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Europe Elsewhere: US releases, French box office, Comencini, Hitna Pomoc, Gegenüber |
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Written by the editor
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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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