10/06/2021 - The 25th International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival is currently unspooling in the Catalonian capital and on Filmin, vigorously and proudly brandishing the torch of tolerance
10/06/2021 - The 25th International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival is currently unspooling in the Catalonian capital and on Filmin, vigorously and proudly brandishing the torch of tolerance
To Remember, To Listen will see Marisa Garreffa sit alone in the Sala Lungarno of The British Institute of Florence based in Palazzo Lanfredini, Lungarno Guicciardini, 9, patiently sewing together hundreds of pieces of paper and slowly creating a flowing sculptural form. It is a river of stories, and as she works, she listens to voices telling these and other stories. The tales told are of Florence during the pandemic, a year which has hurt us in so many ways, which has kept us apart, alone and sometimes despairing. Although we cannot touch, we can still share our thoughts and our dreams, our sadness and our moments of joy, our hopes and the dark comedy of life under lockdown. By sharing our emotions and experiences, and by listening to the stories of others, we can start to heal, as ourselves and for our communities in the beautiful though battered city to which we all connect and belong. The performance will take place from 2-9pm each day from May 17-23, livestreamed on The Br
Ronnie’s, a look at musician Ronnie Scott and his world-renowned jazz club.
The shortlist for the Jane Mercer Researcher of the Year and restoration & preservation categories will be announced in the coming weeks.
Due to the ongoing pandemic the awards will be screened virtually June 24 at 19:00 (BST, or 2 p.m. ET), hosted by comedian, presenter and comedy writer, Jo Caulfield.
The nominees in the production categories, with credits supplied by FOCAL International, are as follows:
Best Use of Footage in an Arts & Entertainment Production:
Disclosure - Disclosure Film in association with Field of Vision and Bow & Arrow Entertainment for Netflix
Sometimes the cinema images that most stick in our heads are not from the films themselves.
One of the most enduring photos from the early French New Wave is of Jean Seberg, mouth open in a toothy laugh, walking down the Champs-Elysées alongside a gangling, fedora’d Jean-Paul Belmondo. This became the much-loved poster image from Jean-Luc Godard’s À bout de souffle (Breathless, 1960), but it is not from the film, or even a still: it was shot between takes by Raymond Cauchetier, the man who belatedly became famous as the defining photographer of the nouvelle vague.
Cauchetier, who has died of Covid-19 at the age of 101, worked on the shoots of many key films of the early New Wave period, including Truffaut’s Jules et Jim (1962) and La peau douce (1964), Agnès Varda’s Cléo de 5 à 7 (1962), Jacques Demy’s Lola (1961) and Jacques Rozier’s superb but overlooked Adieu Philippine (1962).