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Pat Saperstein Deputy Editor A new Los Angeles film festival featuring independent films, documentaries and artist talks is set for April 4-7 at venues in Chinatown, Eagle Rock and Filipinotown. The Los Angeles Festival of Movies was launched by Micah Gottlieb and Sarah Winshall, and will open April 4 with Jane Schoenbrun’s “I Saw the TV Glow.” Closing night film is Conner O’Malley and Danny Scharar’s “Rap World” on April 7. Both films screen at Vidiots.

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Hengameh Panahi Dies: Revered Celluloid Dreams Sales Agent Who Handled Films Of Takeshi Kitano, Jacques Audiard, Jafar Panahi & François Ozon Was 67

Ground-breaking French-Iranian sales agent and producer Hengameh Panahi, who represented a myriad of renowned Cannes and Venice prize-winning auteur directors, has died at the age of 67.

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Criterion Adds ‘Trainspotting,’ A Chantal Akerman Boxset, ‘Mudbound,’ John Sayles’ ‘Lone Star’ & More For Its January 2024 Releases

The Criterion Collection always kicks off its releases for a new calendar year with a couple of big titles. And 2024 starts off very strong for the boutique DVD series, with Danny Boyle‘s “Trainspotting” leading the way.

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TIFF 2023 Wavelengths & Classics Section Includes Jean-Luc Godard’s Final Film; Uncut Restoration Of ‘Farewell My Concubine’

The Toronto International Film Festival has announced this year’s Wavelengths and Classics sidebars, the former section known for its politically charged, geographically diverse fare with a wide range of work drawn from the worlds of documentary, contemporary art, and international art-house cinema.

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Chantal Akerman’s ‘Jeanne Dielman’ Tops Sight And Sounds 2022 Poll For Greatest Films Of All Time

Move over, Orson Welles and Alfred Hitchcock, there’s a new director at the top of BFI‘s “Greatest Films Of All Time” critics’ poll. And it’s none other than Chantal Akerman, whose 1975 “Jean Dielman, 23, Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles” now sits atop the esteemed list.

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Toronto Unveils Discovery & Wavelengths Sections; Midnight Madness Opening Includes Roku’s ‘Weird: The Al Yankovic Story’

The Toronto International Film Festival announced its second big wave of programming for the 47th edition, a 54 feature title lineup across its Discovery, Midnight Madness and Wavelengths sections.

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Filmax Swoops on ‘Unicorns,’ Alex Lora’s Awaited Fiction Feature Debut

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentFilmax has swooped in on one of Spain’s most awaited fiction feature debuts of 2022, Alex Lora’s “Unicorns” (“Unicornios”). Pic is produced by Inicia Films’ Valerie Delpierre, producer of director Carla Simon’s debut, “Summer 1993.”Due to be completed by the fall, “Unicorns” is made with Valencia’s Jaibo, the shingle behind Chema García’s Locarno hit “The Sacred Spirit.” Filmax will screen a first promo at this week’s Cannes Film Market.New York-based, and an alum of the City College of New York, where he was mentored by Chantal Akerman, Lora has carved out an exceptional documentary career, finding humanity in the most unlikely of subjects, often supposed outsiders or outcasts, and of places, such as a Brooklyn recycling center in 2017’s doc feature “The Fourth Kingdom, The Kingdom of Plastics.” In “Unicorns,” by contrast, Isa, the protagonist, has it all.