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Cannes 2008 - Awards - Bouli Lanners' Eldorado wins Europa Cinemas Label Award
2008-05-27 10:37:50Awarded to the best European film screened in the Directors' Fortnight, the Europa Cinemas Label went to Eldorado by Belgium's Bouli Lanners (see news). Boosting the winning film's distribution, promotion and the length of its programming in the network's theatres, the Europa Cinemas prize was awarded by a jury of four European exhibitors. Lanners' feature also picked up the sixth...
TOURISM POTENTIAL ON CINEMA ATTENDANCE (Tourists are Cinema patrons too!)
2008-05-27 10:37:50The market for cinema is generally considered to be almost entirely drawn from the surrounding residential areas. However, research in cinemas in places that attract visitors has shown that the potentials for additional cinema patronage of tourists and other people should not be ignored. Investigations in Australia and other markets investigated data collected on the demographic...
People - Italy - Cinema bids farewell to Maestro Dino Risi
2008-06-09 12:00:10Dino Risi, one of the “maestros” of Italian cinema, passed away today in Rome. The 91-year-old native of Milan had been ill for some time. The most acclaimed titles of Risi's career, which spanned over 50 films, include Poor But Beautiful, 15 From Rome, Torture Me But Kill Me With Kisses, The Easy Life and In the Name of the Italian People. He worked with great actors, from...
Institutions - Switzerland - Maire leaves Locarno Fest for Swiss Cinémathèque
2008-06-09 12:00:10Appointed in October 2007 to succeed Hervé Dumont, Vinzenz Hediger (39) has decided to step down as director of the Swiss Cinémathèque in Lausanne (see news). The official reason given is that the young professor - who teaches the history and aesthetics of film at the Ruhr University of Bochum - has decided to “focus on his academic career in Germany”, as announced tactfully...
Exhibition - Italy - European cinema flourishes on “quality screens”
2008-06-12 05:00:06Irina Palm, Caramel and Persepolis owe over 80% of their box office to the great results achieved through the Schermi di Qualità (“Quality Screens”) circuit. Founded two years ago, on the trail of the previous Centocittà initiative, Schermi di qualità is a network of cinemas spread throughout the country that aims to promote the most recent Italian and European films by...
Festivals - Italy - Pesaro hosts most recent German cinema
2008-06-15 05:00:10The 44th Pesaro Film Festival (June 21-29) has a distinctly European flavour because “taking at look at the Old Continent is a moral obligation,” says artistic director Giovanni Spagnoletti, convinced that globalisation brings with it a paradox. “Italian audiences know a lot about cinema from the far east,” he commented at today's press conference, “but very...
Industry - Europe - Bouyssy named Exhibitor of the Year at Cinema Expo
2008-06-24 05:00:08The 17th edition of Cinema Expo International - the traditional gathering for exhibitors from across the world - is being held from June 23-26 in Amsterdam. On Thursday, the event will present its award for Exhibitor of the Year to France's Jocelyn Bouyssy (see interview), director of CGR. At the end of 2007, CGR announced plans to convert all of its 400 screens to digital projection,...
Festivals - Italy - Appointment in Algiers for Italian cinema
2008-06-27 05:00:04Five features and two shorts - the most recent and representative Italian production of the past year, ranging in genres from comedy to social activism and drama - will screen from tomorrow in the second edition of the Festival of Italian Cinema of Algiers. Entitled “An Appointment With Italian Cinema in Algiers”, the event, which continues as part of last year's official...
Vlado Fischer - Director: "It is very important to get Slovak spectators back to the cinema"
2008-07-02 05:00:24Born in 1962, Vlado Fischer studied film and television direction at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava. Upon graduation he went to work for Slovenska Televizia, where he directed several films and, in 1997, the first Slovak sitcom, Duchovia. Half-Life is his feature debut. Cineuropa: How did you become involved in Half-Life? Vlado Fischer:I was asked to do this by Milan Stranava,...
Festivals - Italy - Great cinema “rediscovered” in Bologna
2008-07-04 05:00:06Peter von Bagh is “surprised by the generosity of the Cinematheque of Bologna”. Von Bagh is the Finnish director Il cinema ritrovato (“Cinema rediscovered”), the event that for over 20 years has been transforming the city of Bologna into a film culture capital for the entire world. “In what other part of the world are you given the miraculous possibility to...
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