The News Review:
- Bon Jovi doc to rock Tribeca Film Festival
- Azalea Festival draws families near and far
- Rave reviews for film festival
- Wisconsin Film Festival: ‘Sparrow’ scores style points
Bon Jovi doc to rock Tribeca Film Festival
Hollywood Reporter
The New York festival will unspool what is described as awork-in-progress documentary about Jon Bon Jovi. Phil Griffin directed and @radical. media produced the previouslyunknown pic titled “When We Were Beautiful” which follows themusician and his band on their 2008 Lost Highway tour. The movie will screen as the fest’s centerpiece presentation onApril 29 with another pair of screenings scheduled over thefollowing three.
Azalea Festival draws families near and far
StarNewsnline.com
performs for a crowd at the corner of Front Street and Market Street Sunday April 5 2009 during the N. Azalea Festival in Wilmington.
Rave reviews for film festival
Sarasota Herald-Tribune
Last Modified: Sunday April 5 2009 at 8:51 p. SARASTA – Stars sang Sarasota’s praises on the final weekend of the 11th annual Sarasota Film Festival which organizers said surpassed goals and is shifting into a year-round operation. Stanley Tucci who hosted Saturday’s tribute to late director Hal Ashby and Academy Award-winning actor Jon Voight noted the community’s enthusiasm for films and the filmmakers. “This is quickly becoming one of our favorite festivals” Tucci said. Those are welcome words to film festival board President Mark Famiglio who said this year’s 10-day event beat projections. “We had lowered our expectations based on the economy and some past history but we have surpassed our expectations in every single category” Famiglio said.
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Wisconsin Film Festival: ‘Sparrow’ scores style points
77 Square
There’s nonutritional value and it might make you a little ill if you ate toomuch of it. But in the right portion it’s sensational. Director To is best known as a maker of violent but incrediblystylized action movies (like “Exiled” a Wisconsin Film Festivalselection a couple of years ago). That makes “Sparrow” quite adeparture; nobody gets shot or otherwise killed in the film. Instead To has channeled all his considerable filmmaking styleinto a delicious movie about a quartet of professional pickpocketsled by Kei (Simon Yam who seems to be channeling Cary Grant). Theyseem like a carefree group tooling around Hong Kong on Kei’sbicycle like a bunch of kids. But they’re also very good at whatthey do; in a beautifully choreographed early scene we see thepickpockets deftly relieve several unsuspecting passers-by of theirwallets in a ballet of larceny.