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2022 New York Film Festival
The 60th New York Film Festival took place from September 30 to October 16, 2022.Jake Coyle"New York Film Festival sets lineup for 60th edition". ''Toronto Star'', August 9, 2022. Noah Baumbach's ''White Noise'' was selected to be the Opening Night film of the festival (an identical position received by the movie for the 79th Venice Film Festival), while Laura Poitras' documentary ''All the Beauty and the Bloodshed'' was chosen to be NYFF's Centerpiece (the movie also is bound to a Venice World Premiere, a North American premiere at the 49th Telluride Film Festival and a Canadian premiere at the 47th Toronto International Film Festival, making it the only movie of the 2022 season to hit all the major four fall film festivals). Elegance Bratton's 47th Toronto International Film Festival premiere movie, ''The Inspection'', was selected to be New York Film Festival's closing film, while James Gray's 75th Cannes Film Festival premiered movie, ''Armageddon Time'', was selected to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York Film Festival
The New York Film Festival (NYFF) is a film festival held every fall in New York City, presented by Film at Lincoln Center (FLC). Founded in 1963 by Richard Roud and Amos Vogel with the support of Lincoln Center president William Schuman, it is one of the longest-running and most prestigious film festivals in the United States. The non-competitive festival is centered on a "Main Slate" of typically 20–30 feature films, with additional sections for experimental cinema and new restorations. As of 2020, Eugene Hernandez is the Director of NYFF and Dennis Lim is the Director of Programming for NYFF. Kent Jones was the festival director from 2013 to 2019. Sections As of 2020, the festival program is divided into the following sections: Main Slate The Main Slate is the Festival’s primary section, a program typically featuring 25-30 feature-length films, intending to reflect the current state of cinema. The program is a mix of major international art house films from the fest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
72nd Berlin International Film Festival
The 72nd annual Berlin International Film Festival, usually called the Berlinale took place from 10 to 20 February 2022 in person. On 15 December 2021 the first film of the festival was announced. The festival opened with François Ozon's drama film ''Peter von Kant''. Isabelle Huppert was awarded Honorary Golden Bear for lifetime achievement on 15 February 2022 at the Berlinale Palast award ceremony. Her film by Laurent Larivière, ''À propos de Joan'' was also screened. The awards were presented on 16 February 2022 truncating the festival by 4 days. ''Alcarràs'' by Carla Simón won the Golden Bear award and '' The Novelist's Film'' by Hong Sang-soo won the Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize. The festival formally closed on 20 February 2022. Jury Competition The following were on the jury for the Berlinale Competition section: * M. Night Shyamalan, director, screenwriter and producer (USA) - Jury President * Karim Aïnouz, director, screenwriter and visual artist (Brazil) * Saïd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Decision To Leave
''Decision to Leave'' () is a 2022 South Korean romantic mystery film produced, co-written and directed by Park Chan-wook. It stars Tang Wei and Park Hae-il. In April 2022, the film was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival, where Park Chan-wook won Best Director. ''Decision to Leave'' was released theatrically on 29 June 2022 in South Korea. It was selected as the South Korean entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 95th Academy Awards, making the December shortlist. It was also named one of the top 5 international films of 2022 by the National Board of Review. Plot An insomniac detective, Hae-Jun, works in Busan and only sees his wife, Jung-An, a nuclear power plant worker residing in Ipo, once a week. Hae-Jun and his partner Soo-Wan encounter a case where a retired immigration worker, Ki Do Soo, is found dead at the foot of a mountain he often climbed. They interview his much younger wife, Seo-Rae, an emigrant from China who wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucien Castaing-Taylor
Lucien Giles Castaing-Taylor (born 10 January 1966, Liverpool, United Kingdom) is a British anthropologist and artist who works in film, video, and photography. Biography Castaing-Taylor received his B.A. at Cambridge University and his PhD at the University of California, Berkeley under Paul Rabinow. Since 2002 Castaing-Taylor has taught at Harvard University, where he is Director of the Sensory Ethnography Lab. His works include '' In and Out of Africa'', which he made with Ilisa Barbash in 1992. It is an ethnographic video about issues of authenticity, taste, and racial politics in the African art market that won eight international awards. He also recorded the film '' Sweetgrass'' (2009), which is described as "an unsentimental elegy at once to the American West and to the 10,000 years of uneasy accommodation between post-Paleolithic humans and animals." He is the founding editor of the American Anthropological Association’s journal '' Visual Anthropology Review'' ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Véréna Paravel
Véréna Paravel (born 21 April 1971 in Neuchâtel, Switzerland) is a French anthropologist and artist who works in film, video, and photography. Biography Verena Paravel was born in 1971. She is an anthropologist, artist and filmmaker who works in the Sensory Ethnography Lab at Harvard University in Cambridge, USA, and in Paris, France. Her work is in the permanent collection of New York's Museum of Modern Art, and has been exhibited at the Tate, the Whitney Biennial, MoMA, documenta 14 and elsewhere. Her award-winning films and videos have been exhibited at Berlin, Locarno, New York, Toronto, Venice and various other film festivals. Paravel collaborates with anthropologist and artist Lucien Castaing-Taylor in film, video, and installation. The film was shot on a trawler and it used only sounds and images taken on board. Their film ''Leviathan'' was released theatrically in the United States, United Kingdom, Mexico, Canada, France, Germany, Austria, and Japan, and won the FI ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
De Humani Corporis Fabrica (film)
''De Humani Corporis Fabrica'' ("The Fabric of the human body") is a French-Swiss documentary film, directed by Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel and released in 2022. Named after ''De Humani Corporis Fabrica Libri Septem'', a 16th-century book series that was one of the most influential advances in the study of human anatomy, the film explores the human body through depictions of surgeries and autopsies in multiple hospitals around Paris, including intimate close-up footage from inside human bodies. The film premiered in the Directors' Fortnight program at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival. It was also screened in the Wavelengths program at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival, and in the main slate of the 2022 New York Film Festival.Jill Goldsmith"New York Film Festival Sets Main Slate For 60th Edition" ''Deadline Hollywood ''Deadline Hollywood'', commonly known as ''Deadline'' and also referred to as ''Deadline.com'', is an online news site founded as the new ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederick Wiseman
Frederick Wiseman (born January 1, 1930) is an American filmmaker, documentarian, and theater director. His work is "devoted primarily to exploring American institutions". He has been called "one of the most important and original filmmakers working today". Life and career Wiseman was born to a Jewish family in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of Gertrude Leah (née Kotzen) and Jacob Leo Wiseman. He earned a Bachelor of Arts from Williams College in 1951, and a Bachelor of Laws from Yale Law School in 1954. He spent 1954 to 1956 serving in the U.S. Army during the Korean War.FREDERICK WISEMAN’S BASIC TRAINING . Retrieved ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Couple
A, or a, is the first letter and the first vowel of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''a'' (pronounced ), plural ''aes''. It is similar in shape to the Ancient Greek letter alpha, from which it derives. The uppercase version consists of the two slanting sides of a triangle, crossed in the middle by a horizontal bar. The lowercase version can be written in two forms: the double-storey a and single-storey ɑ. The latter is commonly used in handwriting and fonts based on it, especially fonts intended to be read by children, and is also found in italic type. In English grammar, " a", and its variant " an", are indefinite articles. History The earliest certain ancestor of "A" is aleph (also written 'aleph), the first letter of the Phoenician alphabet, which consisted entirely of consonants (for that reason, it is also called an abjad to distinguish it fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vicky Krieps
Vicky Krieps (born 4 October 1983) is a Luxembourgish-German actress. She has appeared in a number of American, Luxembourgish, French and German productions. Krieps' breakthrough role was in Paul Thomas Anderson's Academy Award-winning film ''Phantom Thread'' (2017). Krieps early films include '' Hanna'' (2011), '' Two Lives'' (2012), and '' A Most Wanted Man'' (2013). She also appeared in '' The Girl in the Spider's Web'' (2018), ''The Last Vermeer'' (2019), and '' Old'' (2021). She gained critical attention for her performances in '' Bergman Island'' (2021), and ''Hold Me Tight'' (2021). She received a Cannes Film Festival Award and European Film Award for her performance in '' Corsage'' (2022). Early life Krieps was born in Luxembourg City, the daughter of a Luxembourgish father, who managed a film distribution company, and of a German mother. Her father, Bob Krieps, is the director general of the Ministry of Culture of Luxembourg, the former director of Sacem Luxembourg, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corsage (film)
''Corsage'' is a 2022 historical drama film written and directed by Marie Kreutzer. It stars Vicky Krieps, Florian Teichtmeister, Katharina Lorenz, Jeanne Werner, Alma Hasun, Manuel Rubey, Finnegan Oldfield, Aaron Friesz, Rosa Hajjaj, Lilly Marie Tschörtner and Colin Morgan. The film, an international co-production between Austria, Germany, Luxembourg and France, debuted in the Un Certain Regard section of the 2022 Cannes Film Festival, Cannes Film Festival on 20 May 2022. It was released in Austria and Germany on 7 July 2022, and in France on 25 January 2023. Summary Empress Elisabeth of Austria, who is semi-estranged from her philandering Franz Joseph I of Austria, husband, begins to act oddly as she nears her 40th birthday. The empress is renowned for her beauty and spends an obsessive amount of time measuring her weight, refusing to eat, and parsing comments about her looks. Cast Production In February 2021, it was announced Vicky Krieps, Florian Teichtmeister, Manuel Ru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
L'Œil D'or
''L'Œil d'or, le prix du documentaire'' — Cannes (, "The Golden Eye, The Documentary Prize — Cannes") is a documentary film award created in 2015. It is awarded to the best documentary presented in one of the sections of the Cannes Film Festival (Official Selection, Directors' Fortnight, International Critics' Week and Cannes Classics). Initiated by the Civil Society of Multimedia Authors (SCAM - Société Civile des Auteurs Multimédia) and its President Julie Bertuccelli, the prize is awarded in partnership with the Institut national de l'audiovisuel and with the support of Cannes Film Festival and its General Delegate Thierry Frémaux. Since 2017, the Audiens Cultural Personal Joint Group has also been a partner. The prize, which consists of €5,000, is presented to the director of the winning film at an official ceremony in Cannes Cannes ( , , ; oc, Canas) is a city located on the French Riviera. It is a commune located in the Alpes-Maritimes department, and host ci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2022 Sundance Film Festival
The 2022 Sundance Film Festival took place from January 20 to 30, 2022. Due to COVID-19 pandemic protocol it was to have been a hybrid festival, but on January 5, 2022 it was announced that the in-person components would be scrapped in favor of a virtual festival due to the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant. The first lineup of competition films was announced on December 9, 2021. Films U.S. Dramatic Competition *'' 892'' by Abi Damaris Corbin *'' Alice'' by Krystin Ver Linden *''blood'' by Bradley Rust Gray *''Cha Cha Real Smooth'' by Cooper Raiff *'' Dual'' by Riley Stearns *''Emergency'' by Carey Williams *''Master'' by Mariama Diallo *''Nanny'' by Nikyatu Jusu *''Palm Trees and Power Lines'' by Jamie Dack *'' Watcher'' by Chloe Okuno U.S. Documentary Competition *''Aftershock'' by Paula Eiselt and Tonya Lewis Lee *''Descendant'' by Margaret Brown *''The Exiles'' by Ben Klein and Violet Columbus *''Fire of Love'' by Sara Dosa *''Free Chol Soo Lee'' by Julie Ha and Eugene Yi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
