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Venice Film Festival 2011
Video Details
Mark Cosgrove - Watershed's Head of Programme - discusses his reasons for attending the Venice Film Festival, where he forms part of the Europa Cinemas Jury.
31 Aug - 10 Sep 2011
| Duration: | 3mins 28secs |
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The Venice Film Festival was founded in 1932 and is the oldest film festival in the world. The festival takes place every year in late August/ early September on the Island of Lido, Venice. The festival is world-renowned and is part of the La Biennale di Venezia, the prestigious biennial festival and exhibition for contemporary art.
In this video Watershed's Head of Programme, Mark Cosgrove, discusses his reasons for attending the festival, where he will form part of the Europa Cinemas jury.
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Venice Film Festival 2011
msc45 Heading off to do jury duty at the Venice Film Festival next week - very excited n will tweet #shedvff
msc45 My acc is on island - formerly a mental asylum- no direct boats to Lido til tomorrow. Still, got plenty to do #shedvff
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RT @wshed: Head of Programme @msc45 is in Venice on the @EuropaCinemas jury. @DShed interview here t.co/
msc45 Finished international Progs for enc film Fest lots of brilliant filmmaking around. Now, If only my Ethernet connection worked #shedvff
msc45 George Clooney about to appear, more importantly my accreditation has been sent elsewhere - and so it goes ! #shedvff
msc45 Hoping to see Shlomi Elkabetz's Testimony and Lou Ye's Love and Bruises later - if I can get in #shedvff
msc45 Ides of March a coming of experience political drama served well by great actors but takes while to get in gear #shedvff
msc45 Victor kassakovsky's Vivan las Antipodas makes an interesting companion to Malick's birth of life #shedvff
msc45 Madonna wearing black, Lourdes wears the colours, the Italians are feinting - crowds stopping me from my film #shedvff
msc45 Getting head round it all ! 2 films back to back now then watershed /encounters work and look at new watershed.co.uk #shedvff
msc45 Stockholm East is moving film about effect of grief on four people, very well written, directed, acted #shedvff
msc45 Polanski's Carnage is brilliant scathing satire, he sure tears away at surface of middle class politeness, Bunuel would smile. #shedvff
msc45 Unbelievable writing and performances from four leads with jaw dropingly funny moment with Winslett #shedvff
MaddyProbst RT @msc45: Polanski's Carnage is brilliant scathing satire, he sure tears away at surface of middle class politeness, Bunuel would smile. #shedvff
Gurroo #shedvff tweets from @msc45 make me wish I was back in Venice. Compensating with a @BBCRadio4 The Film Programme podcastathon
msc45 Madonna film better than I expected ! Needs 20mins taken out and some plot restructuring but apart .......#shedvff
msc45 Warriors of Rainbow, head chopping Taiwanese Last of Mohicans. PS I'd v low expectations for the Madonna film, only way was up baby #shedvff
msc45 Surprised by the venom of some critics towards the Madonna film - has she got above her station ? (again!) #shedvff
msc45 Packed morning screening for Cronenberg Freud/Jung film - a gentle start to the day then ! #shedvff
msc45 A Dangerous Method is mild by Cronenberg's visual standards but rich in ideas given subject matter #shedvff
msc45 An appropriate balance of restraint (Fassbender) and hysteria (Knightley) with subtle grandness (Morteson) #shedvff
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Italian director Nanni Moretti poses for fans #shedvff t.co/
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Oh the the red carpet, the stars, the frocks - the glamour of it all is almost too much......#shedvff t.co/
msc45 From Freud to bleak reality of prostitution via terminally ill lawyers' fight for justice-think I'll need some analysis (or beer!) #shedvff
msc45 Word on Lido is excellent for McQueen's Shame. Jury duty meant I will see it tomorrow. Now for Yorgos Lanthimos'2nd Alps #shedvff
msc45 Alps gets the "Ye gods - what just happened there?! " award. Perplexing and disturbing #shedvff
msc45 Bumped into Danny from UK distrib Optimum- they have the Polanski which is great news, also tinker, tailor tyrannosaur #shedvff
msc45 Watched Palestinian film Habibi late last pm and Polish film Ki this am for jury now McQueen's Shame #shedvff
msc45 Halfway through jury films and most will work very well in their own countries but ? is can they travel ? #shedvff
msc45 Shame is thought provoking cinema - expect many column inches on the modern male psyche #shedvff
msc45 Ann Hui's A Simple Life is a tender joy looking old age in the eye. A standing ovation and 15min applause well deserved #shedvff
msc45 Over halfway n VFF impresses with strong mix of auteur, expirmental, 1st features, euro and world cinema #shedvff
msc45 Luca from Europa cinema just recommended Pippo Delbone's Amore Carne and Angelina Nikonova's Twilight Portrait later in week #shedvff
msc45 Word is Andrea Arnold's film is tough stuff. Now listening to big band swing version of Smoke on the Water - those crazy Italians #shedvff
MaddyProbst #shedvff no blood hungry vampire in Alfredson's pitch perfect Tinker Tailor but the murky world of MI6 eats itself - opens fri @Wshed
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This is what happens on the red carpet-the cast of Tinker Tailor meeting the world's press #shedvff t.co/
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This is not an art installation #shedvff t.co/
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Maybe the Film Policy Review people will listen to Colin Firth ?! t.co/
MaddyProbst #shedvff "I just wanted to make a movie without rape, paedophilia or masturbation" Solondz's Dark Horse is dark but made me laugh out loud
msc45 Vincent Garenq's Guilty from memoir of miscarriage of French justice-real life terrifying Kafka nightmare. 3 jury films left #shedvff
wshed Hey @msc45, have you see Wuthering Heights yet? (Mark's in Venice and reporting back from the Festival - follow the latest using #shedvff!)
msc45 Waiting in Q for Sokurov's Faust having seen excellent jury film Another Silence by Santiago Amigorene #shedvff
MaddyProbst #shedvff I usually have an innate aversion to costume dramas but lovedAndrea Arnold's earthy, grimey take on Wuthering Heights, warts n all.
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A relaxed looking Rutger Hauer shoots the breeze after his screening #shedvff t.co/
msc45 Last two jury films then deliberations but first Abel Ferrara's critically split latest then late eve for Sokurov's Faust #shedvff
msc45 Didn't get into Faust last night-went for friturro de pesce mixto instead and a couple of ice cold prosecco to dull disappointment #shedvff
msc45 Lou Ye's Love and Bruises is an equally uncomfortable companion piece to Shame. Ferrara's is damn genius #shedvff
msc45 Final film Last Winter, a modern day stripped back Thomas Hardy tale - v dark, v elemental. Now jury deliberations #shedvff
msc45 Thought we were for a euro stand off but consensus reached. Can't say til pr guru @chuckmcduck let's fly tomorrow #shedvff
msc45 My tip for Golden Lion-a robust argument between Shame and A Simple Life with ASL's warmth, compassion and optimism winning out. #shedvff
msc45 Although haven't seen Wuthering Heights and finally about to see Sokurov's Faust - view might change after next 2hrs #shedvff
msc45 Faustian pact is rendered in muted colours and sounds in Sokurov's brilliant new film - he even has his own take on zombies! #shedvff
msc45 Word is out n I can say Vincent Garenq's real life Kafka nightmare Presume Coupable has won the Europa label #shedvff
msc45 9 very strong films from the Venice Days strand. Will try to get some to @wshed. Award ceremony tonight #shedvff
msc45 Final Venice thoughts - high points; excellent film selection. Low points; the damn mosquito who ate my legs #shedvff
EuropaCinemas RT @msc45: 9 very strong films from the Venice Days strand. Will try to get some to @wshed. Award ceremony tonight #shedvff
msc45 Golden Lion to Sokurov's Faust, actor/tress goes rightly to Fassbender for Shame and the brilliant Deanie Yip for A Simple life #shedvff
msc45 And good Wuthering Heights' Robbie Ryan wins for cinematography- as predicted by @chuckmcduck - look forward to seeing it in Nov #shedvff
