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  • Ken Loach to receive Berlin Film Festivals lifetime achievement Golden Bear

    Ken Loach to receive Berlin Film Festivals lifetime achievement Golden Bear

    MUMBAI: The 64th Berlin Film Festival will pay tribute to British director Ken Loach with an honorary Golden Bear at a presentation ceremony that will feature a screening of his 1993 Cannes Jury Prize winner Raining Stones.

     

    One of Loach’s early successes, Cathy Come Home, aired on the BBC in 1966, drawing 12 million viewers. The docudrama about a young working-class family that slides into homelessness and is subsequently separated, received such an influx of support at the time that it crashed the BBC switchboard.

     

    Among other highlights of the director’s oeuvre are Land And Freedom (1995), My Name Is Joe (1998), Bread And Roses (2000), The Wind That Shakes The Barley (2006), Looking For Eric (2009) and 2012 comedy The Angel’s Share. He has appeared in Berlin several times, most recently with 2013’s The Spirit Of 45. The Berlinale will run a retrospective of 10 of Loach’s films to commemorate the award.

     

  • Bradford International film festival honours Tom Courtenay

    Bradford International film festival honours Tom Courtenay

    MUMBAI: The Bradford International Film Festival (BIFF) has honoured veteran Tom Courtenay with a lifetime achievement award. The 76-year-old star who is known most for his role in The Dresser accepted the award at the National Media Museum in Bradford. The special acknowledgement marked the 50th anniversary of his classic film Billy Liar.
     
    “Bradford is a city that has played a significant part in my film career. I shot ‘Billy Liar‘ here 50 years ago, and then 20 years later returned to make The Dresser at The Alhambra Theatre,” Courtenay said while accepting the award.
     
    Earlier recipients of the BIFF Lifetime Achievement Award include John Hurt, Ken Loach and Richard Attenborough.

  • Cannes fest announces line-up

    Cannes fest announces line-up

    MUMBAI: The Cannes Film Festival has announced the lineup for its 2012 edition. Among the filmmakers in the mix the mix this year include Michael Haneke, Ken Loach, Cristian Mungiu, Alain Resnais, Carlos Reygadas, Matteo Garrone, Jacques Audiard and Abbas Kiarostami.


    Films in the In Competition section are Amour, The Angels‘ Share, Baad el mawkeaa, Beyond the Hills, Cosmopolis, Holy Motors, The Hunt, Killing Them Softly, In Another Country, In the Fog, Rust and Bone, Lawless, Like Someone in Love, Moonrise Kingdom, Mud, On the Road, The Paperboy,Paradies: Liebe, Post tenebras lux, Reality, Matteo Garrone, Rust and Bone, Taste of Money, and You Haven‘t Seen Anything Yet.


    Films in the Un Certain Regard section are: 7 Days in Havana, 11.25 The Day He Chose His Own Fate, Antiviral, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Confession of a Child of the Century, Laurence Anyways, Despues de Lucia, La Pirogue, La Playa, Xavier Dolan Le grand soir, Les Chevaux de Dieu,Loving Without Reason, Miss Lovely,Mystery, Student, Trois mondes and White Elephant.


    Notably missing from official competition will be American directors Terrence Malick and Paul Thomas Anderson. Representing the US instead would be Lee Daniels with The Paperboy and Jeff Nichols with Mud.