Jay Cray, Correspondent (Film) One of Hollywood’s biggest stars in the 1940s, Joan Fontaine, died on December 15. In this article The Global Panorama celebrates her life and her silver screen success. Born in Japan to British parents in 1917, Joan de Beauvoir de Havilland, known professionally as Joan Fontaine, was a British-American actress. Fontaine made her stage debut in the West Coast production of Call It a Day (1935) and was soon signed to an RKO contract. Her film debut was a small role in No More […]
Jay Cray, Editor (Film) This week the Sundance Film Festival announced the line-up of its premieres for 2014. The festival, which will take place in January, will turn 30 years old and seems to be getting bigger each year. It proves that independent films are at the heart of the international film-making community. With 117 premiere feature films and 11 documentaries, the festival has a lot to offer. And the line-up does not disappoint. An international flavour […]
Gift Ruremesha, Correspondent (Film) As The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013) is coming out this month, you can’t help but reflect on the career of Peter Jackson, the director of this film and the previous J. R. R. Tolkien books such as The Lord of The Rings trilogy and The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012), and what he has done for the film industry. The New Zealander began his career in the film […]
Yong Jo Leen, Correspondent (Film) Frozen, The Hunger Games, Oz the Great and Powerful, We’re the Millers, Identity Thief and Epic. What do these films have in common? They were all released in 2013 with female lead characters and are just some of the few films with female leads in it, (compared to seven films in 2012, five in both 2010 and 2011, and a dismal four in 2009). Some might argue that women are especially […]
Yong Jo Leen, Correspondent (Film) Film festivals are excellent venues for film promotion, networking with those in the industry as well as expanding knowledge on films. Especially, if the films screened are not widely available. Film festivals are usually held in a city or region, depending on its focus. This article provides a summary of several international film festivals across continents in the world in particular Asia, North America, Central America, Africa, Europe and […]
Jay Cray Editor (Film) Picture a 20-something year old sitting in cinema surrounded by young children about to see the highly anticipated second instalment of the Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs.... And, boy, was I excited. For those of you who haven’t seen Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs (2009), simply put, it is a tummy-tickling tale of Flint Lockwood, an aspiring inventor. Lockwood invents the FLDSMDFR – a machine that creates […]
Jay Cray, Correspondent (Film) After a long week, we all love popping a film on and putting our feet up on a Friday night. With the recent release of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013) and the upcoming release of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013), it’s easy for us to escape into the story line and fantasy of a great film for two hours, when we need it. So why is film (and […]
Stefano Duc, Correspondent (Film) Philomena, Stephen Frears’ last film, has been a success so far. Indeed, since its participation in the 70thVenice International Film Festival last August, it has won two important awards, namely the People’s Choice Award runner-up prize at the Toronto International Film Festival, and the award for Best Screenplay at the Venice International Film Festival. Such a success recalls that of Frears’ The Queen, a masterpiece that was nominated five times at […]
Denisa Caldova Correspondent (Film) It all started in 1977, when the first Episode of the Star Wars saga was released. The movie, directed by George Lucas, called Star Wars: Episode IV- A New Hope, earned $1,554,475 only during the domestic opening weekend. Worldwide, it earned $797,900,000. Episodes V and VI followed in 1980 and 1983 (retrospectively), being similarly successful as the first movie. Initially, it seemed that this movie franchise had ended after the […]
Ferhiyo Ismail Ali, Editor (Film) There have been several concerns regarding the Spring Breakers movie after its release in the US and internationally. Disney stars such as Vanessa Hudgens and Selena Gomez were among the cast members alongside Ashley Benson, Rachel Korine and James Franco. The film is about four college girls who are unable to go on a spring break because of their inability to cover the expenses. After getting high on cocaine […]
