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Indie Cinema Magazine – Issue 1
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No-One by Lev and Vladimir Prudkin triumphs in Vienna
On 10 of July the Vienna Independent Film Festival hosted the Austrian premiere of the film NO-ONE in the cinema Actors Studio. The film received the awards in the categories Best Feature Film and Best Cinematography. No-One is an unexpected take on the familiar Soviet period theme. It is a joint production of Ukraine and
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mother! – Review
Bad Mother Darren Aranofsky has shown his talent of an imitator of auteur cinema in his new film mother!. The spectator was a victim of butchered cinematography – mostly badly composed of close-ups and shaky-cam. But if some auteur filmmakers have limited cinematographic possibilities due to a lack of funds, in the case of Darren
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Million Loves in Me – VIFF 2017
Million Loves in Me gets Grand Prix at the 2017 Vienna Independent Film Festival. Million Loves in Me by director Sampson Yuen won the Grand Prix at the VIFF 2017. The film is based on real events and tells the story of a mother and daughter, their complex relationship and how they kept dozens of
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Bodyguard (2016) – VIFF 2017
Bodyguard (2016) by Ebrahim Hatamikia is a masterful dramatic thriller. Bodyguard by the famous Iranian director Ebrahim Hatamikia received three awards at the Vienna Independent Film Festival 2017. With this film Hatamikia managed to create a true masterpiece of cinematography. It tells the story of a bodyguard, and although there were films on this topic before,
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Elle Review
Paul Verhoeven, favorite director of many film fans has finally broken his ten year cinematic hiatus with the new film Elle. The motion picture was shot in France with a French crew and actors. Paul Verhoeven is a Dutch filmmaker, who started to make films in the Netherlands (Turkish Delight, Katie Tippel, Soldier of Orange)
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VIFF 2016 Vienna Independent Film Festival
Vienna Independent Film Festival which was held for the first time in Vienna 4 -7 July 2016 announced the winners on 7 of July. “We’re excited to be hosting so many wonderful films,” said Film Festival Director Elena Ringo. “There were guests from different parts of the world and great films to watch”. The festival
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God of Happiness – VIFF 2016
The new German film God of Happiness was shown on the 4th of July as the opening film of the VIFF Vienna Independent Film Festival and won two top awards – Best Director award for Dito Tsintsadze and Ralf M. Mendle received the award for Best Cinematography. It is a tragi-comedy set in modern Germany
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Knight of Cups Review
The film “Knight of Cups” is a big disappointment for cinema lovers. Even fans of the famous arthouse director Terrence Malick were not satisfied with his new production. It is obvious that Malick wanted to create a film à la Dolce Vita about the meaningless life of the artistic elite. However given that Fellini’s film
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Nature of Life in Cinema
“Ex Machina” is a science fiction film which tells a story of a young programmer, Caleb who is invited by his employer, Nathan, to administer the Turing test to a female robot, Ava who has Artificial Intelligence. The film investigates the subject of creation of a woman which has a long history in both literature
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Youth (2015) Review
The film “Youth” (La giovinezza) by the Italian director Paolo Sorrentino is a reflection of the deep crisis in Italian cinema. After the golden age of Italian cinema in the 1960s the crisis started and became inescapable. Director Sorrentino tells the story of two close friends vacationing in a sanatorium in the Swiss Alps. One
