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    Interview: Walter Salles

    2008-05-30T00:00:00Z

    Brazilians Walter Salles and Daniela Thomas have an agreement to co-direct films every few years which take a close look at life in Brazil.They have two films to their joint credit - Foreign Land in 1996 and Midnight in 1998 (as well as the Loin Du 16eme short from the ...

  • Salles' On The Road set to begin shooting in August
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    Salles' On The Road set to begin shooting in August

    2010-05-07T10:22:00Z

    Walter Salles’ $25m long gestating adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s On The Road will now kick off at the start of August with Sam Riley, Garrett Hedlund and Kristen Stewart confirmed in the leads.

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    Walter Salles to collect San Francisco Society's Founder's Award

    2010-03-15T16:50:00Z

    Walter Salles will receive the San Francisco Film Society’s Founder’s Directing Award at the 53rd San Francisco International Film Festival.

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    Salles in post on companion piece documentary to On The Road

    2008-05-17T06:00:00Z

    Walter Salles, who is preparing a film of Jack Kerouac's seminal beat novel On The Road, has finished principal photography on a companion piece documentary in which he follows the trip taken by Kerouac's alter-ego Sal Paradise through North America.'We met the several people who are still alive that he ...

  • On The Road travels to Greece, Canada, Scandinavia
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    On The Road travels to Greece, Canada, Scandinavia

    2011-05-15T20:38:00Z

    MK2 closes more deals on Walter Salles’ upcoming road movie.

  • AMC Networks swoops on US rights to On The Road
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    AMC Networks swoops on US rights to On The Road

    2012-05-09T01:35:00Z

    The company’s distribution labels IFC Films and Sundance Selects will jointly release Walter Salles’ upcoming Cannes competition entry in theatres in late autumn following a seven-figure deal.

  • On The Road
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    On The Road

    2012-05-23T13:44:00Z

    Dir: Walter Salles. France-Brazil. 2012. 137mins

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    Silver Linings Playbook, On The Road to open Mill Valley

    2012-09-14T23:09:00Z

    David O Russell’s crowdpleaser and Walter Salles’ Jack Kerouac adaptation will open the festival on Oct 4 in Marin County, California. Ang Lee’s Life Of Pi will close the event.

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    Motorcycle Diaries takes road to Cannes

    2004-01-20T04:05:00Z

    Walter Salles' highlyanticipated The Motorcycle Diaries looks set to make its internationalpremiere in Cannes, rather than at the forthcoming Berlin festival where it hadbeen expected to show in competition.The Berlin festival invitedthe film last autumn and seemed certain to include it in its main competitionsection. Diaries' Brazilian director Salles had ...

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    Salles to direct Motorcycle Diaries for Wildwood

    2001-01-17T17:57:00Z

    Robert Redford's Wildwood Enterprises has reeled in Brazil's Walter Salles (Central Station) to direct an adaptation of Che Guevara's renowned journal The Motorcycle Diaries. The road movie will likely be made for a "modest" budget of $6m to $8m, according to Wildwood president Michael Nozik. Principal photography is slated to ...