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Top 10 Outdoor Cinemas in Europe

Spotted By Locals has posted an interesting article highlighting the best outdoor cinemas in . With their permission we post the following list of the best 10 (in alphabetical order):

1. Athens – Outdoor cinema Zefyros (by Lambros Papadopoulos)
“Its location is a serious advantage. is one of the most beautiful areas of …”

2. Barcelona -Sala Montjuic open air cinema (by Yolanda Molinero)
“Time to open the wine bottle! You didn’t bring any food with you? No worries!”

3. Geneva – Ciné Transat Parc la Perle du Lac (by Lorcan Meyfarth)
“The scenery is beautiful, the movie is free, and deckchairs are available to borrow… ”

4. Hamburg – Freiluftkino in 4 different venues (by Valeska Bolze)
“…have fun to hear the funny German voices in one of your favourite movies…”

5. Helsinki outdoor movies at Helsinki Festival (by Nea Barman)
“This free open-air cinema is best that the city can offer in my opinion…”

6. Munich Open Air Kino (by Emily Rasch)
“It’s a great place to take a date – or a romantic place to be surprised with one…”

7. Paris – Cinéma au Clair de Lune outside cinema (by Fred Moussaïan)
“…. even if you don’t understand the language, it is worth going there, for the friendly and laid-back atmosphere…”

8. Zagreb – Summer Festival open air cinema (by Karla Lončar)
“It’s pretty secluded, which usually makes it very special among younger couples or people…”

9. Zurich – Orange Cinema (by Roman Rey)
” …you sit on the shore, watching a popcorn flick and have the whole beautiful view of the lake surrounding the screen. Isn’t that something?”


Pluk de Nacht

10. And one of Holland’s favorite outdoor cinema festivals – currently on in , is Pluk de nacht.

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Cannes Film Festival Official Selection 2010

Cannes 2010 is just around the corner (will happen from 12-23 May), and we are really excited about the the films that will be screened as a part of the official selection. We have seen some really great art-house outdoor movie screenings, and this list will certainly add to the stockhold of amazing films to screen as outdoor movies in 2010. One film that doesn’t qualify as art-house, but is certainly a film that we are excited about for outdoor-movie-potential is Robin Hood by Ridley Scott. With this new film, “Robin Hood” is sure to become a new genre of film all on it’s own, as it adds to the canon of past Robin Hood flicks! The official trailer is below:

Here is the official selection, with links to the official pages on the site:

Feature films in Competition

-ANOTHER YEAR directed by Mike LEIGH
-BIUTIFUL directed by Alejandro GONZÁLEZ IÑÁRRITU
-COPIE CONFORME (CERTIFIED COPY) directed by Abbas KIAROSTAMI
-DES HOMMES ET DES DIEUX (OF GODS AND MEN) directed by Xavier BEAUVOIS
-FAIR GAME directed by Doug LIMAN
-HORS LA LOI (OUTSIDE OF THE LAW) directed by Rachid BOUCHAREB
-LA NOSTRA VITA (OUR LIFE) directed by Daniele LUCHETTI
-LA PRINCESSE DE MONTPENSIER (THE PRINCESS OF MONTPENSIER) directed by Bertrand TAVERNIER
-LUNG BOONMEE RALUEK CHAT (Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives) directed by Apichatpong WEERASETHAKUL
-OUTRAGE directed by Takeshi KITANO
-POETRY directed by LEE Chang-dong
-RIZHAO CHONGQING (CHONGQING BLUES) directed by WANG Xiaoshuai
-SCHASTYE MOE (MY JOY) directed by Sergei LOZNITSA
-SZELÍD TEREMTÉS – A FRANKENSTEIN TERV (TENDER SON – The Frankenstein Project) directed by Kornél MUNDRUCZÓ
-THE HOUSEMAID directed by IM Sangsoo
-TOURNÉE (ON TOUR) directed by Mathieu AMALRIC
-UN HOMME QUI CRIE (A screaming man) directed by Mahamat-Saleh HAROUN
-UTOMLYONNYE SOLNTSEM 2: PREDSTOYANIE (THE EXODUS – Burnt by the sun 2) directed by Nikita MIKHALKOV

Un Certain Regard

-AURORA (AURORA) directed by Cristi PUIU
-BLUE VALENTINE (BLUE VALENTINE) directed by Derek CIANFRANCE
-CARANCHO (CARANCHO) directed by Pablo TRAPERO
-CHATROOM directed by Hideo NAKATA
-FILM SOCIALISME directed by Jean-Luc GODARD
-HAHAHA (HAHAHA) directed by HONG Sangsoo
-HAI SHANG CHUAN QI (I WISH I KNEW) directed by JIA Zhangke
-LES AMOURS IMAGINAIRES (HEARTBEATS) directed by Xavier DOLAN
-LIFE, ABOVE ALL (LIFE, ABOVE ALL) directed by Oliver SCHMITZ
-LOS LABIOS (THE LIPS) directed by SANTIAGO LOZA, Ivan FUND
-MARTI, DUPA CRACIUN (TUESDAY, AFTER CHRISTMAS) directed by Radu MUNTEAN
-O ESTRANHO CASO DE ANGÉLICA (THE STRANGE CASE OF ANGELICA) directed by Manoel DE OLIVEIRA
-OCTUBRE (OCTOBER) directed by Diego VEGA, Daniel VEGA
-PÁL ADRIENN (ADRIENN PÁL) directed by Ágnes KOCSIS
-R U THERE (R U THERE) directed by David VERBEEK
-REBECCA H. ( RETURN TO THE DOGS) directed by Lodge KERRIGAN
-SIMON WERNER A DISPARU… (LIGHTS OUT) directed by Fabrice GOBERT
-UDAAN directed by Vikramaditya MOTWANE
-UNTER DIR DIE STADT (THE CITY BELOW) directed by Christoph HOCHHÄUSLER

Out of Competition

-AUTOBIOGRAFIA LUI NICOLAE CEAUSESCU (The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu) directed by Andrei UJICA
-CARLOS (CARLOS) directed by Olivier ASSAYAS
-KABOOM directed by Gregg ARAKI
-L’AUTRE MONDE (BLACK HEAVEN) directed by Gilles MARCHAND
-ROBIN HOOD directed by Ridley SCOTT
-TAMARA DREWE directed by Stephen FREARS
-THE TREE directed by Julie BERTUCCELLI
-WALL STREET: MONEY NEVER SLEEPS directed by Oliver STONE
-YOU WILL MEET A TALL DARK STRANGER directed by Woody ALLEN

Special screenings

-5 X FAVELA, POR NOS MESMOS (5 X FAVELA) directed by Wagner NOVAIS, Manaira CARNEIRO, Rodrigo FELHA, Cacau AMARAL, Luciano VIDIGAL, Cadu BARCELOS, Luciana BEZERRA
-ABEL directed by Diego LUNA
-CHANTRAPAS directed by Otar IOSSELIANI
-COUNTDOWN TO ZERO directed by Lucy WALKER
-DRAQUILA – L’ITALIA CHE TREMA (DRAQUILA – ITALY TREMBLES) directed by Sabina GUZZANTI
-GILLES JACOB, L’ ARPENTEUR DE LA CROISETTE (CITIZEN CANNES) directed by Serge LE PERON
-INSIDE JOB directed by Charles FERGUSON
-NOSTALGIA DE LA LUZ (NOSTALGIA FOR THE LIGHT) directed by Patricio GUZMAN
-OVER YOUR CITIES GRASS WILL GROW directed by Sophie FIENNES

Cinefondation

-COOKED directed by Jens BLANK
-COUCOU-LES-NUAGES (Anywhere out of the world) directed by Vincent CARDONA
-DAKUJEM, DOBRE (Thanks, Fine) directed by Mátyás PRIKLER
-EL JUEGO (THE GAME) directed by Benjamin NAISHTAT
-FROZEN LAND directed by KIM Tae-yong
-HINKERORT ZORASUNE (THE FIFTH COLUMN) directed by Vatche BOULGHOURJIAN
-IJSLAND (ICELAND) directed by Gilles COULIER
-ITT VAGYOK (HERE I AM) directed by Bálint SZIMLER
-JA VEC JESAM SVE ONO ŠTO ŽELIM DA IMAM (I ALREADY AM EVERYTHING I WANT TO HAVE) directed by Dane KOMLJEN
-LOS MINUTOS, LAS HORAS (THE MINUTES, THE HOURS) directed by Janaína MARQUES RIBEIRO
-MIRAMARE directed by Michaela MÜLLER
-SHELLEY directed by Andrew WESMAN
-TAULUKAUPPIAAT (THE PAINTING SELLERS) directed by Juho KUOSMANEN

Short films in Competition

-BLOKES (BLOCKS) directed by Marialy RIVAS
-CHIENNE D’HISTOIRE (BARKING ISLAND) directed by Serge AVÉDIKIAN
-ESTAÇÃO (STATION) directed by Marcia FARIA
-EZRA RISHONA (FIRST AID) directed by Yarden KARMIN
-MAYA directed by Pedro Pío MARTÍN PÉREZ
-MICKY BADER (BATHING MICKY) directed by Frida KEMPFF
-MUSCLES (MUSCLES) directed by Edward HOUSDEN
-ROSA (ROSA) directed by Monica LAIRANA
-TO SWALLOW A TOAD (TO SWALLOW A TOAD) directed by Jurgis KRASONS

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Cannes, France: Indie Filmmaker Stages a Guerrilla Cinema Screening With an Inflatable Screen at the Cannes Film Festival

Photo Credit: freedomtofascism.com

Photo Credit: freedomtofascism.com

Aaron Russo, the producer of films like “Trading Places” and “The Rose,” promotes his new film, “America: From Freedom to Fascism,” which opened Friday, as having had its international premiere before a packed audience “during the Film Festival.”

The film was not on the program at Cannes, however, not even for screenings made under the festival’s aegis without being in the awards competition. Mr. Russo, the film’s director, writer and producer, just set up an inflatable screen on a beach. Photographs posted at one of Mr. Russo’s Web sites depict an audience of around 50 people spread out on a platform on the sand. The guerrilla cinema screening did get Russo’s film screened in Cannes, though not officially in the film festival. Nonetheless, the outdoor movie successfully gained the desired attention.

At free showings and outdoor film screenings, the film has drawn long lines of people eager to watch a documentary that feeds on the estrangement many Americans feel from their government, especially those who believe they played by the rules and yet see their finances strained or broken. Many of the reviews in major newspapers have accepted as having some factual basis the film’s main contention, that the government illegally extracts income taxes, even though every court that has ever ruled on these issues has upheld the constitutionality of the income tax.

The film’s appeal, Mr. Russo said during a phone interview last week, is not left or right, but concentrated among those who see the United States evolving into a police state ruled by an oligarchy that has tricked Americans into paying taxes.

Not mentioned in the film is that Mr. Russo has more than $2 million of tax liens filed against him by the Internal Revenue Service, California and New York for unpaid federal and state taxes. Mr. Russo declined to discuss the liens, saying they were not relevant to his film.

Excerpt from “Facts Refute Filmmaker’s Assertions on Income Tax in ‘America’” by David Cay Johnston -New York Times.

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