The Bradford International Film Festival is typically an underground-friendly fest. This year appears to be no exception with two very special experimental film retrospectives, as well as a few modern underground-type flicks.
The 19th annual Biff will roll on April 11-21 at several locations around Bradford and Leeds in England, including the National Media Museum, Hebden Bridge Picture House, Hyde Park Picture House and other venues.
Biff is hosting a tribute to Stan Brakhage this year by screening the prolific filmmaker’s magnum opus, Dog Star Man, as well as a selection of his short films, from 1963′s legendary Mothlight to 1994′s Black Ice. There’s also going to be an epic-sized tribute/retrospective of experimental films from Austria, a country with a proud avant-garde filmmaking tradition that’s typically overlooked.
From Austria, Biff is, of course, screening two works from one of the experimental film world’s biggest masters,...
The 19th annual Biff will roll on April 11-21 at several locations around Bradford and Leeds in England, including the National Media Museum, Hebden Bridge Picture House, Hyde Park Picture House and other venues.
Biff is hosting a tribute to Stan Brakhage this year by screening the prolific filmmaker’s magnum opus, Dog Star Man, as well as a selection of his short films, from 1963′s legendary Mothlight to 1994′s Black Ice. There’s also going to be an epic-sized tribute/retrospective of experimental films from Austria, a country with a proud avant-garde filmmaking tradition that’s typically overlooked.
From Austria, Biff is, of course, screening two works from one of the experimental film world’s biggest masters,...
- 3/11/2013
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
DVD Release Date: June 19, 2012
Price: DVD $27.95
Studio: First Run Features
Norman Foster's Millau Viaduct over the Gorges du Tarn in France.
The 2010 documentary film How Much Does Your Building Weigh, Mr. Foster? chronicles the life and career of England’s Norman Foster, who rose from a humble working class background to become one of the world’s premiere modern architects.
Directed by Norberto López Amada & Carlos Carcas, the movie was filmed in some ten countries, homing on some of Foster’s most iconic works, including London’s Swiss Re Tower, New York’s Hearst Building, Berlin’s Reichstag, Beijing Airport’s International Terminal and the Millau Viaduct over the Gorges du Tarn in France.
Examining the work of an architect whose quest is to improve the quality of life through design, and his work, the film features insights from Foster himself, as well as artists and notables as Anthony Caro,...
Price: DVD $27.95
Studio: First Run Features
Norman Foster's Millau Viaduct over the Gorges du Tarn in France.
The 2010 documentary film How Much Does Your Building Weigh, Mr. Foster? chronicles the life and career of England’s Norman Foster, who rose from a humble working class background to become one of the world’s premiere modern architects.
Directed by Norberto López Amada & Carlos Carcas, the movie was filmed in some ten countries, homing on some of Foster’s most iconic works, including London’s Swiss Re Tower, New York’s Hearst Building, Berlin’s Reichstag, Beijing Airport’s International Terminal and the Millau Viaduct over the Gorges du Tarn in France.
Examining the work of an architect whose quest is to improve the quality of life through design, and his work, the film features insights from Foster himself, as well as artists and notables as Anthony Caro,...
- 5/30/2012
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
Peter Jackson's The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, slated to open in mid-December, will be the first major feature to be screened at 48 frames per second. Both Mike Bracken (Movies.com) and Carolyn Giardina (Hollywood Reporter) wonder just how many theaters will be able to handle the High Frame Rate Jackson and James Cameron have been promoting.
In other news. Senses of Cinema is back online with a new look.
Books. Ada Calhoun finds that Frank Langella's new memoir, Dropped Names: Famous Men and Women as I Knew Them, "paints Hollywood and Broadway as teeming with vulgar, neurotic and irresistible company, and Langella as relentlessly affable in the face of nonstop groping by famous people in far-flung locations. He ambles into history and falls into notable beds like some kind of sexy Forrest Gump or beefcake Zelig."
Reviewing Claude Lanzmann's memoir The Patagonian Hare for the New Republic,...
In other news. Senses of Cinema is back online with a new look.
Books. Ada Calhoun finds that Frank Langella's new memoir, Dropped Names: Famous Men and Women as I Knew Them, "paints Hollywood and Broadway as teeming with vulgar, neurotic and irresistible company, and Langella as relentlessly affable in the face of nonstop groping by famous people in far-flung locations. He ambles into history and falls into notable beds like some kind of sexy Forrest Gump or beefcake Zelig."
Reviewing Claude Lanzmann's memoir The Patagonian Hare for the New Republic,...
- 4/24/2012
- MUBI
"How Much Does Your Building Weigh, Mr Foster?, an admiring documentary about the British architect Norman Foster, by Norberto López Amado and Carlos Carcas, gives the viewer quite a lot to marvel at, which is, after all, the root meaning of the word 'admire,'" begins Ao Scott in the New York Times. "Accompanied by Joan Valent's pulsing, soaring score, the camera swoops over some of Mr Foster's largest and best-known structures and floats through the bright and airy interiors of his skyscrapers. Even before you hear Paul Goldberger (a former architecture critic for The New York Times, currently at The New Yorker) describe Mr Foster as 'the Mozart of Modernism,' you can appreciate the grace and harmony of his compositions in glass, steel and light."
For Benjamin Sutton, writing in the L, "what's most remarkable about this documentary," currently at the IFC Center through Tuesday, "is how...
For Benjamin Sutton, writing in the L, "what's most remarkable about this documentary," currently at the IFC Center through Tuesday, "is how...
- 1/26/2012
- MUBI
Arthouse Films has just picked up North American, New Zealand and Australian rights for “How Much Does Your Building Weigh Mr. Foster?” The feature documentary from filmmakers Carlos Carcas and Norberto Lopez Amado follows the rise of world-renowned architect Norman Foster, the man behind high-profile buildings like New York’s Hearst Building and the Beijing Airport. The deal was negotiated by David Koh & Stanley Buchthal on behalf of Arthouse Films ...
- 2/14/2011
- Indiewire
Tangled (PG)
(Nathan Greno, Byron Howard, 2010, Us) Mandy Moore, Zachary Levi, Donna Murphy, Ron Perlman. 100 mins
Disney's animation formula might be 50 movies old, but after a thorough 21st-century overhaul it sparkles anew here. The classical elements are present and correct: rejigged fairytale (Rapunzel), musical numbers, expressive animals, problematic mother-daughter dynamic. But the animation is bright, the comedy tight, and the dialogue high-school-friendly. It's like Shrek without the irony, which is kind of refreshing. Little to challenge the status quo (or Pixar), maybe, but it does feature a great comedy horse.
Barney's Version (15)
(Richard J Lewis, 2010, Us) Paul Giamatti, Rosamund Pike, Dustin Hoffman. 134 mins
Giamatti was made to play this comically disgraceful antihero – a boozy, philandering New York Jewish sleazeball/charmer – whose belief in romance shapes his unreliably narrated life, even as it ruins those of others.
Biutiful (15)
(Alejandro Gonzáles Iñárritu, 2010, Spa/Mex) Javier Bardem, Maricel Alvarez, Hanaa Bouchaib. 147 mins
The...
(Nathan Greno, Byron Howard, 2010, Us) Mandy Moore, Zachary Levi, Donna Murphy, Ron Perlman. 100 mins
Disney's animation formula might be 50 movies old, but after a thorough 21st-century overhaul it sparkles anew here. The classical elements are present and correct: rejigged fairytale (Rapunzel), musical numbers, expressive animals, problematic mother-daughter dynamic. But the animation is bright, the comedy tight, and the dialogue high-school-friendly. It's like Shrek without the irony, which is kind of refreshing. Little to challenge the status quo (or Pixar), maybe, but it does feature a great comedy horse.
Barney's Version (15)
(Richard J Lewis, 2010, Us) Paul Giamatti, Rosamund Pike, Dustin Hoffman. 134 mins
Giamatti was made to play this comically disgraceful antihero – a boozy, philandering New York Jewish sleazeball/charmer – whose belief in romance shapes his unreliably narrated life, even as it ruins those of others.
Biutiful (15)
(Alejandro Gonzáles Iñárritu, 2010, Spa/Mex) Javier Bardem, Maricel Alvarez, Hanaa Bouchaib. 147 mins
The...
- 1/29/2011
- by The guide
- The Guardian - Film News
Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: I celebrate all levels of trailers and hopefully this column will satisfactorily give you a baseline of what beta wave I’m operating on, because what better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising? Some of the best authors will tell you that writing a short story is a lot harder than writing a long one, that you have to weigh every sentence. What better medium to see how this theory plays itself out beyond that than with movie trailers? Nostalgia de la luz (Nostalgia for the Light) Trailer For all the blowhardy things I say about what makes this trailer a good one or...
- 1/15/2011
- by Christopher Stipp
- Slash Film
[Editor's note: I've asked our team of world film correspondents to dish out their top 5 films of the year from their respective countries. Here's Mario Balarezo del Caz's take on the Best in Spanish Cinema in 2010.] Like in any given year, it's always a difficult task to come up with a Top 5 films, but among the Spanish films that were rolled out domestically I won't be including such items as "Biutiful" or “Balada Triste de Trompeta”, mainly because even if those have gathered some recognition internationally, in my opinion, these were flawed and irregular works from their respective directors. While Alejandro González Iñárritu's drama's only saving grace might be Javier Bardem´s acting, the rest of the film suffers from a jaded structure that seems only the skilled hands of Guillermo Arriaga could have made effective and the same goes for Álex de la Iglesia's film where majestic sequences are overtly ridiculous at times, I saw it as a bad mismatch blending of the genres. Here are my top 5 of the year. #5. HéroesA quality guilty pleasure. An homage to the teen American films of...
- 12/29/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
Filmmakers Norberto López-Amado and Carlos Carcas release their documentary on the British architect.
There's a new architecture documentary of Norman Foster out, adding the British architect to the movie-star ranks of Rem Koolhaas, Frank Gehry, and Louis Kahn. From the looks of it, though, it's closer to The Third and the Seventh--beautiful, sure, with slow, majestic panning shots, but oh so deadly serious. Is that a problem?
Directed by Norberto López-Amado and Carlos Carcas, How Much Does Your Building Weigh, Mr. Foster? is the first feature-length film produced by the art consultants at Art Commissioners. Watch the clips on the filmmakers' Web site (scroll down). It's soundtracked like a tear-jerker with swelling orchestras and ambiguous choral vocals. When architects appear (it's mostly their buildings), there's a lot of somber nodding and meaningful hand gestures. In one clip, over a crescendo of thrumming strings and a slow pan around and up the Gherkin,...
There's a new architecture documentary of Norman Foster out, adding the British architect to the movie-star ranks of Rem Koolhaas, Frank Gehry, and Louis Kahn. From the looks of it, though, it's closer to The Third and the Seventh--beautiful, sure, with slow, majestic panning shots, but oh so deadly serious. Is that a problem?
Directed by Norberto López-Amado and Carlos Carcas, How Much Does Your Building Weigh, Mr. Foster? is the first feature-length film produced by the art consultants at Art Commissioners. Watch the clips on the filmmakers' Web site (scroll down). It's soundtracked like a tear-jerker with swelling orchestras and ambiguous choral vocals. When architects appear (it's mostly their buildings), there's a lot of somber nodding and meaningful hand gestures. In one clip, over a crescendo of thrumming strings and a slow pan around and up the Gherkin,...
- 2/19/2010
- by William Bostwick
- Fast Company
A Swedish horror film and a documentary following a female peace activist in war-torn Liberia has scooped the top awards at New York's Tribeca Film Festival on Thursday.
Let the Right One In - directed by Tomas Alfredson - took the award for Best Narrative Feature, beating 11 other finalists.
Pray the Devil Back to Hell - directed by Gini Reticker and narrated by singer Angelique Kidjo - won Best Documentary Feature. Both films each won $25,000 (GBP12,500).
Other films to be honoured at the festival include My Marlon and Brando (Best New Narrative Filmmaker Award ) and Spanish director Carlos Carcas won Best New Documentary Filmmaker for Old Man Bebo.
The Best Actor in a Feature Film award went to Thomas Turgoose and Piotr Jagiello for their roles in the British film Somers Town, while the Best Actress Award went to Eileen Walsh for her role in the Irish movie Eden.
The Tribeca Film Festival, co-founded by Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal and Craig Hatkoff, celebrated its seventh year. They founded the festival in 2001 following the attacks on the World Trade Center in a bid to spur the economic and cultural revitalisation of lower Manhattan through an annual celebration of film, music and culture.
Let the Right One In - directed by Tomas Alfredson - took the award for Best Narrative Feature, beating 11 other finalists.
Pray the Devil Back to Hell - directed by Gini Reticker and narrated by singer Angelique Kidjo - won Best Documentary Feature. Both films each won $25,000 (GBP12,500).
Other films to be honoured at the festival include My Marlon and Brando (Best New Narrative Filmmaker Award ) and Spanish director Carlos Carcas won Best New Documentary Filmmaker for Old Man Bebo.
The Best Actor in a Feature Film award went to Thomas Turgoose and Piotr Jagiello for their roles in the British film Somers Town, while the Best Actress Award went to Eileen Walsh for her role in the Irish movie Eden.
The Tribeca Film Festival, co-founded by Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal and Craig Hatkoff, celebrated its seventh year. They founded the festival in 2001 following the attacks on the World Trade Center in a bid to spur the economic and cultural revitalisation of lower Manhattan through an annual celebration of film, music and culture.
- 5/2/2008
- WENN
Tomas Alfredson's Swedish vampire flick "Let the Right One In" and Gini Reticker's study of Liberian unrest "Pray the Devil Back to Hell" took home the Tribeca Film Festival's top narrative and docu feature awards Thursday.
Alfredson proved himself to be a winner even before the ceremony at the Target-Tribeca Filmmaker Lounge: The helmer is being pursued by several agencies looking to represent him.
As the fest wound down, buyers were cautiously circling available titles. Samuel Goldwyn Films vp acquisitions Peter Goldwyn, while praising Tribeca for charging a reasonable amount for industry passes in its effort to accommodate buyers, put the slow sales in perspective. Like recent Toronto and Sundance fests, he said, "It's just another festival dealing with a lack of strong independent movies. It's not a great year for independent film as a whole."
The best new narrative filmmaker award went to Huseyin Karabey for the romance "My Marlon and Brando", and the best new docu filmmaker award to Carlos Carcas for "Old Man Bebo", his profile of a Cuban mambo legend.
Alfredson proved himself to be a winner even before the ceremony at the Target-Tribeca Filmmaker Lounge: The helmer is being pursued by several agencies looking to represent him.
As the fest wound down, buyers were cautiously circling available titles. Samuel Goldwyn Films vp acquisitions Peter Goldwyn, while praising Tribeca for charging a reasonable amount for industry passes in its effort to accommodate buyers, put the slow sales in perspective. Like recent Toronto and Sundance fests, he said, "It's just another festival dealing with a lack of strong independent movies. It's not a great year for independent film as a whole."
The best new narrative filmmaker award went to Huseyin Karabey for the romance "My Marlon and Brando", and the best new docu filmmaker award to Carlos Carcas for "Old Man Bebo", his profile of a Cuban mambo legend.
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