(Postscript April 16: :I've edited out much of this since it's now on the SFF website here )
Here's another film festival making a major program announcement without bothering to put up the information on its website.
The media release tells media to go the website at http://sff.org.au . So I did, only to find the following message:
"The 2010 Sydney Film Festival runs from 2 to 14 June. The program will be revealed Friday 7 May."
Very helpful. Why direct people to go to a website that contains considerably less information than the media release that's doing the re-directing?
Some promising selections here (especially the Polanski and Banksy titles). Re. the festival's decision to continue with the blandly generic program streams it introduced last year, I'll leave others to comment in detail. I heard nothing but complaints about this last year (including the phrase "dumbed-down"), but maybe someone out there likes the new approach. Let's hear your views please - good, bad, whatever.
Edited media statement starts here:
7 April 2010 SFF unleashes first taste of 2010 program
(The 57th Sydney Film Festival runs from Wednesday 2 June – Monday 14 June 2010. For more information www.sff.org.au)
Sydney Film Festival today announced a selection of films from the upcoming festival, which runs from Wednesday 2 to Monday 14 June 2010 (Queenʼs Birthday holiday).
Amongst the first films to confirm a place in the festival program are highly anticipated Australian Premieres of:
• Roman Polanski’s The Ghost Writer starring Ewan McGregor
• Exit Through the Gift Shop by art prankster Banksy
• Gérard Depardieu as a beer-bellied biker in Mammuth
• Kristen Stewart as Joan Jett in The Runaways
The 57th Sydney Film Festival runs from Wednesday 2 June – Monday 14 June 2010.
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
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Well I won't be at the Film Festival but this old rock chick can't wait to see The Runaways.
I can recommend The Most Dangerous Man in America. In fact, I already have.
The Runaways is a fantastic film...I highly recommend it to all festival goers!
Incredible and spot-on performances from both Stewart and Fanning. Both girls deliver uncanny portrayals of the girls who they are playing. Director Floria Sigismondi does amazingly well as a first time director and brings flair and artistic vision to the screen.
I've posted thoughts about the lineup at my blog as well as listing films that I hope to see in the full program.
http://filmmusicart.blogspot.com/2010/04/sydney-film-festival-2010-program.html
I can't wait to see The Loved Ones, I have a feeling it will emerge as the crowd favourite.
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