The News Review:
- Devilish Cannes Film Festival hails ‘Inglourious Basterds’ and …
- Woody Allen returns to NY to open Tribeca festival
- Your guide to the San Francisco International Film Festival
- SnagFilms links up with festivals
- Arts & recreation spawn Shad Festival in Fishtown
Devilish Cannes Film Festival hails ‘Inglourious Basterds’ and …
Los Angeles Times
Tarantino — who won the festival's Golden Palm in 1994 for "Pulp Fiction" — is the only U. filmmaker in competition. Lee's "Woodstock" starring Liev Schreiber and Emile Hirsch is about the bohemian rock festival in upstate New York in 1969. "Basterds" features.
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Woody Allen returns to NY to open Tribeca festival
Reuters
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Your guide to the San Francisco International Film Festival
San Jose Mercury News
So how to choose what to see when confronted with 151 films from more than 50 countries? To help narrow the field here are a few highlights:pening nightThe festival kicks off this evening at San Francisco’s Castro Theatre with “La Mission” a family drama shot in the city’s bustling Mission district. Written and directed by San Francisco-based Peter Bratt (“Follow Me Home”) it stars the filmmaker’s better known equally handsome sibling Benjamin Bratt as a troubled ex-con who devotes himself to revamping lowrider cruisers with his pals. The luminariesThis year’s high-profile honorees include Robert Redford and Francis Ford Coppola. Coppola an erratic genius who maintains offices at his San Francisco production house American Zoetrope and shoots films when not tending his Napa Valley vineyards is the recipient of the Founder’s Directing Award.
SnagFilms links up with festivals
Hollywood Reporter
Under the arrangement the fests and organizations will havededicated channels on SnafFilms. com to screen films; links fromSnagFilms. com and the partners’ Web sites to the indieWIRE. comresource page as well as to indieWIRE’s coverage of the festivalsand other award events; branded multiplex widgets; and a platformfor future co-premieres where a film debuts live at the festivaland on SnagFilms.
Arts & recreation spawn Shad Festival in Fishtown
Philadelphia Inquirer
While there are no longer any shad fisheries along the Delaware or Schuylkill in these parts foodies in a reviving Fishtown have decided to celebrate the traditional spawn time with this weekend’s Fishtown Shad Festival. "We think it is time to commemorate the historic roots of Fishtown and what better way than to honor the shad" said Paul Kimport president of the Fishtown Area Business Association and owner of Johnny Brenda’s and Standard Tap. The Fishtown Shad Festival while certainly directing visitors to those and other eateries and clubs in Fishtown and adjacent Northern Liberties will mostly be about the arts the environment and recreation along the river. It will be centered at Penn Treaty Park along the river at Delaware and Columbia avenues from 11 a.