Every year, critics summarize the year in cinema with top 10 lists, but they’re not the only members of the film community paying attention to the art form all year long. From programmers to publicists, sales agents, and distributors, many of the hardworking influencers behind the scenes are passionate movie buffs tracking the highlights of the year both for work and their personal enjoyment.
So while IndieWire has already provided its own rundowns of the best of 2018, this annual tradition provides an opportunity for the indie film community we cover throughout the year to weigh in. Here’s what they had to say.
Cameron Bailey, Artistic Director and Co-Head, Tiff
“Roma” d. Alfonso Cuaron “The Favourite” d. Yorgos Lanthimos “Widows” d. Steve McQueen “Leave No Trace” d. Debra Granik “If Beale Street Could Talk” d. Barry Jenkins “You Were Never Really Here” d. Lynne Ramsay “Black Panther” d. Ryan Coogler “Burning” d.
So while IndieWire has already provided its own rundowns of the best of 2018, this annual tradition provides an opportunity for the indie film community we cover throughout the year to weigh in. Here’s what they had to say.
Cameron Bailey, Artistic Director and Co-Head, Tiff
“Roma” d. Alfonso Cuaron “The Favourite” d. Yorgos Lanthimos “Widows” d. Steve McQueen “Leave No Trace” d. Debra Granik “If Beale Street Could Talk” d. Barry Jenkins “You Were Never Really Here” d. Lynne Ramsay “Black Panther” d. Ryan Coogler “Burning” d.
- 12/24/2018
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
Nine titles announced for Berlinale, which runs Feb 7-17.
The first films have been announced for the 2019 Berlin International Film Festival Competition and Berlinale Special sections.
The Competition line-up includes new films by Fatih Akin (The Golden Glove), François Ozon (By the Grace of God) and Denis Côté (Ghost Town Anthology).
The other three films in the strand are Marie Kreutzer’s The Ground Beneath My Feet, Angela Schanelec’s I Was at Home, but and Emin Alper’s A Tale of Three Sisters. All are world premieres except By the Grace Of God which is an international premiere.
The...
The first films have been announced for the 2019 Berlin International Film Festival Competition and Berlinale Special sections.
The Competition line-up includes new films by Fatih Akin (The Golden Glove), François Ozon (By the Grace of God) and Denis Côté (Ghost Town Anthology).
The other three films in the strand are Marie Kreutzer’s The Ground Beneath My Feet, Angela Schanelec’s I Was at Home, but and Emin Alper’s A Tale of Three Sisters. All are world premieres except By the Grace Of God which is an international premiere.
The...
- 12/13/2018
- by Orlando Parfitt
- ScreenDaily
The Berlin Film Festival has revealed the first wave of titles for its competition lineup, including new films from François Ozon, Marie Kreutzer, Denis Côté and Fatih Akin. Charles Ferguson’s Watergate documentary is among the Berlinale Special titles.
The first nine Competition and Berlinale Special films were revealed today, alongside the previously announced opening film, The Kindness of Strangers by Lone Scherfig.
Festival favourites Akin (In The Fade) and Ozon (In The House) return with German-language thriller The Golden Glove and French-language drama By The Grace Of God, respectively. The former follows a serial killer who strikes fear in the hearts of residents of Hamburg during the early 1970s. The latter looks at a real-life case of sexual abuses allegedly committed by a French priest in the late 1980s. Oscar-winner Ferguson (Inside Job) will present anticipated 260-minute feature doc Watergate, which is sure to draw plenty of contemporary parallels.
The first nine Competition and Berlinale Special films were revealed today, alongside the previously announced opening film, The Kindness of Strangers by Lone Scherfig.
Festival favourites Akin (In The Fade) and Ozon (In The House) return with German-language thriller The Golden Glove and French-language drama By The Grace Of God, respectively. The former follows a serial killer who strikes fear in the hearts of residents of Hamburg during the early 1970s. The latter looks at a real-life case of sexual abuses allegedly committed by a French priest in the late 1980s. Oscar-winner Ferguson (Inside Job) will present anticipated 260-minute feature doc Watergate, which is sure to draw plenty of contemporary parallels.
- 12/13/2018
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Francis Ford Coppola went back to UCLA last month for help making his experimental “Distant Vision.” He touted his live cinema student workshop at a modest Saturday morning press conference at his alma mater. “Distant Vision,” broadcast and streamed live Friday night, was a far cry from the circus-like atmosphere surrounding “One From the Heart” back in the ’80s at his Hollywood Zoetrope Studios. But then and now, the filmmaker strives to perfect a new electronic hybrid.
That’s because Coppola’s grown increasingly weary of “canned” performance and longs for the thrill of experiencing something live again that’s more immediate and visceral.
“Could there be live cinema and how is it different from live television?” Coppola said at the conference. “And how would you do it and why would you do it? People ask me why I would want to give up that control. But there’s something...
That’s because Coppola’s grown increasingly weary of “canned” performance and longs for the thrill of experiencing something live again that’s more immediate and visceral.
“Could there be live cinema and how is it different from live television?” Coppola said at the conference. “And how would you do it and why would you do it? People ask me why I would want to give up that control. But there’s something...
- 7/24/2016
- by Bill Desowitz
- Indiewire
The Godfather director talks new Italian-American saga, risk-taking and how George Lucas got “lost” in Star Wars.
Francis Ford Coppola’s next film may be his last. But it may also be one of his most ambitious.
Speaking at the Marrakech International Film Festival (Dec 4-12), the 76-year-old director of The Godfather trilogy revealed details of the new multi-generational Italian-American saga he is developing, titled Distant Vision.
Coppola compared the project to novelist Thomas Mann’s family saga Buddenbrooks.
“I may only make one film more in my life, but it may be very long, and it may go in different places,” said the five-time Oscar winner.”It’s sort of like Buddenbrooks because it’s about three generations of a family.
“It happens during the birth of television; the growth and omnipresence of television and finally the end of television as it turns into the internet. Then I decided that I wanted to do it as live...
Francis Ford Coppola’s next film may be his last. But it may also be one of his most ambitious.
Speaking at the Marrakech International Film Festival (Dec 4-12), the 76-year-old director of The Godfather trilogy revealed details of the new multi-generational Italian-American saga he is developing, titled Distant Vision.
Coppola compared the project to novelist Thomas Mann’s family saga Buddenbrooks.
“I may only make one film more in my life, but it may be very long, and it may go in different places,” said the five-time Oscar winner.”It’s sort of like Buddenbrooks because it’s about three generations of a family.
“It happens during the birth of television; the growth and omnipresence of television and finally the end of television as it turns into the internet. Then I decided that I wanted to do it as live...
- 12/8/2015
- ScreenDaily
When it comes to Lars von Trier‘s The Nymphomaniac, the only casting that anyone has focused on is that of the female lead, which will require a brave actress to play… well, a nymphomaniac. It’s actually kind of odd that we haven’t considered who else might be on board, since von Trier has managed to get many, many great actors for his films — and even the graphic material that we’ll be seeing shouldn’t discourage some prestigious names from signing on.
One of those great actors may be frequent collaborator, Stellan Skarsgård, who told E! that the director contacted him, saying, “Stellan, my next film will be a porno film, and I want you to play the lead in it.” Those hoping for some nudity from the 60-year-old (read: everybody) will be disappointed, as von Trier told him that he “will not get to f–k.
One of those great actors may be frequent collaborator, Stellan Skarsgård, who told E! that the director contacted him, saying, “Stellan, my next film will be a porno film, and I want you to play the lead in it.” Those hoping for some nudity from the 60-year-old (read: everybody) will be disappointed, as von Trier told him that he “will not get to f–k.
- 9/5/2011
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
Is it possible to be addicted to a movie? I've watched I Am Love by Luca Guadagnino three times, once in a theater, twice on a Vcr, and I can feel an urge coming on for a fourth fix. Emma Recchi (Tilda Swinton), a Milanese matron from the mega-rich Recchi family, becomes involved with her grown son's best friend, a chef. A commoner, this guy -- which brings to mind the gamekeeper in Lady Chatterley's Lover and Julien Sorel in Stendhal's The Red and the Black. The damage sustained by the Recchi family and business also references Thomas Mann's Buddenbrooks. The film's melodramatic tone, with love presented as an absolute, a religion or calling that must be honored, even as it wrecks lives, suggests director Douglas Sirk, along with opera giants Verdi and Puccini. ...
- 6/16/2010
- by Erica Abeel
- Huffington Post
Which will include Coppola's Tetro which premiers at Cannes for a total of 392 films which includes 31 world premiers and 203 narrative features. Man, Siff always has good stuff, I wish I could go. Any writers in Seattle want to provide coverage for us?
Check out some of the premiers after the break.
World Premieres
Back to the Garden, Flower Power Comes Full Circle, directed by Kevin Tomlinson (USA, 2009)
Dancing Across Borders, directed by Anne H. Bass (USA/Cambodia, 2009)
Facing Ali, directed by Pete McCormack (Canada, 2009)
The Hills Run Red, directed by Dave Parker (USA, 2009)
Icons Among Us, directed by Michael Rivoira, Lars Larson, Peter J. Vogt (USA, 2009)
I’m No Dummy, directed by Bryan W. Simon (USA, 2009)
Pop Star On Ice, directed by David Barba (USA/Canada/Russia/Japan, 2009)
The Spy and the Sparrow, directed by Garrett Bennett (USA, 2009)
talhotblond, directed by Barbara Schroeder (USA, 2008)
The Whole Truth, directed by Colleen Patrick (USA,...
Check out some of the premiers after the break.
World Premieres
Back to the Garden, Flower Power Comes Full Circle, directed by Kevin Tomlinson (USA, 2009)
Dancing Across Borders, directed by Anne H. Bass (USA/Cambodia, 2009)
Facing Ali, directed by Pete McCormack (Canada, 2009)
The Hills Run Red, directed by Dave Parker (USA, 2009)
Icons Among Us, directed by Michael Rivoira, Lars Larson, Peter J. Vogt (USA, 2009)
I’m No Dummy, directed by Bryan W. Simon (USA, 2009)
Pop Star On Ice, directed by David Barba (USA/Canada/Russia/Japan, 2009)
The Spy and the Sparrow, directed by Garrett Bennett (USA, 2009)
talhotblond, directed by Barbara Schroeder (USA, 2008)
The Whole Truth, directed by Colleen Patrick (USA,...
- 5/1/2009
- QuietEarth.us
London -- Amid plunging advertising revenue, pink slips by the thousands and an ever-worsening economic outlook, it's little wonder that buyers and sellers heading to Miptv at month's end expect to do business in a radically changed world.
"The credit crunch has forced a revolution in the industry," said James Burstall, CEO of London-based Leopard Films. "The establishment is breaking up, fat cats are being thrown out of their ivory towers. We are having to rethink how we restructure television companies and how we make programming."
Still, he contends that however painful the changes might be, they also promise huge creative and commercial opportunities.
Longer runs of returnable series and cleverly structured commissions can offer broadcasters a better economic equation, Burstall said, citing Leopard's "Missing Live," a 20-part live interactive daytime show on BBC1 that tracks missing persons. It was coupled with the five-part procedural drama series "Missing," which explored...
"The credit crunch has forced a revolution in the industry," said James Burstall, CEO of London-based Leopard Films. "The establishment is breaking up, fat cats are being thrown out of their ivory towers. We are having to rethink how we restructure television companies and how we make programming."
Still, he contends that however painful the changes might be, they also promise huge creative and commercial opportunities.
Longer runs of returnable series and cleverly structured commissions can offer broadcasters a better economic equation, Burstall said, citing Leopard's "Missing Live," a 20-part live interactive daytime show on BBC1 that tracks missing persons. It was coupled with the five-part procedural drama series "Missing," which explored...
- 3/19/2009
- by By Mimi Turner
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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