The Film Society of Lincoln Center today announced the lineup for Explorations, a new section featuring bold selections from the vanguard of contemporary cinema, and Main Slate shorts for the 54th New York Film Festival.
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Explorations is devoted to work from around the world, from filmmakers across the spectrum of experience and artistic sensibility. It kicks off with six features, including Albert Serra’s latest, “The Death of Louis Xiv,” featuring a tour de force performance by French cinema legend Jean-Pierre Léaud; Douglas Gordon’s portrait of avant-garde icon Jonas Mekas, “I Had Nowhere to Go”; João Pedro Rodrigues’s “The Ornithologist”, which won him the Best Director prize at Locarno; as well as Natalia Almada’s “Everything Else”, Gastón Solnicki’s “Kékszakállú,” and Oliver Laxe’s “Mimosas.”
New York Film Festival Director...
Read More: Nyff Reveals Main Slate of 2016 Titles, Including ‘Manchester By the Sea,’ ‘Paterson’ and ‘Personal Shopper’
Explorations is devoted to work from around the world, from filmmakers across the spectrum of experience and artistic sensibility. It kicks off with six features, including Albert Serra’s latest, “The Death of Louis Xiv,” featuring a tour de force performance by French cinema legend Jean-Pierre Léaud; Douglas Gordon’s portrait of avant-garde icon Jonas Mekas, “I Had Nowhere to Go”; João Pedro Rodrigues’s “The Ornithologist”, which won him the Best Director prize at Locarno; as well as Natalia Almada’s “Everything Else”, Gastón Solnicki’s “Kékszakállú,” and Oliver Laxe’s “Mimosas.”
New York Film Festival Director...
- 8/29/2016
- by Vikram Murthi
- Indiewire
Today’s film is the 2007 short Rubbish. The film is written by Ed Roe, who also c0-directed it with Dougal Wilson, and stars James Lance, Anna Friel, and Martin Freeman. Freeman rose to prominence in the role of Tim Canterbury in the British comedy The Office, before going on to roles in movies such as Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Love Actually, and The World’s End. His newest feature, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, opens in wide release in American theatres this weekend, and he shall be reprising his role as John Watson in the BBC series Sherlock, which returns for its third season on Jan 1, 2014.
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- 12/14/2013
- by Deepayan Sengupta
- SoundOnSight
Seth Green is joining the cast of the romantic comedy The Best Man for London-based the Film Consortium. Neil Peplow is producing. Stefan Schwartz, whose credits include Shooting Fish and The Abduction Club, is directing from a script that he co-wrote with Ed Roe (Smack the Pony). Green will play the fiercely loyal but slightly devious and porn-addicted semiloser Murray, who is trying to help his best friend win the girl of his dreams. Green's projects include a television series for Cartoon Network's Adult Swim lineup, and he is in production on Fox's Family Guy, which returns with original episodes next year. His film credits include Without a Paddle, The Italian Job, Party Monster, the Austin Powers movies and Rat Race. His TV work includes Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Green's deal was handled by UTA, Trice Koopman of Koopman Management and attorney David Weber of Offer, Weber and Dern.
- 10/26/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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