Wednesdays at 6:20 pm during The Wrap Conor Lennon is joined by some of the biggest names from the world of film. Movie Week podcast feed Wednesdays at 6:20 pm during The Wrap Conor Lennon is joined by some of the biggest names from the world of film. Movie Week podcast feed WRS WRS web@wrs.ch en Fri, 30 Jul 2010 10:30:07 UT Sun, 28 Jun 2009 06:29:17 GMT Big Medium 2.0.8 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://worldradio.ch/wrs/programmes/movies/index.shtml (C) WRS 2009 film no The Lausanne based Swiss Film Archive is presenting films inspired by the American artist Edward Hopper until August 14. His pictures lent ideas to some of cinema’s greats—the likes of Hitchcock, Wenders and Malick all saw something in his paintings that they translated into film. Flicks such as Wender’s Don’t Come Knocking, The Postman Always Rings Twice starring Jack Nicholson or David Lynch’s The Straight Story all feature in the season. WRS’s Marc Menichini met Frédéric Maire, director of the Swiss Film Archive and asked how Hopper related to cinema. Wed, 28 Jul 2010 16:30:01 GMT http://worldradio.ch/wrs/programmes/movies/movie-week-lighting-up-cinema-with-a-paint-brush.shtml?20130 79fb7a047369e85e0d59f47d8906b200-10130 Programmes/Movie Week Daily Shows/The Wrap A young, French director on heading to the U.S. to make a movie about teens banged up in juvenile detention centres and a filmmaker at the forefront of the art in the Philippines on taking his latest film to Fribourg festival. WRS’s Mark Menichini speaks to Kim Chapiron and the award winning director Brillante Mendoza.   Wed, 21 Jul 2010 16:35:00 GMT http://worldradio.ch/wrs/programmes/movies/movie-week-teens-behind-bars-and-grandmas-in-the-p.shtml?20054 79fb7a047369e85e0d59f47d8906b200-10054 Programmes/Movie Week Daily Shows/The Wrap A master of fantasy visuals, a wizard of the special effect—Douglas Trumball is at the Neuchâtel Fantastic Film Festival all this week. He started off working on a Stanley Kubrick film at the age of 23 and went on to add features such as Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Blade Runner to his list of achievements.  WRS’s Marc Menichini met the visual effects pioneer in Neuchâtel and started by asking him what he thought of James Cameron’s Avatar: Wed, 07 Jul 2010 16:30:02 GMT http://worldradio.ch/wrs/programmes/movies/movie-week-special-effects-dont-happen-by-magic.shtml?19835 79fb7a047369e85e0d59f47d8906b200-9835 Programmes/Movie Week Daily Shows/The National Brad Pitt’s back (in Zurich at least) and he’s at his best. Zurich’s Kino Xenix is showing a program of the handsome chap’s best films over the course of six weeks. The Brad Pitt at His Best season runs until July 15. WRS’s Alex Helmick spoke to Senta van de Weetering from Kino Xenix.   Wed, 30 Jun 2010 16:30:00 GMT http://worldradio.ch/wrs/programmes/movies/movie-week-brad-pitt.shtml?19736 79fb7a047369e85e0d59f47d8906b200-9736 Programmes/Movie Week Daily Shows/The Wrap Guides/Events Calendar http://www.xenix.ch/1_programm/zyklus.php?zyklusID=347 On July 4, the 10th edition of Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival kicks off. Alex Helmick caught up with festival art director Anaïs Emery and started by asking her what was fantastic about the festival. Wed, 23 Jun 2010 09:30:00 GMT http://worldradio.ch/wrs/programmes/movies/neuchatel-celebrates-its-world-famous-fantastic-fi.shtml?19617 79fb7a047369e85e0d59f47d8906b200-9617 Programmes/Movie Week Daily Shows/The Wrap Guides/Events Calendar WRS’s Alex Helmick talks to Cherisse Fredricks from the International Metalworkers Federation—part of the Geneva Labor Film Shorts Festival 2010. It’s over now, but the movies will be online.  Wed, 16 Jun 2010 15:40:00 GMT http://worldradio.ch/wrs/programmes/movies/movie-week-labor-film-shorts.shtml?19504 79fb7a047369e85e0d59f47d8906b200-9504 Programmes/Movie Week Daily Shows/The Wrap http://www.labourfilmshorts.org/ The second largest film festival in France takes place every June in Annecy and it’s an animation festival. This year starts on June 9 and marks the 50th anniversary of the event. Artists and animators from all over the world will congregate to show their films, talk over the latest in technology and mingle. WRS’s Pete Forster spoke to the festival’s artistic director Serge Bromberg and began by asking him about the changes in the animation business in the past 50 years. Wed, 09 Jun 2010 16:15:01 GMT http://worldradio.ch/wrs/programmes/movies/movie-week-happy-50th-to-french-animation-festival.shtml?19394 79fb7a047369e85e0d59f47d8906b200-9394 Programmes/Movie Week http://www.annecy.org/daily-newsletter Directed by Swiss film maker Stascha Bader, “Rocksteady; the Roots of Reggae” explores the world of rocksteady, a musical era in Jamaica’s 1960s that developed the buoyant rhythms and bass line, beautiful vocals and socially conscious lyrics that became reggae. WRS’s Marc Menichini met the Swiss writer and director in Geneva and started by asking him how his rocksteady project started. Wed, 02 Jun 2010 16:40:00 GMT http://worldradio.ch/wrs/programmes/movies/documentary-digs-to-the-roots-of-reggae.shtml?19412 79fb7a047369e85e0d59f47d8906b200-9412 Programmes/Movie Week Daily Shows/The Wrap Even though he won’t acknowledge it, Romanian filmmaker Corneliu Porumboiu is at the forefront of new Romanian cinema, a movement the Cannes Film Festival brought into the limelight when it awarded two such films the prestigious Palme d’Or (Cristi Puiu’s The Death of Mr. Lazarescu in 2005 and Cristian Mungiu’s 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days in 2007). The 34-year-old Porumboiu saw his first feature film awarded a Caméra d’Or at the 2006 Cannes Festival and last year his Police, Adjective won a Jury prize (also at Cannes). The film tells the story of Christi, a young detective who struggles with the dilemma of turning in three hashish-smoking students, believing that their lives will be ruined for what he considers a minor crime. WRS’s Marc Menichini caught up with Corneliu Porumboiu in March during the Fribourg Film Festival and started by asking him about the reasons behind the long and silent first sequences of his film: Wed, 19 May 2010 16:30:00 GMT http://worldradio.ch/wrs/programmes/movies/movie-week-slow-and-silent-russian-thrillers-revis.shtml?19143 79fb7a047369e85e0d59f47d8906b200-9143 Programmes/Movie Week Pete Forster talks to RTS film journalist Matthieu Truffer who’s at the film the Cannes Film Festival about some of the films (and parties) to look out for: Wed, 12 May 2010 16:35:00 GMT http://worldradio.ch/wrs/programmes/movies/movie-week-the-chaos-of-cannes-film-festival.shtml?19065 79fb7a047369e85e0d59f47d8906b200-9065 Programmes/Movie Week Daily Shows/The Wrap For more than four decades, Frederick Wiseman has used a lightweight 16mm camera and portable sound equipment to study human behavior in all its contradictory and unpredictable manifestations. While his films have portrayed  American life in all it’s various forms, and recently he’s turned to the cultural life of Paris. Wiseman’s latest documentary “La Danse” follows the Ballet of the Paris Opera. Earlier this week Wiseman was in Switzerland ahead of his film’s premiere at Nyon’s Visions du Réel festival. WRS’s Marc Menichini was there and asked Wiseman about the idea behind “La Danse”: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 16:30:00 GMT http://worldradio.ch/wrs/programmes/movies/master-of-documentary-filmmaking-delves-into-world.shtml?19144 79fb7a047369e85e0d59f47d8906b200-9144 Programmes/Movie Week Daily Shows/The Wrap In a “Live from Basel” edition of Movie Week, WRS’s Conor Lennon talks to Michael Sennhauser, film critic for Schweizer Radio DRS, about Roman Polanski’s much anticipated film ”The Ghost Writer.” The director is said to have finished the final edits of his latest work from his prison cell in Switzerland. In addition, the director of the Tinguely Museum, Roland Wetzel, talks about the famous sculptors experimentation with abstract film and kinetic art as shown in the exhibit “Le Mouvement. From Cinma to Kinetics” in part two of Movie Week. Wed, 03 Mar 2010 18:00:00 GMT http://worldradio.ch/wrs/programmes/movies/movie-week-polanskis-the-ghost-writer.shtml?18180 79fb7a047369e85e0d59f47d8906b200-8180 Programmes/Movie Week Daily Shows/The Wrap One of the most innovative and interesting Swiss movie festivals is back: Black Movie begins Friday and goes on until Feb 21, with films screening in a number of Geneva locations. This year the festival is going back to basics with a special section on African cinema. WRS’s Conor Lennon speaks with co-director Kathy Reidy: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 17:25:00 GMT http://worldradio.ch/wrs/programmes/movies/movie-week-festival-goes-back-to-africa.shtml?17900 79fb7a047369e85e0d59f47d8906b200-7900 Programmes/Movie Week Daily Shows/The Wrap http://www.blackmovie.ch/fr/index.php President Obama has put the brakes on NASA’s space program, citing Earth-bound priorities, but that’s unlikely to stop some people from dreaming of visiting distant planets. For example, take the subjects of Marsdreamers, a documentary by Swiss filmmaker Richard Dindo, which is out this week. It features true believers convinced humankind must travel to the red planet. WRS’s Marc Menichini caught up with Dindo last summer on a terrasse in Locarno. He started by asking him how he got to know about the American Mars Society: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 16:00:00 GMT http://worldradio.ch/wrs/programmes/movies/movie-week-marsdreamers-tired-of-life-on-earth.shtml?18043 79fb7a047369e85e0d59f47d8906b200-8043 Programmes/Movie Week Daily Shows/The Wrap Clint Eastwood was recently guest of honour at this year’s Lyon Film Festival, and spoke about the difficulties even he still has in attracting funding to his projects. Wed, 09 Dec 2009 17:30:00 GMT http://worldradio.ch/wrs/programmes/movies/movie-week-clint-eastwood.shtml?17103 79fb7a047369e85e0d59f47d8906b200-7103 Programmes/Movie Week