The programme for the 70th-anniversary edition of the Edinburgh International Film Festival has been announced. The festival will run this year in Edinburgh, Scotland, from June 21 to July 2. This year’s edition will showcase a total of 151 features from 46 countries including 17 World Premieres, 12 International Premieres, 9 European Premieres and 69…
Federico Fellini’s Academy Award winning 1954 film La Strada will return to British cinemas for a limited theatrical run in a new digital 2k restoration on May 19, which will be followed by a DVD/Blu-Ray/EST release from Studiocanal on June 5. La Strada is credited as the film that launched the careers of its director…
The Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (June 30-July 8) will honor the Academy Award-winning actor Casey Affleck with its Festival President’s Award. This is an award given by the festival to actors, directors, and producers who have contributed in a fundamental way to the development of world cinema. In addition to receiving the award, Affleck…
Amsterdam’s EYE Filmmuseum will be hosting Martin Scorsese: The Exhibition, the first exhibition dedicated to the American filmmaker Martin Scorsese, on May 25-September 3. The exhibition shows how Scorsese’s passionate and powerful stories have influenced modern American cinemas. The traveling exhibition is split into several categories and themes that recur in the works of Scorsese:…
The British Film Institute (BFI) has announced its full programme marking the 50th anniverary of the Sexual Offences Act from June onwards. The ’67 Act saw the partial discrimination of male homosexuality in England and Wales. Though it did not put a stop to persecution, it was a step forward in a climate of fear…
Actress Isabelle Huppert will receive the third Women in Motion Award at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival (17-28 May). Women in Motion sets out to showcase the contribution of women to the film industry, whether in front of the camera or behind it. The initiative is based on two pillars: talks open to journalists and…
The Nitrate Picture Show returns to George Eastman House’s Dryden Theater in Rochester, New York, USA, for the third year on May 5-7. The festival showcases vintage nitrate film prints from the George Eastman House collection and other film archives and cinematheques all over the world. Screenings of nitrate film prints are extremely rare, and…
