Tag: Avalon
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Late Cinematographers Michael Chapman and Allen Daviau Remembered at Camerimage Film Festival
Acclaimed cinematographers and ASC members Michael Chapman and Allen Daviau, who both died last year, were the focus of a legacy panel at EnergaCamerimage Film Festival on Monday, led by the likes of Lawrence Sher (“Joker”), Xavier Pérez Grobet (“Watchmen”), Amy Vincent (‘Footloose”) and Seamus McGarvey (“Atonement”).Nominated for five Oscars for his work on “Bugsy,”…
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Totem Films’ buzzy Directors’ Fortnight title ‘And Then We Danced’ sells around the world (exclusive)
The film is about a love affair between two male dancers in contemporary Georgia.Swedish filmmaker Levan Akin’s Georgia-set drama And Then We Danced, which premiered in Cannes Directors’ Fortnight, has sold to key international territories including Avalon (Spain), Fine Films (Japan) and Mexico (Cinecanibal) for Paris-based Totem Films.Set against the backdrop of Georgia’s traditional dance…
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Berlin Film Review: ‘The Real Estate’
There surely won’t be an uglier movie in the Berlin competition this year than “The Real Estate,” nor one so deeply unpleasant on every level. Whether it’s the tediously coarse characters, some of whom appear to have been poached from a Swedish “Twin Peaks” knock-off, the deliberately unattractive lensing that makes you gasp for air,…