Framing world premieres of “Maragall i la Lluna” and “Wishlist,” plus new movies from Justin Kurzel, Marjane Satrapi, Matteo Garrone and Caroline Link, Barcelona’s Bcn Film Fest aims to become one of the first festivals in Europe to stage a live on-site edition, running June 25 to July 2.
The dates and ambition were re-confirmed Tuesday when Bcn Film Fest, one of the biggest film events in the Catalan capital, announced its lineup.
“One of the most beautiful things about watching films is to do so in a theater as a shared social and cultural experience. To be able to discuss films immediately with people after seeing them. Bcn Film Fest aims to maintain that this year,” said festival artistic director Conxita Casanovas.
While pushing the pleasures of a live event, from the quality of projection and sound to cinema viewing as a social and cultural community event and driver of local economic economy,...
The dates and ambition were re-confirmed Tuesday when Bcn Film Fest, one of the biggest film events in the Catalan capital, announced its lineup.
“One of the most beautiful things about watching films is to do so in a theater as a shared social and cultural experience. To be able to discuss films immediately with people after seeing them. Bcn Film Fest aims to maintain that this year,” said festival artistic director Conxita Casanovas.
While pushing the pleasures of a live event, from the quality of projection and sound to cinema viewing as a social and cultural community event and driver of local economic economy,...
- 5/27/2020
- by John Hopewell, Elsa Keslassy and Emilio Mayorga
- Variety Film + TV
An Alzheimer's sufferer finds a new place in the world after entering an old folk's home.
Dementia, and particularly, Alzheimer's are an increasingly urgent issue for the developed world and this has lead to a burgeoning number of films on the subject. From Catalan documentary Bicycle, Spoon, Apple - which charts the mental decline of the former president of Catalunya Pasqual Maragall - to Sarah Polley's Canadian tale of love and memory lost, Away From Her, and Lee Chang-dong's...
Dementia, and particularly, Alzheimer's are an increasingly urgent issue for the developed world and this has lead to a burgeoning number of films on the subject. From Catalan documentary Bicycle, Spoon, Apple - which charts the mental decline of the former president of Catalunya Pasqual Maragall - to Sarah Polley's Canadian tale of love and memory lost, Away From Her, and Lee Chang-dong's...
- 3/1/2012
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
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