by Rob Campbell, Rob : The Festival of Festivals was founded in 1976 at the Windsor Arms Hotel in downtown Toronto. Although TIFF has grown since, it still centers on Yorkville, a posh neighborhood with several luxury hotels, movie theatres, cafes and upscale shops.The fir...
by Sandy Tonsing, San : Wherever and whenever smoking bans are imposed, they are accompanied by innumerable protests and difficulties on their implementation. Many argue that the smoking bans go a bit too far and adversely affect the business prospects of many organizations...
by Roger Munns, Rog : The Cannes Film Festival is over for another year. The votes have been tallied, the red carpet was rolled up, and the world's beautiful people have gone back to looking like the rest of us, or so we can dream. The 61st annual festival drew the eyes o...
by Susanne Pacher, Sus : So many festivals to choose from, so little time?.. This weekend Toronto had so many special events to offer, there simply wasn?t enough time to attend them all. Here are just a few samples of some of the major events offered on the July 7 to 9 weeke...
by Michele De Capitani, Mic : The festival film programme features six sections, each one headed by a responsible director who selects the films together with correspondents and other experts. This year the 6 sections are:Competition: where are shown films made for the big screen...
by Maxine Clarke, Max : The glamour and glitz of Tinseltown hit the French Riviera this week as the 61st Cannes Film Festival began.The next 12 days will be full of A-listers, wannabes and executives schmoozing, posing and partying at the film industry's most famous and pre...
by Michele De Capitani, Mic : With the passing of time this African country has kept playing an important role in Middle-Eastern and world culture, and an evidence of this is given by the success obtained by writers such as Taha Hussein, Tawfiq Al Hakim and Naguib Mahfouz, who ha...
by Michele De Capitani, Mic : You are never too young to discover this world, and it is for this reason that since 2005 London hosts a cinematographic event that is dedicated to kids: the London Children?s Film Festival, which in just three editions has succeeded in catching the ...
by Michele De Capitani, Mic : You are never too young to discover this world, and it is for this reason that since 2005 London hosts a cinematographic event that is dedicated to kids: the London Children?s Film Festival, which in just three editions has succeeded in catching the ...
by Mark1, Mar : Also referred to as the, ?city of angels? Bangkok is home to big skyscrapers, dazzling shopping destinations, colorful cinemas and exotic dining establishments. One of the major attractions of the city, the world renowned Bangkok International Film F...
by Michael Russell, Mic : Back in the 80s there was a show called the "Canned Film Festival". The concept was simple. Show a film so bad that people would enjoy watching it. This idea was later expanded to "Mystery Science Theater" where not only the films were shown but di...
by Michele De Capitani, Mic : The first section when film-makers were expected to send their works ended in December and the Staff is now undergoing all preparations to be ready by April for this 2008 Film Festival. The organization estimates that for this festival there will be ...
by Michele De Capitani, Mic : Some festivals (for example Cannes, Venice and Berlin) are considered as spectacular events, and people?s and medias? attention is caught above all by the red carpet, the celebrities that walk on it, by wonderful clothes, by parties.Even if critics o...
by Jerry Glynn, Jer : Some of the earliest movie reviews and movie screenings take place at the Cannes Film Festival each year. Cannes is one of the oldest and most prestigious film festivals in the world, and was founded in 1946. The idea for the festival was first propo...
by Michele De Capitani, Mic : Fantasporto is principally aimed at introducing quality films, both as far as aesthetic and thematic aspects is concerned, as well as finding new means of cinema expression. And during the festival, indeed, many quality films are projected, which are...
