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Not only is that a great idea for a film (the stills are stunning too), the director is a woman, which should pull any hot takery out at the root

They were notably very tolerant of Scarlett Johansson, a woman

Scarlett Johansson is a) still absolutely fine and b) not a filmmaker

We already had a recent thread all about how she’s fine af, we know. As to your second point. Of course, I know what you were saying just as well as you know what I was saying

A man travels across New York City to get a Nathan's Famous hot dog.

Man, Film Twitter would have had a field day with this one!

I decided to watch this because I had six minutes.

Spoiler

Kevin Bacon smokes tail end of cigarette, leaves house, buys cigarettes, gets hot dog, eats hot dog, all in black and white as a kind of music video to ScarJo's very own cover of Tom Waits' Falling Down. I have no idea why anybody chose to spend time on this (including me).

domino harvey wrote: Fri Jan 24, 2020 11:20 pm Lineup for this year’s Rendez-Vous with French Cinema at Lincoln Center

Virtually every creative in-person appearance has been canceled, as UniFrance suspended international travel for all the invited French guests

That sucks, the world is a worse place for withdrawing the opportunity to see Chiara Mastroianni in person

Which is very disappointing for me personally since I acted in one of the films that was supposed to premiere there.

Sorry to hear that. Any chance of submitting to other fests? Not that we have any idea whether any of the others are going to happen this year either...

Dunno yet, I'm sure the director & producers are trying to figure that out.

/Film wrote:Stage32 Streaming Platform Offering to Play SXSW 2020 Selected Movies Starting in April

Interesting concept to broadcast a film festival via streaming service.
I know we have film/TV/digital creatives, professionals, and industry personnel on this forum. Anyone have any experience/thoughts of Stage32?

On a positive note, while the film I'm in, The Carnivores, didn't get to have its planned SXSW premiere, it's still gone out to press and every review I've seen so far has been positive, with the Variety review specifically giving praise to my supporting actor performance, which is the coolest thing I've had happen lately.

Here's the Teaser if anyone wants to take a look.

Very cool, congrats!

Looks great, PfR73, keep us posted on where we can access it!

2020 Ann Arbor Film Festival to stream online via Vimeo due to coronavirus:

https://www.aafilmfest.org/58aaff-live-stream

They'll be including panel discussions and q&a on the stream.

Schedule here:

https://www.aafilmfest.org/live-stream-schedule

Lynn Sachs is a juror, and among the dozens of experimental shorts one standout (if they can get permission to stream) is The Giverny Document by Ja'Tovia Gary.

Congratulations PfR73 on the reviews and the teaser. The music was particularly good.

An inevitability - will be curious if they're actually able to marshall together the Palais/town in general to happen a month or six weeks later considering it will be in prime vacation season for the area (though obviously I'd expect that to be mitigated this year). Assuming things patch up and they're able to have it like they want it will probably a huge festival that signals the return of the movies which I imagine is a very exciting prospect they'd like to do instead of that honor going to Venice or Toronto.

Here's a list of Festivals that have been canceled or postponed.... Dealine

FESTIVALS

-The Overlook Film Festival, the annual horror fest that had been scheduled for May 28-31 in New Orleans, has been postponed.
-The sixth Mammoth Lakes Film Festival has been postponed from May 21-24 to September 16-20.
-The 30th edition of Inside Out, Canada’s largest LGBTQ+ film festival originally set to run May 21-31 in Toronto, has postponed its dates to October 1-11.
-The Sundance Institute has postponed its annual Sundance London and Sundance Hong King film festivals and “reimagine” the 58 live programs planned through August including its summer labs in Utah.
-The sixth Greenwich International Film Festival, set for April 29-May 3 has canceled all physical events, and the rebranded Virtual Greenwich International Film Festival now is set for May 1-3.
-The 24th American Black Film Festival, originally scheduled for June 17-21 in Miami, has been postponed to October 21-25.
-The California Film Institute’s DocLands Documentary Film Festival, scheduled for April 30-May 3, has been postponed.
-The Banff World Media Festival, the annual international TV event set to run June 14-17 in Alberta, Canada, has been canceled.
-The Provincetown International Film Festival, scheduled for June 17-21, is canceled.
-The 73rd Cannes Film Festival, set for May 12-23, has been postponed. Organizers said, “Several options are considered in order to preserve its running, the main one being a simple postponement, in Cannes, until the end of June-beginning of July, 2020.”
-The 2020 Nantucket Film Festival, set for June 23-29, has been postponed until later in the summer.
-The 46th Seattle International Film Festival, set for May 14-June 7, is canceled.
-The Edinburgh International Film Festival, the UK’s oldest festival, has postponed its 74th edition scheduled for June 17-28. It said it hopes it can stage some elements of the event at a later date.
-The Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity has been postponed from June 22-26 to October 26-30.
-The 2020 Sydney Film Festival, due to run June 3-14, is canceled.
-The 50th edition of the Glastonbury music festival, due to run June 24-28, is canceled.
-The 18th annual Golden State Film Festival will be online-only, and all of its physical events are canceled.
-The 21st annual Newport Beach Film Festival, set for April 23-30, has been postponed.
-The fifth annual Doc10 Film Festival, scheduled for April 16-19 in Chicago, has been postponed until summer.
-Miami Dade College’s Miami Film Festival ended its seventh edition prematurely March 12 after six days of operations.
-The DTLA Film Festival has postponed its 12th edition set for this year.
-BFI Flare: London LGBTIQ+ Film Festival, set to run March 18-29, has been canceled.
-The San Francisco International Film Festival, planned for April 8-21, has been canceled.
-The Garden State Film Festival, set for March 25-29 in Asbury Park, NJ, has been changed to online-only.
-The Sonoma International Film Festival, due to take place March 25-29 in Sonoma, CA, is canceled.
-The Canadian Film Fest, set for March 24-28, is canceled.
-The 22nd annual Ebertfest, set April 14-17 in Champaign, IL, is canceled.
-The ninth annual Sun Valley Film Festival, set for March 18-22 in Idaho, is canceled.
-The 19th annual Tribeca Film Festival, set for April 15-26 in Manhattan, is postponed.
-The 11th annual TCM Classic Film Festival, set for April 16-19 in Hollywood, is canceled but has set up a “Special Home Edition” for the same dates.
-The Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles, set for April 1-5, is postponed.
-The second annual French Riviera Film Festival has been rescheduled to June 8-9 in Santa Monica and Brentwood.
-The 20th annual Beverly Hills Film Festival, set to run April 1-5, is postponed until further notice.
-The annual Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival and sister event the Stagecoach Country Music Festival, both taking place in the desert of Indio, CA have been postponed. Coachella moved its dates from April 10-12 and April 17-19 to October 9-11 and October 16-18, and Stagecoach moved from April 24-26 to October 23-25
-The Prague International Film Festival has moved off its March 19-27 dates to an undetermined slot in 2020
-SXSW, the film, music and tech festival that runs March 13-22 in Austin, is canceled
-The Geena Davis-cofounded Bentonville Film Festival in Arkansas has moved its 2020 dates from April 29-May 2 to August 5-8
-Saudi Arabia’s inaugural Red Sea International Film Festival, originally set to run March 12-21 in Jeddah, is canceled. Organizers said the event will be rescheduled
-The 22nd annual Thessaloniki Documentary Festival planned for March 5-15 in Greece is postponed, with organizers eyeing dates in late May or early June
-In Switzerland, the International Film Festival and Forum on Human Rights, set for March 6-15 in Geneva, and Rencontres 7e Art Lausanne (Think Cinema Lausanne), set for March 4-8, were both canceled.
-The Ultra Music Festival in Miami is canceled due to concerns over the coronavirus. The 21-year-old electronic music festival was scheduled from March 20-22.

Part of SXSW's film lineup will be streamed for free by Amazon for 10 days sometime around late April. Critically, one only needs a free Amazon account to watch whichever films make it to Amazon.