AFI FEST 2010 has set its programs for both its first-ever Young Americans section and the New Auteurs section, with a wide variety of festival favorites in the mix, from Robert Mitchell's "The Myth Of The American Sleepover " to Xavier Dolan's "Heartbeats" to recent Reykavik International Film Festival winners "Littlerock," from Mike Ott,...
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IFC Films has announced that it has acquired the U.S. rights to Michael Winterbottom’s British comedy "The Trip," starring Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon. The film premiered at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival to warm notices, making this yet another pick-up out of that festival, which saw a wildly successful sales market. It...
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Animator Bill Plymton's latest animated feature, "Idiots and Angels," is being released Wednesday, October 6 at the IFC Center in New York. In anticipation of the film's release, Plympton spoke with indieWIRE about how he got into animation, and what inspired him to direct his latest, "Idiots and Angels," which premiered at the Tribeca...
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Over the last eleven years, the Woodstock Film Festival has honored numerous movers and shakers from across the spectrum of the international film community, but few guests have turned as many heads as Keanu Reeves. The recipient of Woodstock's inaugural Honorary Excellence in Acting Award, Reeves made a surprisingly personable visit to the festival...
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"Earth Keepers" director Sylvie Van Brabant (center) celebrates the film's win for the Reykjavik International Film Festival's Environmental Award with her cinematographer (and daughter) Katherine Giguere, and producer Peter Wintonick last night at the festival's closing party. Photo by Peter Knegt.
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Eleanor Burke and Ron Eyal's feature "Stranger Things" and Jeff Malmberg's doc "Marwencol" took top prizes Saturday evening at the 11th Woodstock Film Festival. Emceed by Oscar-nominated writer/director and Woodstock resident Ron Nyswaner ("Philadelphia"), the Gala Maverick Awards ceremony also honored writer/director Bruce Beresford ("Mao's Last Dancer") with its Honorary Maverick Award, veteran film...
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"This place is absolutely magical," Jim Jarmusch (left) said earlier today when he was given an award from the Reykjavik International Film Festival - at the president of Iceland's house no less. President Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson (right) gathered a hundred or so guests of the film festival to his home - including Jarmusch, Toronto...
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The 8th annual Tallgrass Film Festival will run October 22-24 in Wichita, Kansas. The festival will begin with Ryan Piers Williams' "The Dry Land" and will end with a screening of Charlie Chaplin's silent masterpiece "The Kid." The Chaplin film, which will be played with a live accompaniment, also ends Grasscendo, the fest's spotlight...
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The 48th edition of the venerable New York Film Festival kicked off last Friday evening, loosely inspiring this week's theme for indieWIRE's curation of Hulu's Documentaries page - no, not a selection of lyrical foreign language docs, but instead a series of films about or featuring New York City and its famous (or infamous)...
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