The News Review:
- The world’s a stage for film fests
- Where in the world are the hottest film fests?
- At summer festivals rock around the (old) East bloc
- Das Rheingold Longborough Festival pera Longborough Reviewed by…
- William Hutt fixture at Stratford Festival dies
- Festival of Arts sets a record: 80 percent of 8000 seats are filled…
The world’s a stage for film fests
USA Today – Jun 27, 2007
Lyman Special for USA TDAYRME — For film festival junkies life has never been better. “They’re springing up like mushrooms after the rain” says Peter Scarlet the executive director of the Tribeca Film Festival who helped launch that event after heading the USA’s oldest film festival in San Francisco for nearly two decades. “There are festivals out there that I’ve never heard of… But there are hundreds and new ones are added to the ranks every year. In addition to established festivals such as Utah’s Sundance the Toronto festival in Canada and Berlin Cannes and Venice in Europe other top-shelf festivals such as New York’s Tribeca the Dubai International Film Festival and the RomeFilmFest in the Italian capital have all started in the last half-dozen years. Just this year significant festivals have been launched in Rome — making two new festivals there in as many years — plus Malta Abu Dhabi and the Drake Festival in Caserta near Naples. rganizers of the festivals cite different reasons for the events from a way to increase tourism or boost the visibility of the host city or town to calling attention to a specific genre or period of film. “It used to be that a town’s signature event was a golf tournament or a music festival” says Stephen Ashton international editor of the magazine Film Festival Reporter and himself the director of the small Wine Country Film Festival in Napa Valley. “Now everyone wants to have a film festival.
Where in the world are the hottest film fests?
USA Today – Jun 27, 2007
“The reason these festivals start to happen is that people aren’t satisfied with what they find in the multiplex and they want to see what else is out there” says Steven Gaydos executive features editor for Variety and author of The Variety Guide to Film Festivals. “It’s an alternative way to experience cinema. Any festival you go to as a general consumer you’ll probably discover a filmmaker you’ve never heard of before. ” Gaydos takes USA TDAY on a tour of film festivals around the world: MRE:.
At summer festivals rock around the (old) East bloc
International Herald Tribune – Jun 27, 2007
For music fans in the former Eastern bloc the demise of the old regime brought about an unexpected benefit: the arrival of rock and techno music festivals on a huge scale previously reserved for May Day celebrations. More recently Western festivalgoers have begun to take notice of these concerts drawn not only by the acts but also by the alluring ticket prices and the unfettered enthusiasm of the audience. ver the next two months a half-dozen big concerts will bring international stars to countries that were once locked behind the Iron Curtain a place where rocking out was a near impossibility if not outright forbidden. In large part these festivals are considerably cheaper than their West European equivalents despite often being much larger: a ticket for the seven-day Sziget Festival in Hungary for instance is 37500 forint ($193 at 195 forint to the dollar) while the Reading festival in England clocks in at three days for £145 ($290 at $2 to the pound).
Das Rheingold Longborough Festival pera Longborough Reviewed by…
Independent – Jun 27, 2007
Introducing his opera festival’s new production of Das Rheingold Martin Graham builder entrepreneur Wagner fanatic and wit apologised to his audience if it encountered “rubble here sawdust over there”; and for still having “Balkan lavatories”. Introducing his opera festival’s new production of Das Rheingold Martin Graham builder entrepreneur Wagner fanatic and wit apologised to his audience if it encountered “rubble here sawdust over there”; and for still having “Balkan lavatories”.
William Hutt fixture at Stratford Festival dies
London Free Press – Jun 27, 2007
CBC reported he was suffering from leukemia entered a hospital in Stratford on Tuesday and died this morning. Hutt lived in Stratford for much of his life but was no stranger to London and the Grand Theatre. He was Theatre London’s (now the Grand’s) artistic director from 1976-1980 and often returned to London where he had many friends.
Festival of Arts sets a record: 80 percent of 8000 seats are filled…
Free with registration – Baltimore Sun – AccessMyLibrary.com – Jun 27, 2007
(27-JUN-07) Baltimore Sun (Baltimore MD). 27–As it wrapped up its 20th season Saturday the Columbia Festival of the Arts reached a record for attendance at its ticketed events. From June 6 through June 23 th.