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Peter Greenaway Puts the Art Into Art Films
- Sunday, 03 February 2013 22:07
- Stephen Ashton
Greenaway was born in South Wales, UK and from his early days wanted to be a painter. He studied art but in the 1960’s when he discovered Bergman’s “Seventh Seal” (reportedly twice a day for five days straight) he was swept into the worlds of metaphor, visual communication, mythology and pure cinematic experience. His first forays into filmmaking were with experimental short films, although his first film job was to make documentaries at the British Central Office of Information.
KEN LOACH'S COMEDY'S SUBJECT NOT A LAUGHING MATTER
- Sunday, 03 February 2013 19:40
- Stephen Ashton
After his 2010 film “Route Irish” director Ken Loach and Paul Laverty, his long-time writing collaborator, felt they wanted to do something lighter in tone, but still touching on the social relevance that is the trade-mark of their work. “While we wanted to make people smile,” Loach tells a group of journalists in Cannes at “The Angels' Share” premiere, “we could not ignore the reality of the worsening crisis for young people”
Loach Locks Late Launch In Cannes
- Monday, 10 May 2010 18:38
- By Stephen Ashton
Prolific progressive filmmaker Ken Loach will present his new film "Route Irish" in Competition at the Cannes International Film Festival it was announced at the last minute just before the Festival's opening. Loach is a Cannes regular whose "The Wind That Shakes The Barley" won the Palme d'Or, the main prize in 2006 and last year threw "Looking For Eric" into the ring.
Mads In Motion
- Saturday, 02 February 2013 22:25
- Stephen Ashton
Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen started his career as a junkie in the “Pusher” films of Nicolas Winding Refn, and has played composer Igor Stravinsky in “Coco Chanel and Igor Stravinsky,” a Danish Resistance fighter in “Flame & Citron,” an orphanage manager in “After the Wedding,” a one-eyed gladiator in “Valhalla Rising,” and arch villain Le Chiffre in “Casino Royale.” Sayles turns to self distribution
- Thursday, 15 April 2010 12:27
- Stephen Ashton
Seminal independent filmmaker John Sayles has just finished his 16th feature film, “Honeydripper”. His first feature, “The Return of the Secaucus Seven,” made 29 years ago, was a ground-breaking low budget independent feature that became a model for future filmmakers. His films have run the gamut from the Spanish language “Men With Guns” to the woman’s story “Lianna” and the popular Oscar Nominated “Lone Star.”
Jafar Jailed
- Saturday, 02 February 2013 22:00
- Stephen Ashton
Jafar Panahi arrested in Iran. Protests from across the world. Sign Cineuropa.org’s petition
The film world is calling for the release of director Jafar Panahi, who was arrested in his house in Tehran by plainclothes officers of the Iranian regime. The following were also arrested: his wife and daughter, film directors Mohammad Rasulov, Mahnaz Mohammadi, Rokhsareh Ghaem-Maghami and cameraman Ebrahim Ghafari.
It would appear that the director, who supports opposition leader Mir Hossein Moussavi, was arrested because he was making a documentary film about the wave of protests that broke out last June after the controversial election of president Mahmud Ahmadinejad.
“Balibo Conspiracy” Interview with Robert Connolly
- Tuesday, 30 November 1999 00:00
- By Stephen Ashton
Australian actor Anthony LaPaglia was so moved by Jill Jolliffe’s book “Cover-Up” he brought it to his friend Robert Connolly after they made the prescient 2001 film “The Bank.”
“Balibo Conspiracy” recounts the tragic plight of five journalists (2 Australian, 2 Briton and a New Zealander) in 1975 in East Timor, one of Australia’s closest neighbors. They were at the border town of Balibo to report on Indonesian incursions into East Timor prior to a major invasion. The Democratic Republic of East Timor had finally won independence from 455 years of Portuguese colonial rule only to be overthrown by Indonesia.
Adlon Family at LAFilmFest
- Thursday, 09 June 2011 13:30
- Stephen Ashton
Los Angeles Film Festival was a fixture in the "Village" of Westwood for years. There was a certain small town feel to the place which was always a bit unusual for a festival serving the City of Angels.
Well, those days are over now.
The Festival has outgrown the Village and found a new home in the renaissance of Los Angeles' Downtown area. Among the many outstanding presentations of the Festival was the long awaited new film by Percy "Bagdad Cafe" Adlon, Mahler On The Couch.
Father Percy and Son Felix provided insight into their working methods at one of LAFF's popular Brown Bag Lunch Talks.
When Day breaks - Ashton Review
- Sunday, 03 February 2013 22:31
- Stephen Ashton
Misha Brankov, a retired music professor, is called Belgrade’s Jewish museum and given a metal box that was discovered during an excavation. In the box are papers that indicate that he is actually the son of Isaac Weiss, a Jewish composer who was in the Belgrade concentration camp Semlin Judenlager, not the son of Christian farmers who raised him. Included in the box is an unfinished score titled “When Day Breaks” and Misha is moved to finish the composition and get the piece performed as an homage to the 48,000 Jews and Romani who were killed there.
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