SOURCE: http://onesmallwindow.com When I encountered the Rear Window Timelapse video it had already been viewed over 300,000 times. In five days. Of which, the first three days had generated 22 views. I cannot adequately articulate all the ways in which it is awesome but let me just say that there is something in here for [...]

SOURCE: http://cineuropa.org The German-born, Belgium-based director of 2007 Berlinale hit Irina Palm [trailer, film focus] (European Film Award nominations for Best Actor and Actress for Miki Manojlovic and Marianne Faithfull) and the more recent A Distant Neighbourhood [trailer, film focus], a French-language adaptation of Jiro Taniguchi’s manga starring Pascal Greggory and Alexandra Maria Lara, will [...]

SOURCE: http://delano.lu After a successful year of double features, the Filmreakter collective has launched a new concept for Saturday nights at the Cinémathèque. Cinélunatique features a series of truly dark gems from the Cinémathèque’s vaults. This Saturday’s offering is outrageous animated-live action film Heavy Traffic, Ralph Bakshi’s follow-up to his X-rated cartoon Fritz the Cat. [...]

SOURCE: http://cineuropa.org Boyd van Hoeij 12/03/2012 – The biannual Luxembourg Film Awards, the Lëtzebuerger Filmpräis, were handed out this weekend, with sauna comedy Hot Hot Hot! taking the main prize. The event took place in the spa town Mondorf-les-Bains, where around 800 people from the Luxembourg film industry gathered for this celebration of local cinema, [...]

SOURCE: http://www.luxembourgforbusiness.lu The 5th biennial Lëtzebuerger Filmpräis (Luxembourg Film Prize) has been announced by Francois Biltgen, Luxembourg’s Minister of Communication and Media. The prize is a joint initiative between public authorities and business organisations in the Grand Duchy with the aim of recognising and rewarding Luxembourg cinema, as well as to showcase and raise awareness [...]

After a two months leave the Filmreakter Double Trouble at the Cinematheque has returned! We bring with us some news both good and bad, the bad being that we’ve decided to cut back our double feature events to once every two months, but…BUT… there will be more films. How so? Well we’ve been given the [...]

SOURCE: http://delano.lu The latest instalment of Filmreakter’s “twin tales of terror and madness” features a double feature from British horror king Clive Barker. The first is Barker’s debut, Hellraiser, based on his own novel The Hellbound Heart. Featuring the now iconic Pinhead (played by Doug Bradley, a one-time Cinénygma jury president), the film became an [...]

SOURCE: http://www.screendaily.com Sophie Marceau will star in Jean-Paul Lilienfeld’s upcoming drama Arrêtez-Moi, while Jim Donovan will direct Fangs Of War, a 20th century reimagining of Bram Stoker’s Dracula. A woman walks into a police station asking to be arrested for having murdered her husband in Lilienfeld’s next feature Arrêtez-Moi, starring Sophie Marceau, Miou-Miou and Yann [...]

SOURCE: http://eave.org The Media Programme’s training and development programme EAVE (European Audiovisual Entrepreneurs) has appointed Jani Thiltges as their new Head of Studies in replacement of Alan Fountain, who has been leading EAVE s pedagogical development since 2000 and now becomes EAVE s President from January 1, 2012. Since 1986, Jani is co-founder, partner and CEO of Samsa [...]

SOURCE: http://road.cc Schlecks and the Cinema: Andy and Frank hit the silver screen New documentary follows Schleck brothers and Leopard Trek to the Tour de France Andy and Frank Schleck, the brothers who finished second and third respectively behind Cadel Evans in July’s Tour de France, are the subjects of a new film, The Road [...]