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Showing posts with label AIFF 2014. Show all posts
Showing posts with label AIFF 2014. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 04, 2015

Ida Plus Academy Award Nominee Shorts - Docs and Live Action

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Picture from IMDB First we saw Ida .   A beautiful black and white Polish film that I could connect to in a variety of ways. 1960 or...
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Sunday, December 21, 2014

AIFF 2014: Their Bests And My Bests - Features

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I've had posts like this - where I compare my picks to the festival picks - because I've had real disagreements with the festival pi...
Thursday, December 18, 2014

AIFF 2014: Reflections On This Year's Festival From Jim Parker and From Me

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The festival activities are now over (well, as I write this there are still people in the Alaska Experience Theater watching the last movie ...
Sunday, December 14, 2014

AIFF 2014: Awards Update - Alaska Films, Features

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I'm at the Organic Oasis.  People are eating.  I'll just add to this post rather than a bunch of posts.  So keep checking.  [I'v...

AIFF 2014: Pictures from Award Gala

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I was going to add names, but this is going way too fast.  These are pictures of folks eating and now they are...

AIFF 2014: Sean McCarthy On 'Moving Out' And The Kurdish Film 'Come To My Voice'

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We saw the animation program last night and it was probably the overall strongest program.  Every film was good and a number were better tha...

AIFF 2014: Sunday. The Last Day. Turkey, China, Florida, Then Awards

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This is the last day of the festival.  Sort of.  Tuesday and Wednesday will have Best of the Fest, where they will show some of the winning ...
Saturday, December 13, 2014

AIFF 2014: Barefoot Artist and Coney Island

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Barefoot Artist turned out to be a really good documentary.  Maybe.  I have some second thoughts, but I can't deny I was pulled right i...

AIFF 2014: Who Is Ronald Gottlieb And Does Engin Karabagli Have Hairy Legs?

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In Engin Karabagli's short animated film, which plays in the Animation program tonight at 7pm, the main character is named Ronald Gottli...
Friday, December 12, 2014

AIFF 2014: Saturday Schedule - Lots of Movies, No Bear Tooth

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The second weekend, lots of movies, lots of hard choices.  But no Bear Tooth this weekend.  That's new this year. Here's the grid ...

AIFF 2014: Engin Karabagli, Ronald Gottlieb, And Saturday Night's Animation Program

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The only animation I've seen so far this year has been the feature length Rocks In My Pocket  which I thought was great, though I unders...

AIFF 2014: Seeds of Time and Mixed Bag Shorts Make Great Film Night [Updated with Video]

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This turned out to be the most satisfying evening at the festival. Seeds of Time was inspiring in many ways.  The film is about a man fro...
Wednesday, December 10, 2014

AIFF 2014: The Good And The Bad Of 6 Bullets To Hell

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[I didn't start out to do a post on 6 Bullets To Hell.  It just happened.  I don't have the video edited that should go with this - ...
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AIFF 2014: Anchorage Audience Liked The Ambassador To Bern

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This film plays again tonight (Wednesday) at 5:30 downtown at the Alaska Experience theater .  Last night's audience at the Bear Tooth a...

AIFF 2014: What's On Today (Wednesday)

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  Here's the Wednesday schedule. ACS Internet was down till just now.  Just a quickie here and I'll try to get a Wed post up ...
Tuesday, December 09, 2014

AIFF 2014: Powerful Alaska Film On Juneau Japanese-Americans And WW II

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Imagine the high school newspaper editor's father being arrested by his best friend's father and sent out of state for the crime of ...

AIFF 2014 - Attila Szász Talks About His Film The Ambassador To Bern

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The Ambassador To Bern  looks to be a very good film.  Unfortunately, film maker Attila Szász can't make it to Anchorage for the festiva...