Transatlantyk Festival Plans Miloś Forman Retrospective
The Transatlantyk Poznan International Film and Music Festival will honor renowned Czech film director Miloś Forman with a retrospective at this year's inaugural event, which runs from August 5-13, in...
View ArticleRepresenting Poland at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival
The biggest annual film event in North America kicks off September 8 as the Toronto International Film Festival celebrates its 36th year. Toronto always delivers an extravaganza of cinematic fare...
View ArticleCelebrating Poland's First Screen Goddess: Pola Negri Film to Screen in Paris...
A long lost film starring Polish-born silent film star Pola Negri will be screened in Paris on September 12 at the Balzac Cinema as part of the International Cultural Programme of the current Polish EU...
View ArticleTaking Bulgarian Cinema on the Road: An Interview With Director Konstantin...
Walking around New York, London or Paris, if you offered someone 100 dollars, pounds or euros to name just one Bulgarian film or director, you'd likely still have the money in your pocket after an hour...
View ArticleBetween the Comic and the Tragic: An Interview With Director Kenji Yamauchi
In his feature film debut “Being Mitsuko” which had its world premiere on October 13 at the Warsaw Film Festival, Japanese director Kenji Yamauchi walks a fine genre line between the comic and the...
View Article2011 Warsaw Film Festival Prize Winners
“Rose”, directed by Wojciech Smarzowski, won the top prize in the International Competition at the 27th Warsaw Film Festival, which wrapped today.A historical drama set in the picturesque Mazury region...
View ArticleStanley Kubrick Photography Exhibition Opens in Moscow
Although renowned as one of the greatest film directors of all time, many movie fans are unaware of the origins and influences of Stanley Kubrick's mastery of the cinematic medium. The current...
View ArticleKinoteka Polish Film Festival Opens in London
Fans of Polish cinema are in for a fortnight of fun, as the 10th Kinoteka Polish Film Festival opens on March 8th and runs through the 22nd at various venues in London, with some additional...
View ArticleJohn Ford Film Symposium in Dublin, June 7 - 10
Both Ingmar Bergman and Orson Welles called him their favorite director. On set, John Wayne called him “Coach”. Jimmy Stewart referred to him simply as “Boss”. In a career that spanned over 60 years,...
View ArticlePeter Bogdanovich Packs the House at the John Ford Ireland Film Symposium
The Irish Film Institute was the place to be Friday night, where renowned director Peter Bogdanovich gave a public lecture and interview as part of the inaugural John Ford Ireland Film Symposium in...
View ArticleAn Interview With Film Historian and John Ford Biographer Joseph McBride at...
Eustace Street in the Temple Bar district of Dublin, home of the Irish Film Institute, has been a busy place this weekend, as the inaugural John Ford Ireland Film Symposium presented a variety of...
View ArticleAn Interview With Composer and Musician Kyle Eastwood at the John Ford...
Acclaimed jazz musician and composer Kyle Eastwood is in Dublin this weekend, performing at the Button Factory and taking part in the programme of events at the inaugural John Ford Ireland Film...
View ArticleFreshly Squeezed Film Festival Opens in Dublin
Imagine a festival that would give film students and recent graduates the chance to showcase their short films. And imagine if this festival was open to students from all over the world to submit their...
View ArticleLondon’s Barbican Celebrates Bond With Style and Design Exhibition
This October will mark 50 years since Dr. No, the first James Bond novel adapted for the screen, made its debut. The film’s mixture of espionage, intrigue, action, exotic locales and a bit of sex,...
View ArticleIrish Film Institute Honors Director John Hughes in its “Teenage Kicks” Series
Three years ago this week, on August 6, 2009, one of the most prolific, influential and commercially successful American directors of his generation passed away at the age of 59. Although not...
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David Lynch Receives Lifetime Achievement Award for Directing at 20th...
Renowned American director David Lynch received the Lifetime Achievement Award for Directing on November 24 at the 20th Plus Camerimage Festival in Bydgoszcz, Poland. Founded in 1993, the annual event...
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Wajda's Walesa Biopic to Debut at Venice Film Festival
Celebrating its 70th anniversary, the Venice Film Festival is in full swing this weekend. As one of the world's most prestigious annual events for filmmakers and cinema fans around the world, winning...
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Wajda's “Walesa: Man of Hope” Fast-Tracked For U.K. and Ireland Release
The past couple of weeks have been good ones for legendary Polish director Andrzej Wajda. His latest film Walesa: Man of Hope which chronicles the rise of Lech Walesa, who became Poland's first...
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Pimp My Friend: Woody Allen and John Turturro Team Up in “Fading Gigolo”
The Toronto International Film Festival has wrapped for another year. As always, film fans lined up in droves to watch movies from the morning to the wee hours of the night, while others clamored for a...
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New York Lauds Godard with Awesome Retrospective
Fifty years ago this fall, from September 10-19, 1963, the first New York Film Festival was held. The cinema world was different in those days. In an era before home video and DVDs, the few venues for...
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Martin Scorsese: Ambassador of Polish Cinema
As one of the most popular and critically acclaimed directors in the world, having a celebrity like Martin Scorsese getting behind your project is the kind of endorsement any organization would jump...
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Cosmopolitan Man: An Interview with Director Whit Stillman
Whit Stillman likes Paris. And the feeling seems to be mutual. After all, why not? The American director relocated to the city in 1998 and lived there for twelve years. And this coming week will mark a...
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Toronto Serves Up a Kubrick Cornucopia
In the 15 years since his passing, Stanley Kubrick's reputation has continued to grow as one of the finest directors in the history of cinema, while new generations of film fans discover the rich...
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“The Match” Lights a Fire at the Edmonton International Film Festival
For ages, people have asked the question: Is professional wrestling real? Well, if “real” refers to the place it holds in the hearts of devoted fans and the impact it has on their day-to-day lives, the...
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Spielberg to Shoot New Cold War Drama in Poland in November
What do you get when you take Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks, a script by the Coen Brothers, a musical score by John Williams, and a plot based on one of the most pivotal events of the Cold War? You get...
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In 2015, Everything's Coming Up Orson
“Oh God, how they'll love me when I'm dead,” lamented Orson Welles to Peter Bogdanovich mere weeks before he died in October 1985. At the time, to many in the film world, Welles had long since become...
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Scorsese's Polish Film Series Comes to the U.K.
Over a year since it made its debut at New York's Lincoln Center last February, Martin Scorsese Presents Masterpieces of Polish Cinema, a traveling exhibition comprising 21 feature films, has screened...
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Toronto Honors Ingrid Bergman with August Retrospective
1915 was an especially auspicious year in terms of celebrity births, and 2015 is shaping up to be quite the year for centennial celebrations. Frank Sinatra, Edith Piaf, Billy Holiday, Arthur Miller and...
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Photographic Memories: My Many Days and Nights at the Toronto International...
It's hard to believe, but this month the Toronto International Film Festival will celebrate its 40th anniversary. Milestones like this always make for a good excuse to pause and reflect, especially for...
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Poland Picks Skolimowski's 11 Minutes as Oscar Entry for Best Foreign...
After a five-year hiatus, veteran Polish film director Jerzy Skolimowski is back on the scene. At the age of 77, Skolimowski seems more energized than ever. His latest film, 11 Minutes, an...
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