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14 ways to make the most of MAMI

Edit The Hindu 16 Oct 2016

The Jio Mami 18th Mumbai Film Festival With Star is nothing short of a pilgrimage for its regular patrons ... As the festival readies itself for its newest edition, here are a few handy tips to put the logistics of viewing films in perspective ... So if you really want to catch a film that is evidently the piece-de-resistance of the festival, choose less crowded clusters like Kurla-Mulund one ... Festival films can be emotionally exhausting....

Steve McQueen honoured with BFI fellowship at London film festival

Edit The Guardian 16 Oct 2016

It was the culmination of a film festival that attempted to correct a bias against celebrating black screen talent. Steve McQueen, the film-maker, screenwriter and Turner prizewinning artist, was awarded the British Film Institute fellowship on Saturday by his friend and collaborator, the actor Michael Fassbender, in a starry awards ceremony that closed the annual London film festival....

'Certain Women' named best picture at London Film Festival

Edit WPXI 16 Oct 2016

LONDON (AP) — Writer-director Kelly Reichardt's spare and subtle Montana drama "Certain Women" won the best-picture prize Saturday at the London Film Festival, while "12 Years a Slave" director Steve McQueen received a major career award ... The 60-year-old London festival has sought this year to encourage diversity in the film industry, opening with Amma Asante's "A United Kingdom."...

Dazzle of stardust at State film awards nite in Palakkad

Edit The Hindu 16 Oct 2016

The Chief Minister presented veteran film-maker K.G ... Vijayan said the Left Democratic Front (LDF) government was planning to drop the idea of the previous United Democratic Front (UDF) government to make Thiruvananthapuram a permanent venue for film festivals ... However, a Rs.50-crore film festival venue would be constructed in the capital ... He also sought public cooperation to make the Ottappalam Film City project a reality....

Rome Film Festival salutes Andrzej Wajda with his final film, 'Afterimage'

Edit Daily Press 16 Oct 2016

A melancholy round of applause greeted the first Rome Film Festival screening on Friday of “Afterimage,” the stark, solemn final film directed by the Polish master Andrzej Wajda. Before his death on Sunday at the age of 90, Wajda had been expected to attend the festival and participate in a conversation ... ....

Dracula returns to Dublin – city that spawned a vampire classic

Edit The Guardian 16 Oct 2016

A new score for the 1931 Bela Lugosi film hopes to reclaim author Bram Stoker as one of Ireland’s favourite sons ... As a homage to Stoker’s Dublin lineage, a fresh soundtrack is being recorded during a live screening of the 1931 film Dracula starring Bela Lugosi for an audience at the National Concert Hall on 29 October ... “I guess we are playing with the tone and the atmosphere of the film....

Marion Cotillard laments social disconnect

Edit Arabnews 16 Oct 2016

Author.  ... French actress Marion Cotillard said society is becoming more isolated, as she discussed her latest film “It’s Only the End of the World” on Friday at the London Film Festival. The film, directed by Canadian filmmaker Xavier Dolan and based on the French play “Juste la fin du monde,” features love and communication as major themes as it follows a terminally ill writer who returns home to tell his family he is dying ... ....

Robert De Niro To Receive 2017 Chaplin Award

Edit IMDb 16 Oct 2016

... decade-long career, as well as his championing of independent film thorugh the Tribeca Film Festival....

Three-day Kolhapur tourism festival culminates on Sunday

Edit The Times of India 16 Oct 2016

With a view to make Kolhapur a tourist destination, the district administration has organised a three-day tourism festival that kicked off on Friday. The festival - aimed to attract tourists from across the state - was inaugurated by district collector Amit Saini, who had invited more than 50 tour operators form Maharashtra ... The operators are enjoying the festival."....

Quentin Tarantino Hints At New Project, Set In 1970s “New Hollywood”

Edit Inquisitr 16 Oct 2016

According to The Playlist, Tarantino told an audience at a film festival in France that he is specifically researching the year 1970 ... Films in this style include The ... That experiment could have died in 1970.” Quentin Tarantino attends the opening ceremony of the 8th Lumiere Film Festival in Lyon on October 8, 2016 in Lyon, France....

UK director Steve McQueen has received the British Film Institute's highest honour at the London Film Festival ... Certain Women, directed by Kelly Reichardt and starring Michelle Williams, Laura Dern and Kristen Stewart, won the prize for best film ... Ducournau said that with so few women working at the top level of the film industry she was encouraged to see female directors being recognised....

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