you aren't going to believe me. It sounds too much like viral marketing for a new film to be true, but a great deal of this is verifiable fact.
- 7/1/2014
- by Mr. Dark
- DreadCentral.com
Who knew that Tom Sherak touched this many people? Here is a note that was penned by Harvey Weinstein for Deadline, describing what the former Fox exec and Academy president meant to him, his brother Bob Weinstein, and COO David Glasser and distribution chief Erik Lomis. Weinstein was moved to write in reaction to Bill Mechanic’s words. Related: Tom Sherak: Remembering A True Hollywood Star Tom Sherak: “It’s About Love” “Tommy We Hardly Knew Ye: When I was a boy I read a beautiful memoir called Johnny We Hardly Knew Ye about JFK which his long term buddy Kenneth O’Donnell wrote. This is the best way to describe my, my brother, Erik Lomis and David Glasser’s feelings about a man named Tom Sherak. The first time Bob and I met Tom was over 30 years ago – we were just two rock promoters born in New...
- 1/30/2014
- by MIKE FLEMING JR
- Deadline
Last year and again this year we are invited to attend the Sarajevo Film Festival by Asja Makarević, Project Manager for Sarajevo Talent Campus. If you are going, look for Peter Belsito there!
Sarajevo Film Festival (August 16-24, 2013), now in its 19th year, is an international film festival with special focus on the region of Southeast Europe, it provides high quality programming, a strong industry segment, an educational platform for young filmmakers, the presence of numerous representatives of film industry, film authors and media representatives from all over the world, as well as over 100,000 visitors, thus confirming the festival's status, renowned and recognized by film professionals as well as by its audience.
It serves as a catalyst for cooperation within the region, and establishes connections with partners from all over the world. It also represents a platform for development of film business in Bosnia and Herzegovina and in the region, as well as setting new standards of festival organization and film presentation. While Karlovy Vary Film Festival has the Best of the East which gives a good view of finished films from Eastern Europe and is especially kind to journalists around the world, Sarajevo simultaneously hosts Cinelink, a very pro-active co-production market and workshop and Talent Campus which is a part of the Berlinale. This general networking of the world film industry is even more interesting because of its location in the city of Sarajevo itself. After the 4 year long siege of Sarajevo, it was founded as a means to recreate civil society of the City in 1995.
American actor/activist Danny Glover will curate and present the award for this year's Katrin Cartlidge Foundation Award to a new cinematic voice whose work embodies Katrin Cartlidge’s “integrity of spirit and commitment to independent film”. Cartlidge, who died in 2002, was a British actress best known for her work with Mike Leigh and whose last role in the Bosnian filmmaker Danis Tanović’s No Man’s Land. Over the past nine years the Foundation has appointed a curator, selected from Cartlidge’s friends and colleagues, who in turn chooses a recipient for the annual award, a cash bursary, which is announced at a special red carpet gala at the Festival.
This year, all the selections of the Sff Competition Programme will present a total of 50 films. This brings the best of regional cinema and follows the Sarajevo Film Festival strategy of discovering new talents, approaches and tendencies rooted in the world cinema today.
For the final line-up of the Competition Program, programmers and the Sarajevo Film Festival team saw 750 films from the region, including 200 feature films, 150 documentaries and 400 short and animated films. This year's selection, but also the general interest in our Competition selections, encourages the Sarajevo Film Festival in its determination to continue working on strengthening regional film production, promotion and film distribution. This is even more strongly emphasized by the fact that this year, in its three Competition selections, the Festival brings 14 world premieres, 7 international and 19 regional ones.
Competition Program - Feature Films
World Premieres
Carmen, Romania, 88 min. Director: Doru Nițescu, Screenplay: Tudor Voican, Doru Nițescu
Runaway Day, Greece, Black & White, 80 min. Director and screenplay: Dimitris Bavellas
Talea, Austria, 75 min. Director: Katharina Mückstein, Screenplay: Selina Gnos, Katharina Mückstein
With Mom / Sa Mamom, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Germany, Slovenia, 80 min.
Director and screenplay: Faruk Lončarević
Wolf / Lupu, Romania, 77 min. Director and screenplay: Bogdan Mustață
Regional Premieres
In Bloom / Grzeli Nateli Dgeebi, Georgia, 102 min. Director: Nana Ekvtimishvili ♀, Simon Groß, Screenplay: Nana Ekvtimishvili ♀ . Isa: Memento
Soldate Jeannette, Austria, 79 min. Director and screenplay: Daniel Hoesl
A Stranger / Obrana I Zaštita, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 87 min. Director and screenplay: Bobo Jelčić. Berlinale Forum.
When Evening Falls On Bucharest Or Metabolism / Când Se Lasă Seara Peste Bucureşti Sau Metabolism, Romania, 93 min. Director and screenplay: Corneliu Porumboiu
Documentary Competition:
World Premieres
A Slave (Bosnia and Herzegovina) by Bosnian director Pjer Žalica, known internationally for fiction films Days and Hours and Fuse [trailer]Autofocus, director: Boris Poljak (Croatia)Crazy About You, Danilo Marunović (Montenegro)Escape, Srdjan Keča (Serbia-Bosnia and Herzegovina) who was the winner of Best Central and East European Documentary Award at Jihlava for Mirage and Best Balkan Documentary at Prizren Dokufest for A Letter to DadFinding Family, Chris Leslie, Oggi Tomic (Bosnia and Herzegovina-uk)Patient, Zdenko Jurilj (Bosnia and Herzegovina)Screens, Hanna Slak ♀(Slovenia-Bosnia and Herzegovina-Germany)
International Premieres
Here... I Mean There, Laura Capatana – Juller♀ (Romania), winner of Romanian Days Award For Feature Film at the Transylvania International Film FestivalMarried to the Swiss Franc, Arsen Oremović (Croatia)Mother Europe, Petra Seliškar♀ (Slovenia-Macedonia-Croatia) whose Grandmothers of Revolution played in Sarajevo’s documentary competition in 2006Yugoslavia, How Ideology Moved Our Collective Body, Marta Popivoda ♀(Serbia-France-Germany) which played in 2013 Berlinale Forum Expanded
Regional Premieres
The Cleaners, Konstantinos Georgousis (Greece), Idfa competition entryGangster of Love, Nebojša Slijepčević (Croatia-Germany-Romania), winner of audience award at Zagrebdox and competition entry at Karlovy VaryThe Grocer, Dimitris Koutsiabasakos (Greece), audience award winner at the Thessaloniki Documentary Film FestMy Fathers, My Mother & Me, Paul-Julien Robert (Austria), world premiere Visions du RéelMy Kith and Kin, Rodion Ismailov (Azerbaijan), world premiere Visions du RéelRegina, Diana Groó ♀ (Hungary-uk-Germany)Sickfuckpeople, Juri Rechinsky (Austria)Unplugged, Mladen Kovačević (Serbia-Finland), world premiere Visions du RéelThe Verdict, Djuro Gavran (Croatia)When I Was a Boy, I Was a Girl, Ivana Todorović ♀ (Serbia), Berlinale Shorts title
Gala Screening - Out Of Competition
Occupation, the 27th Picture, Pavo Marinković (Czech Republic-Croatia) Competition ProgramSarajevo Film Festival Competition Program screens world, international and regional premieres of feature, short, animated and documentary films from: Albania, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Croatia, Georgia, Greece, Hungary, Kosovo, Malta, Macedonia, Montenegro, Moldavia, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia and Turkey. Films selected in Competition Programmes for feature, short and documentary film compete for the prestigious Heart of Sarajevo Awards. Feature FilmHeart of Sarajevo for Best Film - 16,000 EurosSpecial Jury Prize - 10,000 Euros Heart of Sarajevo for Best Actress - 2,500 EurosHeart of Sarajevo for Best Actor - 2,500 Euros Short and Animated FilmHeart of Sarajevo for Best Film - 2,500 Euros Documentary FilmHeart of Sarajevo for Best Film - 3,000 Euros CinelinkCineLink, the backbone of the festival’s Industry Section, is a development and financing platform for carefully selected feature projects from Southeast Europe suited for European co-production. With an average conversion rate of its selected projects from development to production at 60% over the past decade, CineLink has grown into one of the most successful development and financing platforms in Europe. With its CineLink, CineLink Plus and Work in Progress sections it caters for projects in all stages of development, as well as projects in production and postproduction. CineLink also offers an awards fund of over 160,000 Euros in cash and services. CineLink is open for feature-length fiction film projects with potential for theatrical distribution, created by authors from Albania, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Croatia, Georgia, Greece, Hungary, Kosovo, Malta, Macedonia, Montenegro, Moldavia, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia and Turkey. As part of CineLink, a new project called Regional Forum was first launched in 2009, organised in cooperation with Screen International, one of the leading global magazines in film industry. Regional Forum, conceived as a platform offering a discussion framework for relevant national and regional film organisations and professionals from Southeast Europe, also encourages the harmonisation of national film policies and offers a possibility for exchange of good ideas and practices. Sarajevo Talent CampusSarajevo Talent Campus, the educational and networking platform for emerging filmmakers from Southeast Europe, was launched in 2007 in cooperation with Berlin International Film Festival and Berlinale Talent Campus. The programme offers inspiring lectures, panel discussions, and active critical debates, complemented by workshops, practical tutorials, screenings and inter-festival excursions for participants. The 7th Sarajevo Talent Campus, taking place from the 18th to the 24th of August, will be inviting scriptwriters, directors, actors, producers and film critics. Participation in Sarajevo Talent Campus is open to candidates from: Albania, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Croatia, Georgia, Greece, Hungary, Kosovo, Malta, Macedonia, Montenegro, Moldavia, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia and Turkey. 18th Sarajevo Film Festival By Numbers:
• 21 Programmes • 210 Films From 57 Countries• 10 Venues • 330 Employees and 280 Volunteers• More Than 1000 Accredited Guests • More Than 800 Accredited Media Representatives From 32 Countries • More Than 100,000 Visitors At All The Programs
Sarajevo City Of FilmAs the continuation of the activities in accordance with the goals set by the Sarajevo Talent Campus, the Sarajevo City of Film Fund was launched in 2008. The project is aimed at testing the knowledge and experience gained by the Sarajevo Talent Campus participants through the practical application in realisation of low-budget short films, as well as development of cooperation between the young creative authors whose work represents the future of the regional cinematography. Sarajevo City of Film Project has so far led to the filming of 20 short films screened worldwide and won numerous festivals awards.
Sarajevo Film Festival (August 16-24, 2013), now in its 19th year, is an international film festival with special focus on the region of Southeast Europe, it provides high quality programming, a strong industry segment, an educational platform for young filmmakers, the presence of numerous representatives of film industry, film authors and media representatives from all over the world, as well as over 100,000 visitors, thus confirming the festival's status, renowned and recognized by film professionals as well as by its audience.
It serves as a catalyst for cooperation within the region, and establishes connections with partners from all over the world. It also represents a platform for development of film business in Bosnia and Herzegovina and in the region, as well as setting new standards of festival organization and film presentation. While Karlovy Vary Film Festival has the Best of the East which gives a good view of finished films from Eastern Europe and is especially kind to journalists around the world, Sarajevo simultaneously hosts Cinelink, a very pro-active co-production market and workshop and Talent Campus which is a part of the Berlinale. This general networking of the world film industry is even more interesting because of its location in the city of Sarajevo itself. After the 4 year long siege of Sarajevo, it was founded as a means to recreate civil society of the City in 1995.
American actor/activist Danny Glover will curate and present the award for this year's Katrin Cartlidge Foundation Award to a new cinematic voice whose work embodies Katrin Cartlidge’s “integrity of spirit and commitment to independent film”. Cartlidge, who died in 2002, was a British actress best known for her work with Mike Leigh and whose last role in the Bosnian filmmaker Danis Tanović’s No Man’s Land. Over the past nine years the Foundation has appointed a curator, selected from Cartlidge’s friends and colleagues, who in turn chooses a recipient for the annual award, a cash bursary, which is announced at a special red carpet gala at the Festival.
This year, all the selections of the Sff Competition Programme will present a total of 50 films. This brings the best of regional cinema and follows the Sarajevo Film Festival strategy of discovering new talents, approaches and tendencies rooted in the world cinema today.
For the final line-up of the Competition Program, programmers and the Sarajevo Film Festival team saw 750 films from the region, including 200 feature films, 150 documentaries and 400 short and animated films. This year's selection, but also the general interest in our Competition selections, encourages the Sarajevo Film Festival in its determination to continue working on strengthening regional film production, promotion and film distribution. This is even more strongly emphasized by the fact that this year, in its three Competition selections, the Festival brings 14 world premieres, 7 international and 19 regional ones.
Competition Program - Feature Films
World Premieres
Carmen, Romania, 88 min. Director: Doru Nițescu, Screenplay: Tudor Voican, Doru Nițescu
Runaway Day, Greece, Black & White, 80 min. Director and screenplay: Dimitris Bavellas
Talea, Austria, 75 min. Director: Katharina Mückstein, Screenplay: Selina Gnos, Katharina Mückstein
With Mom / Sa Mamom, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Germany, Slovenia, 80 min.
Director and screenplay: Faruk Lončarević
Wolf / Lupu, Romania, 77 min. Director and screenplay: Bogdan Mustață
Regional Premieres
In Bloom / Grzeli Nateli Dgeebi, Georgia, 102 min. Director: Nana Ekvtimishvili ♀, Simon Groß, Screenplay: Nana Ekvtimishvili ♀ . Isa: Memento
Soldate Jeannette, Austria, 79 min. Director and screenplay: Daniel Hoesl
A Stranger / Obrana I Zaštita, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 87 min. Director and screenplay: Bobo Jelčić. Berlinale Forum.
When Evening Falls On Bucharest Or Metabolism / Când Se Lasă Seara Peste Bucureşti Sau Metabolism, Romania, 93 min. Director and screenplay: Corneliu Porumboiu
Documentary Competition:
World Premieres
A Slave (Bosnia and Herzegovina) by Bosnian director Pjer Žalica, known internationally for fiction films Days and Hours and Fuse [trailer]Autofocus, director: Boris Poljak (Croatia)Crazy About You, Danilo Marunović (Montenegro)Escape, Srdjan Keča (Serbia-Bosnia and Herzegovina) who was the winner of Best Central and East European Documentary Award at Jihlava for Mirage and Best Balkan Documentary at Prizren Dokufest for A Letter to DadFinding Family, Chris Leslie, Oggi Tomic (Bosnia and Herzegovina-uk)Patient, Zdenko Jurilj (Bosnia and Herzegovina)Screens, Hanna Slak ♀(Slovenia-Bosnia and Herzegovina-Germany)
International Premieres
Here... I Mean There, Laura Capatana – Juller♀ (Romania), winner of Romanian Days Award For Feature Film at the Transylvania International Film FestivalMarried to the Swiss Franc, Arsen Oremović (Croatia)Mother Europe, Petra Seliškar♀ (Slovenia-Macedonia-Croatia) whose Grandmothers of Revolution played in Sarajevo’s documentary competition in 2006Yugoslavia, How Ideology Moved Our Collective Body, Marta Popivoda ♀(Serbia-France-Germany) which played in 2013 Berlinale Forum Expanded
Regional Premieres
The Cleaners, Konstantinos Georgousis (Greece), Idfa competition entryGangster of Love, Nebojša Slijepčević (Croatia-Germany-Romania), winner of audience award at Zagrebdox and competition entry at Karlovy VaryThe Grocer, Dimitris Koutsiabasakos (Greece), audience award winner at the Thessaloniki Documentary Film FestMy Fathers, My Mother & Me, Paul-Julien Robert (Austria), world premiere Visions du RéelMy Kith and Kin, Rodion Ismailov (Azerbaijan), world premiere Visions du RéelRegina, Diana Groó ♀ (Hungary-uk-Germany)Sickfuckpeople, Juri Rechinsky (Austria)Unplugged, Mladen Kovačević (Serbia-Finland), world premiere Visions du RéelThe Verdict, Djuro Gavran (Croatia)When I Was a Boy, I Was a Girl, Ivana Todorović ♀ (Serbia), Berlinale Shorts title
Gala Screening - Out Of Competition
Occupation, the 27th Picture, Pavo Marinković (Czech Republic-Croatia) Competition ProgramSarajevo Film Festival Competition Program screens world, international and regional premieres of feature, short, animated and documentary films from: Albania, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Croatia, Georgia, Greece, Hungary, Kosovo, Malta, Macedonia, Montenegro, Moldavia, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia and Turkey. Films selected in Competition Programmes for feature, short and documentary film compete for the prestigious Heart of Sarajevo Awards. Feature FilmHeart of Sarajevo for Best Film - 16,000 EurosSpecial Jury Prize - 10,000 Euros Heart of Sarajevo for Best Actress - 2,500 EurosHeart of Sarajevo for Best Actor - 2,500 Euros Short and Animated FilmHeart of Sarajevo for Best Film - 2,500 Euros Documentary FilmHeart of Sarajevo for Best Film - 3,000 Euros CinelinkCineLink, the backbone of the festival’s Industry Section, is a development and financing platform for carefully selected feature projects from Southeast Europe suited for European co-production. With an average conversion rate of its selected projects from development to production at 60% over the past decade, CineLink has grown into one of the most successful development and financing platforms in Europe. With its CineLink, CineLink Plus and Work in Progress sections it caters for projects in all stages of development, as well as projects in production and postproduction. CineLink also offers an awards fund of over 160,000 Euros in cash and services. CineLink is open for feature-length fiction film projects with potential for theatrical distribution, created by authors from Albania, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Croatia, Georgia, Greece, Hungary, Kosovo, Malta, Macedonia, Montenegro, Moldavia, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia and Turkey. As part of CineLink, a new project called Regional Forum was first launched in 2009, organised in cooperation with Screen International, one of the leading global magazines in film industry. Regional Forum, conceived as a platform offering a discussion framework for relevant national and regional film organisations and professionals from Southeast Europe, also encourages the harmonisation of national film policies and offers a possibility for exchange of good ideas and practices. Sarajevo Talent CampusSarajevo Talent Campus, the educational and networking platform for emerging filmmakers from Southeast Europe, was launched in 2007 in cooperation with Berlin International Film Festival and Berlinale Talent Campus. The programme offers inspiring lectures, panel discussions, and active critical debates, complemented by workshops, practical tutorials, screenings and inter-festival excursions for participants. The 7th Sarajevo Talent Campus, taking place from the 18th to the 24th of August, will be inviting scriptwriters, directors, actors, producers and film critics. Participation in Sarajevo Talent Campus is open to candidates from: Albania, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Croatia, Georgia, Greece, Hungary, Kosovo, Malta, Macedonia, Montenegro, Moldavia, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia and Turkey. 18th Sarajevo Film Festival By Numbers:
• 21 Programmes • 210 Films From 57 Countries• 10 Venues • 330 Employees and 280 Volunteers• More Than 1000 Accredited Guests • More Than 800 Accredited Media Representatives From 32 Countries • More Than 100,000 Visitors At All The Programs
Sarajevo City Of FilmAs the continuation of the activities in accordance with the goals set by the Sarajevo Talent Campus, the Sarajevo City of Film Fund was launched in 2008. The project is aimed at testing the knowledge and experience gained by the Sarajevo Talent Campus participants through the practical application in realisation of low-budget short films, as well as development of cooperation between the young creative authors whose work represents the future of the regional cinematography. Sarajevo City of Film Project has so far led to the filming of 20 short films screened worldwide and won numerous festivals awards.
- 7/20/2013
- by Sydney Levine, Peter Belsito
- Sydney's Buzz
Feature film competition five world premieres and four regional premieres, including multi award-winner In Bloom.
The Sarajevo Film Festival (Sff), running August 16-24, has announced the Feature, Short and Documentary Competition titles comprising 50 films.
Selectors and the Sff team viewed 750 films from the region, including 200 feature films, 150 documentaries and 400 short and animated films.
Across the three Competition sections are 15 world, seven international and 18 regional premieres.
The main competition will feature five world premieres including Carmen, the first feature by Romanian director Doru Nitescu.
It is a family drama co-written by Tudor Voican, known for Periferic and Medal of Honour. The Filmex Romania production stars Doru Ana from Principles of Life, Adrian Titieni from Child’s Pose and Maia Morgenstern.
Greek director Dimitris Bavellas’ debut feature Runaway Day is a black-and-white film exploring how young Greeks feel lost in modern day Athens, a city under financial occupation. It starts Maria Skoula from Wasted Youth.
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The Sarajevo Film Festival (Sff), running August 16-24, has announced the Feature, Short and Documentary Competition titles comprising 50 films.
Selectors and the Sff team viewed 750 films from the region, including 200 feature films, 150 documentaries and 400 short and animated films.
Across the three Competition sections are 15 world, seven international and 18 regional premieres.
The main competition will feature five world premieres including Carmen, the first feature by Romanian director Doru Nitescu.
It is a family drama co-written by Tudor Voican, known for Periferic and Medal of Honour. The Filmex Romania production stars Doru Ana from Principles of Life, Adrian Titieni from Child’s Pose and Maia Morgenstern.
Greek director Dimitris Bavellas’ debut feature Runaway Day is a black-and-white film exploring how young Greeks feel lost in modern day Athens, a city under financial occupation. It starts Maria Skoula from Wasted Youth.
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- 7/18/2013
- by vladan.petkovic@gmail.com (Vladan Petkovic)
- ScreenDaily
Sarajevo Film Festival’s documentary competition will include seven world premieres. Non-competitive sidebar Kinoscope will feature 17 films.Scroll down for full lists
The documentary competition at the the 19th Sarajevo Film Festival is to include 20 shorts and features, with seven world premieres and four international debuts.
World premieres include Escape by Serbian director Srdjan Keča, whose previous film Mirage won the Best Central and East European Documentary Award at the Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival and Best Short Documentary award at London Short Film Festival; and A Slave by Bosnia’s Pjer Žalica, best known for fiction films Fuse and Days And Hours.
International premieres include Marta Popivoda’s Yugoslavia, How Ideology Moved Our Collective Body, which screened in Berlinale’s Forum Expanded section; and Here… I Mean There by Laura Capatana-Juller, winner of the Romanian Days Award For Feature Film at the Transylvania International Film Festival.
Among regional premieres, there are three...
The documentary competition at the the 19th Sarajevo Film Festival is to include 20 shorts and features, with seven world premieres and four international debuts.
World premieres include Escape by Serbian director Srdjan Keča, whose previous film Mirage won the Best Central and East European Documentary Award at the Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival and Best Short Documentary award at London Short Film Festival; and A Slave by Bosnia’s Pjer Žalica, best known for fiction films Fuse and Days And Hours.
International premieres include Marta Popivoda’s Yugoslavia, How Ideology Moved Our Collective Body, which screened in Berlinale’s Forum Expanded section; and Here… I Mean There by Laura Capatana-Juller, winner of the Romanian Days Award For Feature Film at the Transylvania International Film Festival.
Among regional premieres, there are three...
- 7/17/2013
- ScreenDaily
A few weeks ago HeyUGuys along with a few other international journalists were invited to the 20th Century Fox lot to sit down with Director James Mangold and screen 18 minutes of footage from the forthcoming release “The Wolverine”. There are mild spoilers below.
Showcasing mainly the first act of the film, the footage establishes Mangold’s unique take on the Wolverine character by removing the titular character from the larger world of mutants and focusing instead on the internal pathos of a man who can never die. Wolverine’s mutant power is shown not so much a gift but rather a curse, resembling most similarly to the depiction of Logan seen in Bryan Singer’s first X-Men film. The question of Logan’s near immortality and his pain plays heavily into the majority of the film’s plot and tone.
While the trailers highlight the action beats of the film,...
Showcasing mainly the first act of the film, the footage establishes Mangold’s unique take on the Wolverine character by removing the titular character from the larger world of mutants and focusing instead on the internal pathos of a man who can never die. Wolverine’s mutant power is shown not so much a gift but rather a curse, resembling most similarly to the depiction of Logan seen in Bryan Singer’s first X-Men film. The question of Logan’s near immortality and his pain plays heavily into the majority of the film’s plot and tone.
While the trailers highlight the action beats of the film,...
- 7/5/2013
- by Brenden Toda
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
As the BFI celebrates his 50 years' work, the man behind Cathy Come Home reveals the tragedy that changed his world
Television has treated Tony Garnett well over the past 50 years. He lives in an apartment close to the Ritz Hotel, where Margaret Thatcher died, a far cry from his working class childhood roots in Erdington, Birmingham. His local cafe is Fortnum & Mason, where he wields a silver teapot with aplomb, but he still declares: "I am a revolutionary socialist. I think our society would benefit from fundamental change."
Charming, kindly, but still angry after all these years, Garnett, 77, was a leader of the generation of radical TV creatives who addressed big social and political issues in their influential BBC dramas of the 1960s and 70s. His work is about to be celebrated in a two-month season, Seeing Red, at London's BFI.
The season opens with his explosive dramas for the BBC's Wednesday Play,...
Television has treated Tony Garnett well over the past 50 years. He lives in an apartment close to the Ritz Hotel, where Margaret Thatcher died, a far cry from his working class childhood roots in Erdington, Birmingham. His local cafe is Fortnum & Mason, where he wields a silver teapot with aplomb, but he still declares: "I am a revolutionary socialist. I think our society would benefit from fundamental change."
Charming, kindly, but still angry after all these years, Garnett, 77, was a leader of the generation of radical TV creatives who addressed big social and political issues in their influential BBC dramas of the 1960s and 70s. His work is about to be celebrated in a two-month season, Seeing Red, at London's BFI.
The season opens with his explosive dramas for the BBC's Wednesday Play,...
- 4/28/2013
- by Maggie Brown
- The Guardian - Film News
Boston Marathon bombings: Mr. Rogers, Yankee-Red Sox love and more to help restore faith in humanity
As horrifying as the Boston Marathon explosions were, humanity still remained in the chaos and bloodshed. We learned about injuries and death and damage, but we also saw police, medical personal and ordinary people running straight into possible danger in order to help others.
While we can't and shouldn't forget the horrors of the Boston Marathon bombing, here are a few things to remind us all that good always has a chance to shine, even in the worst of the darkness.
Mister Rogers
The comforting, caring Fred Rogers wasn't just a TV personality. He was also a wise man who always knew how to comfort everyone around him. He isn't with us anymore, but his words still count:
"When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, 'Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.
While we can't and shouldn't forget the horrors of the Boston Marathon bombing, here are a few things to remind us all that good always has a chance to shine, even in the worst of the darkness.
Mister Rogers
The comforting, caring Fred Rogers wasn't just a TV personality. He was also a wise man who always knew how to comfort everyone around him. He isn't with us anymore, but his words still count:
"When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, 'Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.
- 4/16/2013
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
In the wake of today's explosions at the Boston marathon, many parents are again struggling with how to explain tragic events to children. Sadly, we've grappled with this same question all too recently. After December's shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, we shared the following quote from The Mister Rogers Parenting Book which had gone viral and was particularly comforting.
“When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, 'Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping."
Given Monday's events in Boston, we wanted to highlight his words as well as the below video -- which includes Mister Rogers's practical advice for parents dealing scary events in the news -- again.
For moms and dads looking for more guidance from experts, the Fred Rogers Company website includes a list of useful tips, including:
Do your...
“When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, 'Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping."
Given Monday's events in Boston, we wanted to highlight his words as well as the below video -- which includes Mister Rogers's practical advice for parents dealing scary events in the news -- again.
For moms and dads looking for more guidance from experts, the Fred Rogers Company website includes a list of useful tips, including:
Do your...
- 4/16/2013
- by Farah L. Miller
- Huffington Post
Recently Sydney was at a gathering here in L.A. and she ran into our dear friends from 'the biz' Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland. They were excited about to begin directing a new film they had written about the last days of cinema great Errol Flynn in Cuba detailing, among other things, the making of his final film Cuban Rebel Girls.
Sydney looks at them and says, "Peter's in that film!"
Yes I was in Errol Flynn's final film Cuban Rebel Girls and as a result of that fortuitous conversation, I also —ahem -- "appear" in the new film with Kevin Kline, Dakota Fanning and Susan Sarandon. The producer is the amazing person and great filmmaker Christine Vachon of New York's Killer Films.
The story then is like this ....
When I was a boy -- a young teen from Whitestone Bayside Flushing Queens New York City -- and my schoolteacher Mom would be off from school, my dad, an attorney, would take us on travel holidays for Easter vacation.
One year he goes to the Flushing travel agent and says, "What do you have for Puerto Rico?" The travel agent looks down and says, "Puerto Rico's full up ... but Cuba's wide open!" So my Dad books it.
April 1959: My Mom, Dad, Sister Brenda (19 years old and looking good), Uncle Frank and Auntie Lala (Mom's kid sister) and I land in Havana.
Four months after the Revolution. Much Much to say about what was going on and what happened and what we saw and experienced for that's another story.
We stayed at the El Comodoro Hotel on the beach west of Havana central (still there and not changed so much now).
What's relevant here is that soon after we arrive a film crew pulls into the hotel. It's the actor Errol Flynn coming to make, as he told us, "...my version of how I saved the Revolution for Che and Fidel in the Sierra Maestre." At this time the U.S. had not yet turned against the Castro brothers (that would come in mid 1960 after the Russian connection and Fidel's love of Marxism became evident) and during their revolutionary struggle in the mountains U.S. celebrities visited them (i.e., much as such types do now in places like Haiti).
My sister and I were recruited to do a walk-on as Cuban kid autograph seekers when Flynn drives up to the Hotel. (Fyi - I got the DVD of that film, Cuban Rebel Girls from Amazon and checked and Yes! our scene is still in it the first 10 minutes.)
So cut to Atlanta last week where I stopped for a day returning home from the Berlinale Festival and Efm Market.
Now I can announce that I am (briefly) in this new film about the last days of Flynn entitled The Last of Robin Hood, written and directed by Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland. When they heard I was in the original film with Flynn they thought it would be cool to put me in the new one as I would be the only (alive) person in both films!!
In "my scene" in the new film I play the director of Flynn's last movie (with Kevin Kline as Flynn hovering over my shoulder) and I am watching / directing a scene between Dakota and a "Cuban" girl. Dakota plays the tabloid notorious (and then famous) 17 year old blond hottie, and Flynn's supposed girlfriend, Beverly Aadland. She was at our hotel with her mother as I recall, and the photo here, which I took then, shows her and Flynn poolside.
I can say that Kevin and Dakota were very good in "my scene" and I have one line, or one word actually, 'Cut!' As it is a key scene (Dakota / Beverly flirts with a teen boy and Kevin / Flynn gets upset) and the two stars are in it (and both very good!) I have a feeling the scene will end up in the film.
As I was working, taking photos was hard and Kevin didn't want any, but the one included here of the Cuban Rebel Girls running at the camera says it all.
I think the film will be good; from what I saw it also looked really interesting. Can't wait until it shows.
Postscript note - About a year and a half later the Flynn film Cuban Rebel Girls came out (he had died in December of 1959 a few months after our encounter) I took a group of my high school buddies to see it in, of all places, Times Square (which was very different then, quite seedy and low class). I was shocked and we all agreed it was one of the worst films we'd ever seen. But Flynn himself is a great story, and my gut says from all I saw that the new film will be Terrific!! I hope so.
Sydney looks at them and says, "Peter's in that film!"
Yes I was in Errol Flynn's final film Cuban Rebel Girls and as a result of that fortuitous conversation, I also —ahem -- "appear" in the new film with Kevin Kline, Dakota Fanning and Susan Sarandon. The producer is the amazing person and great filmmaker Christine Vachon of New York's Killer Films.
The story then is like this ....
When I was a boy -- a young teen from Whitestone Bayside Flushing Queens New York City -- and my schoolteacher Mom would be off from school, my dad, an attorney, would take us on travel holidays for Easter vacation.
One year he goes to the Flushing travel agent and says, "What do you have for Puerto Rico?" The travel agent looks down and says, "Puerto Rico's full up ... but Cuba's wide open!" So my Dad books it.
April 1959: My Mom, Dad, Sister Brenda (19 years old and looking good), Uncle Frank and Auntie Lala (Mom's kid sister) and I land in Havana.
Four months after the Revolution. Much Much to say about what was going on and what happened and what we saw and experienced for that's another story.
We stayed at the El Comodoro Hotel on the beach west of Havana central (still there and not changed so much now).
What's relevant here is that soon after we arrive a film crew pulls into the hotel. It's the actor Errol Flynn coming to make, as he told us, "...my version of how I saved the Revolution for Che and Fidel in the Sierra Maestre." At this time the U.S. had not yet turned against the Castro brothers (that would come in mid 1960 after the Russian connection and Fidel's love of Marxism became evident) and during their revolutionary struggle in the mountains U.S. celebrities visited them (i.e., much as such types do now in places like Haiti).
My sister and I were recruited to do a walk-on as Cuban kid autograph seekers when Flynn drives up to the Hotel. (Fyi - I got the DVD of that film, Cuban Rebel Girls from Amazon and checked and Yes! our scene is still in it the first 10 minutes.)
So cut to Atlanta last week where I stopped for a day returning home from the Berlinale Festival and Efm Market.
Now I can announce that I am (briefly) in this new film about the last days of Flynn entitled The Last of Robin Hood, written and directed by Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland. When they heard I was in the original film with Flynn they thought it would be cool to put me in the new one as I would be the only (alive) person in both films!!
In "my scene" in the new film I play the director of Flynn's last movie (with Kevin Kline as Flynn hovering over my shoulder) and I am watching / directing a scene between Dakota and a "Cuban" girl. Dakota plays the tabloid notorious (and then famous) 17 year old blond hottie, and Flynn's supposed girlfriend, Beverly Aadland. She was at our hotel with her mother as I recall, and the photo here, which I took then, shows her and Flynn poolside.
I can say that Kevin and Dakota were very good in "my scene" and I have one line, or one word actually, 'Cut!' As it is a key scene (Dakota / Beverly flirts with a teen boy and Kevin / Flynn gets upset) and the two stars are in it (and both very good!) I have a feeling the scene will end up in the film.
As I was working, taking photos was hard and Kevin didn't want any, but the one included here of the Cuban Rebel Girls running at the camera says it all.
I think the film will be good; from what I saw it also looked really interesting. Can't wait until it shows.
Postscript note - About a year and a half later the Flynn film Cuban Rebel Girls came out (he had died in December of 1959 a few months after our encounter) I took a group of my high school buddies to see it in, of all places, Times Square (which was very different then, quite seedy and low class). I was shocked and we all agreed it was one of the worst films we'd ever seen. But Flynn himself is a great story, and my gut says from all I saw that the new film will be Terrific!! I hope so.
- 3/1/2013
- by Peter Belsito
- Sydney's Buzz
When I was a boy in New York City I remember being enthralled by a book published then by a young Norwegian 'Explorer' called Thor Heyerdahl about his travels into the vast Pacific. The book told of an impossible dream of Heyerdahl to drift by raft from off Peru, not really navigating but being carried by natural currents into the depths of the Pacific vastness to 'discover', as did thousands of years before by the ancient Tiki people of Peru, islands in the Pacific where they settled and populated. Heyerdahl was derided and discouraged in his plans to 're-enact' the ancient voyages and prove his crazy theory. Of course he was right and he did completely prove his outlandish theories to be correct. But what a trip!! And that is the tale this wonderful new film tells.... Of a group of 'mad' (or eccentric) young Norwegian men who want to sail into fate and make their mark on the world. And they are led by the biggest madman of all - Heyerdahl - who is proven to be a visionary hero. It was interesting to me to see this hero of my childhood seen in another - and darker - light. He was a genius and more than a little insane. What a revelation to me after all these years!!! I spoke to the Directors of 'Kon Tiki' Joachim Roenning and Espen Sandberg in La recently where we met after being initially introduced at the Palm Springs International Film Festival. They are Oslo residents and lifelong friends who started making films when they were 10 years old. They began in the '80's to make music videos. From the beginning they were influenced by Us films which they always liked. In the early 90's when out of film school they made TV commercials. They now own Motion Blur which is the biggest Norwegian production house for commercials. In 2008 they made their first Directed feature, 'Max Manus' which was a WW2 feature. It had a Us$10 million budget and sold 5 million theater tickets and 1.2 million bought non theatrical access for a gross of Us$20 million. Big success. Kon Tiki has had the 2nd biggest Norwegian theatrical run at $14.2 million box office receipts. Internationally The Weinstein Company has bought North America and the UK all rights. Hanway the excellent UK International Sales Company is handling 50 territories for sales. Today the Directors are stretching their legs a bit and touring the states with their families. They are considering work in the Us and consider themselves 'entrepreneurs'. They are currently taking meetings and reviewing new projects. I wish them well, they are very talented and told this tough story with great flair and honesty. The following text I have edited down from Wikipedia but nerds like me who want more can look him Heyerdahl up there. This below is Not about the film but reflects the background story a bit, history and fuss that Heyerdahl evoked, a really remarkable man. from Wikipedia - Thor Heyerdahl (October 6, 1914, Larvik, Norway – April 18, 2002, Colla Micheri, Italy) was a Norwegian ethnographer and adventurer with a background in zoology and geography. He became notable for his Kon-Tiki expedition, in which he sailed 8,000 km (5,000 mi) across the Pacific Ocean in a self-built raft from South America to the Tuamotu Islands in 1947. The expedition was designed to demonstrate that ancient people could have made long sea voyages, creating contacts between apparently separate cultures. This was linked to a diffusionist model of cultural development. Heyerdahl was born in Larvik, the son of master brewer Thor Heyerdahl and his wife Alison Lyng. As a young child, Heyerdahl showed a strong interest in zoology. He created a small museum in his childhood home, with a Vipera berus as the main attraction. He studied zoology and geography at the University of Oslo. At the same time, he privately studied Polynesian culture and history, consulting what was then the world's largest private collection of books and papers on Polynesia, owned by Bjarne Kropelien, a wealthy wine merchant in Oslo. This collection was later purchased by the University of Oslo Library from Kropelien's heirs and was attached to the Kon-Tiki Museum research department. After seven terms and consultations with experts in Berlin, a project was developed and sponsored by Heyerdahl's zoology professors, Kristine Bonnevie and Hjalmar Broch. He was to visit some isolated Pacific island groups and study how the local animals had found their way there. In the Kon-Tiki expedition, Heyerdahl and five fellow adventurers went to Peru, they constructed a pae-pae raft from balsa wood and other native materials, a raft that they called the Kon-Tiki. The Kon-Tiki expedition was inspired by old reports and drawings made by the Spanish Conquistadors of Inca rafts, and by native legends and archaeological evidence suggesting contact between South America and Polynesia. After a 101-day, 4,300 nautical mile (4,948 miles or 7,964 km)[6] journey across the Pacific Ocean, Kon-Tiki smashed into the reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands on August 7, 1947. Heyerdahl, who had nearly drowned at least twice in childhood, did not take easily to water, and said later that there were times in each of his raft voyages when he feared for his life. Kon-Tiki demonstrated that it was possible for a primitive raft to sail the Pacific with relative ease and safety, especially to the west (with the wind). The raft proved to be highly maneuverable, and fish congregated between the nine balsa logs in such numbers that ancient sailors could have possibly relied on fish for hydration in the absence of other sources of fresh water. Inspired by Kon-Tiki, other rafts have repeated the voyage. Heyerdahl's book about the expedition, The Kon-Tiki Expedition: By Raft Across the South Seas, has been translated into over 67 languages. The documentary film of the expedition, itself entitled Kon-Tiki, won an Academy Award in 1951. Anthropologists continue to believe, based on linguistic, physical, and genetic evidence, that Polynesia was settled from west to east, migration having begun from the Asian mainland. There are controversial indications, though, of some sort of South American/Polynesian contact, most notably in the fact that the South American sweet potato is served as a dietary staple throughout much of Polynesia. Blood samples taken in 1971 and 2008 from Easter Islanders without any European or other external descent were analysed in a 2011 study, which concluded that the evidence supported some aspects of Heyerdahl's hypothesis. Heyerdahl attempted to counter the linguistic argument with the analogy that, guessing the origin of African-Americans, he would prefer to believe that they came from Africa, judging from their skin colour, and not from England, judging from their speech. Heyerdahl claimed that in Incan legend there was a sun-god named Con-Tici Viracocha who was the supreme head of the mythical fair-skinned people in Peru. The original name for Viracocha was Kon-Tiki or Illa-Tiki, which means Sun-Tiki or Fire-Tiki. Kon-Tiki was high priest and sun-king of these legendary "white men" who left enormous ruins on the shores of Lake Titicaca. The legend continues with the mysterious bearded white men being attacked by a chief named Cari who came from the Coquimbo Valley. They had a battle on an island in Lake Titicaca, and the fair race was massacred. However, Kon-Tiki and his closest companions managed to escape and later arrived on the Pacific coast. The legend ends with Kon-Tiki and his companions disappearing westward out to sea. When the Spaniards came to Peru, Heyerdahl asserted, the Incas told them that the colossal monuments that stood deserted about the landscape were erected by a race of white gods who had lived there before the Incas themselves became rulers. The Incas described these "white gods" as wise, peaceful instructors who had originally come from the north in the "morning of time" and taught the Incas' primitive forefathers architecture as well as manners and customs. They were unlike other Native Americans in that they had "white skins and long beards" and were taller than the Incas. The Incas said that the "white gods" had then left as suddenly as they had come and fled westward across the Pacific. After they had left, the Incas themselves took over power in the country. Heyerdahl said that when the Europeans first came to the Pacific islands, they were astonished that they found some of the natives to have relatively light skins and beards. There were whole families that had pale skin, hair varying in color from reddish to blonde. In contrast, most of the Polynesians had golden-brown skin, raven-black hair, and rather flat noses. Heyerdahl claimed that when Jakob Roggeveen first discovered Easter Island in 1722, he supposedly noticed that many of the natives were white-skinned. Heyerdahl claimed that these people could count their ancestors who were "white-skinned" right back to the time of Tiki and Hotu Matua, when they first came sailing across the sea "from a mountainous land in the east which was scorched by the sun." The ethnographic evidence for these claims is outlined in Heyerdahl's book Aku Aku: The Secret of Easter Island. Heyerdahl proposed that Tiki's neolithic people colonized the then-uninhabited Polynesian islands as far north as Hawaii, as far south as New Zealand, as far east as Easter Island, and as far west as Samoa and Tonga around 500 Ad. They supposedly sailed from Peru to the Polynesian islands on pae-paes—large rafts built from balsa logs, complete with sails and each with a small cottage. They built enormous stone statues carved in the image of human beings on Pitcairn, the Marquesas, and Easter Island that resembled those in Peru. They also built huge pyramids on Tahiti and Samoa with steps like those in Peru. But all over Polynesia, Heyerdahl found indications that Tiki's peaceable race had not been able to hold the islands alone for long. He found evidence that suggested that seagoing war canoes as large as Viking ships and lashed together two and two had brought Stone Age Northwest American Indians to Polynesia around 1100 Ad, and they mingled with Tiki's people. The oral history of the people of Easter Island, at least as it was documented by Heyerdahl, is completely consistent with this theory, as is the archaeological record he examined (Heyerdahl 1958). In particular, Heyerdahl obtained a radiocarbon date of 400 Ad for a charcoal fire located in the pit that was held by the people of Easter Island to have been used as an "oven" by the "Long Ears," which Heyerdahl's Rapa Nui sources, reciting oral tradition, identified as a white race which had ruled the island in the past (Heyerdahl 1958). Heyerdahl further argued in his book American Indians in the Pacific that the current inhabitants of Polynesia migrated from an Asian source, but via an alternate route. He proposes that Polynesians traveled with the wind along the North Pacific current. These migrants then arrived in British Columbia. Heyerdahl called contemporary tribes of British Columbia, such as the Tlingit and Haida, descendants of these migrants. Heyerdahl claimed that cultural and physical similarities existed between these British Columbian tribes, Polynesians, and the Old World source. Heyerdahl's claims aside, however, there is no evidence that the Tlingit, Haida or other British Columbian tribes have an affinity with Polynesians. Heyerdahl's theory of Polynesian origins never gained acceptance among anthropologists. Physical and cultural evidence had long suggested that Polynesia was settled from west to east, migration having begun from the Asian mainland, not South America. In the late 1990s, genetic testing found that the mitochondrial DNA of the Polynesians is more similar to people from southeast Asia than to people from South America, showing that their ancestors most likely came from Asia.[12] Easter Islanders are of Polynesian descent. Anthropologist Robert Carl Suggs included a chapter titled "The Kon-Tiki Myth" in his book on Polynesia, concluding that "The Kon-Tiki theory is about as plausible as the tales of Atlantis, Mu, and 'Children of the Sun.' Like most such theories it makes exciting light reading, but as an example of scientific method it fares quite poorly." Anthropologist and National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Wade Davis also criticised Heyerdahl's theory in his book The Wayfinders, which explores the history of Polynesia. Davis says that Heyerdahl "ignored the overwhelming body of linguistic, ethnographic, and ethnobotanical evidence, augmented today by genetic and archaeological data, indicating that he was patently wrong."...
- 1/16/2013
- by Peter Belsito
- Sydney's Buzz
Year after year, The Kennedy Center Honors remains the most entertaining awards show on the air — a reverent ceremony with unmatched warmth and appreciation radiating between the stage, the audience, and the box of eclectic honorees, which this year includes David Letterman, Dustin Hoffman, blues great Buddy Guy, prima ballerina Natalia Makarova, and Led Zeppelin. We spoke to producers George Stevens, Jr., who co-created the Honors 35 years ago, and Michael Stevens, who’s won four consecutive Emmys with his father for the variety special, to find out how they do it. The 35th Annual Kennedy Center Honors, taped earlier this month,...
- 12/21/2012
- by Mandi Bierly
- EW - Inside TV
James Westby is an independent filmmaker in Portland, Oregon. His feature films include Film Geek (2006), The Auteur (2008) and Rid of Me (2011). As a filmmaker, I am increasingly excited for the vast audience the web and on demand services can bring to an independent movie - mine or anyone else's - with a reach far larger than was ever thought possible. But at the same time, I lament the dying of the independent video store, a place where I spent my youth - and much of my adulthood. When I was a boy in Grays Harbor County, Washington, the video store was my version of a repertory movie house. Aside from a lot of (mostly) amazing horror (Romero's Martin and Raimi's Evil Dead were my sister's and my favorites), this is the institution that gave me This is Spinal Tap (my family's first-ever rental title), the masterful Repo Man, and my...
- 9/20/2012
- TribecaFilm.com
Simon Callow, Mark Elder and Gerard McBurney share a love for the music of Ivor Novello, which will be celebrated in a Prom, Glamorous Night
One day over lunch some 15 or more years ago, the trailblazing conductor of the Hallé Orchestra, Mark Elder, the Shostakovich scholar and avant-garde composer Gerard McBurney and I discovered our shared passion for the music of Ivor Novello. The slow-burning result of that encounter is the late-night Prom on 9 August celebrating the work and remarkable life of our hero. All those years ago we pledged that we Must Do Something About Ivor, but exactly what was unclear. Novello was the most successful British musical theatre composer of the 20th century before the meteoric rise of Andrew Lloyd Webber, and one of the great figures of his time. But it would have been hard at that moment in the 1990s to have chosen a less fashionable...
One day over lunch some 15 or more years ago, the trailblazing conductor of the Hallé Orchestra, Mark Elder, the Shostakovich scholar and avant-garde composer Gerard McBurney and I discovered our shared passion for the music of Ivor Novello. The slow-burning result of that encounter is the late-night Prom on 9 August celebrating the work and remarkable life of our hero. All those years ago we pledged that we Must Do Something About Ivor, but exactly what was unclear. Novello was the most successful British musical theatre composer of the 20th century before the meteoric rise of Andrew Lloyd Webber, and one of the great figures of his time. But it would have been hard at that moment in the 1990s to have chosen a less fashionable...
- 8/3/2012
- by Simon Callow
- The Guardian - Film News
[Premiere Screening: Monday, January 23, 8:30 pm –Prospector Square Theatre, Park City]
I’m a third generation of filmmakers. When I was a boy I used to visit the sets of my father and grandfather. I worked as an extra, in production, in location scouting, in direction. I cannot say exactly why I do it. I only know that I enjoy it and I don’t see myself doing anything else.
I believe that cinema, being a combination of most of the other arts, if it is well executed, it is without a doubt the art that goes deeper and mobilizes more different feelings. It is also the most difficult to do because having so many people involved makes it easy to fail in different areas: the script, acting, music, editing, direction. If you are not aware of everything that is going on around you, there could be unexpected results that seem out of mood or that tell something that has nothing...
I’m a third generation of filmmakers. When I was a boy I used to visit the sets of my father and grandfather. I worked as an extra, in production, in location scouting, in direction. I cannot say exactly why I do it. I only know that I enjoy it and I don’t see myself doing anything else.
I believe that cinema, being a combination of most of the other arts, if it is well executed, it is without a doubt the art that goes deeper and mobilizes more different feelings. It is also the most difficult to do because having so many people involved makes it easy to fail in different areas: the script, acting, music, editing, direction. If you are not aware of everything that is going on around you, there could be unexpected results that seem out of mood or that tell something that has nothing...
- 1/19/2012
- by Filmmaker Staff
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
On October 30, 1975, three days before he was murdered, Pier Paolo Pasolini was in Stockholm to present what was to be his last film, Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom, to Swedish critics. A roundtable discussion was recorded with the intent of turning it into a radio broadcast but news of the filmmaker's death oddly resulted in the withholding of the recording rather than, as would surely happen today, an immediate publication. Eventually, the recording was lost, but as Eric Loret and Robert Maggiori tell the story in Libération, Pasolini's Swedish translator, Carl Henrik Svenstedt, a passionate archivist, recently discovered his own private copy. In December, the Italian newsweekly L'espresso posted the audio recording and published an Italian transcript. Here, for the first time, is an English translation. After a couple of informal questions, the roundtable officially opens with "Ladies and gentlemen…"
What do you know about Swedish cinema?
I know Bergman,...
What do you know about Swedish cinema?
I know Bergman,...
- 1/17/2012
- MUBI
Guy Garvey, Isaac Julien, Martha Wainwright and other artists give their top tips for unleashing your inner genius
Guy Garvey, musician
• For fear of making us sound like the Waltons, my band [Elbow] are a huge source of inspiration for me. They're my peers, my family; when they come up with something impressive, it inspires me to come up with something equally impressive.
• Spending time in your own head is important. When I was a boy, I had to go to church every Sunday; the priest had an incomprehensible Irish accent, so I'd tune out for the whole hour, just spending time in my own thoughts. I still do that now; I'm often scribbling down fragments that later act like trigger-points for lyrics.
• A blank canvas can be very intimidating, so set yourself limitations. Mine are often set for me by the music the band has come up with. With The Birds,...
Guy Garvey, musician
• For fear of making us sound like the Waltons, my band [Elbow] are a huge source of inspiration for me. They're my peers, my family; when they come up with something impressive, it inspires me to come up with something equally impressive.
• Spending time in your own head is important. When I was a boy, I had to go to church every Sunday; the priest had an incomprehensible Irish accent, so I'd tune out for the whole hour, just spending time in my own thoughts. I still do that now; I'm often scribbling down fragments that later act like trigger-points for lyrics.
• A blank canvas can be very intimidating, so set yourself limitations. Mine are often set for me by the music the band has come up with. With The Birds,...
- 1/3/2012
- by Anthony Neilson, Ian Rickson, Martin Parr, Laura Barnett
- The Guardian - Film News
Words are just mere splashes of ink or sound waves. It's the meaning we ascribe to them that is crucial
Is it true that short words wreck our brains? So says Ralph Fiennes. Can we say that if we spend our lives not using long words, we will end up not being as clever as Fiennes?
First off: no one knows, no one can know. It might be fun or it might be a tease to make a guess like this, but in truth, no one knows what words do, because words don't "do" or "act". It's our minds and bodies that "do" things and words and texts are a part of the doing, woven into the doing. This may be seamless, but that's no excuse to say that words act. Purely on their own, words are inert splashes of ink, sound waves, blips on a screen and the like.
Is it true that short words wreck our brains? So says Ralph Fiennes. Can we say that if we spend our lives not using long words, we will end up not being as clever as Fiennes?
First off: no one knows, no one can know. It might be fun or it might be a tease to make a guess like this, but in truth, no one knows what words do, because words don't "do" or "act". It's our minds and bodies that "do" things and words and texts are a part of the doing, woven into the doing. This may be seamless, but that's no excuse to say that words act. Purely on their own, words are inert splashes of ink, sound waves, blips on a screen and the like.
- 10/31/2011
- by Michael Rosen
- The Guardian - Film News
Justin Timberlake hosted the season finale of "Saturday Night Live" last Saturday, May 21. It happens that one of his skits didn't make the air, but has found its way out online. In it, the singer-turned-actor goes back to the 1700's and takes on the role of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to poke fun at his own career.
As Mozart, the 30-year-old finds himself being laughed at as he announces his decision to take a break from creating symphonies to become an actor. He goes on to say that he's about to appear in a new "com-rom" play about a man and a woman who are friends and decide to "romantic benefits" as referring to his real-life movie "Friends with Benefits".
It prompts a lady to compare it to "No Strings Attached", which leads Mozart to reply, "No, no, no, not like that one; this one is different, because I'm in it.
As Mozart, the 30-year-old finds himself being laughed at as he announces his decision to take a break from creating symphonies to become an actor. He goes on to say that he's about to appear in a new "com-rom" play about a man and a woman who are friends and decide to "romantic benefits" as referring to his real-life movie "Friends with Benefits".
It prompts a lady to compare it to "No Strings Attached", which leads Mozart to reply, "No, no, no, not like that one; this one is different, because I'm in it.
- 5/24/2011
- by celebrity-mania.com
- Celebrity Mania
Hugh Bonneville is to make a guest appearance in the next series of Doctor Who. The Downton Abbey star will play a "pirate captain" on the sci-fi drama, according to The Sun. "I am thrilled to be appearing in the new series," Bonneville was quoted as saying. "When I was a boy, the music and Jon Pertwee's Doctor had me peeking out from behind the sofa every Saturday." He continued: "Although the pirate's demons are different to those of the young lad who watched through his fingers, they are no less terrifying. (more)...
- 1/28/2011
- by By Morgan Jeffery
- Digital Spy
Despite not being the biggest fan of his latest film You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (read my review) it’s hard not to be in awe of the master filmmaker Woody Allen still churning out movies yearly at the tender age of 74. During the press conference for his film, Allen shed some light on his unique filmmaking process, why he continues to make films year after year, how locations shape a film’s outcome by sighting an example from Annie Hall and why he will never make a film like Stanley Kubrick. So check out this illuminating interview with the legendary director that reveals some insight about his neurotic personality.
Q: How does this film relate to the the spiritual turmoil in your other films, particularly Interiors?
Wa: This film was an attempt to deal with the same subject but to deal with it in a more comic...
Q: How does this film relate to the the spiritual turmoil in your other films, particularly Interiors?
Wa: This film was an attempt to deal with the same subject but to deal with it in a more comic...
- 10/16/2010
- by Raffi Asdourian
- The Film Stage
Having had the TV hit of the summer with Sherlock, Mark Gatiss is now bringing cult horror to the masses – and putting Edwardians on the moon. Stuart Jeffries meets a shooting star
'When I was a boy," says Mark Gatiss, "I wanted to be a whiskery man in a white coat saying, 'Look, it's a pterodactyl!'" He elaborates, mentioning one of his film heroes, who died earlier this year: "I wanted to be Lionel Jeffries in an Edwardian-set family fantasy film."
Gatiss, now 43, has his wish. He's playing Edwardian inventor Joseph Cavor in his own defiantly kidultish adaptation of Hg Wells's 1901 novel The First Men in the Moon. Cavor is white-coated, facially hirsute and occasionally ditsy. Just before they set off for the moon, fellow astronaut Arnold Bedford inquires: "I say, Cavor, we will be able to get back, won't we?"
"I don't see why not," says Cavor vaguely.
'When I was a boy," says Mark Gatiss, "I wanted to be a whiskery man in a white coat saying, 'Look, it's a pterodactyl!'" He elaborates, mentioning one of his film heroes, who died earlier this year: "I wanted to be Lionel Jeffries in an Edwardian-set family fantasy film."
Gatiss, now 43, has his wish. He's playing Edwardian inventor Joseph Cavor in his own defiantly kidultish adaptation of Hg Wells's 1901 novel The First Men in the Moon. Cavor is white-coated, facially hirsute and occasionally ditsy. Just before they set off for the moon, fellow astronaut Arnold Bedford inquires: "I say, Cavor, we will be able to get back, won't we?"
"I don't see why not," says Cavor vaguely.
- 10/11/2010
- by Stuart Jeffries
- The Guardian - Film News
The name Woody Allen in synonymous with many things: humor, philosophy, messy relationships and above all else, a deep meaningful connection to cynicism. In his latest film, You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger, Allen approaches each of these topics with an all-star cast featuring Naomi Watts, Josh Brolin, Sir Anthony Hopkins, Antonio Banderas and more. Each of these actors jumped at the opportunity to delve deep into their neuroses for a chance to work with one of New York’s favorite sons.
CinemaSpy sat down to talk with Allen about his latest film, and in person, Allen is surprisingly charming and just as quick witted as the icon we’ve seen on and behind the screen for over forty years. You can’t help but smile listening to him, even as he speaks “bleakly” about his dislike for interactions with actors, his belief that he’s never made a...
CinemaSpy sat down to talk with Allen about his latest film, and in person, Allen is surprisingly charming and just as quick witted as the icon we’ve seen on and behind the screen for over forty years. You can’t help but smile listening to him, even as he speaks “bleakly” about his dislike for interactions with actors, his belief that he’s never made a...
- 9/20/2010
- CinemaSpy
We love women around here. Okay, not in that way, but we do love them and can certainly appreciate their many charms. Unfortunately, we spend so much time on AfterElton.com talking about the menfolk that it might lead you to think otherwise.
To remedy that, the AfterElton.com staff put their heads together and compiled a list of Ten Women We Love in 2010. Of course, this is far from a complete roster. There are lots of ladies missing: our mothers, Judge Judy, Rachel Maddow and Kathy Griffin to name just a few. What we were looking for with this list however were women we admire with strong breakout stories this year. Maybe they are a standout on a new hit TV show, or perhaps they've demonstrated unusual bravery and grace in fighting Glbt discrimination, or possibly they've been around for a long time, but have had a recent career...
To remedy that, the AfterElton.com staff put their heads together and compiled a list of Ten Women We Love in 2010. Of course, this is far from a complete roster. There are lots of ladies missing: our mothers, Judge Judy, Rachel Maddow and Kathy Griffin to name just a few. What we were looking for with this list however were women we admire with strong breakout stories this year. Maybe they are a standout on a new hit TV show, or perhaps they've demonstrated unusual bravery and grace in fighting Glbt discrimination, or possibly they've been around for a long time, but have had a recent career...
- 5/7/2010
- by AfterElton.com Staff
- The Backlot
Matt Damon has revealed that Gandhi inspired him from a young age to do as much as possible to help others. The Bourne Ultimatum star, who works with global water crisis charity Water.org and the One campaign, said that his mother Nancy encouraged him to get involved with humanitarian work like Gandhi. Damon told Parade: "When I was a boy, my mom had a magnet on the refrigerator with a little picture of Gandhi along with a quote from him. It said, 'No matter how insignificant what you do may seem, it is important that you do it'." He continued: "As a child, I was raised to believe that, and to this day I do (more)...
- 10/20/2009
- by By Rebecca Davies
- Digital Spy
Matt Damon says Gandhi inspired him to get involved in humanitarian work. The 'Bourne Ultimatum' actor - who works closely with Water.org and the One campaign - revealed his mother Nancy taught him to help others from a young age, just like peaceful civil rights leader Gandhi. He told Parade magazine: "When I was a boy, my mom had a magnet on the refrigerator with a little picture of Gandhi along with a quote from him. It said, 'No matter how insignificant what you do may seem, it is important that you do it'. "As a child, I was raised to believe that, and to this day I do my best to live it. "It's really powerful when you...
- 10/19/2009
- Monsters and Critics
Alpha/Landov
For Matt Damon, philanthropy is a way of life — and it’s the only life he’s ever known. The 39-year-old actor credits mom Nancy for instilling in him at an early age the importance of giving back.
“When I was a boy, my mom had a magnet on the refrigerator with a little picture of Gandhi along with a quote from him. It said: “No matter how insignificant what you do may seem, it is important that you do it,’ Matt recalls in a new interview with Parade. “As a child, I was raised to believe that,...
For Matt Damon, philanthropy is a way of life — and it’s the only life he’s ever known. The 39-year-old actor credits mom Nancy for instilling in him at an early age the importance of giving back.
“When I was a boy, my mom had a magnet on the refrigerator with a little picture of Gandhi along with a quote from him. It said: “No matter how insignificant what you do may seem, it is important that you do it,’ Matt recalls in a new interview with Parade. “As a child, I was raised to believe that,...
- 10/18/2009
- by Missy
- People - CelebrityBabies
Matt Damon is this week's Parade Magazine cover boy, spreading the word about his charity work. Just in time for his birthday on Thursday and despite long hours on the set of his new film, he proves he's not too busy to give back to those in need around the globe. Using way less yelling than he did on Entourage, Matt explains how being charitable from a young age has affected his life, and how giving back in small ways can make a big difference. Here's more: On how he got his charitable start: "When I was a boy, my mom had a magnet on the refrigerator with a little picture of Gandhi along with a quote from him. It said: “No matter how insignificant what you do may seem, it is important that you do it.” As a child, I was raised to believe that, and to this day...
- 10/11/2009
- by PopSugar
- Popsugar.com
When I was a boy I read a book about the history of battleships. That book illustrated how each generation of ships first grew larger and larger, yet then was superceded and obsolete by a smaller, more nimble type that allowed better maneuverability and survivability.
The design industry is no different. As we are closing the first decade of the new millennium, change has arrived and the design world is no longer dominated by large design agencies of 100, 200 or even 500 employees. We are now witnessing studios with 10, 20 or 30 people consistently delivering top quality design and in a very different way. It's a good change and it is an important change since it's about the availability of top-notch design to every product or company--and the very real opportunity for a small design studio to create a world-class product.
This evolution was crystallized when the Idea Awards, announced by Idsa and BusinessWeek last month,...
The design industry is no different. As we are closing the first decade of the new millennium, change has arrived and the design world is no longer dominated by large design agencies of 100, 200 or even 500 employees. We are now witnessing studios with 10, 20 or 30 people consistently delivering top quality design and in a very different way. It's a good change and it is an important change since it's about the availability of top-notch design to every product or company--and the very real opportunity for a small design studio to create a world-class product.
This evolution was crystallized when the Idea Awards, announced by Idsa and BusinessWeek last month,...
- 8/31/2009
- by Gadi Amit
- Fast Company
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