Curacao, the former Dutch Caribbean colony now boasts a film festival held in partnership with the Rotterdam Film Festival signalling the growing importance of the Caribbean territory in a film business whose intercultural aspects are totally integrated into the normal lives of those who live in th...
Read More »Lasting (aka Nieulotne) by Jacek Borcuch from Poland (ISA: AP Mañana) is a Polish-Spanish co-produciton produced by Piotr Kobus and Agnieszka Drewno of Mañana Producitons.
Read More »"None of us realized the potency yet of this medium -- how many homes it was going to, what kind of affect it was having on people and so forth. I think everybody who works in the visual medium would love to have that kind of innocence again." &nbs...
Read More »Before HBO Europe came along and turned "Burning Bush" into its highest profile production, the idea for the miniseries, which received its international premiere at the 42nd Rotterdam Film Festival, was turned down by Czech television. Written by neophyte screenwriter Štěpán...
Read More »Among the 30-plus features I saw in Rotterdam, Johnnie To’s "Drug War" is the one that has the concrete feel of a masterpiece. The reviews I’ve seen out of this festival as well as from its world premiere last fall in Rome suggest a solid, unexceptional potboiler by a reliable genre craftsman. To ha...
Read More »An overview of Rotterdam's competition and CineMart, where the director of "Dogtooth" unveiled plans for a new film.
Read More »Sundance contenders Soldier Jane, Stoker and Il Futuro have gone on to take awards at the Rotterdam Film Festival.
Read More »Once again, Latin America is making a show, though this time Argentina trumps Chile with Zama by Lucrecia Martel ♀ (Argentina/Spain).
Read More »The Hivos Tiger Awards Competition takes center stage at Rotterdam, a high-stakes showcase of sixteen breakout filmmakers, many of whose projects are funded by the festival’s Hubert Bals Fund.
Read More »That Pablo Larraín's upcoming feature film "No" is about advertising should not mislead you into thinking that the Chilean director is game for easy entertainment. His 2011 project, drug trafficking drama "Prófugos" (Spanish for “fugitives”),&nb...
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RT @indiewire: Video: Kristin Scott Thomas Like You've Never Seen Her Before in 3 NSFW Clips From 'Only God Forgives' http://t.co/aG6IOs0GGD #cannes2013
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Cannes is About Money, Money and Movies: Alec Baldwin and James Toback's 'Seduced and Abandoned' http://t.co/bd4nkPukaz via @indiewire
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RT @indiewire: The trailer for @JamesFrancoTV's adaptation of Faulkner's AS I LAY DYING, debuting in Cannes' Un Certain Regard http://t.co/HuL7P5qioU
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How #fruitvaleStation was missed on @indiewire's top 50 indie films 2013 is beyond me.
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