MoviesTHE Italian-American actress and director Isabella Rossellini will be the President of the Jury for the 61st Berlin International Film Festival (February 10-20, 2011)."It's fantastic that Isabella Rossellini will be the President of the Berlinale Jury in 2011," says the festival's director Dieter Kosslick. "She is a multifaceted, creative film artist with extensive experience in European, American and international cinema."Isabella Rossellini is one of the most renowned actresses in international cinema. Over the past years, she has also become a distinguished producer and director. The daughter of Swedish actress Ingrid Bergman and of Italian director Roberto Rossellini, she first started her career as a fashion designer and journalist. At the time she worked mainly in New York . Her acting debut came in 1976, when she appeared alongside her mother in Vincente Minelli's A Matter Of Time. She then went on to roles in films by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani, Norman Mailer, Robert Zemeckis, Joel Schumacher, John Schlesinger, Peter Weir, Abel Ferrara, Stanley Tucci, Guy Maddin, Peter Greenaway and many others. She acquired international fame above all for her performance in David Lynch's films Blue Velvet (1986) and Wild at Heart (1990). In addition to her career in cinema, Isabella Rossellini was also a top cosmetics model in the '80s onward.Isabella Rossellini first attended the Berlinale in 1994 as the lead actress in Peter Weir's Competition film Fearless. She has been a regular guest at the Berlin International Film Festival in recent years: in 2005 she created the short film My Dad is 100 Years Old with Canadian experimental filmmaker Guy Maddin, an homage to her father Roberto Rossellini which screened in Berlinale Special in 2006. In 2007 she returned to Berlin as a narrator for Guy Maddin's experimental silent film Brand Upon the Brain! in the festival's Forum section. She presented her directorial debut Green Porno in the Forum Expanded section of the 2008 Berlinale: Eight playful episodic shorts explaining the sexual behaviour of earthworms, dragonflies, snails, bees and praying mantises.
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Winners At The 62nd Primetime Emmy Awards
ONE of the most glamourous motion picture film awards, the 62nd Primetime Emmy Awards may have come and gone but its memories will remain evergreen in the minds of many. Presented by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and broadcasted by NBC, the event which took place last last Sunday at at the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles, United States had among winners, George Clooney, who was awarded the Bob Hope Humanitarian Award for his efforts to raise funding and awareness campaigns for victims of past natural disasters like Hurricane Katrina and Darfur; Jim Parson, Eldie Falco and so on. Previous winners of the Bob Hope Award include Oprah Winfrey (2002), Bill Cosby (2003), and Danny Thomas (2004).
U.S couple jailed for Bangkok Film Festival bribery
A US couple has been sent to jail in Los Angeles for bribing a Thai official so they could take control of the Bangkok Film Festival. Gerald Green and his wife Patricia were sent to prison for six months, ordered to serve six months' home detention and pay back $250,000 (N37, 500 000).The film producers paid a Thai tourism boss to secure the annual event and make millions of pounds. Actor Kirk Douglas submitted a letter supporting them during the trial.
Berlinale Talent Campus to commence February 2011
THE ninth edition of the Berlinale Talent Campus will take place in Hebbel am Ufer Theatre (HAU 1-3) in Berlin Kreuzberg from February 12 17, 2011. "Framespotting Filmmakers positioning themselves" is the thematic focus for the 2011 Talent Campus, which 350 young international filmmakers will attend during the 61st Berlin International Film Festival.Today's demanding world asks for outspoken filmmakers who don't just follow the rules, it needs a generation of filmmakers who are ready to assume responsibility, take risks and find new approaches.
Movie Reviews
Bursting Out *****
GENRE DRAMA
LANGUAGE ENGLISH
ORIGIN: NIGERIA
RELEASE DATE: 2009
PRODUCED BY: EMEM ISONG
DIRECTED BY: DESMONDELLIOT/DANIEL ADEMINOKAN.
STARRING: GENEVIEVE NNAJI
MAJID MICHEL
NSE IKPE ETIM
OMONI OBOLI
Rumble In The Wood: Feud Is Not The Solution— Dr. Victor Olatoye
The tension crated by the recent feud between the Nigerian and Ghanaian movie industries caused by the imposition of work permit fees is becoming a source of worry to industry practitioners. Many see the development as being counter productive to the quest to producing quality films from both countries coming at a point when the collaboration between Nollywood and Gollywood is rife. Dr. Victor Olatoye, a film critic from Plantinum Entertainment based in the U.S in this interview proffers ways of moving the industry forward.
Nollywood Movie Reviews
MY AMERICAN NURSE 2
GENRE : DRAMA
RELEASE DATE: 2010
ORIGIN: NIGERIA
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
WRITTEN BY: PASCAL ATUMA
DIRECTED BY: PASCAL ATUMA
STARRING:
PASCAL ATUMA VIDAH DARKO HAKEEM KAE-KAZIM MICHAEL BLACKSON ALOMA WRIGHT
Movie Review: Seven Pounds
GENRE: DRAMA
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
ORIGIN: USA
RELEASE DATE: 2009
WRITTEN BY: GRANT NIEPORTE
DIRECTED BY: GABRIELE MUCCINO
STARRING: WILL SMITH
ROSARIO DAWSON
WOODY HARRELSON
MICHAEL EALY
SYNOPSIS
Ben Thomas an IRS agent with a fateful secret,embarks on an extraordinary journey of redemption by forever changing the lives of seven strangers.
Helen Ukpabio Set to Release a Movie
THE evangelist and film maker Helen Ukpabio who is the general overseer of Liberty church with its headquarters in Calabar is set to release another movie which she titled “Echoes of the Ancestors”. The movie which was shot in Calabar featured some of the major Nollywood actors like Zach Orji, Yemi Blach, Bob Manuel Udokwu, Enebeli Elebuwa, Gentle Jack, Vivian Anani etc.The movie which is religiously expository entails preaching and winning souls for God. It will be shown in different cinemas before it will be released into DVD.
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