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Forget about celebrity buzz, glamorous gowns or even red carpets. The Helsinki International Film Festival, down to its whimsical subtitle – Love & Anarchy - is a laid-back movie affair for people who are passionate about interesting stories.

Federal Councilor Simonetta Sommaruga opened the 2014 Zürich Film Festival (ZFF), by joking: “Congratulations to all film directors who dared to come to Zürich to a Festival inaugurated by the Minister of Justice. But I am happy to report, even after three opening ceremonies, still no arrests have been made.

Curator of "Through Indian Eyes": Filmmaker Valerie Red-HorseThere were neither campfires nor calumets when a band of domestic Indians and a band of foreign journalists united in a peaceful pow wow. They came together to support their mutual passions – American Indian reality and cinematic fiction.

Some leading stars have been fading away recently, so rapidly and so dramatically that many people in the movie industry are openly questioning if the star system model still holds and makes sense.  We’ll refrain from naming names here to protect the innocent, but on the other hand there are still those consistently prove that their mere presence pulls people into theaters, year after year.

What do films like The Bigamist, MacBeth, Diary of a Chambermaid, Farewell To Arms have in common? Answer: All those films have been saved from extinction by the UCLA Film & Television Archive, their restorations financed by the HFPA. And now another classic will be rescued from the endangered species list:.

As a summer that most studios, distributors, theater owners and anyone else involved in the film business in the North American market would like to forget has come officially to its end, Fall started on a positive note. And brought the hope that maybe things may change and that the end is not here yet.

Считается, что американские кинокомедии «плохо путешествуют». На голливудском языке это означает, что американский юмор не собирает в мировом прокате столь же больших денег, как экранизации комиксов и прочие «Трансформеры», сборы которых иногда доходят до миллиарда (!) долларов со всего света.

HFPA GIVES AWAY $2 MILLION---AND ANNOUNCES A $7. 5 MILLION CHARITY BONUS Theo Kingma and Sofia VergaraThe HFPA gave away almost two million dollars to entertainment-related charities during a star-studded night of love, laughter and surprises at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.

A past president of the HFPA, Helmut Voss has died after a long illness. Helmut, who was president from 1998-2000, was instrumental in the HFPA purchasing their present building on South Robertson in West Hollywood.

The Cecil B. deMille award is given each year by the Hollywood Foreign Press to an individual of demontstrated outstanding achievement in film and television entertainment.