The Film Society Of Lincoln Center and The Museum Of Modern Art have announced seven official selections for the 2014 New Directors/New Films Festival, set to run from March 19–30.
The 2014 edition marks the 43rd year of the festival dedicated to the discovery of new works by emerging and dynamic filmmaking talent.
The initial seven selections represent 11 countries and are:
Richard Ayoade’s The Double (UK):
Benedikt Erlingsson’s Of Horses And Men (pictured, Iceland);
Abdellah Taïa’s Salvation Army (L’Armée du Salut) (France-Morocco-Switzerland);
Ben Rivers and Ben Russell’s A Spell To Ward Off The Darkness (Estonia-France);
Roberto Minervini’s Stop The Pounding Heart (Belgium-Italy-us);
Albert Serra’s Story Of My Death (Història De La Meva Mort) (Spain-France); and
Vivian Qu’s Trap Street (Shuiyin Jie) (China).
The 2014 edition marks the 43rd year of the festival dedicated to the discovery of new works by emerging and dynamic filmmaking talent.
The initial seven selections represent 11 countries and are:
Richard Ayoade’s The Double (UK):
Benedikt Erlingsson’s Of Horses And Men (pictured, Iceland);
Abdellah Taïa’s Salvation Army (L’Armée du Salut) (France-Morocco-Switzerland);
Ben Rivers and Ben Russell’s A Spell To Ward Off The Darkness (Estonia-France);
Roberto Minervini’s Stop The Pounding Heart (Belgium-Italy-us);
Albert Serra’s Story Of My Death (Història De La Meva Mort) (Spain-France); and
Vivian Qu’s Trap Street (Shuiyin Jie) (China).
- 1/14/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Steve McQueen’s 12 Years A Slave to open festival; director Peter Greenaway to receive Visionary Award.Scroll down for full line-up
Steve McQueen’s historic drama 12 Years a Slave is to open the Stockholm International Film Festival (Nov 6-17) and is nominated in the Stockholm Xxiv Competition.
Starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, the drama about free black man kidnapped from his family and sold into slavery in the 1850s debuted at Telluride and has received positive reactions throughout its festival tour of Toronto, New York and London among others.
It will be released in Sweden on Dec 20 by Ab Svensk Filmindustri.
Screenwriter John Ridley, who will be present during the festival, is nominated for the Aluminum Horse in the category Best Script.
McQueen’s Hunger won Best Directorial Debut at Stockholm in 2008.
Line-up
The 24th Siff includes more than 180 films from more than 50 countries.
As previously announced, the spotlight of this year’s festival is freedom but Chinese artist...
Steve McQueen’s historic drama 12 Years a Slave is to open the Stockholm International Film Festival (Nov 6-17) and is nominated in the Stockholm Xxiv Competition.
Starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, the drama about free black man kidnapped from his family and sold into slavery in the 1850s debuted at Telluride and has received positive reactions throughout its festival tour of Toronto, New York and London among others.
It will be released in Sweden on Dec 20 by Ab Svensk Filmindustri.
Screenwriter John Ridley, who will be present during the festival, is nominated for the Aluminum Horse in the category Best Script.
McQueen’s Hunger won Best Directorial Debut at Stockholm in 2008.
Line-up
The 24th Siff includes more than 180 films from more than 50 countries.
As previously announced, the spotlight of this year’s festival is freedom but Chinese artist...
- 10/22/2013
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
★★★☆☆ Much like Ai Wei Wei's recent Surveillance Camera sculpture, Vivian Qu takes on China's aggressive panoptical policing in Trap Street (2013) with a sense of doomed inquiry. Nominated for the First Feature prize at this year's London Film Festival, the film explores how information technology is both the target and perpetrator of State meddling in contemporary China, laying bare the nation's spiralling surveillance culture with a dark, noirish twist. Li Quiming (Lu Yulai) is a part time city surveyor, supplementing his low paid traineeship by installing illegal surveillance cameras in hotels and gentlemen's saunas.
Pursuing a strange woman on a rainy night ensnares Quiming in an underworld of government corruption and conspiracy when he discovers that his enigmatic femme fatale, Guan Lifen (played with vacant elusivity by actress He Wenchao), resides on a street that doesn't exist on maps. The film's title refers to the cartographer's tradition of including a...
Pursuing a strange woman on a rainy night ensnares Quiming in an underworld of government corruption and conspiracy when he discovers that his enigmatic femme fatale, Guan Lifen (played with vacant elusivity by actress He Wenchao), resides on a street that doesn't exist on maps. The film's title refers to the cartographer's tradition of including a...
- 10/21/2013
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
All those who've been closely watching the gradual evolution of Chinese cinema over the course of the last ten years must've realized by now that the country's directors are tackling all the more controversial topics with less fear and more confidence, mostly to stunningly spot-on results. The Chinese new wave is at the peak of popularity all over the world right now and Trap Street is a film that only confirms this trend in an utterly convincing way, even more when one realizes that it's a directorial debut of a woman who's previously worked only in production. Because it's a film that uncovers a ridiculously serious yet deeply concealed problem, it's been shown only in places outside China and even the producer during the Q&A...
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- 10/13/2013
- Screen Anarchy
Uberto Pasolini’s Still Life to open this year’s Warsaw Film Festival (Wff) tonight, which will close with Roman Polanski’s Venus In Fur on Oct 20.
The number of world, international and European premieres in the Wff line-up have never been as high as this year, with the selection of no less than 22 world premieres, 21 international premieres and 22 European premieres.
The world premieres include six titles in the festival’s main International competition:
Romanian film-maker Anca Damian’s English-language feature debut A Very Unsettled Summer, her first film since Crulic
Estonian Ilmar Raag’s unusual love story in a small village Love Is Blind
Zaza Urushadze’s Estonian-Georgian co-production Tangerines, which has also been invited to festivals in Mannheim-Heidelberg and Cottbus
Iranian director Amir Toodehroosta’s Paat where dogs go underground in Tehran
Zdeňek Tyc’s moving drama Like Never Before about an oddball painter approaching death in his country home
In addition, there will be...
The number of world, international and European premieres in the Wff line-up have never been as high as this year, with the selection of no less than 22 world premieres, 21 international premieres and 22 European premieres.
The world premieres include six titles in the festival’s main International competition:
Romanian film-maker Anca Damian’s English-language feature debut A Very Unsettled Summer, her first film since Crulic
Estonian Ilmar Raag’s unusual love story in a small village Love Is Blind
Zaza Urushadze’s Estonian-Georgian co-production Tangerines, which has also been invited to festivals in Mannheim-Heidelberg and Cottbus
Iranian director Amir Toodehroosta’s Paat where dogs go underground in Tehran
Zdeňek Tyc’s moving drama Like Never Before about an oddball painter approaching death in his country home
In addition, there will be...
- 10/11/2013
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Trap of the Human Heart: Qu’s Debut a Sinister Slow Boil
Boy spies beautiful girl while engaged in rote work activities. Boy becomes fascinated with girl and decides to make his presence known to her. Boy suddenly finds himself thrown into a dangerous scenario. Thus is the basic premise of producer Vivian Qu’s directorial debut, Trap Street, a quiet, almost meditative thriller that doubles as a metaphor for freedom vs. control in modern day China. While the proceedings may be fairly straightforward, a murky menace pervades Qu’s tale of imaginary freedom and technological disconnect, a noir-ish lesson in the consequences of seeking complicated answers to simple questions.
Li Quiming (Lu Yulai) works for a digital mapping company, his job to photograph the constantly changing streets. One day while engaged in his street surveillance, he spies a beautiful woman (He Wenchao) through his viewfinder and is instantly taken with her.
Boy spies beautiful girl while engaged in rote work activities. Boy becomes fascinated with girl and decides to make his presence known to her. Boy suddenly finds himself thrown into a dangerous scenario. Thus is the basic premise of producer Vivian Qu’s directorial debut, Trap Street, a quiet, almost meditative thriller that doubles as a metaphor for freedom vs. control in modern day China. While the proceedings may be fairly straightforward, a murky menace pervades Qu’s tale of imaginary freedom and technological disconnect, a noir-ish lesson in the consequences of seeking complicated answers to simple questions.
Li Quiming (Lu Yulai) works for a digital mapping company, his job to photograph the constantly changing streets. One day while engaged in his street surveillance, he spies a beautiful woman (He Wenchao) through his viewfinder and is instantly taken with her.
- 9/7/2013
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
This morning at London's Odeon Leicester Square, the British Film Institute announced the full programme for the 57th BFI London Film Festival, a twelve-day extravaganza showcasing the very best in upcoming mainstream, world and experimental cinema. With British director Paul Greengrass' hijack thriller Captain Phillips and Disney's Saving Mr. Banks (both starring Tom Hanks) already announced as the opening and closing films, the stage was set for a whole raft of high profile Gala screenings and premieres, including the cream of 2013's international festival crop. Amongst these will be Alfonso Cuarón's Gravity, Steve McQueen's Twelve Years a Slave and the Coens' Inside Llewyn Davis.
This year's Lff will screen a total of 234 narrative and documentary features, including 22 World Premieres, 16 International Premieres, 29 European Premieres and 20 Archive films. A stellar line-up of directors, cast and crew are also expected to take part in career interviews, master classes and other special events.
This year's Lff will screen a total of 234 narrative and documentary features, including 22 World Premieres, 16 International Premieres, 29 European Premieres and 20 Archive films. A stellar line-up of directors, cast and crew are also expected to take part in career interviews, master classes and other special events.
- 9/4/2013
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
The 57th BFI London Film Festival line-up has officially been revealed, and it is led by a slew of incredibly promising films, many of which have already been buzzing on the festival circuit, and a number of which will be making their debuts here in London.
As previously announced, Paul Greengrass’ Captain Phillips will open the festival next month, and John Lee Hancock’s Saving Mr. Banks will close it, book-ending the festival with Tom Hanks leading two highly prominent, Oscar-primed movies.
Stephen Frears’ Philomena was also previously announced as the Lff American Express Gala, with The Epic of Everest announced as the Lff Archive Gala.
And leading the line-up alongside them this year will be some of the most Oscar-buzzed movies of 2013, including Steve McQueen’s 12 Years a Slave, Jason Reitman’s Labor Day, Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity (in 3D), Joel and Ethan Coen’s Inside Llewyn Davis, Terry Gilliam’s The Zero Theorem,...
As previously announced, Paul Greengrass’ Captain Phillips will open the festival next month, and John Lee Hancock’s Saving Mr. Banks will close it, book-ending the festival with Tom Hanks leading two highly prominent, Oscar-primed movies.
Stephen Frears’ Philomena was also previously announced as the Lff American Express Gala, with The Epic of Everest announced as the Lff Archive Gala.
And leading the line-up alongside them this year will be some of the most Oscar-buzzed movies of 2013, including Steve McQueen’s 12 Years a Slave, Jason Reitman’s Labor Day, Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity (in 3D), Joel and Ethan Coen’s Inside Llewyn Davis, Terry Gilliam’s The Zero Theorem,...
- 9/4/2013
- by Kenji Lloyd
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
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