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Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Four New Catalogs on our Site!
This Fall we have edited four new catalogs that are now available for viewing or downloading as PDF on our website: - Asia - Latin America - Women's Studies - US History Click here to view these catalogs which include some of our latest releases!
Icarus Films is proud to release twenty new compelling and thought provoking films this month. With subjects as varied and timely as the environment, the situation in the Middle East, this year's US electoral campaign or urbanization in China, these new titles help us understand the stakes of our changing world.
Click here to check all our new titles on our redesigned website!
Icarus films has acquired the North American distribution rights for Nina Davenport's new film OPERATION FILMMAKER. OPERATION FILMMAKER is the story of how well- intentioned Americans – including the actor/director Liev Schreiber, the producer Peter Saraf, and eventually also Nina herself – intervene in the life of a young Iraqi film student. And how, not surprisingly, nothing goes as planned.
After the film's premiere at the Toronto Film Festival, Eric Kohn of indieWIRE wrote that "Davenport's direction is intricate and her editing is sublime," while Gerald Perry of The Boston Phoenix wrote "Not since Luis Buñuel have we had such a wonderful joke on do-gooder liberalism."
In addition to winning the Grand Jury Prize at the AFI Fest, OPERATION FILMMAKER has also been honored with a Special Jury Prize at the 2007 Chicago International Film Festival, and the Dutch Film Critics' Award at the Rotterdam Film Festival.
SALVADOR ALLENDE at Laemmle's Grande 4-Plex in L. A.
Patricio Guzmán's (The Battle of Chile) new film tells the story of Salvador Allende, from his youth in Valparaiso and his early career, to his presidency of Chile and death during the coup of September 11, 1973. It is the film that Andrew O'Hehir of salon.com called, "A haunting exploration of the Allende paradox... deserves to be widely seen."
LOSERS AND WINNERS at the Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival
Two cultures collide when 400 Chinese workers move to Germany for a year and a half to take apart an entire gigantic modern coke factory—and ship it back to China. Tensions quickly become evident between the Germans and Chinese over workplace issues, especially the Germans' concerns about safety measures and environmental issues, and the Chinese indignation over their hosts' cultural condescension and criticism of the lazy work habits of the "old foreigners." In providing a human view of the effects of globalization, LOSERS AND WINNERS reveals the ironies and ambiguities inherent in global economic changes, the respective sensations of loss and accomplishment, and of differing personal prospects for the future.
In 1965 Yash Pal Suri, a young doctor, left India for the U.K. with hopes of improving his family's life. Over the next forty years, through regular mailings of his Super8 films and taped thoughts and observations, he shared his new life abroad with family members back home, providing a unique record of the eccentricities-and occasional racism-of his new English hosts. Back in India, his relatives, in turn, responded with their own Super8 "cine-letters," sending tales of weddings, festivals and village life, along with impassioned pleas for his return.
By the end of the film,I FOR INDIA becomes not only a bittersweet time capsule of cultural alienation, discovery, racism and belonging, but also a contemporary exploration of universal, emotionally compelling themes of family separation and the quest for personal happiness, wherever it may take you.
In its US theatrical premiere, I FOR INDIA will play at the Two Boots Pioneer Theater in New York City from Wednesday, November 14th until Tuesday, November 20th.
Two New Releases Added This Week Including Rare Chris Marker Short Films
We added two more titles to our website this yesterday, including CHRIS MARKER'S BESTIARY, a collection of five short films about animals. The other addition, HOTHOUSE, explores the evolution of Palestinian prisoner society into a democratic community and the impact of this shift on Palestinian politics outside of prison. This brings the total number of New Releases for September, 2006 to 39! This diverse collection of titles, the most we've ever added at once, has something for everyone who needs a audiovisual resource, or for anyone who just loves docs.
Shui-Bo's first film, SUNRISE OVER TIANANMEN SQUARE, a stunning autobiography of his youth during the historic upheavals of the 1960s, '70s and '80s, was nominated for an Academy Award in 1999. His second film, SWING IN BEIJING, is a feature documentary on the underground art scene in China, and the new release THEY CHOSE CHINA is his third film.
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