Festival Dispatch
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Practical Advice From Béla Tarr: A Dispatch From Reykjavik
Judging by statements made by Hungarian filmmaker Béla Tarr at the 8th annual Reykjavik Film Festival, the filmmaker lives for contradiction.
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Samurais, Cyborgs and Blood: Why Fantastic Fest Had a Great Seventh Year
Forget about the boxing, the beer, "Human Centipede II" and Elijah Wood. Fantastic Fest, which wrapped its seventh year with a screening of Morgan Spurlock's documentary "Comic Con: Episode IV -- A Fan's Hope," had a lot of great movies to go accompany the fun (a fan's hope, indeed). While my person...
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Juror's Notebook: Fantastic Fest Acclaim Will Put "Bullhead" Director Michael R. Roskam on the Map
Participating in a film festival jury is never easy, since it requires a negotiation between personal taste and group consensus. However, the process offers a unique challenge at Fantastic Fest, where I've had the privilege of serving on juries for the past two years.
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indieWIRE's 5 Hidden Gems from the 2011 New York Film Festival
The New York Film Festival, which begins September 30, offers plenty on the surface: There's the new Roman Polanski (opening-night selection "Carnage"), the sweeter side of the Dardenne brothers ("The Kid With a Bike") and David Cronenberg turning his camera on the relat...
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The Four Coolest Things About the 2011 Fantasia Film Festival
Stretching from July 14-August 7, Montreal's marathon genre-film lovefest the Fantasia International Film Festival kicked off with the Canadian premiere of "Red State" (without Kevin Smith) and featured other festival favorites like "Another Earth." The closing film screens tomorrow night with the G...
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Julie Taymor, Alison Anders, Richard Kelly and More at Los Angeles Film Festival Panels
Over the weekend, the Los Angeles Film Festival hosted a number of panels and other events with a wide variety of figures in the film community. In between covering various screenings, indieWIRE attended a few of these public discussions. Here are the highlights:
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Seattle's True Independent Film Festival: How to Start a Slamdance Film Festival in Your Hometown
The Slamdance Film Festival has become famous as a feisty, grassroots alternative to Sundance, as well as an accommodating venue for some promising work that couldn't find its way into the larger festival. But Slamdance is only one festival in one city, and these days, every city has a film festival...
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Cannes '11: Five Lessons From This Year's Festival
After 12 long days and even more sleepless nights for hundreds of people, the Cannes Film Festival finally came to an end Sunday. As with each year at this massive spectacle of media chaos and cinematic discovery, many moments and images (not to mention movies!) will continue to reverberate.
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Dispatch from Toronto | Hot Docs '11: Winning Pitches at the Hot Docs Forum
Over the past two days, over 120 funders, commissioning editors, and broadcasters from around the world gathered in Toronto to consider 28 pitches for new documentary projects as part of the Hot Docs Forum, the documentary festival's international co-financing market. Part performative thea...
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Lies, Goons and Eco-Destruction: New Doc Shows Life Under Donald Trump
Need another reason to hate Donald Trump? Welcome to the documentary "You've Been Trumped." [This feature orignally ran during HotDocs 2011, where the film world premiered. It comes out in select theaters this Friday.]
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