Viennale devotes special programmes to Rohmer, Lubtchansky, Denis Cote

Festival director Hans Hurch held a briefing on Friday in Vienna, to introduce the selections so far.

The festival will present about 130 feature films in its main programme, which is non-competitive.

The festival is also hosting a retrospective devoted to the work of Eric Rohmer (curated with the Austrian Film Museum), tributes to Larry Cohen and William Lubtchansky, and special programmes devoted to Canadian filmmaker Denis Cote and Austrian avant-garde filmmaker Siegfried A. Fruhauf.

Hurch said: “Ideally, the Viennale strives to convey, like any other exciting, successful, and essential film festival, a possible image of cinema: alternately precise, accentuated, playful, risk-taking, subjective, and radical. This includes errors and peculiarities, but never cynicism, randomness or calculation. And that in turns means luxury and responsibility at the same time.”

Features selected so far, Viennale 2010
Alamar, dir. Pedro Gonzalez-Rubio
Agua fría de mar, dir. Paz Fábrega
Cold Weather, dir. Aaron Katz
Cyrus, dir. Jay Duplass
Of Gods and Men (Des hommes et des dieux), dir. Xavier Beauvois
Estrada para Ythaca, dirs. Parente, Pretti, Diógenes, Pretti
The Strange Case of Angelica (O estranho caso de Angélica), dir. Manoel Oliveira
Exit Through the Gift Shop, dir. Banksy
Film socialisme, dir. Jean-Luc Godard
Folge mir, dir. Johannes Hammel
Guerra Civil, dir. Pedro Caldas
Winter Vacation (Han jia), dir. Li Hongqi
High School, dir. John Stalberg
Carlos (Ilich, histoire de Carlos), dir. Olivier Assayas
Invernadero, dir. Gonzalo Castro
Leaves Of Grass, dir. Tim Blake Nelson
Life During Wartime, dir. Todd Solondz
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Lung Boonmee Raluek Chat), dir. Apichatpong Weerasethakul
M/F Remix, dir. Jy-ah Min
Putty Hill, dir. Matthew Porterfield
Shinboru, dir. Matsumoto Hitoshi
Susa, dir. Rusudan Pirveli
The Summer of Goliath (El verano de Goliat), dir. Nicolas Pereda
Vincere, dir. Marco Bellocchio
You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger, dir. Woody Allen

Documentaries selected so far, Viennale 2010
Achrey Hasof, dir. Anat Even
The Agony and the Ecstasy of Phil Spector, dir. Vikram Jayanti
Apuntes para una biografía imaginaria, dir. Edgardo Cozarinsky
Autobiografia lui Nicolae Ceausescu, dir. Andrei Ujica
La bocca del lupo, dir. Pietro Marcello
Boxing Gym, dir. Frederick Wiseman
Cuchillo de palo, dir.Renate Costa
Dansa als esperits, dir. Ricardo Iscar
Double Tide, dir. Sharon Lockhart
The Forgotten Space, dirs. Allan Sekula, Noël Burch
Japan: A Story of Love and Hate, dir. Sean McAllister
Marwencol, dir. Jeff Malmberg
Nénette, dir. Nicolas Philibert
Notes on an American Film Director at Work: Martin Scorsese, dir. Jonas Mekas
Paraboles, dir. Emmanuelle Demoris
The Pier of Apolonovka, dir. Andrei Schwartz
Shang hai zhuan qi, dir. Jia Zhangke
Smash His Camera, dir. Leon Gast
Stones In Exile, dir. Stephen Kijak
La terra habitada, dir. Anna Sanmartí Baró
Vapor Trail (Clark), dir. John Gianvito
The White Stripes: Under Great White Northern Lights, dir. Emmett Malloy