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"Essential  Art  House  —  50  Years  of  Janus  Films"

Janus/Criterion b&w and color DVD box set [10/2006] 50 disks & book for $764.99 FIFTY FILMS including Eisenstein's "Alexander Nevsky" [Russia 1938]; Wajda's "Ashes and Diamonds" [Poland 1958]; Antonioni's "L'Avventura" [Italy 1960]; "Ballad of A Soldier" [Russia 1959]; Cocteau's "Beauty and The Beast" [France 1946]; "Black Orpheus" [Brasil 1959]; "Brief Encounter" [U.K. 1945]; "The Fallen Idol" [U.K. 1948]; Ichikawa's "Fires On The Plain" [Japan 1959]; Ozu's "Floating Weeds" [Japan 1959]; Clément's "Forbidden Games" [France 1952]; Truffaut's "The 400 Blows" [France 1959]; Renoir's "Grand Illusion" [1937]; "Häxan" [1922 silent]; Kurosawa's "Ikiru" [Japan 1952]; "The Importance of Being Earnest" [U.K. 1952]; Eisenstein's "Ivan The Terrible, Part II" [Russia 1958]; "Le Jour se Lève" [France 1939]; Truffaut's "Jules and Jim" [France 1962]; "Kind Hearts and Coronets" [U.K. 1949] starring Alec Guinness; Polanski's "Knife In The Water" [Poland 1962]; Hitchcock's "The Lady Vanishes" [U.K. 1938]; "The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp" [U.K. 1943]; Forman's "The Loves of A Blonde" [Czech 1965]; Fritz Lang's "M" [Germany 1931] starring Peter Lorre; Jacques Tati's "Mr. Hulot's Holiday" [France 1953]; "Miss Julie" [Sweden 1951]; Pabst's "Pandora's Box" [Germany 1929] starring Louise Brooks; "Pépé le Moko" [France 1937] starring Jean Gabin; Olmi's "Il Posto" [Italy 1961]; "Pygmalion" [U.K. 1938]; Kurosawa's "Rashomon" [Japan 1950]; Olivier's "Richard III" [U.K. 1955]; Renoir's "The Rules of The Game" [France 1939]; Kurosawa's "Seven Samurai" [Japan 1954]; Bergman's "The Seventh Seal" [Sweden 1957]; "The Spirit of The Bee-hive" [Spain 1973]; Fellini's "La Strada" [Italy 1954]; David Lean's "Summertime" [U.K. 1955] starring Katharine Hepburn & Rossano Brazzi; "The Third Man" [1949] starring Orson Welles; Hitchcock's "The 39 Steps" [U.K. 1935]; Mizoguchi's "Ugetsu" [Japan 1953]; De Sica's "Umberto D." Italy 1952]; Bergman's "The Virgin Spring" [Sweden 1960]; Buñuel's "Viridiana" [Spain 1961]; Clouzot's "The Wages of Fear" [France 1953]; Fellini's "The White Sheik" [Italy 1952]; Bergman's "Wild Strawberries" [Sweden 1957]; and 3 documentaries by Saul J. Turell

"Essential  Art  House  Films"
on DVD  from  Criterion

Volume 1: Criterion Collection DVD set [9/2008] 6 disks for $89.99 contains Cocteau's "Beauty and The Beast" [France 1946]; Renoir's "Grand Illusion" [1937]; Polanski's "Knife In The Water" [Poland 1962]; "Lord of The Flies" [1963] (not in 50-disk set above); Kurosawa's "Rashomon" [Japan 1950]; and Bergman's "Wild Straw-berries" [Sweden 1957] Volume 2: Criterion Collection DVD set DVD [2/2009] 6 disks for $89.99 contains "Black Orpheus" [Brasil 1959]; Truffaut's "The 400 Blows" [France 1959]; Kurosawa's "Ikiru" [Japan 1952]; Fellini's "La Strada" [Italy 1954]; "The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp" [U.K. 1943]; and "Pygmalion" [U.K. 1938] Volume 3: Criterion Collection DVD set [6/2009] 6 disks for $74.99 contains Wajda's "Ashes and Diamonds" [Poland 1958]; Clément's "Forbidden Games" [France 1952]; Kurosawa's "Hidden Fortress" [Japan 1958] (not in 50-disk set above); "Last Holiday" [1950] starring Alec Guiness (not in 50-disk set above); Olivier's "Richard III" [U.K. 1955]; and Fellini's "Variety Lights" [1950] (not in 50-disk set above) Volume 4: Criterion Collection DVD set [9/2009] 6 disks for $74.99 contains René Clément's "Gervaise" [France 1956] starring Maria Schell (not in 50-disk set above); Marcel Carné’s dark masterwork "Le Jour se Leve (Daybreak)" [France 1939] starring Jean Gabin; Anatole Litvak’s tragic romance "Mayerling" [France 1936], starring Charles Boyer & Danielle Darrieux (not in 50-disk set above); "The Tales of Hoffman" [U.K. 1951] in Technicolor, directed by Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, starring Moira Shearer; Hitchcock’s "The 39 Steps" [U.K. 1935] starring Robert Donat & Madeleine Carroll; Akira Kurosawa's "Throne of Blood (Kumonosu Jo)" [Japan 1957] starring Toshiro Mifune & Isuzu Yamada (not in 50-disk set above) Volume 5: Criterion Collection DVD set [4/2010] 6 disks for $66.23 contains "Brief Encounter" [U.K. 1945] directed by David Lean; "Floating Weeds" in Technicolor [Japan 1959] by Yasujiro Ozu; Gillo Pontecorvo's "Kapo" [1960] (not in 50-disk set above); François Truffaut's "Jules and Jim" [France 1962]; "Fellini's 8½" [Italy 1963] starring Marcello Mastroianni (not in 50-disk set above); and "Loves of A Blonde" [Czech 1965] by Milos Forman

"Official Rejection" [indep; festival circuit & DVD release 2009] 107-minute color documentary following a group of filmmakers who take their independent feature "Ten 'til Noon" [2006] along the film festival circuit – showing the politics, pitfalls, triumphs & comic tragedies they encounter & endure along the way, a report on the indie world and what happens when the shooting is over. (The two-disk version contains 2 hours of bonus features.) Co-produced, written & directed by and co-starring Paul Osborne; co-produced by and co-starring Scott Storm & Paul J. Alessi; co-starring Brian Osborne Shut Up & Shoot Pictures widescreen color DVD [11/2009] 2 disks for $19.99 Shut Up & Shoot Pictures widescreen color DVD [11/2009] for $16.99 full credits at IMDb • official movie site

"Junk" [indep 2012?] When their long-languishing independent film "Islama-Rama 2" is accepted by a film festival, two bitter ex-friends tentatively reconcile while dealing with pushy agents, brutish bodyguards, cutthroat colleagues, prima donna actors, and overly-eager festival volunteers, and try to locate a mysterious producer so that they can pitch their new Western concept. "A ridiculous comedy about friendship, love, and crappy movies." Co-written, directed by & starring Kevin Hamedani; co-written by & starring Ramon Isao DVD/Blu-ray not yet available (1/2013) • full credits at IMDb

	"Party In A Box: The Story of The Sundance Film Festival" [1999] by Lory Smith {a co-founder of the Sundance Festival} Kindle Edition from Gibbs Smith Publrs [1999 edition] for $8.79 Gibbs Smith Publrs 9¼x6¼ pb [10/99] out of print/many used
	"International Film Festival Guide" [3rd edition 2000] Edited by Shael Stolberg Hushion House 9x6 pb [2/2000] out of print/used
	"Sundance To Sarajevo: Film Festivals & The World They Made" [2002] by film critic Kenneth Turan Univ CA Press 9x6 pb [11/2003] for $12.44 Univ CA Press 9¼x6¼ hardcover [4/2002] for $35.00
	"Sundance: A Festival Virgin's Guide - Surviving Park City & Thriving At America's Most Important Film Festival" [2005] by Benjamin Craig Cinemagine Media Publng 8x5¾ pb [10/2005] for $17.13
	"Cannes: A Festival Virgin's Guide - Attending The Cannes Film Festival For Filmmakers & Film Industry Professionals" [5th edition 2006] by Benjamin Craig Cinemagine Media Publng 8¼x5¾ 5th edition pb [1/2006] for $18.94
	"Chris Gore's Ultimate Film Festival Survival Guide: The Essential Companion For Filmmakers & Festival-Goers" [orig 2000, rev 2009] iFilm/Lone Eagle 4th edition 9x6 pb [9/2009] for $16.46 iFilm/Lone Eagle 3rd edition 8¾x6 pb [9/2004] out of print/used iFilm/Lone Eagle 2nd edition 9x6pb [3/2001] out of print/used

Software & Apps

Discovered in late 2011: A company called Festival Genius has designed a two-part system for film festivals.
The background part is that they help festivals big & small organize & promote, and {optionally} build an interface
on their website; the foreground part is the PDA/phone apps that allow festival attendees to buy tickets and organize
their personal running around at the film festival in real time. Recent customers include Austin F/F 2012, Little Rock F/F 2012,
London Short F/F 2010, Slamdance F/F 2012, Sundance F/F 2011, and Traverse City F/F 2011.

download Festival Genius iPhone app 2.3 by Slated

Announced 9/2012 (for TIFF): The Hollywood Reporter now has a free 'THR Festivals App' for iPad & iPhone, available via iTunes

Online-only Film Festivals

My French Film Festival [Jan 2012 = #2] online {for fee}

BabelGum Online Film Festival [March 2010 = #3]

Open Field's Internet Cat Video Festival [Aug 2012 = #1] based in Minneapolis, MN

Film Festivals Around The World
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Moviemaker Magazine's annual list of the 'Top 50 Film Festivals Worth The Entry Fee', April 2014

Festivals Schedule from ReelMind.com
Film Festival Today Magazine
film festival list at Intl. Documentary Assn.
film festival listings on Yahoo! Directory
Film Festival Club

GoFilmFest Independent Film & Film Festival ezine

FilmFestReview blog [est. 9/2009] at WordPress

International Film Festival Summit [est. 2002] Austin, Texas [Dec 2012 = #9] Europe [April 2012 = #5]

Disposable Film Fest [est. 2007] multiple locations & dates

European Film Festivals Coordination

Freedom Film Festival [Feb 2004 = #7] in Los Angeles, CA & Berlin, Germany

HDfest: High-Definition Film Festival [est. 2000] multiple locations & dates

traveling Ion Intl. Short Films, Animation & Games Festival [Oct 2007 = #4]

Resfest Digital Film Festival [1996-2006]

Yorkshire Silent Film, Ltd. [est. 2015] in Leeds, U.K. - produces events year-round

Festival Internacional de Cine de Mexico) or FICCO [closed 2009] in Mexico City

United Film Festivals [est. 2006] multiple locations & dates United Film Festivals - Los Angeles, CA [April-May 2012 = #6] United Film Festivals - New York City [May 2012 = #6] United Film Festivals - London. U.K.[June 2012 = #4] United Film Festivals - San Francisco, CA [Sept 2012 = #4] United Film Festivals - Chicago, IL [Sept 2012 = #4] United Film Festivals - Tulsa, OK [Oct 2012 = #10]

Tropfest Short Film Festival [est. 1993] operates in multiple countries Tropfest Short Film Festival - New Zealand [Jan 2013 = #1] at New Plymouth Tropfest Short Film Festival - multiple cities in Australia [Feb 2013 = #21] Tropfest Short Film Festival - New York City [June 2012 = #1] Tropfest Short Film Festival - Las Vegas, Nevada [June 2012 = #1] Tropfest Short Film Festival - Israel [July 2013 = #1] Tropfest Short Film Festival - South East Asia [Sept 2013 = #1] in Penang, Malaysia Tropfest Short Film Festival - Arabia [Nov 2012 = #2]

Festival du Cinema de Paris [short films; January]

The American Pavilion [est. 1989] at the Cannes Festival

My French Film Festival [Jan 2012 = #2] online {for fee}
'Rendez-Vous With French Cinema' showcase [March 2012 = #17] in New York City

International Film Festival Rotterdam [Jan-Feb 2012 = #41] in The Netherlands
eleven-day Jameson Dublin International Film Festival [Feb 2011 = #9] in Dublin, Ireland
National University International Film Festival or FICUNAM [Feb 2011 = #1] in Mexico City
Mexico City International Film Festival or FICCMEXICO [Feb 2011 = #1] in Mexico City

biannual FESPACO Pan-African Film & Television Festival [est. 1969; March 2009 = #21]
NatFilm Festival, Denmark [March 2004 = #15]
One World Intl. Human Rights Documentary Film Festival [March 2013 = #15] in Prague, Czech Republic
Byron Bay Intl. Film Festival [March 2013 = #7] in New South Wales, Australia
10-day-long Byron Bay Film Festival [March 2012 = #6] on Australia's East Coast

Toronto Silent Film Festival [April 2018 = #10] in Canada
Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente [April 2012 = #14] in Buenos Aires, Argentina

Locarno [Switzerland] Intl. Film Festival [May 2009 = #62]

Sydney Film Festival [June 2009 = #56] in Sydney, Australia
Taormina Film Festival [June 2012 = #58] in Taormina, Italy
Tuscan Sun Festival / Tribeca Firenze Film Festival [June 2012 = #1] in Florence, Italy

Gay & Lesbian Humanist Assn. Film Festival [July 2005] in London, U.K.
Odessa International Film Festival [July 2012 = #3] - website in Cyrillic only

Copenhagen [Denmark] Intl. Film Festival [est. Aug 2003]
Forssa Silent Movie Festival [Aug 2018 = #18] in Finland
Odense [Denmark] Intl. Film Festival [Aug 2003 = #18]
Internationale Stummfilmtage / International Silent Film Festival [Aug 2018 = #34] in Bonn, Germany

Venezia [Italy] Intl. Film Festival [Aug-Sept 2003 = #60]
Toronto [Canada] Urban Film Festival [Sept 2011 = #5]
British Silent Film Festival [Sept 2017 = #18] in Leicester, UK
Copenhagen [Denmark] Intl. Children's Film Festival [Sept-Oct 2003 = #4]

Mumbai Film Festival [Oct 2011 = #13] in India
B.F.I. London Film Festival [Oct 2010 = #54]
Mostra Internacional de Cinema / Sao Paulo International Film Festival [Oct 2012 = #36] in Brasil

  Whistler Film Festival [Nov 2011 = #11] in British Columbia, Canada
Baja International Film Festival [Nov 2012 = #1] in Los Cabos, Mexico
International Rome Film Festival [Nov 2012 = #7] in Rome, Italy
Festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine Latinamericano [Dec 2009 = #31] in Havana, Cuba
Puerto Vallarta Film Festival [Dec 2009 = #6] in Mexico

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