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12 articles from 2009
2009 Chicago International Film Festival ‘Best of the Fest’ For Oct. 21, 2009
20 October 2009 8:33 AM, PDT | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »
Chicago – As the 45th Chicago International Film Festival comes to a close, this year’s award-winning and most popular films are being screened one more time. All of the screenings will be held at the AMC River East 21 theater at 322 E. Illinois St.
Mississippi Damned (USA), Director: Tina Mabry
Winner Gold Hugo: Best Film, Best Screenplay - Tina Mabry, Best Supporting Actress - Jossie Harris Thacker
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They weren’t the first to dream of escaping their small Mississippi town, but—raised among their family’s vicious cycle of abuse, addiction, and lies—three young black children learn the hard way that their dreams will never be enough. Based on a true story, Mississippi Damned is the brutally honest tale of what happens when a family’s haven is also its prison.
‘Mississippi Damned,’ Winner of the Gold Hugo for Best Film at the Chicago International Film Festival.
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- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
Italian TV Stations Shun Movie About Berlusconi’S Power
28 September 2009 2:25 PM, PDT | Studio Briefing - TV News | See recent Studio Briefing - TV News news »
The decision by Italian state-run broadcaster Rai to ban advertising for Erik Gandini's award-winning documentary Videocracy has, in the words of Daily Variety, "fueled suspicions that [Italian Prime Minister Silvio] Berlusconi was leaning" on the network to do his bidding. In a statement, Rai said that its three networks had refused to air the ads or promote the movie because "it is too much critical towards the Italian government." The documentary explores Berlusconi's use of television to achieve power over the last 30 years. His Mediaset network had already refused to air ads for the film, which won a documentary prize at the Toronto Film Festival earlier this month. In a recent interview with the online indieWIRE, Gandini remarked, ""Italy is probably the only country in the world where celebrity/TV and political power is merged together in the person of Silvio Berlusconi."
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“Videocracy”‘s Gandini: “I’m really interested in how you can destroy a democracy by tits and ass”
23 September 2009 6:39 AM, PDT | indieWIRE - People | See recent indieWIRE - People news »
“Italy is probably the only country in the world where celebrity/TV and political power is merged together in the person of Silvio Berlusconi,” said Italian director Erik Gandini last week in Toronto. His film, “Videocracy,” spotlights a cult of celebrity worship and TV junkies that, the director believes, has literally hypnotized Italian society to the detriment of public wellbeing, societal problems, and even democracy itself. The film was picked by a … »
“Videocracy”‘s Gandini: “I’m really interested in how you can destroy a democracy by tits and ass”
23 September 2009 5:39 AM, PDT | indieWIRE - People | See recent indieWIRE - People news »
“Italy is probably the only country in the world where celebrity/TV and political power is merged together in the person of Silvio Berlusconi,” said Italian director Erik Gandini last week in Toronto. His film, “Videocracy,” spotlights a cult of celebrity worship and TV junkies that, the director believes, has literally hypnotized Italian society to the detriment of public wellbeing, societal problems, and even democracy itself. The film was picked by a … »
IndieWIRE Critic's Poll: What are A Serious Man's Oscar Chances?
22 September 2009 | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »
- Have Joel and Ethan Coen followed up No Country for Old Men with another Oscar winner? A clear favorite (I've got my hand up) among the film critics and bloggers polled by IndieWIRE, A Serious Man might have a big and bright future ahead of it and as Eugene points out, "the Coens latest took top honors as Toronto’s best narrative film, finding a place on nearly every single ballot. Other category winners include: Erik Gandini’s Videocracy as best doc, Colin Firth’s work in A Single Man as best lead performance, Mo’Nique and Up In The Air's Anna Kendrick for best supporting performance and Karyn Kusama’s Jennifer’s Body was deemed the crap title of the festival. The 2nd place finisher in Best Narrative film was Lu Chuan's City of Life and Death which I had originally pegged to see, but impromptu shuffling »
Videocracy: For the Reality TV Junkies Who Think They've Seen Everything
18 September 2009 3:00 PM, PDT | Movieline | See recent Movieline news »
Imagine if Rupert Murdoch could not only run for president of the United States, and not only win, but also govern his lowbrow media fiefdoms via an army of stooge-proxies while occupying the Oval Office. Transplant that cultural drama to Italy, and you've got the staggering Videocracy, director Erik Gandini's documentary about Silvio Berlusconi's three-decade climb from ribald quiz-show producer to Italian Prime Minister. Videocracy doesn't address that history so much as it maps Berlusconi's TV empire, a wasteland teeming with half-naked showgirls, would-be reality stars, and supported by a population in which the image is more than just king -- it is God. »
Berlusconi Movie Trailer Blocked In Italy
28 August 2009 12:16 PM, PDT | WENN | See recent WENN news »
Trailers for a new movie featuring Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi have been banned from the country's state-run television network.
Bosses at Rai rejected an ad for Videocracy, featuring scantily-clad women and statistics claiming Italy has a low press freedom rating, insisting it is "offensive" to the leader's reputation.
Ads for the film have also been blocked from channels privately owned by tycoon-politician Berlusconi's company Mediaset.
Between them Mediaset and Rai's three state television channels constitute 90 per cent of the country's terrestrial television output.
Rai executives allege the trailer alluded to recent media stories accusing Berlusconi of infidelity - but director Erik Gandini claims his movie is about Italian culture, and features Berlusconi among a host of other key figures.
He tells the BBC, "It is a film about the present time. It is a film that talks about how Italy has become after all these years. Of course, Berlusconi is in the story.
"In a videocracy, the key to power is the image. In Italy, one man only has kept the domination of the image over three entire decades."
Videocracy is due to premiere at the Venice Film Festival in September. »
Trailer: Erik Gandini's Videocracy
3 August 2009 | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »
- Imagine if Ted Turner or Rupert Murdoch had become president of the United States and they had an interest in putting bikini clad women on the airwaves. I think you could argue that this is the path that media mogul, and Italy's president Silvio Berlusconi choose, and I guess becomes the focal point for Erik Gandini's Videocracy. The documentary film has the disinction of being selected for both the Venice and Tiff fests this coming August/September. Gandini's last docu was Gitmo, an incendiary look at those who did the torturing in Guantanamo. I imagine Gandini will serve up a dish that might make a couple of people blush in shades of red. ... »
Venice film fest unveils lineup which includes 86 world premiers
30 July 2009 1:50 PM, PDT | QuietEarth.us | See recent QuietEarth news »
The 66th edition of the Venice Film Festival lineup includes the main festival plus the sidebar which will be playing films like Yannick Dahan's gangster zombie flick The Horde.
In competition we have the long awaited scifi awesomeness from Jaco Van Dormael, Mr. Nobody and Shinya Tsukamoto's trfiecta Tetsuo the Bulletman.
Out of competition has [Rec] 2 and the Midnight section has Nicolas Refn's long awaited Valhalla Rising which was actually made before Bronson.
Man I wish I could go! Anyone want to cover the fest for us? Use the contact link at the bottom of the page. We'd be happy to do cross-posted reviews.
Full list after the break.
66Th Annual Venice Film Festival Lineup
Competition
"36 vues du Pic Saint Loup," Jacques Rivette (France)
"Accident," Cheang Pou-Soi (China-Hong Kong)
"Baaria," Giuseppe Tornatore (Italy) – Opening Film
"Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans," Werner Herzog (U.S.)
"Between Two Worlds, »
Trailer For Venice And Toronto Bound Doc Videocracy
29 July 2009 4:44 PM, PDT | Twitch | See recent Twitch news »
We’ve been keeping tabs on Swedish production outfit Atmo for months now thanks to their backing of Tarik Saleh’s animated feature Metropia. But while that has been in the works the company has also been quietly working away on a feature length doc titled Videocracy, a title they were almost entirely mum on until it was announced as a world premiere at this year’s Venice, an announcement quickly followed up by another stating it was also Toronto-bound. Apparently it’s rather good. Here’s the official synopsis:
In a videocracy the key to power is the image. In Italy one man only has kept the domination of the image over three entire decades. As a TV-magnate and then as Presidente, Silvio Berlusconi has created a perfect system of TV-entertainment and politics. Like no one else he has influenced the content of commercial television in Italy. His TV-channels, »
- Todd Brown
Videocracy among 10 Selected for Venice's 24th Critics’ Week
23 July 2009 | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »
- Before the big announcement next week, Venice unveiled the line-up for the 24th edition of the Critics’ Week with ten world premieres with a mix that includes three titles from Sweden and a pair from Iran. The only title that sticks out is Erik Gandini docu on Berlusconi which looks at "the media empire of Italy’s prime minister Silvio Berlosconi and reveals how his reality TV shows full of bikini-clad women enriched his friends and beguiled a nation." I'll be covering this at Tiff where it is slated for the Reel-to-Reel section. The film will be presented as an out-of-competition special event in partnership with Venice Days. Here is a run down of the selected titles.: A Rational Solution (Det Enda Rationella) by Jorgen Bergmark, Sweden Café Noir by Jung-Sung-il, Korea Domanie by Patric Chiha, France Good Morning Aman by Claudio Noce, Italy Like Scampi (Kakraki) by Ilya Demichev, »
Iran, Berlosconi and White Stripes make Tiff Documentary Lineup
21 July 2009 9:25 AM, PDT | Spout.com | See recent Spout news »
In more Toronto lineup news, indieWIRE has posted Tiff documentary programmer Thom Powers' selections for this year's festival. Highlights: Emmett Malloy's The White Stripes Under Great White Northern Lights will mark Jack White's return to the festival as the star of a nonfiction film, after last year's It Might Get Loud. In Collapse, American Movie director Chris Smith follows "radical thinker Michael Ruppert" and "explores his apocalyptic vision of the future." Bassidji tracks director Mehran Tamadon's three-year immersion "into the very heart of the most extremist supporters of the Islamic republic of Iran (the Bassidjis) to understand their ideas." In Videocracy, Erik Gandini examines the business and political interests of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlosconi, to show "how his reality TV shows full of bikini-cla ... »
- Karina Longworth
12 articles from 2009
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