REVIEW - BOOK: Some Versions of Cary Grant (James Naremore, Oxford University Press, 2022) - MILAN HAIN - Indiana University Professor Emeritus James Naremore is a scholar with many diverse interests, as I reported in the pages of 25fps years ago. In addition to film noir, adaptation and authorship (Welles, Kubrick, Minnelli), foremost among them is film acting, to which Naremore devoted his influential and ...

Fifteen awards were given to producers and directors during the East Doc Platform Partners' Awards and the Closing Ceremony of One World & East Doc Platform on Thursday, March 30. The East Doc Platform Award 2023 jurors Hanka Kastelicová (HBO Max), Thomas Beyer (MDR) and Alexandra Derewienko (CAT&Docs) awarded the project about the refugees trapped by the Belarusian government in a cynical geopoliti ...

In solidarity with all those who have lost or been forced to fee their homes because of war, the Feminist Film Festival "Filma" dedicates a single program, "When Trees Blossom at Home Again," to the topic of migration in armed confict. The festival will take place online from November 24 to December 9. Our feminist collective created the "Filma" Festival as a shared platform for films that align with the pr ...

In exactly four weeks, on Wednesday 17 August, the 10th anniversary edition of the Noir Film Festival will begin. During the five days of the festival, visitors can look forward to more than five dozen screenings of classic American noirs from the 1940s and 1950s, as well as films of Spanish and Czechoslovak/Czech provenance. The main guest at Český Šternberk Castle will be the American director Samantha Fu ...

The 10th Noir Film Festival, which will take place 17–21 August 2022 at Český Šternberk Castle in the Czech Republic, has announced its complete program. In addition to the previously announced section Blacklisted and the Edgar G. Ulmer retrospective, it will also feature David Fincher's neo-noirs, a selection of Spanish noirs and tributes to Hollywood icons Rita Hayworth and Robert Taylor. It will also hon ...

The Noir Film Festival celebrates its 10th birthday this year. The unique genre event, which was first held at Kokořín Castle in 2013 and then moved to Křivoklát Castle a year later, will be held at Český Šternberk Castle for the second year in a row and will be held from 17th to 21st August 2022 and promises 55 film screenings. Blacklisted The main thematic section of this year‘s festival called Blackliste ...

REVIEW: Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power (director: Nina Menkes, 2022) – JANA BÉBAROVÁ Czech version of this article can be found here. Not counting the four-hour documentary We Need To Talk About Cosby (which I'll discuss in my next article), it's been a long time since I've experienced such anxiety after watching a documentary as I did with Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power, which, like the first-named title, pr ...

Exactly one week from today, on Wednesday 18 August, the halls of Český Šternberk Castle will open to visitors of Noir Film Festival. The first screening of the 9th edition of the event, which regularly brings a few days of chilling film dramas, detective stories and thrillers every August, will begin at 4 pm. Until Sunday, 22 August, Noir Film Festival will offer five dozen screenings of films from the USA ...

Less than two months before the 9th Noir Film Festival, the team of organizers announces its complete program. In the five days of the festival (from 18 until 22 August), five interior venues and the courtyard of the Český Šternberk castle will screen fifty films from eight program sections. We have already announced the main program section Noir Without Prejudice consisting of five American films from 1947 ...

This year, the traditional showcase of films noir will move to a new venue. After the first year at the Kokořín castle and 7 years at the Křivoklát castle, the home of the Noir Film Festival since 2014, this unique event will move to the Český Šternberk castle and will take place from 18 to 22 August 2021. “With a new venue, we decided to adjust the screening times as well. Starting on Wednesday, we will ad ...