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FFT Reports From FESTROIA. Each year, FESTROIA shines its spotlight on a different film producing country. This year, it is the turn of the Czech Republic

The Film Society of Lincoln Center and Laura Blum, in collaboration with the Czech Film Center and Czech Center New York, will present a series to mark the 20th anniversary of Czech freedom, "The Ironic Curtain: Czech Cinema since the Velvet Revolution"

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Director Paul Schrader's Controversial Holocaust Film Is Presented At The Israel Film Fest PDF Print E-mail
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Written by Brad Balfour | Wednesday, 06 January 2010 16:52   

Director Paul SchraderFor veteran director/screenwriter Paul Schrader, seeing his film Adam Resurrected appear in this year's Israel Film Festival in New York is a little like coming around full circle. Originally released here almost a year ago, his strange surreal little black comedy of a film stars Jeff Goldblum as a concentration camp survivor recovering his sanity in an Israeli psychiatric hospital in 1961. Goldblum's character Adam has tried coping with surviving.

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Melvin Van Peebles, “The Godfather of Independent Cinema” PDF Print E-mail
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Written by Yayoi Lena Winfrey | Thursday, 01 October 2009 23:40   

The problem with interviewing Melvin Van Peebles is that you never know whether he’s truthfully answering your questions or if he’s just trying to be a baadasssss—something he excels at as evidenced by his string of irreverent films and the cap he’s fond of wearing that states so.

The 'Godfather of Independent Cinema', Baadasssss! and Me in a Psychedelic Moment - Photo by Alesia Massengale

Either he’s the most modest successful filmmaker ever, or else he’s just plain ornery. For every inquiry tossed his way, Van Peebles throws back a shrug and a response that infers he doesn’t believe—despite all the accolades and awards—that he’s made much of an impact on the world of cinema.

Last Updated on Friday, 02 October 2009 01:19
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Bad Boy Author Tucker Max Serves Up Sex And Cinema PDF Print E-mail
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Written by Brad Balfour | Friday, 25 September 2009 10:03   

Tucker MaxWeb phenomenon, book author and now film producer Tucker Max became an accidental Bad Boy through a combination of drink, smoke, willing women, too much testosterone and the internet. Nonetheless, bad boy he became rather than a corporate lawyer. In his callow youth, he swaggered his way through a law education(at Duke) and reflected a frat boy wantoness that I have both hated and begrudgingly admired in its sheer assholic-ness.

Last Updated on Friday, 25 September 2009 12:49
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Iranian-born Actress Shohreh Aghdashloo Speaks Loudly and Passionately About The Stoning of Soraya M. PDF Print E-mail
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Written by Brad Balfour | Monday, 29 June 2009 16:17   

Shohreh AghdashlooRarely has a film's release dovetailed with an earth-shattering event so that, by its very existence, it CAN contribute to radically altering world affairs. The Stoning of Soraya M. is such a film--especially since it highlights the plight of the women of Iran. It tells the tale of Soraya Marnò, who refuses to divorce her abusive husband, a former criminal, so he falsely accuses her of adultery which leads to her execution by stoning. In revolutionary Iran, women have few rights and the religion is manipulated by those claiming correct religious practice.

Last Updated on Tuesday, 17 November 2009 19:18
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Oscar-winning Actress Geena Davis Reappears and Makes Accidents Happen PDF Print E-mail
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Written by Brad Balfour | Thursday, 28 May 2009 13:35   

Geena DavisEvery film festival yields an unexpected treat and this year's Tribeca Film Festival is no exception. With the premiere of Accidents Happen, the 51 year old actor Geena Davis steps into the spotlight again, this time by doing a quirky little indie--the feature directorial debut of composer and short filmmaker Andrew Lancaster--shot in Australia but set in the 1980s Connecticut.

Last Updated on Monday, 29 June 2009 16:25
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