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AFI Fest Invites Audience Feedback

In a partnership with Audience by Withoutabox (a new online social network), AFI Fest is inviting its festival attendees to rate films, post comments, and review films after event screenings. Visitors can visit the new interactive website and keep blogs or access the social software via the on-site "Blog Bar" inside the box office at the fest's Arclight Cinemas Rooftop Village. The festival continues through November 12th. In a statement, festivals director Christian Gaines said:Our audiences are discoverers and tastemakers. It's wonderful for us to know what they think of the films we program, and for our filmmakers to get broader feedback. ...

"The Queen" and "Private Fears" to Bookend 47th Thessaloniki Fest

Stephen Frears' "The Queen" and Alain Resnai's "Private Fears in Public Places" will bookend the 47th Thessaloniki International Film Festival, taking place November 17 - 26 in Greece. This year, the festival will host an Homage to Brazilian Cinema in addition to new cinema from China. Additionally,...

Starz Denver International Film Festival Readies for 29th Edition

Two hundred films, including two world, five North American and eight U.S. premieres are on tap for the 29th Starz Denver International Film Festival taking place November 9 - 19 in the mile high city. The fest will open with Anthony Minghella's "Breaking and Entering" and close with Werner Herzog's "Rescue Dawn." Minghella as well as actor Tim Robbins, and filmmaker George Kuchar will be feted by the fest, and the event will spotlight Canadian film. "We are very excited to announce the lineup for the 29th Starz Denver Film Festival," commented festival director Ron Henderson in a statement. "This year's program is notable for its geographic ...

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SF360: Cinema, new Italian style

Politics, philosophy, and Catholicism are the Holy Trinity of Italian cultural life, or so one gathers from practically every movie produced since the breakthrough of neo-realism in the mid-1940s. The relationship between intellectualism and passion is a distinctly Italian concern, and it propels th...