“Fury,” “Wild,” “Get on Up” among Polish Camerimage lineupOctober 29, 2014 - 18:09 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - David Ayer's World War II drama Fury starring Brad Pitt; Jean-Marc Vallee's Wild with Reese Witherspoon and Tate Taylor's biopic Get on Up starring Chadwick Boseman as the late soul legend James Brown are among the titles competing at this year's Camerimage film festival in Bydgoszcz, Poland, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Other major names represented at the 22nd Camerimage include Stephen Daldry with his Brazilian-set Trash; Zhang Yimou with the Chinese drama Coming Home, and Hany Abu-Assad with his Oscar-nominated, Palestinian-set feature Omar. The festival, which honors the art of cinematography, will also include several favorites from this year's Cannes, among them Andrey Zvyagintsev’s Leviathan; Xavier Dolan’s Mommy and Mr. Turner from Mike Leigh. Other highlights include Lech J. Majewski’s Field of Dogs, Richard Raymond’s Desert Dancer, Krzysztof Zanussi’s Foreign Body, Peter Brunner’s My Blind Heart and Gods from director Lukasz Palkowski. Alejandro G Inarritu’s Birdman and The Imitation Game from director Morten Tyldum will open the 22nd Camerimage event on Nov. 15. Top stories The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. The festival made the news public on March 19, saying that “several options are considered in order to preserve its running” Partner news | Kazakhstan welcomes Yerevan, Baku’s agreement to meet in Almaty Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has welcomed the agreement of Baku and Yerevan to hold negotiations in Almaty. Armenia offers to temporarily host, preserve Gaza manuscripts The Armenian Foreign Minister has said Yerevan is ready to help preserve manuscripts from the conflict zone in Gaza. Aliyev says no need for mediators in Armenia-Azerbaijan process Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev believes that Baku and Yerevan do not mediators in the process of normalizing relations. Aram I supports Karekin II’s “patriotic position” Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia Aram I has expressed support for the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin. |