(1970/1968) (Shown on video): Spend Valentine's Day with two films so unloved they've never even made it to DVD. After successfully invading Britain with Blow-Up, Michelangelo Antonioni (L'Avventura) was invited to America by a Hollywood desperate to placate to the counterculture. The result was ZaMsMe Point, a commercial and critical megabomb that, naturally, ages pretty well. Far from a hippie relic, the film-set around a bare bones story of young loners hooking up in the disarray of late '60s California-is closer to a sci-fi film, its purported anti-Americanism more like the bleary reaction of one shellshocked tourist. Also transporting is secret Ceremony, the first of two films with which director Joseph Losey helped sabotage Elizabeth Taylor's film career (the other being the only ...
...'s annual series of selections from the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival doesn't r...
Among the films screened at a previous True/False Film Festival was the documentary covering the moving story of Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars. The 12-piece namesake film, backed by the likes of Keith Richards, Paul McCartney, Ice Cube, Angelina Jolie and executive producers Steve Bing and Shelley Lazar, has won an abundance of major awards: the Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary at the 2005 AFI Film Festival 2005, Filmmaker's Award for Social Change and the Emerging Pictures Audience Award at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival in 2006, Best of the Fest at the Human Rights Watch Film Fest and the Impact of Music Award at the Nashville Film Festival. Sustaining hope in a landscape dominated by rage and loss is at the core of this heartbreaking yet life-affirming story. The do...
Human Rights Watch Film Festival June 10 through 24 Walter Reade Theater Human Rights Watch continues to give voice to the cause Enraged calls to action over injustice have always defined the Human Rights Watch Film Festival, and this year's 21st edition is no less vrxraLkyingbare, in more than 30 features from 25 countries, a world still striving to secure equality and justice for alL From the rocky battlefields of Afghanistan (Restrepo) to the small-town communities of Pennsylvania (Out in the Süence) to the farmlands and financial centers of India (Nero's Guests), the 1 ong- running fesf s 2010 edition seethes, Laments, and inspires, capturing through a variety of fictional and documentary works the efforts- sometimes noble, sometimes fruitless, rarely painless- of ...
Sometimes you have to see the problem to know there is a problem. That's the idea behind the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival, making its fourth yearly trip to Portland's SPACE Gallery this week.
Human Rights Watch International Film Festival June 12 though 26 Walter Reade Theater Human Rights Watch film fest puts a human face on global atrocity BY ANTHONY KAUFMAN The body count at the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival rivals any in Hollywood's summer shoot-'em-ups: 400,000 killed in Laos; 250,000 slaughtered in Chechnya; 40,000 murdered in Chad; 3,000 Chileans disappeared under Pinochet; 1,000 Lebanese felled by Israeli bombs. (Russian authorities named the suspected assassin and several accomplices last month, though they offered no insight into who ultimately backed the murder.) Just as tragic, USA vs.Al-Arian chronides the US. government's systematic harassment of Palestinian activist and University of South Florida professor Sami Al-A...
The 18th Annual Human Rights Watch International Film Festival June: 15 through 28 Walter Reade Theater Fest takes on global warming, sprawl, and as if war weren't enough, AIDS in Iraq BY NATHAN LEE The 2007 Human Rights Watch International Film Festival unearths hope and horror from the International Criminal Tribunal at The Hague, Israeli prisons, Eastern Congo, the slums of Guatemala, the racist South, Pinochet's Chile, Nagasaki, Hiroshima, Darfur, Belarus, Afghanistan, and (surprise, surprise) Iraq. The Unforeseen conflates the abstract and the concrete as it moves from little things (rockformations, pools of water, personal anecdotes) to the big picture (topographic maps, helicopter views, political processes), scanning the terrain with X-ray vision re...
The third weekend of the Black History Month Play Festival features "Yesterdays: An Evening with [Billie Holiday]," starring gifted singer/actress Vanessa Rubin, known and celebrated for years for her powerful voice and magnetic stage presence. Written by Reenie Upchurch and directed by Woodie King, Jr., "Yesterdays: An Evening with Billie Holiday" opens at the National Black Theatre, located at 2031 5th Avenue in Manhattan, on Friday, February 19 (8 p.m.) and runs Saturday, February 20 (8 p.m.) and Sunday, February 21 (3 p.m.). All seats are $20 and can be purchased online at www.TheatreMania.com. MY NEIGHBOR MY KILLER" AT MAYSLES CINEMA: The new Maysles Cinema in Harlem is featuring "My Neighbor My Killer," an internationally acclaimed documentary by multi-award-winning filmmaker Ann...
...Aghion, winner of the Human Rights Watch Film Festival Nestor Almendros Award ...
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