Happy Birthday: Kate Winslet

October 5, 2016 festreviews Uncategorized actor, Happy Birthday, Kate Winslet

Kate Winslet

Born: October 5, 1975 in Reading, Berkshire, England, UK

Married to: Ned Rocknroll (5 December 2012 – present) (1 child)
Sam Mendes (24 May 2003 – 3 October 2010) (divorced) (1 child)
Jim Threapleton (22 November 1998 – 13 December 2001) (divorced) (1 child)

After Titanic (1997), it would have been completely foolish for me to go and try and top that. I’m an English girl, I’ve always loved England, I’ve never felt the desire to leave it for any particular reason. And whilst I’m ambitious and care very much about what I do, I’m not competitive. I also don’t want to act every day of my life. … So it was important to me after Titanic (1997) to just remind myself of why it was that I was acting in the first place, which is of course because I love it.

Titanic
1997
dir. by James Cameron
Also Starring
Billy Zane
Leonardo DiCaprio

QUILLS
2000
dir. Philip Kaufman
Cast:
Geoffrey Rush
Kate Winslet

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2004
dir. by Michel Gondry
Also Starring
Jim Carrey
Tom Wilkinson

LITTLE CHILDREN
2005
dir. Todd Field
Cast
Kate Winslet
Jennifer Connelly

Finding Neverland
2004
dir. by Marc Forster
Also Starring
Johnny Depp

Romance and Cigarettes
2005
dir. John Turturro
Cast
James Gandolfini
Susan Sarandon

The Reader
dir. Stephen Daldry
Also Starring
Ralph Fiennes

Revolutionary Road
dir. Sam Mendes
Also Starring
Leonardo DiCaprio

CONTAGION
dir. Steven Soderbergh
Stars:
Matt Damon
Kate Winslet

CARNAGE
dir. Roman Polanski
Stars:
Jodie Foster
Kate Winslet

ALL THE KING’S MEN
2006
dir. Steve Zallian
Stars:
Sean Penn
Jude Law

MOVIE 43
2013
Stars:
Emma Stone
Stephen Merchant
Richard Gere
Liev Schreiber

FLUSHED AWAY
2006
dir. David Bowers
Sam Fell
Stars:
Hugh Jackman
Kate Winslet

DIVERGENT
2014
dir. Neil Burger
Stars:
Shailene Woodley
Theo James

LITTLE CHILDREN
2006
dir. Todd Field
Stars:
Kate Winslet
Patrick Wilson

THE HOLIDAY
2006
dir. Nancy Meyers
Stars:
Kate Winslet
Cameron Diaz

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October 4, 2016 festreviews Uncategorized

WILDsound Festival

SPECIAL EVENT: Thursday October 20th. 7pm. Carlton Cinemas. Best of Action and Crime Short Films from all over the world.

http://www.wildsound.ca/actioncrimetorontofilmfestival.html

This is a terrific lineup of dramatic and exciting films in the crime and action genres. Some high budget short films this month from Australia, UK, USA, Canada, and Belgium. Something for everyone. It’s a solid lineup from the first to last film.

To RSVP, simply reply to this email and request your tickets. Then you can come for FREE or make a donation on the night. Or, you can RSVP on the program page and make a donation via paypal or credit card.

http://www.wildsound.ca/actioncrimetorontofilmfestival.html
Giving you films from all corners of the world in different genres and formats.

Due to the popularity of the festival, we will now be doing 2 events a month. So if you can’t make one, you can make the other. Or, for example…

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STAGE PLAY CONTEST – Deadline October 5th

October 4, 2016 festreviews Uncategorized

WILDsound Festival

I think I watched the whole video performance of my play with a smile on my face. I’ll have to watch it again to be more objective. DEAR ACTORS – thank you! I’m so thrilled with your performances, you don’t know how happy you have made me.
– Gina Surles, Playwright

WILDsound THEATRE Contest

Submit your PLAY here: http://www.wildsound.ca/play_contest.html

FULL FEEDBACK on your STAGE PLAY from our committee of Professional Play Writers, and Writing Consultants. Get your PLAY performed by professional actors at the festival.

SUBMIT your play now (both 1st act or full length accepted). To be eligible for our Writing Festival Events

WINNERS get their full stage play read by professional actors and showcased online for the world to see!

Watch Past Stage Play Performance Readings:

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FIRST SCENE SCREENPLAY CONTEST – Deadline October 5th

October 4, 2016 festreviews Uncategorized

WILDsound Festival

The communication, organization and feedback these guys offer are fantastic and scriptwriters of all disciplines and experience should be jumping at the service WILDsound provides. The best thing about it is they are as enthusiastic as you about your work. Thank you to everyone involved with WILDsound.
– Grant Reid, 1st Scene Submission

FULL FEEDBACK on your screenplay from our committee of Professional Screenwriters, Production Heads and Script Consultants.

Are you just starting off your screenplay and want immediate feedback on your first scenes/first moments of your script?

Go here to submit:

Send your first scene (or first moments – 10pg. limit) and get feedback. Winners (at least 40 a year) get their first scene read at the MONTHLY WILDsound Screenplay Festival (see video on right for example of what you’ll get when you win).

Great way to promote your script!

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October 2016: Read the best of NEW Poetry from around the world:

October 4, 2016 festreviews Uncategorized

WILDsound Festival

Submit your POETRY for FREE to the festival: https://festivalforpoetry.com/

Read the best of NEW Poetry:

I AM POETRY, by Allyson Olivia
https://festivalforpoetry.com/2016/09/17/i-am-poetry-by-allyson-olivia/

DREAMS AND REALITY, by Natalia Gorbunova
https://festivalforpoetry.com/2016/09/17/dreams-and-reality-poetry-by-natalia-gorbunova-spain/

YESTERDAY TODAY TOMORROW, by Eve Noel
https://festivalforpoetry.com/2016/09/17/yesterday-today-tomorrow-poetry-by-eve-noel/

THE FRACTAL DEBRIS, by Keefe RD
https://festivalforpoetry.com/2016/09/17/the-fractal-debris-poetry-by-keefe-r-d/

RUN, by LA Shan Know
https://festivalforpoetry.com/2016/09/17/run-poetry-by-la-shan-knox/

SUNDAY NIGHT SERVICE, by Carla Fox
https://festivalforpoetry.com/2016/09/17/sunday-night-service-poetry-by-carla-fox/

CAGED BIRD, by Khalid
https://festivalforpoetry.com/2016/09/17/caged-bird-poetry-by-khalid/

SURROUNDED BY LAND, by Bernadette Perez
https://festivalforpoetry.com/2016/09/17/surrounded-by-land-poetry-by-bernadette-perez/

DATING LESSON, by Marcie Tau
https://festivalforpoetry.com/2016/09/17/dating-lesson-poetry-by-marcie-tau/

GRAVITY, by Melody Wilson
https://festivalforpoetry.com/2016/09/17/gravity-poetry-by-melody-wilson/

TRIUMPH OF LOVE, by Juan Antonio Garcia
https://festivalforpoetry.com/2016/09/17/triumph-of-love-poetry-by-juan-antonio-garcia/

DO NOT COME HOME, by Michael Ace
https://festivalforpoetry.com/2016/09/17/do-not-come-home-poetry-by-micheal-ace/

I AM HERE TO TELL YOU, by Kris
https://festivalforpoetry.com/2016/09/17/i-am-here-to-tell-you-poetry-by-kris/

THE GIFT, by Jo Anne Kennedy
https://festivalforpoetry.com/2016/09/17/the-gift-poetry-by-jo-anne-kennedy/

OH BEAUTY BEAUTY, by Caitlin Dwight
https://festivalforpoetry.com/2016/09/17/oh-beauty-beauty-poetry-by-caitlin-dwight/

SOULFUL WISH, by Lalwani Ashok
https://festivalforpoetry.com/2016/09/17/soulful-wish-poetry-by-lalwani-ashok/

MY DEMONS, by Nadia Caballero
https://festivalforpoetry.com/2016/09/17/my-demons-poetry-by-nadia-caballero/

MY DAUGHTER MY DELIGHT, by Khan Mohd
https://festivalforpoetry.com/2016/09/17/my-daughter-my-delight-poetry-by-khan-mohd/

R I P WILLIAM, by Vashaun D. Baker
https://festivalforpoetry.com/2016/09/17/r-i-p-william-poetry-by-vashaun-d-baker/

BRAVOBRAINBRAVO, by Iiafiam Immortal

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Died Today (October 4th): Graham Chapman (1941–1989)

October 4, 2016 festreviews Died Today Graham Chapman (1941–1989), october 4th

Graham Chapman (1941–1989)

Born: January 8, 1941 in Leicester, Leicestershire, England, UK
Died: October 4, 1989 (age 48) in Maidstone, England, UK

John Howard Davies was not a very human person … if you made a mistake of any kind, any sort of pause in speech, he would treat you rather as if he was a schoolmaster.

[Chapman and the other members of the Monty Python group traveled to visit the site of Dachau concentration camp in Germany, but were told by staff that they were too late and the museum was about to close] Tell them we’re Jewish.

And Now For Something Completely Different
1971
dir. Ian MacNaughton

Monty Python and the Holy Grail
1975
dir. Terry Gilliam
Terry Jones

Life of Brian
1979
dir. Terry Jones
Starring
Chapman
John Cleese

The Meaning of Life
1983
dir. Terry Jones
Terry Gilliam
Starring
John Cleese

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Died Today (October 4th): Janis Joplin (1943–1970)

October 4, 2016 festreviews Died Today, Uncategorized Died Today, Janis Joplin (1943–1970), october 4th

Janis Joplin (1943–1970)

Born: January 19, 1943 in Port Arthur, Texas, USA
Died: October 4, 1970 (age 27) in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA

I’m a victim of my own insides. There was a time when I wanted to know everything. It used to make me very unhappy, all that feeling. I just didn’t know what to do with it. But now I’ve learned to make that feeling work for me. I’m full of emotion and I want a release, and if you’re on stage and if it’s really working and you’ve got the audience with you, it’s a oneness you feel.

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Happy Birthday: Jackie Collins (1937–2015)

October 4, 2016 festreviews Happy Birthday, Uncategorized actors, Happy Birthday

Jackie Collins (1937–2015)

Born: October 4, 1937 in London, England, UK
Died: September 19, 2015 (age 77) in Los Angeles, California, USA

[from her last interview] Looking back, I’m not sorry about anything I did. I did it my way, as Frank Sinatra would say. I’ve written five books since the diagnosis [for stage 4 breast cancer], I’ve lived my life, I’ve traveled all over the world, I have not turned down book tours and no one has ever known until now when I feel as though I should come out with it. Now I want to save other people’s lives.

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Happy Birthday: Armand Assante

October 4, 2016 festreviews Uncategorized actors, Armand Assante, Happy Birthday

Armand Assante

Born: October 4, 1949 in New York City, New York, USA

[on the recession] I’ve never seen a time when the financial end of film was so fragile. Projects come and go on the capacity of whether people have the financial ability, even for the lowest budget projects. It shows what has happened since 2008.

TWO FOR THE MONEY
2005
dir. D.J. Caruso
Starring:
Matthew McConaughey
Al Pacino

DEAD MAN DOWN
2013
dir. Niels Arden Oplev
Stars:
Colin Farrell
Noomi Rapace

American Gangster
dir. Scott
Starring
Russell Crowe
Washington

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Happy Birthday: Buster Keaton (1895–1966)

October 4, 2016 festreviews Happy Birthday actor, director, Happy Birthday

Buster Keaton (1895–1966)

Born: October 4, 1895 in Piqua, Kansas, USA
Died: February 1, 1966 (age 70) in Los Angeles, California, USA

I’ve had few dull moments [in my life] and not too many sad and defeated ones. In saying this, I am by no means overlooking the rough and rocky years I’ve lived through. But I was not brought up thinking life would be easy. I always expected to work hard for my money and to get nothing I did not earn. And the bad years, it seems to me, were so few that only a dyed-in-the-wool grouch who enjoys feeling sorry for himself would complain.

The Boat: Short Film
1921
dir. Keaton
starring
Keaton

The Balloonatic
1923
dir. Keaton
Starring
Keaton
Phyllis Haver

The Frozen North
1922
dir. Keaton
Edward F. Cline
starring
Keaton
Bonnie Hill

Cops
1922
dir. Keaton
Edward F. Cline
starring
Keaton
Virginia Fox

Sherlock Jr
1924
dir. Keaton
starring
Keaton
Kathryn McGuire

The General
1927
dir. Keaton
Clyde Bruckman
starring
Keaton
Marion Mack

At the Circus
1939
dir. Edward Buzzell
starring
The Marx Bros
Keaton co-writer

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
1966
dir. Richard Lester
Starring
Zero Mostel

Born in 1895 in Kansas, into a vaudeville family performing with the likes of Houdini (who coined his name ‘Buster’), Keaton was an early physical talent.

He entered film in his early twenties making shorts, and was deemed a star upon his first feature, 1920’s The Saphead. Keaton wrote, directed and starred in many of his own films, as well as doing studio comedies which did not garner him critical success.

With the discovery of lost stock of his early work, and 1952’s Limelight with Charlie Chaplin, Buster was finally recognized as an icon of his genre. Buster Keaton died in 1966.

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Festival Reviews

Showcasing the best of movies, and film festivals from around the world.

Year: 2016

Happy Birthday: Kate Winslet

RSVP ACTION/CRIME Feedback Film Festival. Thur. Oct. 20th. 7pm. Free or PWYL.

STAGE PLAY CONTEST – Deadline October 5th

FIRST SCENE SCREENPLAY CONTEST – Deadline October 5th

October 2016: Read the best of NEW Poetry from around the world:

Died Today (October 4th): Graham Chapman (1941–1989)

Died Today (October 4th): Janis Joplin (1943–1970)

Happy Birthday: Jackie Collins (1937–2015)

Happy Birthday: Armand Assante

Happy Birthday: Buster Keaton (1895–1966)