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Defying Categorizations Yet Again, Neil Jordan on "Breakfast on Pluto"

Here's a shape-shifting filmmaker almost impossible to pigeonhole. After some fifteen films, Irish-born Neil Jordan is still most closely linked with his Oscar-winning masterwork, "The Crying Game" (1992), which meshes mysterious sexuality with the Anglo-Irish "Troubles," and uncorks that twist that...

Onion Targets Bush's Weekly Radio Address With Usual Pinpoint Accuracy

"Lbs." Takes Top Prize at Avignon/New York Film Festival

"Lbs." has won the 2005 Avignon/New York Film Festival's best U.S. feature film prize at Sunday night's closing ceremonies held at the at Hunter College. "Lbs.," which premiered at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival, is due for a March '06 theatrical release by New York-based indie distributor CAVU Pictures. At the ceremony, festival director Jerry Rudes presented the award to "Lbs." director Matthew Bonifacio and lead actor Carmine Famiglietti. In other festival prizes, Guy Jacques' "Ze Film" won best French feature film, while Louis-Martin Soucy's "Handicap" took best French short. Best U.S. short went to Jason Holzman's "The Method." The f...

Wedding Crashers: Eran Riklis' "Syrian Bride"

Israeli filmmaker Eran Riklis recognizes the cinematic potential in an absurd political situation--it's easy for him, perhaps, because the country he lives in provides so much irrationality and insanity. His new downcast wedding film, "The Syrian Bride," takes place on the matrimonial day of Mona (C...

Ali G. Wins No Kazakh-Fans

SILVERDOCS Names Sitney as Programming Director; Promotes King to Associate Director

SILVERDOCS has named Sky Sitney as its new director of programming the festival announced this week. Sitney was formerly programming director at the Newport International Film Festival and was the film programmer at the New York Underground Film Festival and is co-founder and curator of the on-going series Fresh Film at the Anthology Film Archives in New York. She has also taught at NYU and is currently a doctoral candidate completing her dissertation on the subject of documentary film. In other SILVERDOCS news, the festival also announced that Amy King has been promoted to the position of associate director. "Amy has been with the festival s...

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AFP: Hong Kong blockbusters flex muscle at "Chinese Oscars" in Taiwan

Hong Kong's movie sector showed its strength at the 42nd annual Golden Horse Film Awards in Taiwan, sweeping the major prizes at the so-called "Oscars" of the Chinese-language film industry. The evening gala, staged Sunday in the island's northern port city of Keelung, served as a showcase for Hong ...