The Cleveland International Film Festival will be back. The 39th edition of the festival will be held March 18 -29, 2015, at Tower City Cinemas and select neighborhood screening locations in Cleveland, Ohio.
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The Cleveland International Film Festival will be back. The 39th edition of the festival will be held March 18 -29, 2015, at Tower City Cinemas and select neighborhood screening locations in Cleveland, Ohio.
The first trailer has been released online for Intramural, directed by Andrew Disney set to World Premiere at the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival later this month. The film is written by Bradley Jackson and features an ensemble cast including Kate MacKinnon, Jay Pharoah, Beck Bennett, and Nikki Reed.
There comes a time in every fifth-year senior’s life where they must either accept the impending ‘real world’ of jobs, marriage, and payment plans or shirk that responsibility in favor of playing the most glorious intramural football game your school probably doesn’t really care to see. In this full throttle and hilarious send-up of inspirational sports movies, director Andrew Disney harnesses every cliché and overused trope to tell the greatest (and only) intramural sports movie of all time.
I Believe In Unicorns directed by Leah Meyerhoff won the top prize for Best Narrative Feature Film at the 2014 Atlanta Film Festival.
The Iceland road-trip comedy Land Ho! from directors Aaron Katz and Martha Stephens that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and was snapped up for US distribution by Sony Pictures Classics, has a release date. Land Ho! which will screen at the upcoming Tribeca Film Festival, will open in New York and Los Angeles on July 11, right after it also screens at the LA Film Fest.
Starring Paul Eenhoorn (THIS IS MARTIN BONNER) and newcomer Earl Lynn Nelson, LAND HO! follows a pair of retirees who set off to Iceland in an attempt to reclaim their youth through Reykjavik nightclubs, trendy spas, and rugged campsites.
Zach Braff‘s WISH I WAS HERE which premiered earlier this year at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival, and scheduled to be released in theaters on July 25th via Focus Features, has a new teaser trailer. In addition to Zach, WISH I WAS HERE stars Kate Hudson, Mandy Patinkin, Josh Gad, Joey King, Jim Parsons, Pierce Gagnon, Ashley Greene, and Donald Faison.
WISH I WAS HERE is Braff’s follow-up to his indie breakout hit GARDEN STATE. WISH I WAS HERE was directed by Zach Braff from a screenplay he wrote with his brother. The film tells the story of a thirty-something man who finds himself at a major crossroads, which forces him to examine his life, his career, and his family.
The Australian premiere of 20,000 Days on Earth, described as an innovative film about international cultural icon Nick Cave, will serve as the Opening Night Film of the Sydney Film Festival on Wednesday June 4th, 2014. 20,000 Days on Earth is the first feature-length film by UK visual artists Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard, and was recently awarded the Directing Award: World Cinema Documentary and the Editing Award: World Cinema Documentary at the Sundance Film Festival 2014.
The first poster and official trailer has been released for the indie sci-fi drama I Origins directed by Mike Cahill. The film film starring Michael Pitt, Brit Marling and Astrid Bergès-Frisbey premiered earlier this year at the Sundance Film Festival. Fox Searchlight Pictures plans a limited release in theaters starting July 18th, 2014.
Eddie Redmayne in Les Misérables
The romantic drama THEORY OF EVERYTHING directed by Academy Award winner James Marsh (Man on Wire) will be released in the US by Focus Features in exclusive engagements beginning Friday, November 7th, 2014. THEORY OF EVERYTHING stars Eddie Redmayne (Les Misérables) as theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, world-famous as the author of A Brief History of Time, opposite Gotham Independent Film Award winner Felicity Jones (Like Crazy).
Ice Poison(Bing Du)
The Tribeca Film Festival (TFF) announced a variety of programming that will allow domestic audiences to experience the Festival from across the country, including the addition of the Tribeca N.O.W. program, the lineup and programming for the Tribeca Online Festival, and Tribeca Film’s video-on-demand offerings during TFF. The 13th annual Tribeca Film Festival will run from April 16-27, 2014, in New York City.
Fading Gigolo
The USA Film Festival announced the schedule for the 44th annual festival, taking place April 22 to 27, 2014. Actor, author and native Dallasite Stephen Tobolowsky returns to his home town (and the USA Film Festival) to host the program. All programs will be held at the Angelika Film Center, 5321 E. Mockingbird Lane, Dallas, Texas.
PARTY GIRL
PARTY GIRL, the first film written and directed by Marie Amachoukeli, Claire Burger and Samuel Theis, has been chosen to open the Official Selection of Un Certain Regard of the 2014 Cannes Film Festival.
Party Girl shows the life of Angélique, a 60 year-old night club hostess who still loves men and enjoys partying, but now as the senior member on staff, feels she has reached the end of the line. On an impulse, she agrees to marry her regular client, Michel. The film is a portrait of a free woman who has chosen to live on the margins of conventional society, and delves deep into a France that is often underrepresented. With total realism, the lead role is played by the real-life Angélique.
Those Happy Years (Anni felici)
The Film Society of Lincoln Center announced the lineup for Open Roads: New Italian Cinema, which will take place from June 5-12, 2014. Open Roads has served as the leading North American showcase of contemporary Italian cinema for the past 13 years. This exceptionally strong and diverse edition includes the latest work from established veterans (Gianni Amelio, Roberto Andò, Daniele Luchetti) and top award winners, alongside promising new talents from both the commercial and independent spheres, with in-person appearances at many screenings.