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Videos: BIFF Unveils Trio Of Festival Highlights
The Bermuda International Film Festival has unveiled three highlights of the upcoming event, the acclaimed productions which have been selected as the special opening, centrepiece and closing night screenings. In opening film “Ginger and Rosa”, two teenage girls, best friends since they were toddlers, are driven apart by a scandalous betrayal... Read more of this article
Exploring Bermuda’s Most Famous Shipwreck
She remains the most famous of the hundreds of ships to have come to grief on Bermuda’s reefs — the four-masted, 192-foot long wooden hulled schooner “Constellation” immortalised in Peter Benchley’s bestselling novel “The Deep” and the subsequent 1977 film adaptation. Built and launched in 1918, in July, 1943... Read more of this article
Former Premiers Featured In BIFF Documentary
This year’s Special Presentation at the Bermuda International Film Festival [BIFF] will be “Femme: Women Healing the World”, a feature documentary which includes interviews with two of the island’s former Premiers. Directed by long-time BIFF supporter, Emmanuel Itier, “Femme” is a quest to look for the most important... Read more of this article
Charity Screening Of New Animated Comedy
The Eliza DoLittle Society [TEDS] is presenting a fund-raising screening of the new Dreamworks movie “The Croods” on Saturday [Mar. 30]. An animated comedy adventure set in the pre-historic era, “The Croods” follows the world’s first family as they embark on a journey of a lifetime when the cave that has always shielded... Read more of this article
Video: Century-Old Bermuda Footage Surfaces
Shot on location in Bermuda in 1913 and released the following year, the fantasy romance “Neptune’s Daughter” was one of a number of epic silent films that former Australian swimming champion Annette Kellerman [1886-1975] starred in. Until recently only 19 minutes of the 71-minute film was known to survive. But in 2012 an additional... Read more of this article
Origins Of The Bermuda Triangle Myth
Scores of ships and planes are said to have vanished without trace over the centuries in a vast triangular area of ocean with imaginary points in Bermuda, Florida and Puerto Rico — the so-called Bermuda Triangle. Christopher Columbus — on his initial voyage of discovery to the New World in 1492 — is the first to have recorded anomalous... Read more of this article
Library “Saturday Selections” Series: “Life Of Pi”
As part of its “Saturday’s Selections” series of films based on literary works, the Bermuda National Library will be showing recent Oscar-winner “Life Of Pi” this weekend [Mar. 23]. Director Ang Lee’s adaptation of the 2001 fantasy adventure novel by Yann Martel was one of the most critically acclaimed films of 2012. The... Read more of this article
“Shining” Producer To Hold Bermuda Workshop
The compelling opening sequence of the 1980 Stanley Kubrick classic “The Shining” features what might be called a demon’s-eye-view of alcoholic school teacher Jack Torrance [Jack Nicholson] driving up into the Colorado mountains to meet his fate at an isolated hotel resort built on the site of an old Native American burial ground. The... Read more of this article
“Lore” To Screen At BIFFlix Film Series
BIFF today announces that the final instalment of the BIFFlix film series before the 16th annual Bermuda International Film Festival in April will take place this Sunday (March 24), 5.30pm, at The Tradewinds Auditorium in the Bermuda Underwater Exploration Institute. The film screening is “Lore,” an unconventional take on the Holocaust legacy.The... Read more of this article
Video Preview: “Brownstones To Red Dirt”
The African Heritage Diaspora Trail Bermuda will be holding a series of public events in the lead-up to International Day of Remembrance for the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade, and one of them will be the screening of “Brownstones To Red Dirt” at the Liberty Theatre on March 25th at 6.30pm. “Brownstones To Red... Read more of this article
Historical Heartbeats Film Night: “Monk” Tonight
A screening of Monk will be presented tonight [Mar 16] from 6.00pm at the Youth Library on Church Street. This film night is part of the Historical Heartbeats Winter Lecture Series. This is a live performance from the off-Broadway production chronicling the life of jazz music legend, Thelonious Monk. It is a free event and for more details, contact... Read more of this article
Jules Verne’s Forgotten Bermuda Adventure
His prodigious imagination took him on journeys to the earth’s core, into lunar orbit — and to an imaginary islet off the coast of Bermuda where a mad genius develops a super-weapon of unlimited destructive power and anarchist pirates base a submarine which sinks and loots passing vessels. Along with English author H.G. Wells [1866-1946],... Read more of this article
