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Production - Germany - Akin prepares first comedy
2008-06-12 05:00:06Turkish-German director Fatih Akin (Head-On, Cannes award-winner The Edge of Heaven) is making his first foray into comedy. His new feature project, entitled Soul Kitchen, has existed since 2004 but the director set it aside to shoot The Edge of Heaven first. The film has received funding from the FFA (€3.2m) and the Filmforderung Hambourg Schleswig-Holstein regional fund...
Production - Italy - Brizzi returns with a melancholic comedy
2008-07-11 05:00:07The new film by Fausto Brizzi (Night Before the Exams, the French remake of which is out in France as Nos 18 ans) will feature a stellar cast. Ex - which starts shooting July 14 in Rome before moving to Paris and New Zealand, for a total 18-week shoot - gathers together “the phone book of Italian cinema” for a melancholic comedy about separations, break-ups and the return of old...
Releases - France - Political comedy Coluche, histoire d'un mec hits screens
2008-10-18 05:00:08"I call on lazy people, dirty people, drug addicts, alcoholics, gays, women, parasites, youngsters, old people, artists, apprentices, black people, pedestrians, long-haired men, mad people, transvestites, former communists, confirmed non-voters, all those who are unimportant to politicians, to vote for me." In September 1980, popular French comic, Coluche, thus announces his intention to run...
Production - Italy - Dieci Inverni, a sentimental comedy set in Venice and Moscow
2009-01-16 09:00:11Filming begins January 19 in Venice on Dieci Inverni (“Ten Winters”), a sentimental comedy by Valerio Mieli, starring Isabella Ragonese and Michele Riondino, along with Glen Blackall and Russian actors Liuba Zaizeva and Sergei Zhigunov. The shoot will last three weeks in Venice, two in and around Moscow, two in Rome and another four days in Valdobbiadene. The film is a...
Production - Spain - Spanish Movie, a different kind of comedy
2009-02-27 09:00:15For years, Spanish film has been plagued by the tag españolada (meaning “stereotypically Spanish”), referring to local comedies featuring scantily-clad women and dramas about the civil war, which summed up domestic production for some viewers. Although Spanish audiences aren't suddenly flocking to see local films (see news), the bad spell seems to be over, as demonstrated by...
Production - Norway - NFI backs Moland-Skarsgård comedy
2009-03-09 09:22:59The Norwegian Film Institute has awarded NOK 6.5m to Regnskap (“Accounts”), a major project that will reunite top Norwegian filmmaker Hans Petter Moland (The Beautiful Country) with Swedish star Stellan Skarsgård for the third time. The two previously worked together on the award-winning Zero Kelvin (1995) and Aberdeen (2000). Based on a script by established Danish...
Awards - Italy - Nastri d'Argento nominees, new category “domestic comedy”
2009-05-30 09:00:12Matteo Garrone's Gomorrah has already been named Film of the Year while Paolo Sorrentino's Il Divo picked up nine nominations (including Best Director, Producer, Screenplay, Actor, Cinematography and Editing) for the 2009 Nastri d'Argento, the awards given by Italian film journalists, to be held June 27 in Taormina, Sicily. Also up for Best Director are Marco Bellocchio (Vincere, which...
Production - Sweden - Josef Fares returns to comedy
2009-07-02 09:00:05After his dramas Leo (2007) and Zozo (2005), Lebanese-born Swedish filmmaker Josef Fares has returned to the genre that made his famous: comedy. His new (still untitled) film is currently shooting around the Trollhättan studios in Western Sweden until July 29. Torkel Petersson and the director's father Jan Fares - who both acted in Fares' previous comedy hits, Jalla Jalla! (2000) and Kopps...
Releases - Spain - The Friend Zone prolongs comedy season
2009-07-02 09:00:05It is unusual for a Spanish film to enjoy critical success (a recent example is 25 Carat). It is even rarer for the film in question to be a comedy. And if, on top of that, the film's protagonists are teenagers, it's practically a miracle. San Sebastian-born director Borja Cobeaga has nonetheless achieved this feat with his debut feature, The Friend Zone. Manga Films could...
Venice 2009 - Venice Days/Spain - Sánchez-Arévalo back on Lido with touching “full-size” comedy
2009-09-07 09:00:03Three years after Daniel Sánchez-Arévalo launched his feature debut DarkBlueAlmostBlack in Venice Days, he returns to the section with Gordos. The smart, witty ensemble comedy received a lengthy standing ovation at its official screening. The story revolves around a series of chubby characters undergoing group therapy, led by a thin therapist (Roberto Enríquez) who, it turns out, has the...
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