In Competition Opening Film:  Baz LUHRMANN – THE GREAT GATSBY Valeria BRUNI-TEDESCHI – UN CHÂTEAU EN ITALIE Ethan COEN, Joel COEN – INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS Arnaud DESPALLIÈRES – MICHAEL KOHLHAAS Arnaud DESPLECHIN – JIMMY P. (PSYCHOTHERAPY OF A PLAINS INDIAN) Amat ESCALANTE – HELI Asghar FARHADI – LE PASSÉ (THE PAST) James GRAY – THE [...]

“Art, meaning that we will enjoy ourselves and express ourselves freely.” John Cassavetes

Biće Skoro Propast Sveta (It Rains in My Village, 1968) directed by Aleksandar Petrovič

Louis Garrel in Les Amants Réguliers (Regular Lovers) by Philippe Garrel

Last month there was article on Aleksei German’s last film, History of the Arkanar Massacre / Hard to Be God since he died before finishing this extravagant project. As we have earlier reported, according to his son Alexei German Jr., luckily the film misses just a final edit of sound for the official release. German [...]

Jacques Demy’s classic film Lola has been revisited and photographed by his son Mathieu for Elle magazine.

Last night was the 4th ceremony of the Greek Film Awards and Boy Eating the Bird’s Food by Ektoras Lygizos was the Best Feature Film according to the Greek Film Academy. He also has been awarded as the Best Director for first Feature Film and the protagonist Yiannis Papadopoulos won the award for Best Leading [...]

The new poster for the 52nd edition of Cannes’ La Semaine de la Critique (International Critics’ Week) has been revealed yesterday. According to the official announcement: For its 52nd edition, La Semaine de la Critique continues its series of portraits initiated last year with the collaboration of Les Bons Faiseurs agency. Following on from Anamaria [...]

As reported by El Pais today, Kike Mesa, the director of the documentary “Jess Franco: Way of Life”, announced Jesús Franco’s passing early this morning at the age of 82. Jess Franco was a master of cult low budget horror films and he had directed more than 200 feature and short films many of them uncredited. [...]

Vittorio De Seta was one of the masters of the Italian documentary. During the 1950′s he directed ten ethnographic short documentaries that covered the everyday life in Southern Italy (Sicily and Calabria) and in Sardinia. His films were mainly focused on the activities of the poor people of the land and the sea and they [...]

The famous director Andrei Zvyagintsev rarely gives interviews and even more rarely talks about upcoming projects. So there was no information about the film that is currently shooting and will be called “Leviathan”. During the award ceremony of KinoSoyuz, where he was awarded with the Elem award for his last film Elena, he gave an [...]

The absolute real cinephile question as asked in Nanni Moretti’s Sogni d’Oro (1981)

David Dewaele died on February 27 following a heart attack at the Flanders’ town of Harzebrouck, he was only 37. The actor had been missing for three weeks and no one could know his whereabouts and we informed his death only last week. David Dewaele has been the alter ego of Bruno Dumont, he was [...]

Peter Zadek was one of the most unconventional and one of the greatest directors in German-speaking theater. He also directed just four films for cinema that had a limited success. Undoubtedly his debut film Ich bin ein Elefant, Madame (I Am An Elephant, Madame) made in 1969 was his most well-known work. The film participated [...]

The poster of this year’s Cannes’ Quinzaine des Réalisateurs (Directors’ Fortnight) has been presented today. This is the 45th edition of this parallel independent section of the French festival and one of the most important. Here is the official description of the poster by the artistic director of the Fortnight, Edouard Waintrop: Two persons in [...]

The big studios like Disney – Pixar decided to abandon the 2D animation in order to produce more appealing to the audience 3D films. Luckily the Eastern European cinema still invests in that “outdated” technique for the CGI era. Russian film schools like VGIK and specialized studios like SHAR are mainly focused on a more [...]

Matteo Garrone: The Player The Cannes Grand Prix-Winner Talks Love, Chance and Celluloid with Fellow Director Chiara Clemente Touted as the pioneer of a renaissance in Italian cinema, director Matteo Garrone takes us through the shadowy streets of his native Rome and into an intimate card game in this new film by Chiara Clemente. Since [...]

Jury & Special Awards for SXSW Film 2013. The two winning features are Short Term 12 in the Narrative Feature Category, and William and the Windmill in the Documentary Feature Category. You can read the detailed list of all the winners as announced yesterday in Austin, Texas. Feature Film Jury Awards DOCUMENTARY FEATURE COMPETITION Grand [...]

It is still unknown if the new project by Claire Denis will premiere during this year’s Cannes Film Festival but we already have an idea on “The Bastards”.  The production company Wild Bunch has just release two film stills and the official synopses. Container ship captain Marco Silvestri is called urgently back to Paris. His [...]

David Cronenberg turns 70 on March 15th but he seems quite ready to be the first human siren!

The Greek Film Academy has revealed earlier today the nominations for this year’s Awards. The favorite film according to the selection is J.A.C.E. by Menelaos Karamaghiolis with 11 nominations. Thanos Anastopoulos’ film “The Daughter” that participated during the recent Berlin Film Festival has 9 nominations.  Boy Eating the Bird’s Food by Ektoras Lygizos that competed [...]