Author: Maya Hooshivar

Maya Hooshivar is Event Editor for Cinema Without Borders

13th Annual Polish Film Festival in Los Angeles will open with 80 MILLIONS (80 milionow) by Waldemar Krzystek on October 9th, 2012 with a star-studded gala during which both Polish and American moviemakers will walk the red carpet at Hollywood’s legendary Egyptian Theatre, an extravagant start to a ten-day-long celebration of Polish Cinema through October 18th, 2012 with subsequent screenings at the Laemmle’s NoHo 7 and at the Village Theater in Orange Country. For the thirteenth time festival will present the most recent achievements of Polish cinema, among others: COURAGE by Greg Zglinski, CRULIC – THE PATH TO BEYOND Anca…

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Italian Cultural Institute of Los Angeles, UCLA Film & Television Archive, The American Cinematheque in collaboration with the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and Luce Cinecitta will pay a homage to Bernardo Bertolucci, the great Italian director, screenwriter, and film producer, featuring beautiful 35mm prints from the archive of Luce Cinecittà. Screening will take place in AERO THEATRE – 1328 Montana Ave., Santa Monica and UCLA’a Billy Wilder Theater at 10899 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles. Program at AERO THEATRETHE CONFORMISTThu, October 4 • 7:30pmBernardo Bertolucci’s breakthrough crime film is haunting, riveting and features some of the most gorgeous images ever…

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LOS ANGELES, CA, June 13, 2012 – The American Film Institute (AFI) today conferred Doctorate of Fine Arts degrees honoris causa upon American comedy icon Mel Brooks and celebrated surrealist David Lynch for “contribution of distinction to the art of the moving image” during AFI Conservatory 2012 commencement of 122 graduates at Hollywood’s landmark Grauman’s Chinese Theatre. Both artists worked together on the Academy Award winning THE ELEPHANT MAN (1980), with Lynch as director and screenwriter and Brooks as executive producer. Brooks and Lynch join previous AFI Honorary Degree recipients including Robert Altman, Maya Angelou, Clint Eastwood, Roger Ebert, James…

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A SEPARATION & THE FORGIVENESS OF BLOOD (Review by Kenneth R. Morefield): It is fitting that ten years after September 11, 2001, a pair of films depicting life in foreign countries can remind us how similar are the problems, longings and fears of people from different cultures, how fear is not the same thing as evil, and how righteousness is not the same as justice. There are no winners and losers in THE FORGIVENESS OF BLOOD or A SEPARATION, only survivors who are marginally more or less damaged by the choices they have to make.Asghar Farhadi’s A SEPARATION is a…

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Once upon a time, when every cinematographer was shooting on film stock, you had to make many choices. Every single element you were using, including the make and type of the film you were using, could give your work a specific look or quality. You could have a look at a film and guess who the director of cinematography was. But with digital cinematography the work of the many cinematographers looks the same. Since I joined the digital world, my concern has been preserving my own way of working and finding ways to control the look of the films I…

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AFI FEST 2009 has announced Andrea Arnold’s FISH TANK and Javier Rebello’s WOMAN WITHOUT PIANO as the joint winners of the inaugural AFI FEST New Lights Competition. A Special Jury Mention went to Scandar Copti’s and Yaron Shani’s AJAMI. The New Lights Competition was created to acknowledge and honor vital, groundbreaking films by first and second time feature filmmakers from around the world.The winners were announced at AFI FEST’s reception in the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel following the Closing Night Gala presentation of Tom Ford’s A SINGLE MAN at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre. The star-studded event included appearances by the director and…

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Mike Nichols has been selected by the American Film Institute’s (AFI) Board of Trustees to receive the 38th AFI Life Achievement Award, the highest honor for a career in film, it was announced today by Sir Howard Stringer, Chair of the AFI Board of Trustees. The award will be presented to Nichols at a gala tribute in Los Angeles next summer. Upon being notified of the honor, Nichols said, “I’m surprised and pleased. The AFI award is truly an honor. I feel very blessed. I was watching THE GRADUATE on my Blackberry last week and it really holds up.” “Genius…

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