I just wanted to know if anyone knew anything about any of these films http://www.phillyfests.com/pff/templates/by_date.cfm playing. I'm new to film festivals and just really got into cinema less than a year ago. I really like most of what people suggest on this board. I looked through and saw a few that sounded interesting but I dont' want to waste 9 bucks on a some crap. The one i'm definitely seeing is Super Size Me. Any suggestions would be great...
the Toronto Film Festival line-up makes me want to commit suicide...
Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee)
Bubble (Steven Soderbergh)
No Direction Home: Bob Dylan (Martin Scorsese)
Tideland (Terry Gilliam)
Hostel (Eli Roth)
Dave Chapelle's Block Party (Michel Gondry)
Oliver Twist (Roman Polanski)
Romance & Cigarettes (John Tuturro)
Corpse Bride (Tim Burton)
Elizabethtown (Cameron Crowe)
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (Shane Black)
A History Of Violence (David Cronenberg)
Revolver (Guy Ritchie)
Wallace & Gromit: Curse Of The Were-Rabbit (Nick Park, Steve Box)
Walk The Line (James Mangold)
Where The Truth Lies (Atom Egoyan)
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (Tommy Lee Jones)
Proof (John Madden)
North Country (Niki Caro)
In Her Shoes (Curtis Hanson)
Sympathy For Lady Vengeance (Chan-Wook Park)
The Squid & The Whale (Noah Baumbach)
Shopgirl (Anand Tucker)
The Notorious Bettie Page (Mary Harron)
Capote (Bennett Miller)
The Great Yokai War (Takashi Miike)
Manderlay (Lars Von Trier)
and more...
I have access only to the weakest mainstream can offer, so I think you need to appreciate the set up you have right now.
Also, considering I've never been to a film festival but also have never been able to watch 3 films in one day with a good stomach afterword, I also wonder if anyone else has drawbacks to the idea of film festivals. Too many movies on too many consecutive days? Someone once said film festivals should be eradicated and a run of art films set up for colleges around the country before official release. Of course that destroys the idea of any worthwhile publicity.
Film festivals energize me, really.
I love being able to see four or five films in one day and when they're all at different theaters, it makes it all the more exciting.
I think it does certainly affect your opinion on a certain film, but not necessarily in a bad way. It heightens your sensativity to film too... it makes you an ultra-critic... especially if you're watching a lot of really GOOD films.
It's totally exhausting, but oh-so-worthwhile. If you were doing it on a regular basis, it might get detrimental...but the occasional week of non-stop filmgoing becomes a sort of dream like reverie, and those times when you don't make it to the theater on time or you have to pass up one film for another are rather tragic (although once the disappointment has passed, the free two hours are sort of a blessing).
Quote from: modagethe Toronto Film Festival line-up makes me want to commit suicide...
Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee)
Bubble (Steven Soderbergh)
No Direction Home: Bob Dylan (Martin Scorsese)
Tideland (Terry Gilliam)
Hostel (Eli Roth)
Dave Chapelle's Block Party (Michel Gondry)
Oliver Twist (Roman Polanski)
Romance & Cigarettes (John Tuturro)
Corpse Bride (Tim Burton)
Elizabethtown (Cameron Crowe)
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (Shane Black)
A History Of Violence (David Cronenberg)
Revolver (Guy Ritchie)
Wallace & Gromit: Curse Of The Were-Rabbit (Nick Park, Steve Box)
Walk The Line (James Mangold)
Where The Truth Lies (Atom Egoyan)
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (Tommy Lee Jones)
Proof (John Madden)
North Country (Niki Caro)
In Her Shoes (Curtis Hanson)
Sympathy For Lady Vengeance (Chan-Wook Park)
The Squid & The Whale (Noah Baumbach)
Shopgirl (Anand Tucker)
The Notorious Bettie Page (Mary Harron)
Capote (Bennett Miller)
The Great Yokai War (Takashi Miike)
Manderlay (Lars Von Trier)
and more...
When is this???
Next week.
Two of the films there that I'd be most excited about if I was going would be Abel Farerra's Mary and (especially) Matthew Barney's Drawing Restraint 9/
Quote from: GhostboyNext week.
Two of the films there that I'd be most excited about if I was going would be Abel Farerra's Mary and (especially) Matthew Barney's Drawing Restraint 9/
Bjork's OST is already available for that movie if one is so inclined to 'seek' it out. :violin:
Yeah, it's been discussed at length in the Bjork thread - where news of the film first emerged. I don't have it yet, though - I keep forgetting to order it (I could just get it from iTunes, but I like to have the CD on my shefl).
Cinephile, if you read this, and are you planning on seeing anything this year?
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Two of the films there that I'd be most excited about if I was going would be Abel Farerra's Mary and (especially) Matthew Barney's Drawing Restraint 9/
Bjork's OST is already available for that movie if one is so inclined to 'seek' it out. :violin:
it was already posted in the bjork thread and it's one of those soundtracks that will work better with the movie. at least i hope so.
Quote from: GhostboyCinephile, if you read this, and are you planning on seeing anything this year?
i'll know wednesday what i'm available to get tickets for but for now, this is the ideal list for me.
this thursday:
Sarah Silverman: Jesus Is Magic
friday:
Three Times
sunday:
Elizabethtown
next thursday:
Thumbsucker
Romance & Cigarettes
The Squid & The Whale
The Matador
Sympathy for Lady Vengeance
The Great Yokai War
friday:
Drawing Restraint 9
saturday:
Winter Passing
i am booking tickets early tomorrow morning
list for the finsss
definetly
bubble (new soda)
block party (new gondry [he's there in the flesh too])
caché (based on advice given to me)
thumbsucka
perhapsss
tideland
romance and cigarettes
the squid and the whale
no thanks
revolver
choices based on what will soon be in wide release and what will never see the light of day again
expect a full report complete with wild salmon and cod
Thumbsucker's getting wide release soon, sickfins. I'd put Tideland (and a great deal of other material) on higher priority than that.
Quote from: GhostboyThumbsucker's getting wide release soon, sickfins. I'd put Tideland (and a great deal of other material) on higher priority than that.
it was my one exception for that kind of thing
should there be a q&a with mike mills i will begin my question by shouting
YEAH chhh SOCK ONE THIS IS SOCK TWO
other than tideland what would you recommend i substitute it with
I don't think Three Burials has American distribution yet. Manderlay's a must, if you're a Von Trier fan (although that'll be coming out within the next six months). As I mentioned, I wouldn't want to miss Ferrera's Mary or Barney's Drawing Restraint 9. And I'm insanely curious about Romance & Cigarettes. Winter Passing will have Will Ferrell's first dramatic role - it'd be interesting to see how he pulls it off.
Of course, having seen Thumbuscker already, my opinion is weighted. It's a good film, so you're not selling yourself short by seeing it (aside from the whole part about opening soon - within the next two weeks, I think, at least in the US).
so the online order page was being a bitch all day and their phone lines were down too.
this is the small list of films ive got tickets for:
the matador
drawing restraint 9
winter passing
i would've loved to see Tideland, Hostel, Elizabethtown, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, & Revolver.
For those in the UK just wanted to alert you all to how great the London Film Festival is this year (http://www.lff.org.uk/). Plenty of the big films (including Elizabethtown, which surprised me) and some cool events and talks, too.
I envy those who live in the city but fingers crossed I get tickets to 'Good Night and Good Luck' for the closing night gala.
anyone have a smart phone and wanna make 5000 bucks?
well here you go... http://www.cellflixfestival.org/main.html
So I have the fortune of being in France this coming May during the entire run of the Cannes Film Festival, and I know that you have to be invited and be big in the business to go, but I was wondering if anyone knows anything about the Cannes Cinephiles program, which grants access to select film students and film clubs. Apparently you have to fill out some application and get it in to them by some time in March, but I can't even find an application of any kind.
Have any of you been to the festival before or gone through this?
This is my first time to go to Europe, and if I could spend some time at the Cannes Festival I think I would just about cry. Especially with word that David Lynch's next will premiere at this year's festival...
I don't know anything about that, but this thread reminds me:
I've submitted Thomas Edison to the Ashland Independent Film Festival already, and will be submitting to South by Southwest, Santa Cruz Film Festival, Newport Beach Film Festival, DC Independent Film Festival, and (for the hell of it) Tribeca Film Festival for the Spring season of festivals.
Does anybody have any experience with any of these, or any other festivals? Does anyone have any advice to impart?
Thanks.
I've been rejected to the DC indie fest. But the shorts were really really really shitty. Mod can vouch (for the shit quality).
God. So does that mean that it's easy enough to get in since their general quality is low, or does it mean that if I get in, that means my short is shitty (because they have shitty taste)?
I'd say it means if you get in your short is good.
The only films I've caught there were the animated shorts, and that was back in 2001, they were mostly meh.
http://www.hellonreels.org/submit.html
astoria film festival currently taking submissions.
holy crap man your gonna spend more money than you'd make in those two weeks your taking off. something doesn't feel right about that.
me i'm only watching 5, as my budget allows. i've bought 4 in advance already and the fifth i'm either gonna give to a friend or use on a random. it starts this week!
here's what i've got lined up..
SUNDAY AUG 6
A Life in Suitcases (peter greenaway)
WED AUG 9
The Pervert's Guide to Cinema Parts 1, 2, & 3 (sophie fiennes)
FRI AUG 11
Takeshis' (takeshi kitano)
SUNDAY AUG 13
Mary (abel ferrara)
very excited about all of em, and i can think of at least one other (retired) xixax member who'll probably be at everything, sitting in front of me as usual :yabbse-angry:.
Quote from: Pubrick on July 30, 2006, 05:07:53 PM
i can think of at least one other (retired) xixax member who'll probably be at everything, sitting in front of me as usual :yabbse-angry:.
preparations are in order
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about prairie, i don't see the point of going to a festival to see a movie that will be released theatrically soon anyway. the ones i've chosen i think will probably not be released theatrically for very long, if at all. so in that vein i wanted to check out Black Bull too cos i felt like i could get in the mood for something extremely depressing. and my 5th ticket might go to Princess Raccoon but i'm not feeling it all that much. i think the stuff i got is the best of the bunch. it's slim pickings even with however many hundreds of films they reckon they're showing.
Quote from: flagpolespecial on August 03, 2006, 07:02:14 AM
it's not cannes, berlin or venice. but i would have thought you'd welcome some counter programming with a little wider arms.
i don't have to be a spokesperson for the damn thing. the thread's title should've been an indication of how i feel about this city anyway. i'm probably just trying to make myself believe there's nothing worth watching cos i can't afford to see everything like you and silver bullet, except i think he's got a lifetime pass or something. i would like to see all the ones you mentioned, but they are just not that essential. i picked the 4 that rose well and truly above the rest in offering me something i wouldn't see in any other film. and the fifth is gonna be on a whim.
Quote from: flagpolespecial on August 03, 2006, 08:48:27 AM
i'm curious to know why you don't want to see 'tideland' if your reason includes spoilers i don't want to know...yet.
i don't consider terry gilliam essential. i'm sick of his dutch angles. brazil is overrated. if it's any good i'll catch it when it's released at the Dendy or whatever.
Quote from: Pubrick on August 03, 2006, 08:54:13 AM
. brazil is overrated.
You should have shared this information when you were first interviewed for your position.... BANNED!!!
A theater here does an annual Midnight Movie Marathon, screening 5 movies from midnight to 10am. I'm posting about it here because it feels like a film festival. This year was mostly new movies that have not yet screened here in Santa Cruz, also mostly with a horror theme. They keep the titles secret until they play, so that was fun. This is what they played. I don't feel like writing much about the movies as of now so I'll just give my feeling about them in grade form, even though some of you don't like grades. It's just all I can muster right now, plus I know these grades will stick as opposed to the jibberish I might end up writing about it.
1. Severance (B)
2. Sympathy for Lady Vengence (B+)
3. Feast (B-)
4. Renaissance (C-)
5. Evil Aliens (D)
The overall quality of the movies unfortunately were just so so, but staying up and ruining all sense of time for your body clock is fun every once in a while.
Renaissance was pretty fucking disappointing though. Hard to sit through, especially at 6:30 in the morning. Instead of a secret title for the third film, an optional non-gory film (that Bobcat Goldthwait beastiality movie) was offered in another screening room, but I chose to stay for the secret movie, which turned out to be Feast.
Evil Aliens was not enjoyable at all for me, so it was difficult to sit through as a last movie, and a sour note to end on.
STILL, I'd do it again. It was surprisingly easy to stay up, even though I feel like shit now.
There's no reason for any of you to be interested in any of this information but I felt like posting about it anyway, as it was, at least, an experience.
The United States Military is having its own homemade Film Festival.
GI Film Festival: Honoring the successes and sacrifices of American soldiers, and the values of liberty and democracy! (http://www.gifilmfestival.com/)
Featuring Ernest Borgnine! Judged by Chuck Norris! Now accepting Entries!