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Burn After Reading is a dark comedy film written, produced and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen. The film stars John Malkovich, George Clooney, Tilda Swinton, Frances McDormand and Brad Pitt. It was released in the USA on September 12, 2008 and will be released on October 17, 2008 in the UK. The R-rated film had its premiere on August 27, 2008 when it opened the 2008 Venice Film Festival. The film is the brothers’ first to follow their Academy Award winning Best Picture, No Country for Old Men.

Victor Mancini (Sam Rockwell) has got some problems — when he’s not haunting sexual-addiction meetings to bed women, he masquerades as a choking victim in restaurants to gather money from unsuspecting strangers for his ailing mother (Anjelica Huston). But what happens when this messed up Colonial-era theme-park attendant finds Mrs. Right in the guise of his mother’s doctor — and how is he to tell her that he fears he is the next coming of Jesus Christ? Based on Chuck Palahniuk’s (Fight Club) pitch-black comedic novel, Choke is adapted and directed by David Mamet alumni Clark Gregg, whose career spans stage, screen, and TV work as well as a screenplay credit for Robert Zemeckis’s 2000 thriller What Lies Beneath.

Speedman, Lazarus, Chino, Portnoy and Sandusky are dropped off with Cockburn in the middle of the jungle who sternly explains that he’s going to use hidden cameras (”guerrilla-style”) to capture real fear as they survive the real jungle. The actors are only given a map and a scene listing to guide them to the helicopter waiting at the end of the jungle. Just as he walks away, Cockburn is blown to pieces by an old landmine. The actors, with the exception of Lazarus, are convinced that this is some of Cockburn’s special effects trickery. Unbeknownst to the actors, they were dropped in the middle of the Golden Triangle, the home of the heroin-producing Flaming Dragon gang. The Dragons believe the actors to be DEA agents and are put off to see Speedman, trying to convince the others that Cockburn’s death is a trick, doing a gruesome display with Cockburn’s severed head. Believing the Dragons to be actors playing Vietcong, the actors engage them in a gunfight…

This year the Festival will be celebrating its 56th consecutive edition with the same enthusiasm felt the day it first saw the light on September 21st 1953.

Conceived as an International Film Week for the purpose of screening and marketing films, it was not long before the IFFPA granted it B status (non-competitive), thanks to the success of its first edition. A year later it was called the International Film Festival, and in 1955 the IFFPA recognised the festival as competitive, specialising in colour films. In other words, it could now grant official prizes. This marked the emergence of the “Concha”, or shell - at the time only awarded in silver - determined by an international jury.

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The Queer Lisboa is organizing its 12th edition, a unique opportunity to catch up on the most recent international gay, lesbian, and queer cinematography. The Festival has three main Competition Sections: Feature Film Awards (best feature, best actor, and best actress), Documentary Award, and Short Film Award (audience award).
An International Jury will give away the awards of the Best Feature Film and Documentary Competitions, and a great number of national and international guests will attend our 12th edition.
In a special film cycle, Queer TV, the Festival will screen some recent television productions adapted to the big screen, exploring some of the most pertinent subjects which make the contemporary agendas of queer culture and communities.
Another new Festival feature is the programme section Queer Art, in which cinema meets the visual arts at large, through two main perspectives: on the one hand, a showcase of very recent edgy filmmaking defying the boundaries of cinematic languages, genres and narratives; and on the other hand, feature fictions and documentaries portraying renowned queer artists.

The Queer Lisboa 12 will also present three thematic film cycles, accompanied by several debates with the presence of many national and international guests: a film cycle on Religion and Homosexuality, a regard upon the Portuguese Colonial War, and a film cycle on Obscenity, with 5 late night screenings, exploring the limits of the explicit sex on screen.

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