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Indiewire Announces Eight College-Age Film Critics Selected to Participate in the Locarno Film Festival's Critics Academy
Earlier this year, Indiewire announced a partnership with the Locarno Film Festival, the Swiss Association of Film Journalists and the Film Society of Lincoln Center to run a workshop for aspiring film critics. Now, we're even more delighted to announce their names.
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Locarno Film Festival Locks Down Full Lineup; 'Compliance,' ' Starlet' and 'Jack and Diane' in Competition
The 65th edition of the Locarno Film Festival has announced its full lineup, including the 19 features competing for the Pardo d'oro, 13 of which are screening as world premieres. Highlights in the main competition include Craig Zobel's Sundance shocker "Compliance," Bradley R...
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Attention College-Age Film Critics: Indiewire, Locarno Film Festival and Film Society of Lincoln Center Could Send You to Switzerland
This summer, Indiewire is partnering with the Festival del Film Locarno -- aka the Locarno Film Festival -- along with the Swiss Association of Film Journalists and the Film Society of Lincoln Center to run a workshop for aspiring film critics.
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Locarno to Honor Otto Preminger With a Retrospective
The Locarno Film Festival (August 1 -11) has chosen to dedicate their annual retrospective this year to Otto Preminger, the Austrian three-time Oscar nominated director best known for his classics "Anatomy of a Murder," "Exodus," "The Cardinal" and "Bunny Lake is M...
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Locarno Fest Fetes "Back to Stay" & "Best Intentions" in Weekend Awards
Argentine/Swiss production "Abrir Puertas Y Ventanas" (Back to Stay) won the golden leopard at the Locarno Film Festival over the weekend, capping the ten day event. Japanese director Shinji Aoyama received a special golden leopard in recognition of his career and for his film, "Tokyo Koen," while I...
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Being a Provocateur Without Being a Bad Guy: Locarno Artistic Director Olivier Pére
Last year, Paris-based festival programmer Olivier Pére made the dramatic transition from head of Directors' Fortnight at Cannes to Artistic Director of the Locarno Film Festival. Now he looks a little more comfortable in his role, wearing the same blindingly white suit (he owns seve...
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"Big Man Japan" Hitoshi Matsumoto is Tired of TV Comedy, But Loves "Columbo"
Hitoshi Matsumoto's name may not mean much in American households, but in Japan he's a television superstar. Mainly known as one half of the comic duo Downtown, Matsumoto took his career in a new direction a few years ago when he started directing movies. Like his comedy acts, Matsumoto's work as a ...
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LOCARNO REVIEW | Jia Zhang-ke Producing Credit Can't Salvage Offbeat "Mr. Tree"
The role of Chinese filmmaking giant Jia Zhang-ke as producer of first-time writer-director Han Jie's "Hello! Shu Xian Sheng" ("Mr. Tree") doesn't properly convey its offbeat vibe. While loaded with considerably interesting ideas, it lacks the requisite energy to link them together. The story follow...
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LOCARNO INTERVIEW | Director Julia Loktev: "I'm interested in good people doing bad things."
Three years after Julia Loktev's minimalist suicide bomber story "Day Night Day Night" hit theaters, the director has returned with a new film that contains a similarly restrained style but deals with entirely separate issues.
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LOCARNO REVIEW | The Real-Time "Best Intentions" is One Man's Anxiety, Many Points of View
In "Best Intentions," a real-time family drama in which a young man continually worries about his mother's health, the tension fluctuates but never sits still. Following up his 2008 directorial debut "Hooked," Romanian filmmaker Adrian Sitaru constructs a temporally complex psychological thriller, m...
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