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NY Times: A Very Vegas Festival: Off the Wall on Screen

Now in its eighth year, CineVegas, which opens next Friday and continues through June 17, bills itself as "The World's Most Dangerous Film Festival." The motto refers in part to the festival's well-known antics: When Hunter S. Thompson failed to show up at one scheduled function, administrators sent...

Hersokovitz to Receive AFI Honor

Writer/director/producer Marshall Herskovitz will receive the 2006 Franklin J. Schaffner Alumni Medal, the American Film Institute (AFI) announced Monday. Herskovitz, who graduated from the AFI Conservatory in 1975, will be presented with the honor as part of the AFI Life Achievement Award tribute to Sean Connery on June 8tj, which will be held at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood. Established in 1991 by Franklin J. Schaffner's widow, Jean, the Alumni Medal "celebrates the qualities associated with the late director: talent, taste, dedication and commitment to quality filmmaking." Over the course of his 40-year career, Schaffner earned a total ...

ACL Fest 2006 Lineup

Reuters: Chavez opens Venezuela studios to counter Hollywood

Lights, camera and... revolution. Signaling from a director's chair, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez inaugurated a film studio complex on Saturday on the outskirts of Caracas to counter the cultural "dictatorship" of Hollywood movie giants. "For Venezuela, action," Chavez called out as the cameras ...

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IFC Gets Two Argentine Films For First Take

Fabian Bielinsky's "The Aura" and Daniel Burman's "Family Law," two acclaimed Argentine films, have been added to the slate of IFC First Take, the day and date distribution label launched this year by IFC Entertainment. The deal, with sales company Celluloid Dreams, follows the recent Cannes market ...

Francoise Hardy Sings

Luc Moullet: Nouvelle Vague Court Jester