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Europe Elsewhere: Control, Funny Games, Mister Lonely, L'avocat de la terreur, De ofrivilliga, Käsk |
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Written by the editor
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Sunday, 23 September 2007 |
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An overview of interesting European film-related articles published elsewhere on the web.
- Indiewire profiles Sam Riley, the star of Anton Corbijn's upcoming Joy Division biopic Control.
- Austrian director Michael Haneke (Caché) talks with the New York Times about his own shot-for-shot American remake of his 1997 German-language thriller Funny Games.
- Matt Riviera reviews the "off the wall" Mister Lonely, the upcoming Harmony Korine film about celebrity impersonators.
- The Guardian talks about the recent upsurge in Russian big-budget blockbusters and a vodka-fueled set visit to Dnevnoy Dozor (Day Watch), the sequel to Nochnoy Dozor (Night Watch). (via greencine daily.)
- Film Stew investigates the "rehearsed spontaneity" of Kenneth Branagh's recent Venice Competition film Sleuth.
- Director Barbet Schroeder talks with Greencine about his latest film, the documentary L'avocat de la terreur (Terror's Advocate).
- Making of Europa has added behind-the-scenes footage and interviews of two upcoming films: Ruben Östlund's Swedish mosaic De Ofrivilliga (Involuntary) and the Finnish period film Käski (She-Wolf) from director Aku Louhimies (Valkoinen kaupunki / Frozen City).
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