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Cannes 2008 - Competition/Germany - Wenders comes home
2008-05-27 10:37:50"Fear of death is the main theme in Palermo Shooting. No one faces it. Rather, they speak of the absence of death," said Wim Wenders at the film's press conference this morning. His film, which screened in competition at Cannes is a road movie that brought him back to Europe after 12 years spent making films in America. And to his native city, Düsseldorf, and, naturally, Palermo, where Finn,...
Cannes 2008 - Competition/France - Cantet reveals hidden world of teaching
2008-05-27 10:37:50An experimental director who subtly explores social realities, Laurent Cantet received an enthusiastic reception this morning at the screening of his fourth feature, Entre les murs (“Between the Walls”). This was the last of the 22 titles shown in official competition this year at the Cannes Film Festival. Echoing the flurry of sales of the feature at the Film Market (see...
Cannes 2008 - Competition/Italy - Andreotti as a lethal “god” in Sorrentino's new film
2008-05-27 10:37:50As explosive as a bomb, as impetuous as a swollen river, Paolo Sorrentino's Il Divo (“The Deity”) has arrived on the Croisette, the second Italian film in competition at a winding-down Cannes. Having definitively taken the path of the grotesque and hyperbolic, Sorrentino has broadened the cinematic language he previously experimented in The Family Friend to recount 40...
Festivals - Hungary - The Investigator in competition at Karlovy Vary
2008-06-24 05:00:08The official selection of the 43rd Karlovy Vary Film Festival (July 4-12) was unveiled yesterday and includes four Hungarian productions. The line-up is headed by Attila Gigor's thriller The Investigator, which will screen in competition. Winner of four awards at the Hungarian Film Week 2008 (Best Genre Film, Best Actor for Zsolt Anger, Best Screenplay and Best Editing), The...
Awards - Europe - LUX Prize 2008: three films in competition
2008-06-25 05:00:06Three films from the official selection published last week will be competing for this year's European Parliament cinema Prize - the LUX Prize 2008: Delta de Kornél Mundruczó (Germany, Hungary); Le silence de Lorna de Jean-Pierre Dardenne et Luc Dardenne (Belgium, United Kingdom, France, Italy); Citizen Havel (Obcan Havel) de Miroslav Janek et Pavel Koutecký ( Czech Republic)....
Festivals - Italy - Patierno in competition at Karlovy Vary
2008-06-26 05:00:06The Early Bird Catches the Worm by Francesco Patierno has been chosen in official competition at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival (July 4-12). Released in Italy at the end of February by Medusa, the film centres on a young radio DJ (Elio Germano) consumed by an addiction to gambling (the story is based on Marco Baldini's autobiographical novel Il giocatore - see news). This will be...
Festivals - Italy - Seven German competition entries at Giffoni
2008-07-08 05:00:07Four German features and three shorts will compete in four of the six competition sections of Italy's Giffoni International Film Festival (July 18-26), one of the world's most important film events for children's and youth films. A particular characteristic of the festival is that the sections' juries are composed of children and young people of different age groups, who choose the winner...
Festivals - Italy - RomeFilmFest changes name and expands competition
2008-07-12 05:00:08With the arrival of the new president Gian Luigi Rondi in June come changes to the RomeFilmFest. The name of the event, to be held from October 22-31, has been changed to the Rome International Film Festival and the films of the two main sections, Cinema 2008 and Première, will all take part in the official competition. Rondi announced further changes this morning. There will be a Golden...
Festivals - Germany - Petzold and Schroeter in competition at Venice
2008-07-30 05:00:05The competition section of the 65th Venice Film Festival (August 27-September 6) will feature Christian Petzold's Jerichow along with three other German co-productions: Semih Kaplanoglu's Milk (Turkey/France/Germany), Werner Schroeter's Nuit de chien (France/Germany/Portugal) and Haile Gerima's Teza (Ethiopia/Germany/France). The section's international jury is presided over by...
Venice 2008 - Out of competition - Three Golden Lions, two masters and lots of music
2008-07-30 05:00:05This year's out of competition of the 65th Venice Film Festival is particularly full. The section (and festival) will open with the Coen brothers' Burn After Reading and includes an overall seven titles, along with short film and numerous older films. The European features include Italy's Puccini e la fanciulla, a tribute by the rigorous Paolo Benvenuti to the composer of The Girl of...
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