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Movie Week
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: The 67th Venice Film Festival
Wednesday, 1 September, 2010The sixty-seventh edition of the Venice International Film Festival opens today (September first) and runs until September eleven at the Venice Lido. Susan Flory speaks to Marco Müller who is the artistic director of the sixty-seventh edition and has been heading the Venice Biennale’s Cinema section since 2004.
Wednesday, 1 September, 2010The sixty-seventh edition of the Venice International Film Festival opens today (September first) and runs until September eleven at the Venice Lido. Susan Flory speaks to Marco Müller who is the artistic director of the sixty-seventh edition and has been heading the Venice Biennale’s Cinema section since 2004.
Movie Week: The Ernst Lubitsch retrospective
Wednesday, 25 August, 2010After great fanfare from the Locarno Film Festival public, the Ernst Lubitsch retrospective is stopping at the Swiss Film Archive in Lausanne. Most of the German film maker’s work will be showing until October 2010. Joseph McBride is an author and professor of cinema studies at the University of San Francisco. He curates the Lubitsch retrospective. WRS’s Marc Menichini started by asking McBride why it was worth seeing Lubitsch today:
Wednesday, 25 August, 2010After great fanfare from the Locarno Film Festival public, the Ernst Lubitsch retrospective is stopping at the Swiss Film Archive in Lausanne. Most of the German film maker’s work will be showing until October 2010. Joseph McBride is an author and professor of cinema studies at the University of San Francisco. He curates the Lubitsch retrospective. WRS’s Marc Menichini started by asking McBride why it was worth seeing Lubitsch today:
Movie Week: Portrait of an eclectic film producer
Wednesday, 18 August, 2010
Wednesday, 18 August, 2010
From Chuck Norris or Jean Claude Van Damme to John Cassavetes and Jean-Luc Godard—Menahem Golan never feared contrasts. Last week, Menahem Golan was awarded the best independent producer at the Locarno Film Festival.
Back in the late seventies, the Israeli film maker started Cannon Films in Hollywood with his cousin. Menahem Golan started producing a number of B movies, action and ninja films starring Van Damme and Chuck Norris. But Golan’s passion was elsewhere. Thus, he started working with the likes of John Cassavetes for his last film “Love Streams” and also Jean-Luc Godard for “King Lear”.
WRS’s Marc Menichini and his colleague Pierre-Philippe Cadert from the Radio Suisse Romande met Menahem Golan at Locarno and asked him how he felt about receiving this award.
Movie Week: Locarno's new-look film festival
Wednesday, 4 August, 2010Today in Locarno, it’s projectors on—lights off. The 63rd Locarno International Film Festival has begun. A number of film critics and professionals believe it’s going through an identity crisis—too many films presented with undefined categories. WRS’s Marc Menichini talks to Olivier Père, the festival’s new artistic director, who promises to resolve the issues by going back to the roots of the festival. Is the festival worth going to see though? Martin Blaney, the German, Austrian and Swiss correspondent for Screen International and Christian Jungen, film critic at the NZZ am Sonntag and a member of one of the festival’s judging teams rate the event and the experience.
Wednesday, 4 August, 2010Today in Locarno, it’s projectors on—lights off. The 63rd Locarno International Film Festival has begun. A number of film critics and professionals believe it’s going through an identity crisis—too many films presented with undefined categories. WRS’s Marc Menichini talks to Olivier Père, the festival’s new artistic director, who promises to resolve the issues by going back to the roots of the festival. Is the festival worth going to see though? Martin Blaney, the German, Austrian and Swiss correspondent for Screen International and Christian Jungen, film critic at the NZZ am Sonntag and a member of one of the festival’s judging teams rate the event and the experience.
Movie Week: Lighting up cinema with a paint brush
Wednesday, 28 July, 2010The 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.
Wednesday, 28 July, 2010The 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.
Movie Week: Teens behind bars and Filipino grandmas
Wednesday, 21 July, 2010A 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.
Wednesday, 21 July, 2010A 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.
Movie Week: Special effects don't happen by magic
Wednesday, 7 July, 2010A 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:
Wednesday, 7 July, 2010A 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:
Movie Week: Brad Pitt, Brad Pitt and more Brad Pitt
Wednesday, 30 June, 2010Brad 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.
Wednesday, 30 June, 2010Brad 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.
Neuchâtel celebrates its world-famous fantastic film festival
Wednesday, 23 June, 2010On 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.
Wednesday, 23 June, 2010On 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.
Movie Week: Labor Film Shorts
Wednesday, 16 June, 2010WRS’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.
Wednesday, 16 June, 2010WRS’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.
