Attention SFFF Oscar® Party Ticketholders! Complete your Oscar® Ballot and Submit to be eligible to win prizes* Download and Print the Official 2012 Santa Fe Film Festival ACADEMY AWARDS® BALLOT Prizes include: Gift Certificates for O Eating House, Cowgirl BBQ, La Boca and other great local eateries! and a framed Poster from The Artist Complete the ballot with your winning [...]
The Santa Fe Film Festival invites you to celebrate 2011 SFFF titles, The Artist, A Separation and Monsieur Lazhar and the films of 2011 at our Academy Awards® Screening Party! Sunday, February 26, 2012 4:30 – 9:30 PM at RIO CHAMA 414 Old Santa Fe Trail Please join the Santa Fe Film Festival for an exciting night [...]
2011 Santa Fe Film Festival titles The Artist, A Separation, and Monsieur Lazhar, are Oscar bound – time to celebrate! On the heels of winning three Golden Globes this year – the 2011 Santa Fe Film Festival’s sold-out opening night film, The Artist, received 10 Academy Award nominations last week including noms in the Best Director (Michel Hazanavicius), Best Actor (Jean [...]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE FOR FURTHER INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT: Suzy Tonra 505.983.2366 press@santafefilmfestival.com OSCAR GOLD POSSIBLE FOR SANTA FE FILM FESTIVAL’S 2011 SOLD-OUT OPENING NIGHT FILM THE ARTIST The Artist is nominated for 10 Oscars and numerous other awards and the Festival plans Academy Awards Screening Party at Rio Chama to celebrate. February [...]
FILM OPENS FRIDAY, DECEMBER 9th FROM STRAND RELEASING The Women on the 6th Floor Opening Friday 12/9 at: UA Devargas Center 6 562 N. Guadalupe 505-988-1110 Trailer – http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/independent/thewomenonthe6thfloor/ Paris, 1960. Jean-Louis (Fabrice Luchini, Potiche) lives a bourgeois existence absorbed in his work, cohabitating peacefully with his neurotic socialite wife Suzanne (Sandrine Kiberlain, Mademoiselle Chambon) while their children [...]
The signs have come down, the films are shipped back and the intense rush from screen to party to screen has stopped as the 12th Annual Santa Fe Film Festival has come to a close. But not for the bloggers. This year, 4 bloggers and myself prepared you for movie-watching and the joys of Santa [...]
Here’s a question: Why should you watch an art film? Keep that thought in rotation. Now let’s back up. Everyone has walked out of a movie at least once (more than once if you’re unlucky) and thought: “That gave me nothing.” There’s only so much analysis that one can do in this situation. Questions you [...]
At the risk of making light of isolation and depression, the audience of director Terence Davies’ “A Deep Blue Sea” may need a pocket guide and a second viewing to gain perspective on the film. A portfolio of symbolism to look for, themes to explore and questions to ask along the way could make for [...]
“Monsieur Lazhar,” Canada’s official entry for the 2011 Best Foreign Film Oscar, concerns an Algerian immigrant that finds work in Montreal standing in for an elementary school teacher who recently committed suicide. It sounds straightforward enough, but nothing is as it appears on the surface–and yet the story does not play out like a mystery [...]
“Sleeping Beauty,” which played in a discreet 9:30 slot on Saturday night at the 12th Annual Santa Fe Film Festival, has already gained a reputation for being erotic, insipid, brave, disappointing, groundbreaking, regressive and a host of other contradictions. It’s no wonder. A young woman consents to being drugged for the purpose of complete submission [...]
