Seattle Film Festival Archives - The Playlist https://theplaylist.net/tag/seattle-film-festival/ Mon, 09 Nov 2020 08:01:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.4 https://cdn.theplaylist.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/14214807/cropped-cropped-media-47-1-32x32.png Seattle Film Festival Archives - The Playlist https://theplaylist.net/tag/seattle-film-festival/ 32 32 Mike Leigh’s Next Will Star Jim Broadbent and Imelda Staunton, Seattle Film Fest Announces Line-Up, Tribeca Announces Winners; More… https://staging2.theplaylist.net/mike-leighs-next-will-star-ji-20090503/ https://staging2.theplaylist.net/mike-leighs-next-will-star-ji-20090503/#respond Sun, 03 May 2009 14:33:00 +0000 http://theplaylist.wpengine.com/?p=7648 Mike Leigh’s follow up to critical darling “Happy-Go-Lucky” is being co-produced by Focus Features International and added the film to its Cannes slate (Meaning Focus will try and sell the project there, it won’t be shown at Cannes to the public). While details on the film are sketchy, other than the cast, Jim Broadbent, Imelda Staunton and Phil Davis, it is reportedly set to feature Leigh’s “unique improvisational techniques in his construction of intimate portraits of people’s lives” (gee, big shocker there).

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]]> https://staging2.theplaylist.net/mike-leighs-next-will-star-ji-20090503/feed/ 0 Coppola’s ‘Tetro’ Will Play At Cannes… Sidebar, As The Directors’ Fortnight Opener https://staging2.theplaylist.net/coppolas-tetro-will-play-at-cannes-20090424/ https://staging2.theplaylist.net/coppolas-tetro-will-play-at-cannes-20090424/#respond Fri, 24 Apr 2009 14:08:00 +0000 http://theplaylist.wpengine.com/?p=7738 So Francis Ford Coppola’s upcoming film, “Tetro” was invited to play the Cannes Film Festival out of competition and, seemingly disappointed, the filmmaker decided to pass and take the film to the much-less prestigious (no offense) Seattle Film Festival instead, right?

“While I very much appreciate the invitation, this is an independent film, self-financed and self released, and I felt that being invited for a non-competition gala screening wasn’t true to the personal and independent nature of this film,” he wrote in a statement at the time.

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