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Conversation with Jacqueline Bisset for SydeysBuzz/IndieWire at the Locarno Film Festival

August 21, 2013 / / Comments Off on Conversation with Jacqueline Bisset for SydeysBuzz/IndieWire at the Locarno Film Festival
Bisset Discusses Her Vast Appetite for Acting Photo Credit: Tatiana Kouguell-Hoell
Bisset Discusses Her Vast Appetite for Acting
Photo Credit: Tatiana Kouguell-Hoell

On 11 August, British actress Jacqueline Bisset received the Locarno Film Festival’s Lifetime Achievement Award Parmigiani in the Piazza Grande, which was followed by a screening of Rich and Famous.

The Conversation with Jaqueline Bisset took place on 12 August. Carlo Chatrian, the Festival’s Artistic Director, introduced Bisset and Chris Fujiwara, Artistic Director of the Edinburgh International Film Festival. The talk covered a wide range of topics on Bisset’s distinguished career. A delightful, humorous theme was food.

Here are some highlights from the afternoon’s talk. 

Bisset: “I wanted to go to acting school, and I did a few modeling jobs, to pay for acting school. I never aspired to be a model. I met lots of photographers, and I learned a lot about light — as a source of love and illumination, light as a gift of love. On film, that’s a massive contribution. Light of a great cinematographer — to illuminate truth and bring atmosphere to situations.”

To read more of my article:

http://blogs.indiewire.com/sydneylevine/conversation-with-jacqueline-bisset

Bisset Discusses Her Vast Appetite for Acting Photo Credit: Tatiana Kouguell-Hoell

Bisset Discusses Her Vast Appetite for Acting Photo Credit: Tatiana Kouguell-Hoell

Susan’s ‘Conversation with Faye Dunaway’ at the Locarno Film Festival – SydneysBuzz/IndieWire

August 21, 2013 / / Comments Off on Susan’s ‘Conversation with Faye Dunaway’ at the Locarno Film Festival – SydneysBuzz/IndieWire

Dunaway talks about her three iconic film roles in Bonnie and Clyde,Chinatown and Network http://blogs.indiewire.com/sydneylevine/a-conversation-with-faye-dunaway

Film Festival Director Carlo Chatrian Enjoying an Anecdote with Faye Dunaway

Film Festival Director Carlo Chatrian Enjoying an Anecdote with Faye Dunaway

 

Susan’s ‘Conversation with Sir Christopher Lee’ at the Locarno Film Festival for SydneysBuzz/IndieWire

August 21, 2013 / / Comments Off on Susan’s ‘Conversation with Sir Christopher Lee’ at the Locarno Film Festival for SydneysBuzz/IndieWire

Front Row Seat to The Profound, The Witty, The Storyteller...Sir Christopher Lee

The opening night of the Festival on August 7 dramatically began under a lightening-filled sky in the Piazza Grande, where Sir Christopher Lee received the Excellence Award Moët & Chandon.  Film stills of Sir Christopher’s roles were projected on the buildings surrounding the Piazza.  Accepting his award, the charismatic Sir Christopher spoke mostly in Italian, stating his mother was from Italy — and then switched to English.

Sir Christopher’s most loved line of the night, “I did it. That was me doing the sword fights with Yoda, not a stunt double.” The audience cheered!

To read more of my article:

http://blogs.indiewire.com/sydneylevine/sir-christopher-lee-at-the-locarno-film-festival

Front Row Seat to The Profound, The Witty, The Storyteller...Sir Christopher Lee

Front Row Seat to The Profound, The Witty, The Storyteller…Sir Christopher Lee

Susan’s interview with Carlo Chatrian, Artistic Director Locarno Film Festival for SydneysBuzz/IndieWire

August 2, 2013 / / Comments Off on Susan’s interview with Carlo Chatrian, Artistic Director Locarno Film Festival for SydneysBuzz/IndieWire

Chatrian’s passion for filmmakers, cinema and its history is zealously conveyed whether talking about the Festival’s tributes to Christopher Lee, Anna Karina, Faye Dunaway, Sergio Castellitto, Otar Iosseliani, Jacqueline Bisset, Margaret Ménégoz and Douglas Trumbull — to the Pardi di domani (Leopards of tomorrow) a competitive section that will screen shorts and medium-length films by young independent auteurs or film school students, who have not yet directed a feature — to the films screened on the Piazza Grande — to the Festival’s sidebar Histoire(s) du cinéma.

To read my full interview with Carlo Chatrian, Artistic Director of the Locarno International Film Festival:

http://blogs.indiewire.com/sydneylevine/locarno-ff-interview-with-carlo-chatrian

 

Ask the Screenplay Doctor: Top Five Tips … How to Really Find an Agent

August 2, 2013 / / Comments Off on Ask the Screenplay Doctor: Top Five Tips … How to Really Find an Agent

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Ask the Screenplay Doctor: Top Five Tips … How to Really Find an Agent

You may be a talented and brilliant screenwriter, but for many, getting an agent can be a tough and overwhelming challenge. Sometimes it might feel like the only way that you’re going to get an agent is if you open a fortune cookie that reads: “Today you will find an agent. Look at the person sitting at the next table.”  And, poof, that agent is seated with arms outstretched, awaiting your script.

Yes, there is nepotism, egotism, and many other ‘isms’ in the film industry, but when you venture on your quest to seek representation, it’s time to check your pessimism and cynicism at the door.  It’s time to take control.

Read more:

http://www.newenglandfilm.com/magazine/2013/08/screenplay

HAPPY SWISS NATIONAL HOLIDAY!

August 1, 2013 / / Comments Off on HAPPY SWISS NATIONAL HOLIDAY!

The countdown to the 66th Locarno International Film Festival has begun. 

Stay tuned for more of my Festival interviews, and more…

In the meantime…above is my photo of the setup of the screen in Locarno’s Piazza Grande.   

For more information visit:

http://www.pardolive.ch

Susan’s Interview with Nadia Dresti for SydneysBuzz/IndieWire

July 30, 2013 / / Comments Off on Susan’s Interview with Nadia Dresti for SydneysBuzz/IndieWire

Nadia Dresti, Delegate of the Artistic Direction, Head of International at the Locarno International Film Festival talks to Susan Kouguell about Industry Days (August 10-12), Step In and Carte Blanche.  Nadia Dresti: “The film festival’s role has to become more a place to help a film to be released afterwards, and Locarno is a perfect place to put these people together and mix.”

Interview with Nadia Dresti

Click here to read more of my interview:

http://blogs.indiewire.com/sydneylevine/interview-with-nadia-dresti?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed

The Film-Philosophy Conference 2013 – Beyond Film (Amsterdam)

July 22, 2013 / / Comments Off on The Film-Philosophy Conference 2013 – Beyond Film (Amsterdam)

Susan Kouguell with Brazilian Presenters and Filmmakers in Amsterdam

A few words about…

The Film-Philosophy Conference 2013
Beyond Film
ASCA (Amsterdam) and EYE Film Institute Netherlands

A special thank you to Professor Philipp Schmerheim at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis for the invitation to attend the recent Beyond Film conference, (10 July – 12 July).  It was an inspiring event.

From the Film-Philosophy Web site:

Established in 2008 and taking place annually, the Film-Philosophy conference reflects the growing importance of film philosophy within the fields of both film studies and philosophy. It brings together scholars and filmmakers from all over the world to present their research on a broad range of topics within the subject area.

Among the presentations I attended that related directly to the International Women Film Directors course I teach at Tufts University, included the papers “Mutum, individuation and creation of affects” — (Mutum (2007) is a Brazilian feature film directed by Sandra Kogut) — the paper was presented by Davina Marques, (abstract written by Davina Marques and Antonio Carlos R. Amorim); “Synaesthetic Networks in Claire Denis’s Beau Travail and L’Intrus” presented by Sabine Doran; and “Violence as Philosophy in the Films of Claire Denis and Gaspar Noé” presented by Kristin Hrehor.

And, among the presentations I attended that related directly to my work as a thesis advisor in the Communications Media Studies program and screenwriting lecturer in the Drama and Dance department at Tufts University, was a lecture by Juliana Soares Bom Tempo:  “Effect of truth: the potency of the fake and the performance in video documentary.”  Clips of their 2012 film, Effects of Truth by Juliana Soares Bom Tempo and Christiano Barbosa, were screened.

To read more about the Conference and Abstracts from the international presenters click on:

http://www.film-philosophy.com/conference/index.php/conf/2013

 

Fellini in Amsterdam

July 17, 2013 / / Comments Off on Fellini in Amsterdam

Fellini in Amsterdam

Entering into the EYE Film Institute’s Fellini exhibition is an engaging step into the past and the world of the Italian film director Federico Fellini (1920-1993).   While the phrase “into the past” might evoke cliché images – there is nothing about this exhibit or Fellini’s visual style and imagination that can be considered cliché – this exhibition is a feast for the eyes.  Moving from room-to-room gives the sense of stepping into one of Fellini’s films. On the walls, breathtaking scenes from various Fellini films appear, including Amacord, City of Women, and La dolce vita.  Also on display are Fellini’s drawings, images from his dreams, as well as never-before-shown photographs and behind-the-scenes photographs by Gideon Bachmann, Deborah Beer and Paul Ronald. Movie posters and magazines from 1960-1985, also on view, offer further insight into Fellini’s films, his actors, and fellow collaborators. The Fellini exhibit presents a fascinating and unique insight into the director’s exploration of existential themes and his use of nonlinear narrative film structures, challenging traditional conventions. Step inside the forty-year career of Federico Fellini at the EYE Film Institute, which runs until September 22, 2013.

http://www.eyefilm.nl/en/exhibitions/fellini-the-exhibition/fellini-%E2%80%93-the-exhibition

ASK THE SCREENPLAY DOCTOR Interview with Jeff Greenstein: Stories from TV’s Front Line

July 1, 2013 / / Comments Off on ASK THE SCREENPLAY DOCTOR Interview with Jeff Greenstein: Stories from TV’s Front Line

Interview with Emmy winner Jeff Greenstein

Showrunner, producer, and writer Jeff GreensteinAs the credits roll on some of the most critically acclaimed and groundbreaking television shows, including Friends, Will and Grace, Desperate Housewives, and Parenthood — writer, producer, showrunner, and Emmy award winner Jeff Greenstein’s name is seen prominently.

In his own words, here’s Jeff’s biographical background: “Jeff Greenstein grew up in Atlanta, Georgia and attended Tufts University in Boston, where he started as a computer science major and careened through the art history department, and ended up with a degree in film and dance. This proved the ideal prelude to a glorious career in television comedy.”  His first job was on HBO’s Dream On, where he stayed for five seasons, rising from staff writer to showrunner and garnering several industry awards, including the coveted and sadly defunct CableACE. He then signed on for the first year of NBC’s Friends, earning Emmy nominations as both a producer of the series and as co-writer of the show’s first Thanksgiving episode. That same year he co-created Fox’s Partners, starring Jon Cryer and Tate Donovan, which won plenty of critical plaudits but, alas, no second season.

http://www.newenglandfilm.com/magazine/2013/07/greenstein

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