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Festivals - UK - Chadha's Afterlife to premiere at Sundance
2009-12-23 09:00:03British director Gurinder Chadha's comedy It's A Wonderful Afterlife will receive its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival (January 21-31, 2010) where it will screen out of competition. Afterlife, along with Galt Niederhoffer's The Romantics and Lisa Cholodenko's The Kids Are Alright, were surprise last minute additions to the Sundance line-up. All three directors have been part of...
Berlinale 2010 - EFM/France - Memento has Puzzle and Shahada in competition
2010-02-08 09:00:04French seller Memento Films International has the double honour of having two films selected in official competition at the 60th Berlinale (February 11-21): Natalia Smirnoff's French/Argentinean co-production Puzzle (produced on the French side by Caroline Dhainaut-Nollet for Las Ninas Pictures) and Burhan Qurbani's German title Shahada (produced by Bittersuess Pictures and ZDF). Tanja...
Production - Netherlands - Dutch Majesty has started shooting
2010-04-01 09:00:04Filming started on Monday for Majesteit (“Majesty”), the new film from Dutch director Peter de Baan. The title will look at the current Dutch monarch, Queen Beatrix, in much the same way as Stephen Frears' Oscar-winning feature about Queen Elizabeth, The Queen. De Baan's film, which was written by his regular collaborator Ger Beukenkamp, is described as a...
Cannes 2010 - Market/Austria - EastWest line-up has northern flavour
2010-05-07 09:00:03Vienna-based sales company EastWest Film Distribution is screening five European titles at the Cannes Market (May 13-22), three of which are Swedish productions. Both the family adventure film Wolf by Daniel Alfredson (Millenium 2 and 3) and the psycho-thriller Corridor star Peter Stormare, while family drama Miss Kicki features Pernilla August. “It's not a calculated choice to...
Cannes 2010 - Out of Competition / UK - Tamara Drewe: a bucolic Stephen Frears has lost none of his bite
2010-05-19 09:00:03Belly laughs rocked the press screening for Tamara Drewe, Stephen Frears's film adaptation of Posy Simmonds' comic strip and graphic novel, which screened out of competition at Festival di Cannes. With his sassy, sarcasm-coated bucolic romp, the eclectic filmmaker from Leicester certainly never ceases to amaze. His films fit right in with the latest from Mike Leigh and Ken Loach (all three...
Production - Norway - Zentropa has faith in Straume
2010-05-31 09:00:05Zentropa Norway, headed by Valerie Saunders, will produce Fait, the new feature film by Unni Straume (Music for Weddings and Funerals). Faith is based on a script written by the Oscar-nominated Krzysztof Piesiewicz (Three Colours: Red). It tells the story of 20-year-old Madelaine, who moves from her small hometown on the western coast of Norway to Bergen in search of her biological...
Production - France - Breathless chase for Dupontel in La Proie
2010-06-15 09:00:03A bank robber, a serial killer and a police woman are at the centre of La Proie (“The Prey”, working title), the fifth feature by Eric Valette (Maléfique, State Affairs). The film, which started shooting yesterday, belongs to a strand of genre films that is being explored more and more in France. The cast includes Albert Dupontel (director and star of The Villain which...
interview: Dutch Shooting Star Maryam Hassouni on 'Dunya & Desie'
2008-05-27 10:44:32While French cinema reflects the experience of the country’s immigrant population with dramas that range from hard-hitting (Mathieu Kassovitz’s La haine) to sweetly dysfunctional (Abdellatif Kechiche’s L’esquive (content/view/238/5/), La Graine et le mulet (content/view/858/118/)) and the Germans have the poignant dramas of Fatih Akin, Dutch cinema has taken the opposite route in recent years by talking to and about its immigrant population in all-inclusive blockbuster comedies. The genre also spawned several recognisable stars, including Mimoun Oaïssa and Maryam Hassouni, the Dutch Shooting Stars of 2006 and this year, respectively. The editor of european-films.net, Boyd van Hoeij, spoke with Maryam Hassouni before the premiere of Dunya Desie at the Berlin Film Festival.
interview: Dutch Shooting Star Maryam Hassouni on 'Dunya & Desie'
2008-05-27 10:44:35While French cinema reflects the experience of the country’s immigrant population with dramas that range from hard-hitting (Mathieu Kassovitz’s La haine) to sweetly dysfunctional (Abdellatif Kechiche’s L’esquive (content/view/238/5/), La Graine et le mulet (content/view/858/118/)) and the Germans have the poignant dramas of Fatih Akin, Dutch cinema has taken the opposite route in recent years by talking to and about its immigrant population in all-inclusive blockbuster comedies. The genre also spawned several recognisable stars, including Mimoun Oaïssa and Maryam Hassouni, the Dutch Shooting Stars of 2006 and this year, respectively. The editor of european-films.net, Boyd van Hoeij, spoke with Maryam Hassouni before the premiere of Dunya Desie at the Berlin Film Festival.
AP: Paul Newman's friend says actor has cancer (AP)
2008-06-12 05:00:22AP - NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) Paul Newman has always been a fiercely private man, shunning the trappings of fame wrought by his Hollywood career while immersing himself in auto racing, philanthropy and a multimillion-dollar food business.
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