The Ann Arbor Film Festival celebrates its epic 53rd annual edition on March 24-29 with a colossal selection of experimental short films and features.
Feature film highlights include the documentary Speculation Nation by regular collaborators Bill Brown and Sabine Gruffat, which examines the recent Spanish housing crisis; a new ethnographic doc by Ben Russell, Greetings to the Ancestors, which plunges deep into the culture of South Africa; and Jenni Olson’s grand California study The Royal Road.
Short film highlights include the much anticipated new film by Jennifer Reeder, Blood Below the Skin, a narrative following a week in the dramatic and romantic lives of three teenage girls; a new music video by Mike Olenick called Beautiful Things with music by The Wet Things; new animations by Don Hertzfeldt, World of Tomorrow, and Lewis Klahr, Mars Garden; plus new experimental work by Vanessa Renwick, Peggy Ahwesh and Zachary Epcar.
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Feature film highlights include the documentary Speculation Nation by regular collaborators Bill Brown and Sabine Gruffat, which examines the recent Spanish housing crisis; a new ethnographic doc by Ben Russell, Greetings to the Ancestors, which plunges deep into the culture of South Africa; and Jenni Olson’s grand California study The Royal Road.
Short film highlights include the much anticipated new film by Jennifer Reeder, Blood Below the Skin, a narrative following a week in the dramatic and romantic lives of three teenage girls; a new music video by Mike Olenick called Beautiful Things with music by The Wet Things; new animations by Don Hertzfeldt, World of Tomorrow, and Lewis Klahr, Mars Garden; plus new experimental work by Vanessa Renwick, Peggy Ahwesh and Zachary Epcar.
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- 3/24/2015
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Patang is the first feature lead role of National Award winner Nawazuddin Siddiqui, star of Salman Khan’s latest blockbuster Kick and indie hit Lunchbox. Nawazuddin Siddiqui recalls “Patang was a dream come true for me. I waited for the opportunity for fifteen years. The experience on Patang transformed my acting style forever and made every role possible since.”
Patang has been embraced by India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and critics call the film an “Anthem of Ahmedabad” (DNA Ahmedabad) hailing it as Gujarat’s “most internationally-celebrated film in the past decade” (Apn News).
Patang delights the senses and nourishes the spirit. In the old city of Ahmedabad, amid India’s largest kite festival, a family duels, spins and soars like the countless kites in the skies above. Every year a million kites fill the skies above Ahmedabad-dueling, soaring, tumbling and flying high. When a successful Delhi businessman takes...
Patang has been embraced by India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and critics call the film an “Anthem of Ahmedabad” (DNA Ahmedabad) hailing it as Gujarat’s “most internationally-celebrated film in the past decade” (Apn News).
Patang delights the senses and nourishes the spirit. In the old city of Ahmedabad, amid India’s largest kite festival, a family duels, spins and soars like the countless kites in the skies above. Every year a million kites fill the skies above Ahmedabad-dueling, soaring, tumbling and flying high. When a successful Delhi businessman takes...
- 8/9/2014
- by Trupti Kantilal
- Bollyspice
Photo: La Times
We Are Movie Geeks were on hand last night as American Cinematheque kicked of their Star Trek.To Boldly Go film series at the historic Egyptian Theater in Hollywood. The evening began with my favorite of all the Trek films, Star Trek: The Motion Picture. Seeing it on the big screen after 32 years was definitely a treat and most of the people in attendance agreed. It was not only fun and sentimental, but really paid homage to all the work that went into a production of that scale in a time before CGI and digital effects.
Surprisingly, the film held up very well for its 1979 release date. The music by Jerry Goldsmith was moving and evoked more than one round of applause during the opening and closing credits from the sentimental audience, who also applauded when names such as Roddenberry, Shatner, Nimoy and Doohan came up.
Following...
We Are Movie Geeks were on hand last night as American Cinematheque kicked of their Star Trek.To Boldly Go film series at the historic Egyptian Theater in Hollywood. The evening began with my favorite of all the Trek films, Star Trek: The Motion Picture. Seeing it on the big screen after 32 years was definitely a treat and most of the people in attendance agreed. It was not only fun and sentimental, but really paid homage to all the work that went into a production of that scale in a time before CGI and digital effects.
Surprisingly, the film held up very well for its 1979 release date. The music by Jerry Goldsmith was moving and evoked more than one round of applause during the opening and closing credits from the sentimental audience, who also applauded when names such as Roddenberry, Shatner, Nimoy and Doohan came up.
Following...
- 3/25/2011
- by Melissa Thompson
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
To celebrate the Star Trek film series, American Cinematheque has chosen six of the eight films in the franchise, plumbing deep for gems in the Trek universe that haven’t necessarily received the tribute they deserve. From series creator Gene Roddenberry, all of these films embody the ideals of sci-fi’s first franchise that have endured for more than 40 years. May they continue to live long and prosper for many more. The series will run Thursday, March 24 – Sunday, March 27. Thursday evening begins with my favorite of all the Trek films, Star Trek: The Motion Picture. Who isn’t sobbing when Scotty and Kirk take the shuttle out to see the Enterprise for the first time?
The Star Trek tribute at the Egyptian Theatre (6712 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood, CA 90028), will include 35mm screenings of The Wrath Of Khan and The Search For Spock, plus The Voyage Home, The Final Frontier and The Undiscovered Country in 70mm.
The Star Trek tribute at the Egyptian Theatre (6712 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood, CA 90028), will include 35mm screenings of The Wrath Of Khan and The Search For Spock, plus The Voyage Home, The Final Frontier and The Undiscovered Country in 70mm.
- 3/24/2011
- by Melissa Thompson
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Happy Anniversary 'Star Trek'!
On this day in 1979, Paramount Pictures released Star Trek: The Motion Picture in theaters, thus beginning three decades of 'Star Trek' on the silver screen, and culminating in this year's reboot of the franchise with director Jj Abrams' Star Trek. One might also argue that the relative financial success of Star Trek: The Motion Picture also paved the way for the franchise's return to television with Star Trek: The Next Generation in 1987.
Star Trek: The Motion Picture didn't begin as a feature film, however. The erstwhile series' extraordinary popularity in syndication prompted Paramount Pictures and Trek creator Gene Roddenberry to begin developing a new 'Star Trek Phase II' series in May 1975—part of the cornerstone of a new television network Paramount had planned. Work on the series stalled, however, when the proposed Paramount Television Service folded.
Following the landmark success of Star Wars...
On this day in 1979, Paramount Pictures released Star Trek: The Motion Picture in theaters, thus beginning three decades of 'Star Trek' on the silver screen, and culminating in this year's reboot of the franchise with director Jj Abrams' Star Trek. One might also argue that the relative financial success of Star Trek: The Motion Picture also paved the way for the franchise's return to television with Star Trek: The Next Generation in 1987.
Star Trek: The Motion Picture didn't begin as a feature film, however. The erstwhile series' extraordinary popularity in syndication prompted Paramount Pictures and Trek creator Gene Roddenberry to begin developing a new 'Star Trek Phase II' series in May 1975—part of the cornerstone of a new television network Paramount had planned. Work on the series stalled, however, when the proposed Paramount Television Service folded.
Following the landmark success of Star Wars...
- 12/7/2009
- CinemaSpy
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