Stranger Things http://www.strangerthingsfilm.com Fri, 20 Apr 2012 01:41:45 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 strangerthingsfilmhttp://feedburner.google.comSubscribe with My Yahoo!Subscribe with NewsGatorSubscribe with My AOLSubscribe with BloglinesSubscribe with NetvibesSubscribe with GoogleSubscribe with PageflakesSubscribe with PlusmoSubscribe with The Free DictionarySubscribe with Bitty BrowserSubscribe with NewsAlloySubscribe with Live.comSubscribe with Excite MIXSubscribe with Attensa for OutlookSubscribe with WebwagSubscribe with Podcast ReadySubscribe with FlurrySubscribe with WikioSubscribe with Daily RotationThank you for your interest in STRANGER THINGS! STRANGER THINGS in Poland http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/strangerthingsfilm/~3/jQvIlKiVQI8/ http://www.strangerthingsfilm.com/blog/2012/04/stranger-things-in-poland/#comments Fri, 20 Apr 2012 00:42:02 +0000 Ron Eyal http://www.strangerthingsfilm.com/?p=3029 Stranger Things is playing this weekend in Krakow at the OFF PLUS CAMERA International Festival of Independent Cinema. The film is part of the Slamdance Selects series at the festival.

OFF PLUS CAMERA runs until April 22, and Stranger Things screens this Saturday April 21 @ 3:30pm at ARS – ANEKS, Ars Cinema, Kraków, św. Jana 6.

Click here for the program page and for tickets to Stranger Things.

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For more the festival program page and more information, click on the link below: http://www.corkfilmfest.org/2011/films/62/stranger-things

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Meet Stranger Things in St. Louis at the  2oth St. Louis International Film Festival. The film is in competition at the festival. Hope to see you there!

Stranger Things is screening on Sun, Nov 20th @ 2:15pm at the Tivoli Theatre. For more information, click the link below:

http://www.cinemastlouis.org/stranger-things

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We were thrilled to share the film with a British audience. The cherry on the cake was that Stranger Things won the top jury prize for Best U.K. Feature!

The jury included actors Dexter Fletcher and Helen McCrory, director Gillies Mackinnon and film critic Wendy Mitchell. This was a fantastic year for Raindance, with a great line-up, exciting panels and attendances up by 62%.

Check out the links below for press on Stranger Things’ Raindance win.

Hollywood Reporter:
Eleanor Burke, Ron Eyal’s ‘Stranger Things’ Gets Raindance Film Festival Best U.K. Feature Nod

indieWire
“Stranger Things,” “Just Between Us” Take Top Prizes at Raindance Fest

Screen International
Raindance winners include Stranger Things, Just Between Us, Tilt

Variety
‘Stranger Things’ nabs U.K. feature award 

From left to right, "Stranger Things" actor Adeel Akhtar, co-directors Ron Eyal and Eleanor Burke and Raindance Festival Director Elliot Grove.

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We’re honoured. Huge thanks to BendFilm and the Jury. http://www.bendfilm.org/2011-festival/2011-winners/

 

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Catch Stranger Things in Ohio at the Cincinnati Film Festival 2011. The festival runs from Sep 29 to Oct 2. It looks to be a very exciting year for the fest. The line-up is great!

Stranger Things is screening on Saturday, October 1st @ 5:00pm in the Cincinnati Club’s Rathskellar Room.

The Cincinnati Club is at 30 Garfield Place, Suite 10, Cincinnati, OH 45202.

Click here for Stranger Things tickets (the second item down the list).

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Click here for  the Film Threat rundown of the full line-up.

Here is the screening information for Stranger Things:

  • Saturday, Oct 8 @ 1pm at the Regal Cinemas Old Mill 2 (680 SW Powerhouse Drive , Bend, OR 97702)
  • Sunday, Oct 9 @ 6:30pm at the Sisters Movie House 1 (720 Desperado Ct, Sisters, OR 97759)

Click here for the BendFilm program page and the link for tickets.

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The film will be screening at the upcoming Raindance Film Festival in London this October, where it’s in competition for Best British Film. Ron and I will both be over in London for the premiere. I know it’s been a long wait on the British side and we hope everyone can make it. It would be absolutely wonderful to see you there and it would be fantastic to sell these screenings out, so please do tell everyone!

STRANGER THINGS at RAINDANCE:

  • Friday, 7 October, 2011 @ 9:00PM
  • Saturday, 8 October, 2011 @ 10:00AM

Both screenings are at the Apollo Cinema Piccadilly (19 Lower Regent Street, London SW1Y 4LR – Near Piccadilly Circus).

Tickets are available through the programme page at http://bit.ly/STRainProg or by phone on 0871 220 6000 .

Click here for Stranger Things in the Raindance programme for more information.

Raindance’s review: 

Eleanor Burke and Ron Eyal’s first feature film is a masterpiece of narrative, character and acting. Featuring Adeel Akhtar (Faisal in Chris Morris’ groundbreaking comedy Four Lions) and Bridget Collins (a considerably talented newcomer), Stranger Things examines the nature of human contact and relationship – and how extraordinarily capable we all are of compassion and kindness.

A grieving Oona (Collins) returns to her dead mother’s house to take care of her possessions and property. While there, however, she discovers a homeless man, Mani (Akhbar), squatting in one of the rooms. Making a hasty escape, Mani leaves behind his sketchbook – which reveals to Oona considerable artistic talent, a quality that seemed to surround her mother. 

Oona invites Mani to stay the night, and the two tentatively form a connection. Over the next few days they come to know each other a bit better, but Mani can’t seem to be able to leave his vagrant life behind him.

The relationship between Mani and Oona is as cautious as it is fulfilling: both are stuck in a rut and they find salvation within one another through kindness and understanding. The depth of human emotion expressed in the camera work and the prolonged close-ups of the actor’s faces is incredible, as is the underlying message behind this film: in a world where chance rules our lives and we can be described as ‘driftwood’, understanding can be the most powerful of tools to create the most surprising of circumstances. After all, stranger things can happen.

Orestes Kouzof

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Other films playing at the festival include Sarah Polley’s new film Take This Waltz (which will also have it’s western Canada premiere), documentary The Swell Season by  Nick August-Perna, Carlo Mirabella-Davis and Chris Dapkins, and fellow IFP lab alum Josh Hyde’s Postales.

STRANGER THINGS

  • Sunday, Sep 25 @ 5pm at Zeidler Hall in the Citadel (9828 101 A AVE, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada)

 

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Photo credit: farenheit75, (CC BY-SA 2.0)

STRANGER THINGS

 

  • Miércoles, 24 de Agosto 15:00 (Wednesday, August 24 @ 3:30pm)  Cine Hoyts La Reina (Av. Ossa 655, La Reina, Santiago)
  • Sábado, 27 de Agosto 17:30 (Saturday, August 27 @ 5:30pm) Cine Hoyts La Reina (Av. Ossa 655, La Reina, Santiago)

Luego de la muerte de su madre, Oona regresa a la casa donde pasó su infancia, en la costa de Inglaterra, para revisar su precaria herencia. Ahí conoce a Mani, un misterioso vagabundo que se ha refugiado en el lugar pensando que está abandonado. Ella lo invita a quedarse en el cobertizo que hay en el jardín. Entre los silencios y la vulnerabilidad de ambos, se formará un lazo muy especial y delicado.

 


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