Actor Michael Murphy named MIFF Mid-Life Achievement Award winner
WATERVILLE — Screen actor Michael Murphy will be presented with the annual Mid-Life Achievement Award at this year’s Maine International Film Festival, organizers announced Friday. Murphy has appeared...
View ArticleMurphy to unveil ‘Fall’ at this year’s Maine International Film Festival
Michael Murphy commands the screen in his portrayal of a lonely, aging priest living in a waning parish on the Canadian edge of Niagara Falls. It is spring in Ontario, but the cold, dull, gray winter...
View ArticleMIFF: ‘Astraea’ has Oscar list potential
Our story begins in darkness, a long minute of darkness that seems even longer. We hear voices, television voices that report news, shout warnings, cry and call out. Radios crackle with news of...
View Article‘The Cut’ is a real gift to MIFF
“The legacy of the Armenian Genocide is woven into the fabric of America.” — Adam Schiff Turkish-German Fatih Akin’s “The Cut” gives this year’s Maine International Film Festival its biggest, most...
View ArticleMIFFONEDGE spotlights video presentations at Common Street Arts
WATERVILLE — The Maine International Film Festival creeps ever closer to the edge of art interpretation each year with its MIFFONEDGE presentation, which aims to push the boundaries of commonly...
View ArticleMIFF: ‘The Third Man’
“A good friend stabs you in the front.” — Oscar Wilde It begins and ends with a funeral, and a young woman walking away from both, down a lonely road in an ancient graveyard outside of Vienna. In...
View ArticleFilm festival wraps up 10-day run in Waterville
WATERVILLE — The Maine International Film Festival ended its 10-day run Sunday night to a packed Waterville Opera House, speeches, thank-yous and a big reception at Mainely Brews Restaurant downtown....
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