Festivals & Awards
Twelve Thumbs-Up Films from the Venice Film Festival
An overview of twelve films in the 2019 Venice Film Festival that get my thumbs-up vote.
An overview of twelve films in the 2019 Venice Film Festival that get my thumbs-up vote.
An interview with Joel Edgerton and Garrard Conley, writer/director/star and subject, respectively, of "Boy Erased."
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A look at the films expected to dominate this year's Oscar race and the narrative scope they share.
Chaz Ebert highlights 13 must-see films of 2016.
An extensive preview of 50 films coming out within the next four months, from "Sully" to "Toni Erdmann."
A review of AMC's "Preacher," co-created and directed by Seth Rogen & Evan Goldberg.
Jeff Nichols brings "Loving" to Cannes; Cherchez la femme; Best of Cannes so far; STX pays $50 million for unmade Scorsese movie; "Mean Dreams" thrills at Cannes.
Interviews with actors Joel Edgerton and Kirsten Dunst about Jeff Nichols' Midnight Special.
Marie writes: kudos to club member Sandy Kahn for finding this - as I'd never heard of the Bregenz Festival before, despite the spectacular staging of Puccini's opera Tosca and which appeared briefly in the Bond film Quantum of Solace; but then I slept through most of it. I'm not surprised I've no memory of an Opera floating on a lake. Lake Constance to be exact, which borders Germany, Switzerland and Austria near the Alps...
Tosca by Puccini | 2007-2008 - Photograph by BENNO HAGLEITNER(click to enlarge)
It's a sunny, unseasonable 80 degrees as the 2012 Santa Barbara International Film Festival kicks in, but all I want is to be indoors. When you peer at a schedule listing nearly 200 films jammed into 10 days, and you just can't wait, you know you're an addict. This is my third SBIFF so I recognize the signs.
Suddenly each January, there's an extra bustle in this appealing, laid-back town. Downtown on lower State Street, trucks appear bearing vivid banners, soon to be festooned overhead. Special lights and rigging go up at 2 central venues - the precisely restored, historic Lobero and Arlington Theatres. Locals watch to see whether Festival Director Roger Durling changes his hair: one year it was spikey, another year purple. This time it's rather like Heathcliff - longer, romantic.
