Prolific progressive filmmaker Ken Loach will present his new film “Route Irish” in Competition at the Cannes International Film Festival it was announced at the last minute just before the Festival’s opening.

Giuseppe Tornatore has been appointed president of the international jury for the 2010 Rome Film Festival, scheduled for next October 28th to November 5th. The announcement was made by festival president Gian Luigi Rondi along with artistic director Piera Detassis. Mr. Rondi praised Giuseppe Tornatore’s extraordinary achievements, calling him one of Italian cinema’s outstanding figures, [...]

Guadalaja, based in the state of Jalisco, Mexico, is host to what has become one of the most significant film events in Latin America, FICG or the International Cinema Festival of Guadalajara. The Festival runs from March 19-27, 2009. [...]

The lounge of the historic Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel seemed a fitting setting to interview the young German director about his cautionary new film THE LIVES OF OTHERS. It had just been screened in AFI FEST, but the story is an old one: political paranoia and suppression of civil liberties. The walls of this hotel, if they had ears and voices, could tell similar tales from Hollywood’s darkest hour… the Blacklist years. I had the chance to discuss it with Florian Henckle von Donnersmarck.

John Sayles reflects on … Blues People, History & Places with personality.

Interviewed at San Sebastian Film Festival
 

John Boorman has never been one to mince his words. His films cover a vast range of genres and subjects, but all contain emotional impact in the service of ideas. Boorman has a distinctive relationship to landscape and how a social milieu effects the individual. Unlike many Hollywood films, his [...]

Doris Dörrie is more than just one of the leading German directors. She is also a writer of novels, short stories, children’s books and has directed several operas. Dörrie joins Margarethe von Trotta as Germany’s preeminent woman directors of modern times. Her most recent film “Cherry Blossoms” (“Hanami”) marks her return to Japan to tell the story of Rudi and his wife Trudi, a German elderly couple.