The force is strong between these two.
On Wednesday, Pennsylvania man Charles Wilson-Adams threw a very special party to celebrate his pooch’s first birthday, going all out to make sure his best pal Deuce had everything a dog could ever want.
Wilson-Adams — whose sister is a writer/reporter at People — bought Deuce a “Happy Birthday” banner, plates, napkins and a cake, all Star Wars-themed.
Deuce, an American Bully and Wilson-Adams’ service dog, even got a lightsaber-embroidered sweatshirt to wear when guests arrived.
Charles Wilson-Adams Charles Wilson-Adams
And the festivities didn’t stop there!
Later, surrounded by family and friends,...
On Wednesday, Pennsylvania man Charles Wilson-Adams threw a very special party to celebrate his pooch’s first birthday, going all out to make sure his best pal Deuce had everything a dog could ever want.
Wilson-Adams — whose sister is a writer/reporter at People — bought Deuce a “Happy Birthday” banner, plates, napkins and a cake, all Star Wars-themed.
Deuce, an American Bully and Wilson-Adams’ service dog, even got a lightsaber-embroidered sweatshirt to wear when guests arrived.
Charles Wilson-Adams Charles Wilson-Adams
And the festivities didn’t stop there!
Later, surrounded by family and friends,...
- 12/10/2017
- by Maria Pasquini
- PEOPLE.com
Dieter Kosslick will not renew his contract, ending May 2019, as head of BerlinaleDieter Kosslick will not renew his contract, ending May 2019, as head of Berlinale
Festival Director Dieter Kosslick in response to a letter signed by a group of German directors concerning the future of the Berlinale:
I can understand that these directors want transparency when it comes to the process of reforming the Berlinale. Its future is a matter of great importance for all us. Minister of State and Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media Prof. Monika Grütters will be in charge of any proceedings.My contract ends on May 31, 2019. The Supervisory Board has asked me to submit a proposal for the potential restructuring of the Berlinale. I will do so — and this proposal will be totally independent of me personally.
Seventy-nine German directors wrote a petition asking for transparency in the process, it was recently published in Der Spiegel.
Festival Director Dieter Kosslick in response to a letter signed by a group of German directors concerning the future of the Berlinale:
I can understand that these directors want transparency when it comes to the process of reforming the Berlinale. Its future is a matter of great importance for all us. Minister of State and Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media Prof. Monika Grütters will be in charge of any proceedings.My contract ends on May 31, 2019. The Supervisory Board has asked me to submit a proposal for the potential restructuring of the Berlinale. I will do so — and this proposal will be totally independent of me personally.
Seventy-nine German directors wrote a petition asking for transparency in the process, it was recently published in Der Spiegel.
- 12/6/2017
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Looking to try a new twist on your Christmas tree angel this year? Weta Workshop has you covered with their cherub tree topper based on one of the many creepy creatures from Michael Dougherty's Krampus, and if you're really looking to deck your halls with horror, you can also add official Krampus ornaments and a "Klaue" teddy bear to your seasonal arsenal.
You can view all of the new Krampus holiday decorations below (via Bloody Disgusting), and to learn more about Weta Workshop and their incredibly detailed decorations, visit their official website.
From Weta Workshop: "No Christmas is complete without a sparkly range of ornaments for your tree. But this is Weta Workshop. We don't do "sparkly."
New from our team of ghouls, goblins, and the hardest-working elves in the Southern Hemisphere: a range of Krampus ornaments snatched right out of director Michael Dougherty’s freakishly fun film! Including baubles,...
You can view all of the new Krampus holiday decorations below (via Bloody Disgusting), and to learn more about Weta Workshop and their incredibly detailed decorations, visit their official website.
From Weta Workshop: "No Christmas is complete without a sparkly range of ornaments for your tree. But this is Weta Workshop. We don't do "sparkly."
New from our team of ghouls, goblins, and the hardest-working elves in the Southern Hemisphere: a range of Krampus ornaments snatched right out of director Michael Dougherty’s freakishly fun film! Including baubles,...
- 12/6/2017
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
We’re on the road again with a pair of eccentric new-age hobos, the kind that just can’t hack it in polite society. Gene Hackman and Al Pacino’s conflicting acting styles get a workout in Jerry Schatzberg’s tale of drifters cursed with iffy goals; Vilmos Zsigmond’s Panavision cinematography helped it earn a big prize at Cannes.
Scarecrow
Blu-ray
Warner Archive Collection
1973 / Color / 2:40 widescreen / 112 min. / Street Date October 31, 2017 / available through the WBshop / 21.99
Starring: Gene Hackman, Al Pacino, Dorothy Tristan, Ann Wedgeworth, Richard Lynch, Eileen Brennan, Penny Allen, Richard Hackman, Al Cingolani, Rutanya Alda.
Cinematography: Vilmos Zsigmond
Film Editor: Evan Lottman, Craig McKay
Production Design: Albert Brenner
Original Music: Fred Myrow
Written by Garry Michael White
Produced by Robert M. Sherman
Directed by Jerry Schatzberg
Movie-wise, everything was up in the air in the early 1970s. The view from Westwood in West Los Angeles, then the place to go see a film,...
Scarecrow
Blu-ray
Warner Archive Collection
1973 / Color / 2:40 widescreen / 112 min. / Street Date October 31, 2017 / available through the WBshop / 21.99
Starring: Gene Hackman, Al Pacino, Dorothy Tristan, Ann Wedgeworth, Richard Lynch, Eileen Brennan, Penny Allen, Richard Hackman, Al Cingolani, Rutanya Alda.
Cinematography: Vilmos Zsigmond
Film Editor: Evan Lottman, Craig McKay
Production Design: Albert Brenner
Original Music: Fred Myrow
Written by Garry Michael White
Produced by Robert M. Sherman
Directed by Jerry Schatzberg
Movie-wise, everything was up in the air in the early 1970s. The view from Westwood in West Los Angeles, then the place to go see a film,...
- 11/25/2017
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Republic raids an early Rko talkie for a fantastic special effects sequence, and you won’t believe how it’s repurposed — in a story about a TV personality (in 1939!) taking on a corrupt political mob. New York crumbles and is then washed away — sort of. It’s yet another resurfacing of a title that not long ago we couldn’t see to save our cinema-curious souls.
S.O.S. Tidal Wave
Blu-ray
Olive Films
1939 / B&W / 1:37 flat Academy / 62 min. / Street Date October 31, 2017 / available through the Olive Films website / 29.98
Starring: Ralph Byrd, George Barbier, Kay Sutton, Frank Jenks, Marc Lawrence, Dorothy Lee, Oscar O’Shea, Mickey Kuhn, Ferris Taylor, Don ‘Red’ Barry, Raymond Bailey.
Cinematography: Jack A. Marta
Film Editor: Ernest Nims
Musical Director: Cy Feuer
Written by Gordon Kahn, Stanley Rauh, Maxwell Shane, story by James Webb
Produced by Armand Schaefer
Directed by John H. Auer
If Republic wasn’t...
S.O.S. Tidal Wave
Blu-ray
Olive Films
1939 / B&W / 1:37 flat Academy / 62 min. / Street Date October 31, 2017 / available through the Olive Films website / 29.98
Starring: Ralph Byrd, George Barbier, Kay Sutton, Frank Jenks, Marc Lawrence, Dorothy Lee, Oscar O’Shea, Mickey Kuhn, Ferris Taylor, Don ‘Red’ Barry, Raymond Bailey.
Cinematography: Jack A. Marta
Film Editor: Ernest Nims
Musical Director: Cy Feuer
Written by Gordon Kahn, Stanley Rauh, Maxwell Shane, story by James Webb
Produced by Armand Schaefer
Directed by John H. Auer
If Republic wasn’t...
- 10/31/2017
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Ever since making his feature debut with the darkly comical Sitcom, French writer/director François Ozon has been making the world feeling horny and shocked with his films, often at the same time. With a body of work that also includes Water Drops on Burning Rocks, Under the Sand, In the House and the glorious one-two punch of 8 Women and Swimming Pool, you’d think the prolific provocateur might soon be running out of tricks.
Think again. His latest erotic thriller, L’amant double, which premiered in competition at Cannes this year, proved to be the film scandaleux of the festival. Starring Marine Vacth as Chloé, a young woman who one day discovers her psychiatrist partner Paul (Jérémie Renier) might have an evil twin brother and gradually loses herself in a web of deceit and kinks, it’s the kind of dangerously sexy farce at which Ozon excels.
We had...
Think again. His latest erotic thriller, L’amant double, which premiered in competition at Cannes this year, proved to be the film scandaleux of the festival. Starring Marine Vacth as Chloé, a young woman who one day discovers her psychiatrist partner Paul (Jérémie Renier) might have an evil twin brother and gradually loses herself in a web of deceit and kinks, it’s the kind of dangerously sexy farce at which Ozon excels.
We had...
- 10/18/2017
- by Zhuo-Ning Su
- The Film Stage
Cannes titles The Desert Bride and April’s Daughters among 12 titles.
The 65th San Sebastian Film Festival (Sept 22-30) has revealed the 12 titles in its Horizontes Latinos programme, featuring some of the best Latin American films of the year to date.
This year’s selection includes Cannes Un Certain Regard title The Desert Bride (pictured) directed by Cecilia Atán and Valeria Pivato, and Gustavo Rondón’s debut La Familia, which was screened at Cannes Critics’ Week.
Another Un Certain Regard title, Michel Franco’s April’s Daughters, has also been selected. His film After Lucia won the Prize Un Certain Regard in 2012, and his follow-up, Chronic competed for the Palme d’Or and won the best screenplay award at Cannes in 2015.
All 12 feature films compete for the Horizontes Award and its €35,000 ($40,958) prize. The six first and second films in the selection (La Educación De Rey, La Familia, Medea, Arábia, La Novia Del Desierto and Temporada De Caza) are also...
The 65th San Sebastian Film Festival (Sept 22-30) has revealed the 12 titles in its Horizontes Latinos programme, featuring some of the best Latin American films of the year to date.
This year’s selection includes Cannes Un Certain Regard title The Desert Bride (pictured) directed by Cecilia Atán and Valeria Pivato, and Gustavo Rondón’s debut La Familia, which was screened at Cannes Critics’ Week.
Another Un Certain Regard title, Michel Franco’s April’s Daughters, has also been selected. His film After Lucia won the Prize Un Certain Regard in 2012, and his follow-up, Chronic competed for the Palme d’Or and won the best screenplay award at Cannes in 2015.
All 12 feature films compete for the Horizontes Award and its €35,000 ($40,958) prize. The six first and second films in the selection (La Educación De Rey, La Familia, Medea, Arábia, La Novia Del Desierto and Temporada De Caza) are also...
- 8/16/2017
- by orlando.parfitt@screendaily.com (Orlando Parfitt)
- ScreenDaily
Josh Brolin and Ryan Reynolds have taken to instagram to reveal the first images of Brolin's Cable in Deadpool 2! Come inside to see them!
Ryan Reynolds just loves to start off the week the right way. Last Monday, he crashed our case of the Mondays by revealing the first look of Zazie Beets as Domino. This week, he's joined by his co-star, Josh Brolin, to give us our first images of Brolin as Cable!
At first glance, I think this hits everything you'd want to see out of the future soldier. While it's not the cheesy blue and silver we've come to know, it is a more modern take to Cable, which is completely acceptable to nerd standards. One thing we should note is the misplaced teddy bear at Cable's hip. After much discussion, comic/toy expert Jason the X decreed that it was Hope's Teddy Bear.
If you're...
Ryan Reynolds just loves to start off the week the right way. Last Monday, he crashed our case of the Mondays by revealing the first look of Zazie Beets as Domino. This week, he's joined by his co-star, Josh Brolin, to give us our first images of Brolin as Cable!
At first glance, I think this hits everything you'd want to see out of the future soldier. While it's not the cheesy blue and silver we've come to know, it is a more modern take to Cable, which is completely acceptable to nerd standards. One thing we should note is the misplaced teddy bear at Cable's hip. After much discussion, comic/toy expert Jason the X decreed that it was Hope's Teddy Bear.
If you're...
- 8/7/2017
- by feeds@cinelinx.com (Matt Malliaros)
- Cinelinx
Chicago – “Live from New York, it’s a new generation of ‘Saturday Night Live’ movies!” Four guys from SNL… performers Kyle Mooney and Beck Bennett, segment director Dave McCary, and producer/performer Andy Samberg all pitch in to create “Brigsby Bear,” the odd story of a man-boy who loves a TV show.
“Brigsby Bear” is a sweet movie, and “Saturday Night Live” cast member Kyle Mooney is perfect as that man-boy named James, who was kidnapped as a child and forced to live in underground shelter, because his captors Ted and April (Mark Hamill and Jane Adams) tell him the air is too poisonous to breathe. The only TV programming they give him to watch is “Brigsby Bear,” and that is produced in secret by his fake father Ted. James grows to early manhood, and a raid on the shelter puts him back into the real world, and his real...
“Brigsby Bear” is a sweet movie, and “Saturday Night Live” cast member Kyle Mooney is perfect as that man-boy named James, who was kidnapped as a child and forced to live in underground shelter, because his captors Ted and April (Mark Hamill and Jane Adams) tell him the air is too poisonous to breathe. The only TV programming they give him to watch is “Brigsby Bear,” and that is produced in secret by his fake father Ted. James grows to early manhood, and a raid on the shelter puts him back into the real world, and his real...
- 8/6/2017
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
With twenty-six films over three days, including ten World, four European and seven UK premieres, Horror Channel FrightFest’s short film showcase unleashes this year’s eclectic mix of the bold, brave, bloody and barmy with films programmed to entertain, frighten, enlighten and simply amaze.
From the press release:
There are twelve films from the United Kingdom, forming the centerpiece of this year’s line-up. These include James Moran’s Blood Shed, starring Shaun Dooley and Sally Phillips, where a man’s love of his garden shed takes a rather murderous turn. In Judgement, Neil Maskell stars as a single man looking for love in all the wrong places and Laurence R. Harvey shines as a mutated children’s’ toy in Teddy Bear’S Picnic. Then there’s Katie Bonham’s Mab, about a girl who turns to witchcraft to teach someone a lesson.
The other home-grown offerings see people...
From the press release:
There are twelve films from the United Kingdom, forming the centerpiece of this year’s line-up. These include James Moran’s Blood Shed, starring Shaun Dooley and Sally Phillips, where a man’s love of his garden shed takes a rather murderous turn. In Judgement, Neil Maskell stars as a single man looking for love in all the wrong places and Laurence R. Harvey shines as a mutated children’s’ toy in Teddy Bear’S Picnic. Then there’s Katie Bonham’s Mab, about a girl who turns to witchcraft to teach someone a lesson.
The other home-grown offerings see people...
- 8/3/2017
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
A volunteer police officer responding to a car wreck in Indiana was allegedly fatally shot by one of the people he was trying to save from a flipped vehicle, People confirms.
Lt. Aaron Allan, 38, was a six-year veteran of the police force in Southport, Indiana.
Allan was named the department’s Officer of the Year in 2015. He was known around the city of Southport by his nickname, “Teddy Bear.”
“We are deeply saddened by the loss of one of our officers, Lieutenant Aaron Allan,” reads a statement from the department. “Lt. Allan served as a police officer for twenty years...
Lt. Aaron Allan, 38, was a six-year veteran of the police force in Southport, Indiana.
Allan was named the department’s Officer of the Year in 2015. He was known around the city of Southport by his nickname, “Teddy Bear.”
“We are deeply saddened by the loss of one of our officers, Lieutenant Aaron Allan,” reads a statement from the department. “Lt. Allan served as a police officer for twenty years...
- 7/28/2017
- by Chris Harris
- PEOPLE.com
The Eisner Awards were handed out last Friday, and I have to say, I’m feeling just a little bit smug.
No, I didn’t win anything. There is no Eisner Award for the Best Procrastinating by a Writer. However, quite a few of the prizes went to people and projects that I championed as an Eisner judge this year, selecting the nominees.
I’m not going to tell you which ones I’m talking about because to do so implies that I met with resistance. (You’ll have to get me drunk the next time we’re together.) As I said before, talking about the selection process the committee used, “I can say that none of us got all of our first choices, but all of us got some of them.” In other words, we had different tastes and different criteria, and that is as it should be. We talked,...
No, I didn’t win anything. There is no Eisner Award for the Best Procrastinating by a Writer. However, quite a few of the prizes went to people and projects that I championed as an Eisner judge this year, selecting the nominees.
I’m not going to tell you which ones I’m talking about because to do so implies that I met with resistance. (You’ll have to get me drunk the next time we’re together.) As I said before, talking about the selection process the committee used, “I can say that none of us got all of our first choices, but all of us got some of them.” In other words, we had different tastes and different criteria, and that is as it should be. We talked,...
- 7/28/2017
- by Martha Thomases
- Comicmix.com
An ex-junkie, ex-convict, and luchador enter a fish taco shack … the punch line is a three-pronged adventure through Compton while engulfed by the shadow of a lunatic pimp moonlighting as a black market organ wholesaler. Director Ryan Prows and the rest of his quintet of writers (Tim Cairo, Jake Gibson, Shaye Ogbonna, and Maxwell Michael Towson) bring together a menagerie of monsters, fiends, thugs, and criminals all searching for an escape in their violently heart-warming film Lowlife. Full of heinous acts justified by a universal goal to save the ones they love, every eccentrically drawn character earns our sympathy despite the blood spilled by their hands. With their worlds colliding just as each appears ready to implode, a common enemy unites the hope within to reclaim their honor.
That villain is Teddy Bear Haynes (Mark Burnham): restaurateur to the public, homicidal madman to the streets. The guy has a...
That villain is Teddy Bear Haynes (Mark Burnham): restaurateur to the public, homicidal madman to the streets. The guy has a...
- 7/25/2017
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
Ryan Prows’ Lowlife is a true-to-form sonofabitch. From frame one, the film smacks of Tarantino hoodishness – but sustainability is key. A larger story is divided into chapters, as Prows navigates this messy grey zone where “decent” people merely hope to survive. Lives collide, all connected by a single taco-slinging underworld boss. There’s vibrant character work and a surprising fluidity in jagged narration, but one segment remains the ugly ducking of this cartoonish Barrio calamity. That’s the only thing bogging down Prows’ big-picture vision, and even at that, remaining cinematics do all the talking.
The fun of Lowlife is experiencing scenes as they come at you, so I’ll be brief and spoiler-free. Necessary information is that Teddy “Bear” Haynes (Mark Burnham) is an asshole you don’t want to mess with. El Monstruo (Ricardo Adam Zarate) swears allegiance to his “Jefe,” but finds himself betrayed but pregnant wife...
The fun of Lowlife is experiencing scenes as they come at you, so I’ll be brief and spoiler-free. Necessary information is that Teddy “Bear” Haynes (Mark Burnham) is an asshole you don’t want to mess with. El Monstruo (Ricardo Adam Zarate) swears allegiance to his “Jefe,” but finds himself betrayed but pregnant wife...
- 7/22/2017
- by Matt Donato
- We Got This Covered
[[tmz:video id="0_59grj79j"]] Good news for Derek Carr ... you won't have to use all that new scratch to fix Broken Bones given to you by jealous NFL players ... that's according to one massive Denver Bronco who says it's all good. We got Domata Peko at Lax -- a 6'3'' 325 pound Mammoth who kills QBs -- and asked him if there was any extra incentive to punish Carr, now that the Raiders stud signed that $125 million deal. If...
- 7/9/2017
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
Megan Ellison’s fledgling division teams up with creator Chris McCoy and Sausage Party co-director Conrad Vernon on adult CG-animated series.
Annapurna TV is developing Amberville based on Tim Davys’ ‘Mollisan Town’ book series for Amazon Studios’ Prime Video platform.
Amberville is set in a city populated by living stuffed animals. The dark comedy centres on a reformed Teddy Bear who is pulled back into the criminal underworld when his former boss enlists him for an impossible new job.
McCoy wrote the pilot based on a story he co-wrote with Vernon, whose directing credits include Shrek 2 and Madagascar 3 and is attached to direct the pilot.
The project reunites Vernon with Annapurna who produced his film Sausage Party, which Sony Pictures released last year. McCoy wrote and directed last year’s Good Kids and has authored two novels.
Annapurna founder Megan Ellison serves as executive producer with Annapurna TV head Sue Naegle, David Distenfeld, McCoy...
Annapurna TV is developing Amberville based on Tim Davys’ ‘Mollisan Town’ book series for Amazon Studios’ Prime Video platform.
Amberville is set in a city populated by living stuffed animals. The dark comedy centres on a reformed Teddy Bear who is pulled back into the criminal underworld when his former boss enlists him for an impossible new job.
McCoy wrote the pilot based on a story he co-wrote with Vernon, whose directing credits include Shrek 2 and Madagascar 3 and is attached to direct the pilot.
The project reunites Vernon with Annapurna who produced his film Sausage Party, which Sony Pictures released last year. McCoy wrote and directed last year’s Good Kids and has authored two novels.
Annapurna founder Megan Ellison serves as executive producer with Annapurna TV head Sue Naegle, David Distenfeld, McCoy...
- 3/20/2017
- ScreenDaily
Update With Key Speeches: Hungarian title On Body And Soul takes best film; Aki Kaurismaki, Sebastian Lelio among winners; Insyriated and I Am Not Your Negro scoop Panorama audience awards; 2018 festival dates revealed.
The awards ceremony for the 67th Berlin Film Festival took place this evening (18 Feb) with winners including Ildiko Enyedi, Alain Gomis, Agnieszka Holland and Sebastian Lelio.
Scroll down for full list of winners
Ildikò Enyedi’s Hungarian feature On Body and Soul - the unusual love story of two damaged souls trying to make contact in a harsh world - was the big winner on the night taking home the Golden Bear for best film in the Competition as well as the Ecumenical and Fipresci juries’ prizes for best film in the Official Competition and the Berliner Morgenpost Readers’ Award.
Enyedi’s film - which is handled internationally by Berlin-based sales agent Films Boutique and had been hotly tipped for the Golden Bear - is...
The awards ceremony for the 67th Berlin Film Festival took place this evening (18 Feb) with winners including Ildiko Enyedi, Alain Gomis, Agnieszka Holland and Sebastian Lelio.
Scroll down for full list of winners
Ildikò Enyedi’s Hungarian feature On Body and Soul - the unusual love story of two damaged souls trying to make contact in a harsh world - was the big winner on the night taking home the Golden Bear for best film in the Competition as well as the Ecumenical and Fipresci juries’ prizes for best film in the Official Competition and the Berliner Morgenpost Readers’ Award.
Enyedi’s film - which is handled internationally by Berlin-based sales agent Films Boutique and had been hotly tipped for the Golden Bear - is...
- 2/18/2017
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney) andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
The golden and silver bears are being handed out for the 67th Berlin Film Festival; Insyriated and I Am Not Your Negro scoop Panorama audience awards; 2018 festival dates revealed.
The awards ceremony for the 67th Berlin Film Festival is taking place tonight (18 Feb). Follow the event’s live stream here from 6pm GMT (7pm Cet) and below for live updates.
The international jury comprised Paul Verhoeven (director), Dora Bouchoucha Fourati (producer), Olafur Eliasson (artist), Maggie Gyllenhaal (actress), Julia Jentsch (actress), Diego Luna (actor) and Wang Quan’an (director).
The Panorama and Generation sections have already revealed winners including Insyriated and I Am Not Your Negro. Scroll down for winners in additional sections.
The Berlinale also announced its 2018 dates: February 15 - 25, which is one week later than this year’s edition.
The full list of Berlin 2017 winnersGolden Bear for Best Film
Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize
Silver Bear Alfred Bauer Prize
Silver Bear for Best Director
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The awards ceremony for the 67th Berlin Film Festival is taking place tonight (18 Feb). Follow the event’s live stream here from 6pm GMT (7pm Cet) and below for live updates.
The international jury comprised Paul Verhoeven (director), Dora Bouchoucha Fourati (producer), Olafur Eliasson (artist), Maggie Gyllenhaal (actress), Julia Jentsch (actress), Diego Luna (actor) and Wang Quan’an (director).
The Panorama and Generation sections have already revealed winners including Insyriated and I Am Not Your Negro. Scroll down for winners in additional sections.
The Berlinale also announced its 2018 dates: February 15 - 25, which is one week later than this year’s edition.
The full list of Berlin 2017 winnersGolden Bear for Best Film
Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize
Silver Bear Alfred Bauer Prize
Silver Bear for Best Director
Silver [link=tt...
- 2/18/2017
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Ever wondered what it would be like to visit an La porn theatre in the early 1970′s? Well, those lovely folks over at Vinegar Syndrome may have the release just for you. I’d usually set the scene and build up the excitement (I do actually do that right?), but we have over 12 hours of smut to get through so let’s get on with it!
Disc 1: 7 Pm – 11 Pm
Girl Acrobatics (19??, dir: unknown)
Our uninterrupted sleazefest starts off a little bit tame actually (as it is a purely simulated scene) and sees a too cool for school yuppie returning home to his wife after being away for a couple of days. Naturally, he wants a welcome home present and it’s not until he’s in that classic handstand position with his tiny pecker exposed in all its limp glory that he gets it. Just like his member, this segment is short and sweet.
Disc 1: 7 Pm – 11 Pm
Girl Acrobatics (19??, dir: unknown)
Our uninterrupted sleazefest starts off a little bit tame actually (as it is a purely simulated scene) and sees a too cool for school yuppie returning home to his wife after being away for a couple of days. Naturally, he wants a welcome home present and it’s not until he’s in that classic handstand position with his tiny pecker exposed in all its limp glory that he gets it. Just like his member, this segment is short and sweet.
- 1/26/2017
- by Mondo Squallido
- Nerdly
John Cena and Nikki Bella began dating in 2012 after meeting through the WWE. Throughout their relationship, they've shared a handful of extremely cute moments together, but how exactly did their friendship turn into romance, you ask? I recently got the chance to chat on the phone with John while he promoted Tapout gear for JCPenney in NYC, and he revealed that all it took was a simple question. "I was brave enough to be like, 'Hey, would you like to go to dinner with me tonight?' and she said, 'Yes.' I was overjoyed." John also admitted that "the day she said 'yes' when I asked her out on a date" was the moment he knew everything between them was about to change. So sweet! Related:You'll Fall in Love With John Cena, Too, After Reading These 9 ReasonsThese Photos of John Cena With Kids Prove He's Really Just a Big...
- 1/25/2017
- by Monica Sisavat
- Popsugar.com
Even filmmaker Stephen Gaghan will admit it’s been far too long since he’s had a movie in theaters with the Oscar-nominated political thriller Syriana. It got him his second Oscar nomination after winning an Oscar for writing Stephen Soderbergh’s Oscar-winning Traffic a few years earlier.
He’s finally back with Gold, a movie loosely based on the real-life Bre-x gold scandal with Matthew McConaughey playing Kenny Wells, a man struggling to keep his father’s mining business alive after his passing. A vision of there being gold in Indonesia, puts him in contact with geologist Michael Acosta (Edgar Ramirez) who believes that he can help Wells find that gold. After a trying start where Kenny almost succumbs to malaria, Acosta finds evidence of gold, which gets many investing in their company, but as with the Bre-x scandal, things weren’t what they seemed.
Unlike Syriana and Traffic,...
He’s finally back with Gold, a movie loosely based on the real-life Bre-x gold scandal with Matthew McConaughey playing Kenny Wells, a man struggling to keep his father’s mining business alive after his passing. A vision of there being gold in Indonesia, puts him in contact with geologist Michael Acosta (Edgar Ramirez) who believes that he can help Wells find that gold. After a trying start where Kenny almost succumbs to malaria, Acosta finds evidence of gold, which gets many investing in their company, but as with the Bre-x scandal, things weren’t what they seemed.
Unlike Syriana and Traffic,...
- 1/19/2017
- by Edward Douglas
- LRMonline.com
Many are called, few are chosen: The number of high-quality, awards-worthy documentaries seems to grow every year, but there’s still only 15 slots on the Oscar documentary shortlist. That will be announced December 5; the final five will be revealed on nominations morning, January 24. This year, 145 features were submitted.
This is the white-knuckle portion of the final campaign stretch, as documentary filmmakers and distributors hope their movies make it onto documentary branch voters’ viewing piles before they file their final grades. Those with the advantage are high-profile established hits and festival award-winners with the right combination of engaging accessibility, artful filmmaking, and gravitas.
So what’s looking like a strong bet? It’s a diverse list in more ways than one. Here are my picks for the Top 15, which are not listed in order of likelihood.
See more ‘Amanda Knox’: Why It Took Five Years to Unravel the Story of...
This is the white-knuckle portion of the final campaign stretch, as documentary filmmakers and distributors hope their movies make it onto documentary branch voters’ viewing piles before they file their final grades. Those with the advantage are high-profile established hits and festival award-winners with the right combination of engaging accessibility, artful filmmaking, and gravitas.
So what’s looking like a strong bet? It’s a diverse list in more ways than one. Here are my picks for the Top 15, which are not listed in order of likelihood.
See more ‘Amanda Knox’: Why It Took Five Years to Unravel the Story of...
- 11/21/2016
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
Many are called, few are chosen: The number of high-quality, awards-worthy documentaries seems to grow every year, but there’s still only 15 slots on the Oscar documentary shortlist. That will be announced December 5; the final five will be revealed on nominations morning, January 24. This year, 145 features were submitted.
This is the white-knuckle portion of the final campaign stretch, as documentary filmmakers and distributors hope their movies make it onto documentary branch voters’ viewing piles before they file their final grades. Those with the advantage are high-profile established hits and festival award-winners with the right combination of engaging accessibility, artful filmmaking, and gravitas.
So what’s looking like a strong bet? It’s a diverse list in more ways than one. Here are my picks for the Top 15, which are not listed in order of likelihood.
See more ‘Amanda Knox’: Why It Took Five Years to Unravel the Story of...
This is the white-knuckle portion of the final campaign stretch, as documentary filmmakers and distributors hope their movies make it onto documentary branch voters’ viewing piles before they file their final grades. Those with the advantage are high-profile established hits and festival award-winners with the right combination of engaging accessibility, artful filmmaking, and gravitas.
So what’s looking like a strong bet? It’s a diverse list in more ways than one. Here are my picks for the Top 15, which are not listed in order of likelihood.
See more ‘Amanda Knox’: Why It Took Five Years to Unravel the Story of...
- 11/21/2016
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
Human celebrities are turning up in some pretty impressive costumes this year, but they will never beat the fluffy and famous.
There is such an overwhelming, unbeatable level of inherent cuteness in an animal dressed up in a costume, it’s almost unfair to everyone else.
Like their Homo sapien cohorts, our favorite famous pets are all over Instagram modeling their most chic Halloween ensembles.
Instead of getting down about how these four-legged stars can make even the most basic outfits look good, revel in the fact that we as a society have progressed so far that mass market pet costumes are a reality.
There is such an overwhelming, unbeatable level of inherent cuteness in an animal dressed up in a costume, it’s almost unfair to everyone else.
Like their Homo sapien cohorts, our favorite famous pets are all over Instagram modeling their most chic Halloween ensembles.
Instead of getting down about how these four-legged stars can make even the most basic outfits look good, revel in the fact that we as a society have progressed so far that mass market pet costumes are a reality.
- 10/31/2016
- by kellibendertimeinc
- PEOPLE.com
Despite all former depictions of the Teddy Bear as cute and cuddly, there is one filmmaking team that insists that we ought not be so cavalier about our furry friends. Teddy Bears Are For Lovers, a cautionary tale from the minds of lmog Avidan Antonir (director) and David Ernesto Vendrell (writer), empathetically suggests just this: Teddies are for lovers and lovers alone... unless you wish to face the threat of murder via homicidal ex-bear. This short but potent work of Teddy Bear deconstructionism was given a helpful push last night by Crypt TV, having already been selected last month as The Short of the Week. Fans of Henson puppetry or Dante creature animation - or perhaps the Puppet Master/Child's Play series - take heed, and check...
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- 10/24/2016
- Screen Anarchy
Despite all former depictions of the Teddy Bear as cute and cuddly, there is one filmmaking team that insists that we ought not be so cavalier about our furry friends. Teddy Bears Are For Lovers, a cautionary tale from the minds of lmog Avidan Antonir (director) and David Ernesto Vendrell (writer), empathetically suggests just this: Teddies are for lovers and lovers alone... unless you wish to face the threat of murder via homicidal ex-bear. This short but potent work of Teddy Bear deconstructionism was given a helpful push last night by Crypt TV, having already been selected last month as The Short of the Week. Fans of Henson puppetry or Dante creature animation - or perhaps the Puppet Master/Child's Play series - take heed, and check...
[Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]...
[Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]...
- 10/20/2016
- Screen Anarchy
Fifteen of Britain’s up and coming film-makers to attend five-day professional development programme.
The BFI has revealed the 15 writers and directors taking part in the Net.Work@Lff professional development programme at this year’s BFI London Film Festival (Oct 5-16).
This year’s Net.Work event focuses on emerging film-makers from British black, Asian and minority ethnic (Bame) backgrounds from across the UK. The programme also mirrors the festival’s headline industry event, the Lff Black Star Symposium (Thursday, 6 October), which will be opened by British actor and producer David Oyelowo.
During the course of the five-day programme (Oct 6-10) which is supported by the BFI with National Lottery funding, the 15 writers and directors will be participating in masterclasses, screenings, networking and one-to-one sessions with visiting international film-makers and executives whose films are screening at the festival.
The delegates include Toby Fell-Holden, whose short Balcony won a Crystal Bear in Berlin’s Generation 14plus strand...
The BFI has revealed the 15 writers and directors taking part in the Net.Work@Lff professional development programme at this year’s BFI London Film Festival (Oct 5-16).
This year’s Net.Work event focuses on emerging film-makers from British black, Asian and minority ethnic (Bame) backgrounds from across the UK. The programme also mirrors the festival’s headline industry event, the Lff Black Star Symposium (Thursday, 6 October), which will be opened by British actor and producer David Oyelowo.
During the course of the five-day programme (Oct 6-10) which is supported by the BFI with National Lottery funding, the 15 writers and directors will be participating in masterclasses, screenings, networking and one-to-one sessions with visiting international film-makers and executives whose films are screening at the festival.
The delegates include Toby Fell-Holden, whose short Balcony won a Crystal Bear in Berlin’s Generation 14plus strand...
- 9/27/2016
- ScreenDaily
Fifteen of Britain’s up and coming film-makers to attend five-day professional development programme.
The BFI has revealed the 15 writers and directors taking part in the Net.Work@Lff professional development programme at this year’s BFI London Film Festival (Oct 5-16).
This year’s Net.Work event focuses on emerging film-makers from British black, Asian and minority ethnic (Bame) backgrounds from across the UK. The programme also mirrors the festival’s headline industry event, the Lff Black Star Symposium (Thursday, 6 October), which will be opened by British actor and producer David Oyelowo.
During the course of the five-day programme (Oct 6-10) which is supported by the BFI with National Lottery funding, the 15 writers and directors will be participating in masterclasses, screenings, networking and one-to-one sessions with visiting international film-makers and executives whose films are screening at the festival.
The delegates include Toby Fell-Holden, whose short Balcony won a Crystal Bear in Berlin’s Generation 14plus strand...
The BFI has revealed the 15 writers and directors taking part in the Net.Work@Lff professional development programme at this year’s BFI London Film Festival (Oct 5-16).
This year’s Net.Work event focuses on emerging film-makers from British black, Asian and minority ethnic (Bame) backgrounds from across the UK. The programme also mirrors the festival’s headline industry event, the Lff Black Star Symposium (Thursday, 6 October), which will be opened by British actor and producer David Oyelowo.
During the course of the five-day programme (Oct 6-10) which is supported by the BFI with National Lottery funding, the 15 writers and directors will be participating in masterclasses, screenings, networking and one-to-one sessions with visiting international film-makers and executives whose films are screening at the festival.
The delegates include Toby Fell-Holden, whose short Balcony won a Crystal Bear in Berlin’s Generation 14plus strand...
- 9/26/2016
- ScreenDaily
“The Pit” is an odd film, to say the least. It was originally released in 1981 and wasn’t a rousing success by any stretch of the imagination, but it has gained a cult following over the succeeding years due to its absurd plot and acting. Now fans of the “Canuxploitation” genre can revisit it with fresh eyes, as the film is returning to theaters in a new 2K restoration.
Read More: 12 Arthouse Horror Directors Who Are Reinventing The Genre
The premise of the only film ever directed by Lew Lehman is almost too silly to believe.
Continue reading Re-Release Trailer For Newly Restored Canuxploitation Classic ‘The Pit’ Introduces A Creepy Kid & His Evil Teddy Bear at The Playlist.
Read More: 12 Arthouse Horror Directors Who Are Reinventing The Genre
The premise of the only film ever directed by Lew Lehman is almost too silly to believe.
Continue reading Re-Release Trailer For Newly Restored Canuxploitation Classic ‘The Pit’ Introduces A Creepy Kid & His Evil Teddy Bear at The Playlist.
- 9/20/2016
- by Charles Dean
- The Playlist
Angelina Jolie, academy award-winning actress and United Nations Special Envoy, made a surprise speech at the Un Peacekeeping Defence Ministerial in London. Related: Angelina Jolie Buys Giant Teddy Bear From Kids On The Street Jolie took to the stage in a chic black outfit to praise the many servicemen and women: “I pay tribute to […]...
- 9/8/2016
- by Shakiel Mahjouri
- ET Canada
Lrm had the opportunity this past weekend to sit in on a Walking Dead Zombie Panel at Charlotte Comicon. We got to listen Amber Dawn Fox, Joey Rodriguez, Matt Bolick, Jeremy Ambler, Mike Mundy, Addy Miller, Chris Harrelson, Veronica Wagner, Kent Wagner, and Melissa Cowan discuss their individual experiences on being on the show. They discussed with the crowd what it was like to be on set throughout the different seasons along with the amount of make-up it would take to put on. We also got to hear how all of them would be clueless on what would happen in the scene until shooting. Check out the photos below from the panel discussion.
Lrm Readers can have the Exclusive opportunity to have a piece of Walking Dead History. One lucky reader will be able to win a Funko Pop #154 Teddy Bear Girl and a 8 x 10 of Bicycle Girl signed by...
Lrm Readers can have the Exclusive opportunity to have a piece of Walking Dead History. One lucky reader will be able to win a Funko Pop #154 Teddy Bear Girl and a 8 x 10 of Bicycle Girl signed by...
- 8/14/2016
- by Michael Connally
- LRMonline.com
It's in glorious Technicolor Metrocolor, CinemaScope and StereoPhonic Sound! Fred Astaire's final MGM musical gives him Cyd Charisse and a Cole Porter score, plus some nice Hermes Pan choreography. The script and Rouben Mamoulian's direction aren't the best, but the combined magic of the musical and dancing talent saves the day. Silk Stockings Blu-ray Warner Archive Collection 1957 / Color / 2:40 widescreen / 117 min. / Street Date July 12, 2016 / available through the WBshop / 21.99 Starring Fred Astaire, Cyd Charisse, Janis Paige, Peter Lorre, George Tobias, Jules Munshin, Joseph Buloff, Wim Sonneveld Cinematography Robert Bronner Art Direction Randall Duell, William A. Horning Film Editor Harold F. Kress Original Music Cole Porter Written by Abe Burrows, Leonard Gershe, George S. Kaufman, Leueen MacGrath, and Leonard Spigelgass Produced by Arthur Freed Directed by Rouben Mamoulian
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
On the Town? The Pajama Game? Damn Yankees? The Warner Archive Collection's next musical up for the...
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
On the Town? The Pajama Game? Damn Yankees? The Warner Archive Collection's next musical up for the...
- 7/23/2016
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Robert De Niro made his big-screen directorial debut in the 1993 gangster flick A Bronx Tale. And now, the 72-year-old star will make his Broadway directorial debut, in the musical adaptation of the hit film. The show is set to open at New York's Longacre Theatre on Dec. 1. Previews begin Nov. 3. A Bronx Tale: The Musical will reunite De Niro with his costar in the movie Chazz Palminteri, who wrote the film's screenplay and will also pen the musical's book. Palminteri first performed the piece as a one-man play in 1989, and continues to tour with it today. Set in the Big Apple in the 1960s,...
- 6/16/2016
- by Dave Quinn, @NineDaves
- PEOPLE.com
Robert De Niro made his big-screen directorial debut in the 1993 gangster flick A Bronx Tale. And now, the 72-year-old star will make his Broadway directorial debut, in the musical adaptation of the hit film. The show is set to open at New York's Longacre Theatre on Dec. 1. Previews begin Nov. 3. A Bronx Tale: The Musical will reunite De Niro with his costar in the movie Chazz Palminteri, who wrote the film's screenplay and will also pen the musical's book. Palminteri first performed the piece as a one-man play in 1989, and continues to tour with it today. Set in the Big Apple in the 1960s,...
- 6/16/2016
- by Dave Quinn, @NineDaves
- PEOPLE.com
18-year-old Devin Washington was just looking for a job on Saturday when he went to interview at a New Orleans Popeyes restaurant. He got the job - but also became a hero when he thwarted an alleged robbery mid-interview. According to a statement from New Orleans police, the suspect, Pablo Ciscart, 50, allegedly asked the cashier to give him change of a bill and then grabbed money from the open register before bolting for the door. As he approached the door, Ciscart allegedly tried to push the store manager out of the way, but Washington, a former high school football player who is 6 ft.
- 3/22/2016
- by Greg Hanlon, @GregHanlon
- PEOPLE.com
18-year-old Devin Washington was just looking for a job on Saturday when he went to interview at a New Orleans Popeyes restaurant. He got the job - but also became a hero when he thwarted an alleged robbery mid-interview. According to a statement from New Orleans police, the suspect, Pablo Ciscart, 50, allegedly asked the cashier to give him change of a bill and then grabbed money from the open register before bolting for the door. As he approached the door, Ciscart allegedly tried to push the store manager out of the way, but Washington, a former high school football player who is 6 ft.
- 3/22/2016
- by Greg Hanlon, @GregHanlon
- PEOPLE.com
The “What Killed Uncle Matt?” contest from the makers of Distiller starts today and we have an exclusive look at their latest comic! Also in this round-up: Weird Detective comic details and a look at Neca’s new Godzilla figure.
Distiller Comic & Contest: “On March 16th we’ll be celebrating one year of uninterrupted weekly comics based on Distiller by running a contest called “What killed Uncle Matt?”
Background clues laced throughout the movie and comics link up to the tell the story of how Uncle Matt really disappeared and what happened to him (unseen in the film).
To enter, contestants only need to post their theories of what happened to Matt on our Facebook page (facebook.com/distillerthemovie).
The grand prize will go to the first eligible person to post the correct answer. They will win the screen used puppet of the Goblin (with Teddy Bear suit) which we...
Distiller Comic & Contest: “On March 16th we’ll be celebrating one year of uninterrupted weekly comics based on Distiller by running a contest called “What killed Uncle Matt?”
Background clues laced throughout the movie and comics link up to the tell the story of how Uncle Matt really disappeared and what happened to him (unseen in the film).
To enter, contestants only need to post their theories of what happened to Matt on our Facebook page (facebook.com/distillerthemovie).
The grand prize will go to the first eligible person to post the correct answer. They will win the screen used puppet of the Goblin (with Teddy Bear suit) which we...
- 3/16/2016
- by Tamika Jones
- DailyDead
This year we are seeing many films from Mena, that is an acronym for the Middle East and North Africa. More commonly called “Arab” cinema, (though the term is inaccurate because several countries in the region are not actually “Arab”) the films of this region are winning many awards and garnering much interest worldwide.
More than 10 Arab films participated in the Berlinale’s Forum and Forum Expanded programs this year, in addition to the ones which participated in the Official Competition (“Inhebek Hedi”/ “Hedi” from Tunisia and “A Dragon Arrives!” by Mani Haghighi from Iran). This makes an especially remarkable year for Arab cinema’s presence in Berlin.
The Forum focus on Arab cinema, represented with films from Egypt, Palestine, Lebanon, Syria and Saudi Arabia highlights mostly young directors whose works explore both the past and present of their homelands.
The films included: “A Magical Substance Flows into Me” by artist Jumana Manna (Palestine), “Akher ayam el madina”/ “In the Last Days of the City” (Egypt) by Tamer El Said (international sales by Still Moving), documentary “Makhdoumin”/ “A Maid for Each” (Lebanon) by Maher Abi Samra (Isa: Docs & Film), “Barakah yoqabil Barakah”/ “Barakah Meets Barakah” (Saudi Arabia) by Mahmoud Sabbagh and Manazil (Isa: Mpm), “Bela abwab”/ “Houses without Doors” by Syrian-Armenian director Avo Kaprealian. Of course the 46th Berlinale Forum also screens films from European, Latin American and Asian directors.
The Tunisian film in Competition “Inhebek Hedi”/ “Hedi” by Mohamed Ben Attia, won the Best First Feature Award and its leading man, Majd Mastoura, received the prestigious Silver Bear for Best Actor for his role as Hedi. Attia’s debut feature film is a thoughtful love story about identity and independence in Tunisian society. It is being sold internationally by Luxbox.
Palestinian director Mahdi Fleifel won the Silver Bear Jury Prize for Short Film for “ A Man Returned”, a 30-minute portrayal of a young refugee struggling to make a life for himself in Lebanon’s Ain El-Helweh camp, being sold internationally by 3.14 Collectif. He previously made an award-winning documentary about his own experience as a refugee. The short film was also selected as the Berlin Short Film Nominee for the European Film Awards.
The Ecumenical Jury awarded the Forum Prize to Saudi filmmaker Mahmoud Sabbagh for his well-received romantic comedy “Barakah Yoqabil Barakah”/ “Barakah Meets Barakah”, a social commentary on the lives of young people in Saudi Arabia. It shared the prize with Danish production “Les Sauteurs”/ “Those Who Jump” – a film that also highlights the plight of Europe-bound refugees.
Egyptian filmmaker Tamer El-Said’s feature film “Akher Ayam El-Madina”/ “In the Last Days of the City” won the Caligari Film Prize. The film looks at a young filmmaker’s struggle to complete a film about Cairo. It was the only Egyptian film to participate in the 2016 Berlinale Forum.
Lebanese filmmaker Maher Abi Samra’s documentary “Makhdoumin”/ “A Maid for Each”, a look at the legal system that controls the lives of Lebanon’s foreign domestic workers, won the Peace Film Prize.
“Zinzana”/ “Rattle the Cage” director, Majid al Ansari, from the Arab Emirates, was honored with Variety’s Mid-East Filmmaker of the Year Award at the Berlinale. The film is the first genre movie of its kind produced in the UAE. It was financed and produced by Abu Dhabi’s ImageNation. It is repped for Us by Cinetic and international sales are by Im Global.
Projects “Mawlana”, based on Ibrahim Issa’s best-selling novel and shortlisted for the Arabic Booker Prize and director’s Mohamed Yassein’s “Wedding Song” based on Naguib Mahfouz’s novel, the Nobel Prize Winner for Literature were being promoted at the Arab Cinema Center at the Market. Reflecting a decadent Egypt from the 1970s, “Wedding Song” is one of the largest TV productions in the Arab World in 2016.
“Theeb”, a Jordanian Epic about Bedouins, is the Academy Award nomination for Best Foreign Language Film. It played in Venice. International sales agent Fortissimo has licensed it to Film Movement for U.S., ABC for Benelux, New Wave for U.K., As Fidalgo for Norway, Jiff for Australia, trigon-film for Switzerland. Mad Solutions is handling the Middle East. “Ave Maria” a 14-minute Palestine satirical short is the Academy Award nomination for Best Short Fiction and is being sold internationally by Ouat Media. “ The Idol” (Palestine) played Tiff 2015 and other top fests and has sold widely throughout the world through Canada-based international sales agent Seville. Not since Elia Suleiman won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival for “Divine Intervention” has a Palestinian film director made as much of an impact as “The Idol” director Hany Abu-Assad whose “Paradise Now” and “Omar” both went to the Academy Awards.
Kudos for much of the success of Arab cinema go to Mad Solutions, the Cairo, Abu Dhabi and New York based marketing and distribution company for its marketing and social media strategies as well as its release of “Theeb”, “Zinzana” and “Ave Maria”. It also helped create the Arab Cinema Center which was launched last year at the Berlinale and Efm.
In all, 20 Mena films played in the Festival and Market this year.
And what of that other small country in the region called Israel (and/ or Palestine) which is not included in the term Mena? While Israeli films that showed in Berlin received international praise, they will never show in any of the Arab countries and are sometimes boycotted by international film festivals who succumb to censorship tactics.
Most of the larger Israeli features go to Cannes, Venice and Toronto; “Afterthought” went to Cannes, “Mountain” to Venice, “Barash” to San Sebastian”, “Wedding Doll” to London and “A.K.A. Nadia” to Talinn Black Nights Film Festival. In Berlin many are screened as German Premieres.
What Israeli films have won acclaim lately? Is it possible that our hero, Katriel Schory, head of the Israel Film Fund, whose stand for true art has earned him Israeli government censure at home (A prophet is never honored in his own land) and fame abroad with new countries striving to create national cinema, is being eclipsed by the growth of “Arab” cinema?
“Sandstorm” directed by Elite Zexer (international sales by Beta) made its way to Panorama from its world premiere in Sundance where it won the Best Actress Award for Palestinian actress Lamis Ammar’s portrayal of a young Bedouin woman forced to choose between modern freedom or traditional societal strictures within an arranged marriage.
Panorama also screened “Junction 48” (international sales by The Match Factory) which received international praise and audience acclaim. The Israeli-Palestinian hip-hop movie by Israeli-American filmmaker, Udi Aloni, was supported by the Israel-based Rabinovich Foundation. The story is about Kareem who lives in a mixed Jewish-Arab crime-ridden ghetto outside Tel Aviv. He deals drugs and lives dangerously until he discovers hip-hop and decides to express his life as a Palestinian youth along with young singer Manar. Palestinian and Israeli musicians drive this music movie and for Aloni, just seeing the film made, and then shown at the Berlin Film Festival proves its success.
“Suddenly a group of people just choose to make a film and the film is extremely professional. It’s very important that this bi-national energy can create high quality stuff, the high quality is almost the symbol of the resistance. We should not even have to tell the story about the issue. The fact that we could create it is amazing,” Aloni told Euronews.
Thirty-seven-year-old Arab-Israeli rapper Tamer Nafar plays the lead role, and has known the 56-year-old Aloni for some time. “We have been on the same demonstrations, in the parties since 2000, so we live in each other’s world. He has been to my concerts many times, he directed a video clip, I was in his movies as a producer a few times. It’s not about an old generation and new generation, it’s just about creating the right generation,” he said. “He has that gift of being a good story teller and director but he gives us the stage, no, he doesn’t give us a stage, we are building a stage together… he has his own perspective but we are all on the same level,” said actress Samar Qupty. The struggle for equal rights for Palestinians or Arab Israelis inside Israel is at its crux.
Panorama Documents screened “Who’s Gonna Love Me Now?” directed by Tomer Haymann and Barak Heymann co-directed by Alexander Bodin Saphir and being sold by Austria’s Autlook. Forum showed “ Inertia” by Idan Haguel being sold by Oration Films’ Timothy O’Brian of the U.S., and “Between Fences” by Avi Mograbi, being sold by Docs & Film’s Daniela Elstner of France. Culinary Cinema showed “Café Nagler” by Mor Kaplansky and Yariv Barel is being sold internationally by Go2Films.
Teddy 30 (the retrospective of Teddy Award winners over the past 30 years) honored Dan Wolman’s 1979 film “Hide and Seek”/ “Machboim”. Berlinale Shorts screened Rotem Murat’s “Winds Junction” from Sapir College which also holds international rights; Generation 14 Plus screened “Mushkie” by Aleeza Chanowitz from the Jerusalem San Spiegel Film School, being sold by Cinephil. Seven other films were sold in the market by various sales agents.
One of the very special events I attended at the Berlinale this year was the Shabbat Dinner, held the first Friday in the Festival and hosted by Nicola Galliner, Founder and Force of the Berlin Jewish Film Festival. There was a table full of Jews: the new Director of the Jerusalem Film Festival, Noa Regev, PhD; Jay Rosenblatt, Program Director of San Francisco’sJewish Film Institute and its former Director, Peter Stein, now the Senior Programmer of Frameline, San Francisco’s Lgbtq Film Festival; Judy Ironside, the Founder and President of UK Jewish Film and of the sixth edition of the Geneva and Zurich Jewish Film Festivals, the new young director of the Boston Jewish Film Festival, Ariana Cohen-Halberstam who recently moved from the New York Jcc to Boston, the prolific Israeli director, filmmaker Dan Wolman whose new film will soon be out and whose 1979 film “Hide and Seek”/ “Machboim” was part of the Teddy 30th Anniversary Retrospective held by the Berlinale Panorama.
Talk was about films, about politics including gender politics, about our concerns, (we Jews are better worriers than warriors) and just plain gossip.
Now if my readers will excuse my interjecting myself into this article:
It is my opinion that the region of the world called the Middle East, and the three major monotheistic religions of the world whose origin is there had better learn to do more than merely co-exist peacefully if we are to see peaceful and fruitful consequences which will set the world back upon its proper axis.
Art breaks down borders; it is subversive rather than observant of the exigencies of ever changing governments. It creates new perspectives and breaks down old ways of seeing. What I call “Cinema” is Art. Other movies may simply entertain and not aspire to more or they may propagate dogmas, but Art serves no master; it is not tethered; it is freedom of expression which should be honored with freedom to travel.
More than 10 Arab films participated in the Berlinale’s Forum and Forum Expanded programs this year, in addition to the ones which participated in the Official Competition (“Inhebek Hedi”/ “Hedi” from Tunisia and “A Dragon Arrives!” by Mani Haghighi from Iran). This makes an especially remarkable year for Arab cinema’s presence in Berlin.
The Forum focus on Arab cinema, represented with films from Egypt, Palestine, Lebanon, Syria and Saudi Arabia highlights mostly young directors whose works explore both the past and present of their homelands.
The films included: “A Magical Substance Flows into Me” by artist Jumana Manna (Palestine), “Akher ayam el madina”/ “In the Last Days of the City” (Egypt) by Tamer El Said (international sales by Still Moving), documentary “Makhdoumin”/ “A Maid for Each” (Lebanon) by Maher Abi Samra (Isa: Docs & Film), “Barakah yoqabil Barakah”/ “Barakah Meets Barakah” (Saudi Arabia) by Mahmoud Sabbagh and Manazil (Isa: Mpm), “Bela abwab”/ “Houses without Doors” by Syrian-Armenian director Avo Kaprealian. Of course the 46th Berlinale Forum also screens films from European, Latin American and Asian directors.
The Tunisian film in Competition “Inhebek Hedi”/ “Hedi” by Mohamed Ben Attia, won the Best First Feature Award and its leading man, Majd Mastoura, received the prestigious Silver Bear for Best Actor for his role as Hedi. Attia’s debut feature film is a thoughtful love story about identity and independence in Tunisian society. It is being sold internationally by Luxbox.
Palestinian director Mahdi Fleifel won the Silver Bear Jury Prize for Short Film for “ A Man Returned”, a 30-minute portrayal of a young refugee struggling to make a life for himself in Lebanon’s Ain El-Helweh camp, being sold internationally by 3.14 Collectif. He previously made an award-winning documentary about his own experience as a refugee. The short film was also selected as the Berlin Short Film Nominee for the European Film Awards.
The Ecumenical Jury awarded the Forum Prize to Saudi filmmaker Mahmoud Sabbagh for his well-received romantic comedy “Barakah Yoqabil Barakah”/ “Barakah Meets Barakah”, a social commentary on the lives of young people in Saudi Arabia. It shared the prize with Danish production “Les Sauteurs”/ “Those Who Jump” – a film that also highlights the plight of Europe-bound refugees.
Egyptian filmmaker Tamer El-Said’s feature film “Akher Ayam El-Madina”/ “In the Last Days of the City” won the Caligari Film Prize. The film looks at a young filmmaker’s struggle to complete a film about Cairo. It was the only Egyptian film to participate in the 2016 Berlinale Forum.
Lebanese filmmaker Maher Abi Samra’s documentary “Makhdoumin”/ “A Maid for Each”, a look at the legal system that controls the lives of Lebanon’s foreign domestic workers, won the Peace Film Prize.
“Zinzana”/ “Rattle the Cage” director, Majid al Ansari, from the Arab Emirates, was honored with Variety’s Mid-East Filmmaker of the Year Award at the Berlinale. The film is the first genre movie of its kind produced in the UAE. It was financed and produced by Abu Dhabi’s ImageNation. It is repped for Us by Cinetic and international sales are by Im Global.
Projects “Mawlana”, based on Ibrahim Issa’s best-selling novel and shortlisted for the Arabic Booker Prize and director’s Mohamed Yassein’s “Wedding Song” based on Naguib Mahfouz’s novel, the Nobel Prize Winner for Literature were being promoted at the Arab Cinema Center at the Market. Reflecting a decadent Egypt from the 1970s, “Wedding Song” is one of the largest TV productions in the Arab World in 2016.
“Theeb”, a Jordanian Epic about Bedouins, is the Academy Award nomination for Best Foreign Language Film. It played in Venice. International sales agent Fortissimo has licensed it to Film Movement for U.S., ABC for Benelux, New Wave for U.K., As Fidalgo for Norway, Jiff for Australia, trigon-film for Switzerland. Mad Solutions is handling the Middle East. “Ave Maria” a 14-minute Palestine satirical short is the Academy Award nomination for Best Short Fiction and is being sold internationally by Ouat Media. “ The Idol” (Palestine) played Tiff 2015 and other top fests and has sold widely throughout the world through Canada-based international sales agent Seville. Not since Elia Suleiman won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival for “Divine Intervention” has a Palestinian film director made as much of an impact as “The Idol” director Hany Abu-Assad whose “Paradise Now” and “Omar” both went to the Academy Awards.
Kudos for much of the success of Arab cinema go to Mad Solutions, the Cairo, Abu Dhabi and New York based marketing and distribution company for its marketing and social media strategies as well as its release of “Theeb”, “Zinzana” and “Ave Maria”. It also helped create the Arab Cinema Center which was launched last year at the Berlinale and Efm.
In all, 20 Mena films played in the Festival and Market this year.
And what of that other small country in the region called Israel (and/ or Palestine) which is not included in the term Mena? While Israeli films that showed in Berlin received international praise, they will never show in any of the Arab countries and are sometimes boycotted by international film festivals who succumb to censorship tactics.
Most of the larger Israeli features go to Cannes, Venice and Toronto; “Afterthought” went to Cannes, “Mountain” to Venice, “Barash” to San Sebastian”, “Wedding Doll” to London and “A.K.A. Nadia” to Talinn Black Nights Film Festival. In Berlin many are screened as German Premieres.
What Israeli films have won acclaim lately? Is it possible that our hero, Katriel Schory, head of the Israel Film Fund, whose stand for true art has earned him Israeli government censure at home (A prophet is never honored in his own land) and fame abroad with new countries striving to create national cinema, is being eclipsed by the growth of “Arab” cinema?
“Sandstorm” directed by Elite Zexer (international sales by Beta) made its way to Panorama from its world premiere in Sundance where it won the Best Actress Award for Palestinian actress Lamis Ammar’s portrayal of a young Bedouin woman forced to choose between modern freedom or traditional societal strictures within an arranged marriage.
Panorama also screened “Junction 48” (international sales by The Match Factory) which received international praise and audience acclaim. The Israeli-Palestinian hip-hop movie by Israeli-American filmmaker, Udi Aloni, was supported by the Israel-based Rabinovich Foundation. The story is about Kareem who lives in a mixed Jewish-Arab crime-ridden ghetto outside Tel Aviv. He deals drugs and lives dangerously until he discovers hip-hop and decides to express his life as a Palestinian youth along with young singer Manar. Palestinian and Israeli musicians drive this music movie and for Aloni, just seeing the film made, and then shown at the Berlin Film Festival proves its success.
“Suddenly a group of people just choose to make a film and the film is extremely professional. It’s very important that this bi-national energy can create high quality stuff, the high quality is almost the symbol of the resistance. We should not even have to tell the story about the issue. The fact that we could create it is amazing,” Aloni told Euronews.
Thirty-seven-year-old Arab-Israeli rapper Tamer Nafar plays the lead role, and has known the 56-year-old Aloni for some time. “We have been on the same demonstrations, in the parties since 2000, so we live in each other’s world. He has been to my concerts many times, he directed a video clip, I was in his movies as a producer a few times. It’s not about an old generation and new generation, it’s just about creating the right generation,” he said. “He has that gift of being a good story teller and director but he gives us the stage, no, he doesn’t give us a stage, we are building a stage together… he has his own perspective but we are all on the same level,” said actress Samar Qupty. The struggle for equal rights for Palestinians or Arab Israelis inside Israel is at its crux.
Panorama Documents screened “Who’s Gonna Love Me Now?” directed by Tomer Haymann and Barak Heymann co-directed by Alexander Bodin Saphir and being sold by Austria’s Autlook. Forum showed “ Inertia” by Idan Haguel being sold by Oration Films’ Timothy O’Brian of the U.S., and “Between Fences” by Avi Mograbi, being sold by Docs & Film’s Daniela Elstner of France. Culinary Cinema showed “Café Nagler” by Mor Kaplansky and Yariv Barel is being sold internationally by Go2Films.
Teddy 30 (the retrospective of Teddy Award winners over the past 30 years) honored Dan Wolman’s 1979 film “Hide and Seek”/ “Machboim”. Berlinale Shorts screened Rotem Murat’s “Winds Junction” from Sapir College which also holds international rights; Generation 14 Plus screened “Mushkie” by Aleeza Chanowitz from the Jerusalem San Spiegel Film School, being sold by Cinephil. Seven other films were sold in the market by various sales agents.
One of the very special events I attended at the Berlinale this year was the Shabbat Dinner, held the first Friday in the Festival and hosted by Nicola Galliner, Founder and Force of the Berlin Jewish Film Festival. There was a table full of Jews: the new Director of the Jerusalem Film Festival, Noa Regev, PhD; Jay Rosenblatt, Program Director of San Francisco’sJewish Film Institute and its former Director, Peter Stein, now the Senior Programmer of Frameline, San Francisco’s Lgbtq Film Festival; Judy Ironside, the Founder and President of UK Jewish Film and of the sixth edition of the Geneva and Zurich Jewish Film Festivals, the new young director of the Boston Jewish Film Festival, Ariana Cohen-Halberstam who recently moved from the New York Jcc to Boston, the prolific Israeli director, filmmaker Dan Wolman whose new film will soon be out and whose 1979 film “Hide and Seek”/ “Machboim” was part of the Teddy 30th Anniversary Retrospective held by the Berlinale Panorama.
Talk was about films, about politics including gender politics, about our concerns, (we Jews are better worriers than warriors) and just plain gossip.
Now if my readers will excuse my interjecting myself into this article:
It is my opinion that the region of the world called the Middle East, and the three major monotheistic religions of the world whose origin is there had better learn to do more than merely co-exist peacefully if we are to see peaceful and fruitful consequences which will set the world back upon its proper axis.
Art breaks down borders; it is subversive rather than observant of the exigencies of ever changing governments. It creates new perspectives and breaks down old ways of seeing. What I call “Cinema” is Art. Other movies may simply entertain and not aspire to more or they may propagate dogmas, but Art serves no master; it is not tethered; it is freedom of expression which should be honored with freedom to travel.
- 3/6/2016
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
The organizers of the Hong Kong International Film Festival (Hkiff) announced that the winners of the Berlinale 2016 will be present on this years programme.
The programme will include the winners of the Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize; “Death in Sarajevo” (Bosnia-Herzegovina) by the Danis Tanovic, the winner of the Silver Bear Alfred Bauer Prize; “A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery” (Philippines) by Lav Diaz; and winner of the Outstanding Artistic Contribution (Cinematography); “Crosscurrent” (China) by Yang Chao.
The Hkiff will also present the winners of the Teddy Award Best Feature Film; “Tomcat” (Austria) by Handl Klaus. Both winners of the Ecumenical Prize (Forum 2016); “Barakah meets Barakah” (Saudi Arabia) by Mahmoud Sabbagh and “Those Who Jump” (Denmark) by Abou Bakar Sidibé, Estephan Wagner and Mortiz Siebert.
Last but not least the festival will screen the winners of the Golden Bear for Best Short; “Batrachian’s Ballad” (Portugal) by Leonor Teles, and...
The programme will include the winners of the Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize; “Death in Sarajevo” (Bosnia-Herzegovina) by the Danis Tanovic, the winner of the Silver Bear Alfred Bauer Prize; “A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery” (Philippines) by Lav Diaz; and winner of the Outstanding Artistic Contribution (Cinematography); “Crosscurrent” (China) by Yang Chao.
The Hkiff will also present the winners of the Teddy Award Best Feature Film; “Tomcat” (Austria) by Handl Klaus. Both winners of the Ecumenical Prize (Forum 2016); “Barakah meets Barakah” (Saudi Arabia) by Mahmoud Sabbagh and “Those Who Jump” (Denmark) by Abou Bakar Sidibé, Estephan Wagner and Mortiz Siebert.
Last but not least the festival will screen the winners of the Golden Bear for Best Short; “Batrachian’s Ballad” (Portugal) by Leonor Teles, and...
- 2/24/2016
- by Sebastian Nadilo
- AsianMoviePulse
The Berlin International Film Festival continued to challenge expectations in its 66th edition, landing another auteur heavy competition line-up, albeit a slightly less sensational one than the landmark 2015 program. Although an attempt continues to be made to establish grand motifs between films in competition and the more experimental sidebars, topical issues seemed to be the name of the game across the board, particularly immigration. This culminated with this year’s Golden Bear winner, Gianfranco Rosi’s Fire at Sea, a documentary which was the clear early favorite and remained so up until the awards ceremony. Rosi has now won two major film festivals with his documentary work (previously taking home the top prize at Venice 2013 for Sacro Gra), and further solidifies an argument for the Cannes Film Festival to follow suit and allow documentary titles to play in the main competition. Berlin notably had two documentaries in the main competition this year,...
- 2/22/2016
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Gianfranco Rosi’s migrant documentary Fire At Sea (Fuocoammare) took home the Golden Bear for Best Film at the Berlin Film Festival, which handed out its competition awards on Saturday night.Click here for full list of winners
Italian-American Rosi - who won the Golden Lion in Venice for his documentary Sacro Gra in 2013 - spent months on the island of Lampedusa capturing the everyday lives of its 6,000-strong population.
Situated closer to Africa than Europe, the Italian island of Lampedusa is one of the first points of call for hundreds of thousands of African and Middle Eastern refugees and migrants hoping to make a new life in Europe.
The film was a critics favourite during the Berlinale, leading the Screen Jury Grid into the final weekend of the festival, however during an interview with Screen director Rosi admitted a fear that his film might divide viewers.
Fire At Sea proved a hot seller for Doc & Film...
Italian-American Rosi - who won the Golden Lion in Venice for his documentary Sacro Gra in 2013 - spent months on the island of Lampedusa capturing the everyday lives of its 6,000-strong population.
Situated closer to Africa than Europe, the Italian island of Lampedusa is one of the first points of call for hundreds of thousands of African and Middle Eastern refugees and migrants hoping to make a new life in Europe.
The film was a critics favourite during the Berlinale, leading the Screen Jury Grid into the final weekend of the festival, however during an interview with Screen director Rosi admitted a fear that his film might divide viewers.
Fire At Sea proved a hot seller for Doc & Film...
- 2/20/2016
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Nordic Film Market includes debut films by Force Majeure actress, the screenwriter of A Royal Affair and director of viral hit Las Palmas; CAA, UTA and ICM agents among attending industry.Scroll down for full list
More than 40 Nordic films and works in progress will be presented at the fruitful Nordic Film Market in Goteborg, which runs Feb 4-7 during to the Goteborg Film Festival (Jan 29 - Feb 8).
Often a productive staging post for impressive upcoming regional features and emerging talent, the 2016 lineup includes 17 finished features and 20 works in progress, plus eight titles presented as part of the Nordic Film Lab Discovery programme.
The works-in-progress presentations (see full list below) include ten debut films from the likes of A Royal Affair screenwriter Rasmus Heisterberg, viral hit Las Palmas director Johannes Nyholm, Force Majeure actress Fanni Metelius and Cannes Cinefondation alumni Juho Kuosmanen and Shahrbanoo Sadat.
Other works in progress will be presented from directors Mads Brugger ([link...
More than 40 Nordic films and works in progress will be presented at the fruitful Nordic Film Market in Goteborg, which runs Feb 4-7 during to the Goteborg Film Festival (Jan 29 - Feb 8).
Often a productive staging post for impressive upcoming regional features and emerging talent, the 2016 lineup includes 17 finished features and 20 works in progress, plus eight titles presented as part of the Nordic Film Lab Discovery programme.
The works-in-progress presentations (see full list below) include ten debut films from the likes of A Royal Affair screenwriter Rasmus Heisterberg, viral hit Las Palmas director Johannes Nyholm, Force Majeure actress Fanni Metelius and Cannes Cinefondation alumni Juho Kuosmanen and Shahrbanoo Sadat.
Other works in progress will be presented from directors Mads Brugger ([link...
- 1/27/2016
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
Notable world premieres include Mads Matthiesen’s Teddy Bear follow-up The Model and Avalon director Axel Petersén’s Under the Pyramid.
Måns Månsson’s The Yard will open the 2016 Goteborg Film Festival (Jan 29 - Feb 8), which will screen some 450 films from 84 countries.
The film, which will have its world premiere at the Swedish festival’s Jan 29 opening, is adapted from Kristian Lundberg’s autobiographical novel about moving from cultural work to becoming a day laborer in Malmo harbour. Anders Mossling stars.
The festival’s closing film will be Henrik Ruben Genz’s Satisfaction 1720, Erlend Loe has written the manuscript for the film, about the post-war exploits of the “rock star of his day”, Vice-Admiral Tordenskjold.
Goteborg, the largest film festival in the Nordics and running for 11 days, is devoting special programmes to Italian cinema, Nigeria’s Nollywood and a new section on TV drama.
The eight films competing for the Dragon Award for Best Nordic film (which...
Måns Månsson’s The Yard will open the 2016 Goteborg Film Festival (Jan 29 - Feb 8), which will screen some 450 films from 84 countries.
The film, which will have its world premiere at the Swedish festival’s Jan 29 opening, is adapted from Kristian Lundberg’s autobiographical novel about moving from cultural work to becoming a day laborer in Malmo harbour. Anders Mossling stars.
The festival’s closing film will be Henrik Ruben Genz’s Satisfaction 1720, Erlend Loe has written the manuscript for the film, about the post-war exploits of the “rock star of his day”, Vice-Admiral Tordenskjold.
Goteborg, the largest film festival in the Nordics and running for 11 days, is devoting special programmes to Italian cinema, Nigeria’s Nollywood and a new section on TV drama.
The eight films competing for the Dragon Award for Best Nordic film (which...
- 1/12/2016
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
A couple of years ago, writer/director Mads Matthiesen made a splash with Teddy Bear, a drama about a quiet and shy body builder (played by real life body builder Kim Kold) who goes to Thailand to find a wife. The movie was touching and sentimental without being too saccharin, a fine line that is difficult to maintain for some but which Matthiesen had no issues with.
For his follow-up, Matthiesen is taking on another world with a movie that looks and feels far more like a thriller than his first feature: The Model. Set in the cut-throat world of Parisian high-fashion, the movie stars new comer Maria Palm as Emma, a young model breaking into the industry who develops an unhealthy obsession with fashion photographer Shane White (Ed Skrein). From the looks of it, when he mo [Continued ...]...
For his follow-up, Matthiesen is taking on another world with a movie that looks and feels far more like a thriller than his first feature: The Model. Set in the cut-throat world of Parisian high-fashion, the movie stars new comer Maria Palm as Emma, a young model breaking into the industry who develops an unhealthy obsession with fashion photographer Shane White (Ed Skrein). From the looks of it, when he mo [Continued ...]...
- 12/16/2015
- QuietEarth.us
Just when you thought it couldn’t get any more outrageous, Ted and his Bff are back in the hilarious, boundary-busting buddy comedy, Ted 2, coming to Digital HD on November 24, 2015, and Blu-ray™ Combo Pack, DVD and On Demand on December 15, 2015, from Universal Pictures Home Entertainment.
The follow up to Ted, the highest-grossing original R-rated comedy of all time, Ted 2 features more of the hysterically raunchy banter that has made writer-director-actor Seth MacFarlane an entertainment world powerhouse—as well as a touching story of brotherly love. Both the Blu-ray™ and DVD include an Unrated extended edition that features never-before-seen footage that was too rude for the cinema, but makes this year’s most outrageous comedy the perfect gift for fans of this very adult spin on a childhood icon.
“Funnier, wilder and even more naughty than the first movie!” according to Bill Zwecker, Wfld-tv (Fox), Ted 2...
The follow up to Ted, the highest-grossing original R-rated comedy of all time, Ted 2 features more of the hysterically raunchy banter that has made writer-director-actor Seth MacFarlane an entertainment world powerhouse—as well as a touching story of brotherly love. Both the Blu-ray™ and DVD include an Unrated extended edition that features never-before-seen footage that was too rude for the cinema, but makes this year’s most outrageous comedy the perfect gift for fans of this very adult spin on a childhood icon.
“Funnier, wilder and even more naughty than the first movie!” according to Bill Zwecker, Wfld-tv (Fox), Ted 2...
- 12/15/2015
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Having taken the Best Director award at Sundance for his debut feature Teddy Bear, Denmark's Mads Matthiesen returns to the big screen soon with sexy thriller The Model.When emerging fashion model Emma gets a chance to pursue her dream of becoming an international top model, she leaves her everyday life in Denmark behind, and moves to Paris. At a photo shoot in her new hometown, she meets the attractive photographer Shane White and they fall in love. But their relationship soon turns into a dangerous obsession for Emma.Playing out largely in English to reflect the international nature of the fashion community this one is clearly aimed at a broader audience than Matthiesen's debut and given the quality evident in the trailer it seems quite clear...
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- 12/4/2015
- Screen Anarchy
We blame Ryan Murphy for many of our sleepless nights.
The creator is responsible for some of television's most bone-chilling scenes thanks to his series Nip/Tuck, American Horror Story and Scream Queens.
Now, with American Horror Story: Hotel premiering in just a few hours, let's take a look back at the scream king's most terrifying moments. Be warned: The things you are about to witness cannot be unseen. Trust us, we've tried.
All Your Basement Anxieties Realized
When Violet (Taissa Farmiga) enlists Tate's (Evan Peters) help in terrifying her high school bully Leah (Shelby Young) for revenge, she inadvertently...
The creator is responsible for some of television's most bone-chilling scenes thanks to his series Nip/Tuck, American Horror Story and Scream Queens.
Now, with American Horror Story: Hotel premiering in just a few hours, let's take a look back at the scream king's most terrifying moments. Be warned: The things you are about to witness cannot be unseen. Trust us, we've tried.
All Your Basement Anxieties Realized
When Violet (Taissa Farmiga) enlists Tate's (Evan Peters) help in terrifying her high school bully Leah (Shelby Young) for revenge, she inadvertently...
- 10/7/2015
- by Lydia Price, @lydsprice
- People.com - TV Watch
Epistemology of the Closet: Dunn’s Impressive Debut a Pronounced Portrait of Agitated Angst
Notable short filmmaker Stephen Dunn (Pop-up Porno, 2015) makes an impressive feature debut with Closet Monster, a film easily classified as a coming-of-age/coming-out drama but augmented by a masterful sense of tone and visual authority. As ambient as a thriller but without the frills of genre as metaphor, you’d be hard pressed to recall a recent cinematic endeavor that so vividly and compellingly relates the modern queer teen’s terrified angst so effectively. Grappling with familiar yet nevertheless pertinent issues in regards to the heteronormative machinations Lgbt youth struggle to navigate, the Canadian helmer unveils an original and moody psychological portrait of agonized adolescence.
Oscar (Connor Jessup) is an aspiring special effects make-up artist finishing up his last year of high school in small town Newfoundland. Hanging out with his friend Gemma (Sofia Banzhof), who...
Notable short filmmaker Stephen Dunn (Pop-up Porno, 2015) makes an impressive feature debut with Closet Monster, a film easily classified as a coming-of-age/coming-out drama but augmented by a masterful sense of tone and visual authority. As ambient as a thriller but without the frills of genre as metaphor, you’d be hard pressed to recall a recent cinematic endeavor that so vividly and compellingly relates the modern queer teen’s terrified angst so effectively. Grappling with familiar yet nevertheless pertinent issues in regards to the heteronormative machinations Lgbt youth struggle to navigate, the Canadian helmer unveils an original and moody psychological portrait of agonized adolescence.
Oscar (Connor Jessup) is an aspiring special effects make-up artist finishing up his last year of high school in small town Newfoundland. Hanging out with his friend Gemma (Sofia Banzhof), who...
- 9/13/2015
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
ABC Commercial has been appointed the international distribution partner for the new Australian series,
Bobbie the Bear, created by Lavender Bear Productions, is a live action animation series about the adventures of a resourceful and inquisitive purple bear.
The series was inspired by the popularity of a soft lavender-scented purple bear called Bobbie which has taken Asia by storm..
Last year, more than 65,000 tourists flocked to the Tasmanian lavender farm where the series is set to pick up their own bear, where demand far exceeds supply.
Bobbie the Bear is produced by Ben Adams and Peter Flynn, and directed by Jody Dwyer..
Bobbie together with his animal friends - including a Tasmanian Tiger, a Tasmanian devil, an Owl, a Bug and Bees - explore the world around them solving any problem that comes their way.
ABC Commercial head of sales and international business, Sharon Ramsay-Luck, said she was thrilled...
Bobbie the Bear, created by Lavender Bear Productions, is a live action animation series about the adventures of a resourceful and inquisitive purple bear.
The series was inspired by the popularity of a soft lavender-scented purple bear called Bobbie which has taken Asia by storm..
Last year, more than 65,000 tourists flocked to the Tasmanian lavender farm where the series is set to pick up their own bear, where demand far exceeds supply.
Bobbie the Bear is produced by Ben Adams and Peter Flynn, and directed by Jody Dwyer..
Bobbie together with his animal friends - including a Tasmanian Tiger, a Tasmanian devil, an Owl, a Bug and Bees - explore the world around them solving any problem that comes their way.
ABC Commercial head of sales and international business, Sharon Ramsay-Luck, said she was thrilled...
- 9/3/2015
- by Inside Film Correspondent
- IF.com.au
It’s almost August and that means Netflix is about to give their content a refresh. Some of the notable titles leaving include: Family Ties: Season 1-7, Unbreakable, and Titanic. So if you haven’t seen some of these titles, plan your nights accordingly. We of course can look forward more than a few new titles including The Hurt Locker, White God (pictured above), and Girl Meets World season 1.
Available August 1
Alvin and the Chipmunks Meet Frankenstein (1999)
In this animated adventure, Alvin, Simon, and Theodore revel in their new gig at a movie theme park by wandering the grounds after hours. Among the attractions is the spooky Frankenstein’s Castle, where a real mad scientist is bringing the monster to life. But when the boys cross paths with the creature (Frank Welker), they soon learn that appearances can be deceiving, and Frankenstein is more misunderstood than malevolent.
Asylum (2005)
A...
Available August 1
Alvin and the Chipmunks Meet Frankenstein (1999)
In this animated adventure, Alvin, Simon, and Theodore revel in their new gig at a movie theme park by wandering the grounds after hours. Among the attractions is the spooky Frankenstein’s Castle, where a real mad scientist is bringing the monster to life. But when the boys cross paths with the creature (Frank Welker), they soon learn that appearances can be deceiving, and Frankenstein is more misunderstood than malevolent.
Asylum (2005)
A...
- 7/29/2015
- by Graham McMorrow
- City of Films
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