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Wednesday, 02 May 2007 |
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 An overview of interesting European film-related articles published elsewhere on the web.
- In the Hollywood Reporter, Scot Roxborough looks at the German Wixxer hit films that expertly spoof British pulp fiction.
- British renegade director Peter Greenaway is currently applying his finishing touches to his Rembrandt biopic Nightwatching, which stars Martin Freeman (A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) as the Dutch baroque artist. The website of production company Kasander has an extended trailer for the period film.
- Ed Caesar looks the recent crop of excellent German films in the light of the international success of Das Leben der Anderen (The Lives of Others) in The Independent.
- Our colleagues over at makingofeuropa.net have added two new films to their growing archive of behind-the-scenes and on-the-set-interview archives. First up is the upcoming Spanish film Casual Day, directed by Max Lemcke and starring Luis Tosar, Juan Diego, Marta Etura and Javier Rios. The other film comes from neighbouring Italy and is called L'uomo privato (lit. The Private Man) and is directed by Emidio Greco and stars Tomasso Ragno.
- Are there any Brits in Cannes or aren't there? After the Golden Palm went to UK director Ken Loach last year (though the film was set in Ireland and dealt with its struggle for independence from Britain), this year the presence of Brits on the Croisette looks scarce. Geofrrey Macnab complains in The Independent, while his colleague Stephen Dalton of The Times looks at the two UK films that will be premiere at Cannes: Anton Corbijn's Control, the opening film of the Directors' Fortnight, and the documentary The Future is Unwritten from Julien Temple.
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Wednesday, 11 April 2007 |
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 An overview of interesting European film-related articles published elsewhere on the web.
- It is a good time to be European film lover in the US: Verhoeven's Zwartboek (Black Book) has just come out and Alain Resnais' Coeurs (Private Fears in Public Places) and a restored version of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's 13-hour Berlin Alexanderplatz are about to reach US audiences. New York Times chief critic AO Scott writes on the latter, his colleague Dave Kehr on the prolific Alain Resnais also at the Times and David D'Arcy talks to Paul Verhoeven at Greencine.
- The Hollywood Reporter on the big French box office of March. Hits include local powerhouse La môme (La Vie en Rose), the Edith Piaf biopic that has attracted almost 5 million viewers since it release on Valentine's Day.
- Italian film director Luigi Comencini died last week, aged 90. The Guardian and AFP have obituaries for the director of such postwar comedies as Pane, amore e fantasia (Bread, Love and Dreams). His daughters Christina and Francesca Comencini are celebrated directors in their own right. The former's La bestia nel cuore (Don't Tell) was nominated for a Foreign Language Oscar in 2006.
- Our friends over at Making of Europa have added two more peeks behind the scenes of upcoming European films: the Serbia/Germany/Greece co-production Hitna Pomoč (The Ambulance) from director Goran Radovanović can be found here, while the look at Jan Bonny's Gegenüber can be found here.
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Saturday, 31 March 2007 |
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 An overview of interesting European film-related articles published elsewhere on the web.
- The Danish Film Institute, not suffering from modesty, has created a Google Earth map that pins down all the locations where Danish films have won prizes in 2006. The total number of awards won by Danish features in 2006: 102. The most awarded film: Drømmen (We Shall Overcome).
- The trailer for the Danish English-language film No Right Turn from director David Noel Bourke has gone online at the website of its production company.
- The Independent examines the French connection behind recent British film successes.
- Making of Europa has added two new titles to their impressive list of making of features. First up is the Austro-Polish film Herrn Kukas Empfehlungen (Mr. Kuka's Lessons) from director Dariusz Gajewski that stars Lukasz Garlicki, Andrzej Grabowski and August Diehl and the second is Fulvio Bernasconi's Fuori dalle corde, which stars Pablo Ogalde and Michele Venitucci.
- The Hollywood Reporter reports that US director Tim Burton will receive the Golden Lion for career achievement at the upcoming Venice Film Festival. He will show a "surprise offering" as well, which is likely to be -- at least a part of -- his upcoming musical Sweeney Todd with Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter. The two stars also voiced the main characters in Burton's Corpse Bride, which premiered at Venice in 2005. The festival will take place between August 29 and September 8.
- Cannes is less than two months away and Pascale Ferran, the director of the French arthouse smash hit Lady Chatterley, has been asked to head the Un certain regard jury according to the Hollywood Reporter. Variety reports that Quentin Tarantino's part of the Grindhouse double-bill called Death Proof might land a Competition slot at the festival in a longer cut than the one that will be released theatrically. Cineuropa sums up the rumoured contenders for the Official Selection.
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