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JAVIER FESSER RETROSPECTIVE - OMMISIONS OF THE ACADEMY |
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A retrospective on Javier Fesser and the great films that were never nominated for an Oscar are to be enjoyed in this Festival’s edition. |
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The 24º Mar del Plata International Film Festival presents a retrospective on Javier Fesser, the outstanding Spanish filmmaker, winner in the latest Goya awards edition, who will attend the Festival.
Besides, there will be screenings of classic films from all over the world that, astonishingly, never received an Academy Award nomination.
Buenos Aires, thursday 22th October 2009.-
The 24º Mar del Plata International Film Festival presents retrospectives and homages: a retrospective on Madrilenian director Javier Fesser – who will be present at the festival – where the best short and feature films from this outstanding director can be enjoyed.
Fesser will attend all the screenings of his films and will also give a talk at the “Talks with Masters” cicle.
Short films
- The Trompet Secret (1995)
- Javi and Lucy (2001)
- The Surprise (2001)
- Pancho & Pincho (2003)
- Pancho & Pincho / Making Of (2003)
- Binta and the Great Idea (2004)
- Colored Man / Hombre de color (2005)
- The Phone Box Dogma (2005)
- The Twins (2005)
- The Twins 2 (2005)
- The Pinkertons (2007)
Feature Films
- P. Tinto’s Miracle (España, 1998)
- Mortadela & Filemón: The Big adventure (España, 2003)
- Camino (España, 2008)
On the other hand, the Festival presents “Omissions of the Academy”, where those great Hollywood films that were never nominated for an Oscar in any category will be screened.
In this occasion, the audience will be able to enjoy the work of great directors such as Orson Welles, William Wyler, Robert Aldrich, Richard Brooks, Robert Wise, among others, and true classics like The Set-Up, Hell in the Pacific, Lady in the lake, Flight from destiny, Silent movie, among other films, compiled by critic Homero Alsina Thevenet in his book American Sound Films and the Oscars in Hollywood – 1927-1985, in the chapters “Gaps by the Academy”.
Films
- A night at the opera, by Sam Wood (USA, 1935)
- Flight from destiny, by Vincent Sherman (USA, 1941)
- Cluny Brown, by Ernst Lubitsch (USA, 1946)
- 13 rue Madeleine, by Henry Hathaway (USA, 1947)
- Lady in the lake, by Robert Montgomery (USA, 1947)
- Letter from an Unknown Woman, by Max Ophüls (USA, 1948)
- The street with no name, by William Keighley (USA, 1948)
- The Set-Up, by Robert Wise (USA, 1949)
- Kiss tomorrow goodbye, by Gordon Douglas (USA, 1950)
- The Enforcer, by Bretaigne Windust (USA, 1951)
- Deadline, by Richard Brooks (USA, 1952)
- The desperate hours, by William Wyler (USA, 1955)
- The big knife, by Robert Aldrich (USA, 1955)
- Touch of evil, by Orson Welles (USA, 1958)
- Hell in the Pacific, by John Boorman (USA, 1968)
- Silent movie, by Mel Brooks (USA, 1976)
- Hammet, by Wim Wenders (USA, 1982)
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A journey through the life of the Muppets creator |
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The 24th Mar del Plata International Film Festival, which will take place between 7th and 15th November, will offer a unique opportunity to learn the history and legacy of Jim Henson, the creator of hit shows like Sesame Street and The Muppet Show in a retrospective entitled: Muppets™, Music and Magic: Jim Henson's Legacy. |
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The tribute will feature special guests who worked with Jim Henson as John Kennedy. He will dictate a Puppet workshop and talks about the universe of the creator of the Muppets.
Remembering the reaction of Kermit, the Frog, before each mime of the charming little pig with aspirations to be a star, Miss Piggy, or the unmistakable educational Sesame Street characters, will be part of a series of four programs that also include some of the less known Henson’s creations, from commercials to experimental films, going through unprecedented episodes and several unpublished documentaries which invite to share the behind the scenes of the most famous TV and the big screen dolls.
The first program, entitled The Art of Puppetry and Storytelling is a compilation of material including a classic episode of The Muppet Show 1979. Program 2, Muppets History 101, will take a look at the early years of the program that redefined children's television before its jump to the programming central hours, in addition to advertising, guest appearances on other programs, and pilot of The Muppet Show called The Muppets: Sex and Violence. The third program, Commercials and Experiments opens the Henson’s Vault and exposes a commercial film produced under contract and two experimental films even stranger made in the '60s, Youth 68 and The Cube and besides the short Time Piece, surrealist masterpiece eight minutes that was nominated for Best Short Film in 1966. The fourth and final program will be devoted to one of the most and best cultivated by Henson characters: music. This program brings together hits and covers from own gang of Muppets, Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem, to the brilliant performances of key guests such as Elton John, Linda Ronstadt, Debbie Harry, Raquel Welch, Harry Belafonte and many other key figures of popular culture in recent decades.
The Festival invites to participate, for the first time in Argentina, of this exhaustive and general view of Jim Henson's career since his beginnings in 1955 until his untimely death in 1990, describing his own life compelling world, full of colour, music and unique sense of humour, fulfilled in conjunction with The Jim Henson Legacy.
John Kennedy: Author of the popular book Puppet Mania! & Puppet Planet. Puppeteer working for Sesame Street, Muppet movies, and many other Henson projects will show participants some of the secrets of making puppets come alive in a workshop that provides hands-on experience in puppet-making,
creating characters’ personalities, and performance.
John has now been working in film and television for more than 20 years. Some of his many credits include Dinosaurs, Sesame Street, Muppets Tonight, Muppets From Space, and The CountryBears.
Credits:
This series is produced by The Jim Henson Legacy and Brooklyn Academy of Music. Tour Executive Producer Irena Kovarova.
MUPPET, MUPPETS and the Muppets Characters are registered trademarks of The Muppets Studio, LLC. All rights reserved. © The Muppets Studiio, LLC.
Sesame Street ® and associated characters, trademarks and design elements are owned and licensed by Sesame Workshop. © Sesame Workshop. All rights reserved.
TM & © The Jim Henson Company. JIM HENSON's mark & logo, characters and elements are trademarks of The Jim Henson Company. All rights reserved.
© Photography courtesy of The Jim Henson Company, The Muppets Studio, LLC, and Sesame Workshop
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Opening - Competitions - Official Juries |
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Opening
“A serious man” – US – Directed by Joel y Ethan Coen |
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International Competition
- “France” – Argentina – Directed by Adrián Caetano
- “Viking” – Argentina – Directed by José Campusano
- “Mother” – South Corea – Directed by Bong Joon Ho
- “The Horn of Plenty” - Cuba/Spain – Directed by Juan Carlos Tabio
- “V.O.S” – Spain – Directed by Cesc Gay
- “Life during wartime” – US – Directed by Todd Solondz
- “Letters to father Jacob” – Finland – Directed by Klaus Haro
- “The time that remains” – France/Belgium/Italy/UK –Directed by Elia Suleiman
- “Dogtooth” – Greece – Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos
- “Nothing personal” – Netherlands/Ireland – Directed by Urszula Antoniak
- “A man who ate his cherries” – Iran – Directed by Payman Haghani
- “Nora’s will” – Mexico – Directed by Mariana Chenillo
- “Room and a half” – Russia – Directed by Andrey Khrzhanovskiy
- “Bad day to go fishing” – Uruguay/Spain – Directed by Alvaro Brechner
Official Juries
- Julieta Serrano – Spain
- José Wilker – Brazil
- Juan José Campanella – Argentina
- Alvaro Buela – Uruguay
- Michael Shapiro – US
Latin America Competition
“Siesta” – Argentina – Directed by Sofía Mora
“The invention of flesh” – Argentina – Directed by Santiago Loza
“La raulito, low blows” – Argentina – Directed by Emiliano Serra
“Sins of my father” – Argentina – Directed by Nicolás Entel
“Huacho” – Chile/France – Directed by Alejandro Fernández Almendras
“The wind journeys” – Colombia/Germany/Argentina/Netherlands – Directed by Ciro Guerra
“Daniel & Ana” – Mexico – Directed by Michel Franco
“Hiroshima” -Uruguay/Colombia/Argentina/Spain – dirigida por Pablo Stoll
Argentine Competition
“Adoption” – Directed by David Lypszick
“Andres doesn’t want to take the siesta” - Directed by Daniel Bustamante
“Chapadmalal” - Directed by Alejandro Montiel
“The man next door” - Directed by Gastón Duprat y Mariano Cohn
“The islands” – Directed by Antonio Cervi
“Red orchestra” – Directed by Nicolás Herzog
“Fathers of Plaza de Mayo: 10 possible ways” – Directed by Joaquín Daglio
“The Pursuer” - Directed by Víctor Cruz
“TL-2 happiness is an urban legend” – Directed by Tetsuo Lumière
About 24th Mar del Plata International Film Festival
From Saturday 7th to Sunday November 15, 2009 will be held the 24th edition of International Film Festival Mar del Plata. Like their counterparts in San Sebastian, Berlin, Cannes, Venice, among others, is described by the International Federation of Film Producers Associations, FIAPF, as a category "A", being also the only festival in Latin America with this qualification
The Film Festival is the annual meeting between the public and traditional and avant-garde cinema that occur in the non-competitive sections.
The genesis was in 1954 when the Secretary's Information Office of the President held the First Motion Picture Film Shows in the city of Mar del Plata.
In addition to the hundreds of filmmakers and celebrities who have historically participated in this international festival, since it was resumed in 1996 until 2008, have attended the festival, among many other foreign dignitaries, Gina Lollobrigida, who was paid tribute for being the most popular figure who had attended the first festival in 1954, Jacqueline
Bisset, Elsa Martinelli, Raquel Welch, Renee Zellweger, Francisco Rabal, Amparo Soler Leal, Lina Wertmuller, Percy Adlon, Arturo Ripstein, Pilar Miro, Dino Risi, Alfonso Arau, Antonio Ferrandiz, Abbas Kiarostami, Maria Grazia Cucinotta, Catherine Deneuve, Geraldine Chaplin, Sonia Braga, Emily Watson, Julie Delpy, Nikita Mikhalkov, Sally Potter, Alex de la Iglesia, Liv Ullmann, Jeremy Irons, Alan Rickman, Philip Noyce, Istvan Szabo, Gerard Depardieu, Volker Schlöndorff, Maria de Medeiros, Helen Mirren, Vittorio Taviani, Mario Monicelli, Schygula Hanna, Kathleen Turner, Hector Babenco, Ken Russell, Bob Rafelson, Norman Jewison, Susan Seidelman, Susan Sarandon, Tim Robbins, Krzysztof Zanussi, Michael Winterbottom, Abel Ferrara and Juliette Binoche.
Taking as a framework the beautiful city of Mar del Plata, which combines a traditional architectural style of early twentieth century, with modern buildings and miles of wide beaches, the Festival offers visitors a broad and deep look at the cinematic universe, reflected in several competencies, competitive sections, retrospectives and tributes.
It is organized by INCAA (National Institute of Cinema and Audiovisual Arts), and in this edition of the Cultural Institute of the Province of Buenos Aires and the Municipality of General Pueyrredón.
More information: www.mardelplatafilmfest.com |
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