All articles by Sheri Jennings – Page 3
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Venice Orizzonti adds Lav Diaz's Century of Birthing
Two closing films, from Finland and Belgium, added to the section.
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Rutger Hauer joins Scherson's The Future
Alicia Scherson’s international co-production is an adaptation of novelist and poet Roberto Bolano’s book Una Novelita Lumpen
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Venice adds Johnnie To's Life Without Principle to Competition
Hong Kong action filmmaker Jonnie To’s financial-crisis themed Life Without Principle (Dyut Ming Gam) will be the 22nd film in competition in the upcoming Venice Film Festival, organisers confirmed.
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Venice line-up shows UK strength; surprise film and another last-minute film could be added
British cinema is back in competition at the 68th Venice Film Festival, where after a three-year absence, the UK brings three films to the Lido in a year which is dominated by English-language cinema, but which showcases exciting works from Germany, France, Israel, Greece, Russia, Japan, China and Taiwan among ...
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Venice announces competition, out of competition official selections
Titles confirmed include Steve McQueen’s Shame, Madonna’s W.E., William Friedkin’s Killer Joe [pictured], Emanuele Crialese’s Terraferma, Aleksander Sokurov’s Faust and Yorgos Lanthimos’ Alps.
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Venice Horizons selections include Jonathan Demme, Ross McElwee docs
There are 24 films in the feature-length section, including Nicolas Provost’s The Invader [pictured].
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Whit Stillman's Damsels In Distress to close Venice
American director Whit Stillman’s Damsels In Distress will be the closing film out of competition at the 68th edition of the Venice Film Festival.
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Producer Cecchi Gori back under house arrest in Italy
Italian producer Vittorio Cecchi Gori is back under house arrest as he is investigated for fraudulent bankruptcy of his holding company Finmavi Spa, Italian media widely reports.
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Venice Days lineup has Gallic flavour
Selections include Amigorena’s Another Silence [pictured], Lioret’s All Our Desires, and Lou Ye’s Love And Bruises.
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Venice Critics Week to open with Stockholm East, close with Mission Of Peace
Nine world premieres selected for Critics Week.
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Bruni's Scialla! to open Venice's Controcampo Italiano section
In other festival news, Luigi De Laurentiis award jury to include Frank Roos, Aleksei Fedorchenko, Charles Tesson, Serra Yilmaz and Carlo Mazzacurati.
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Amir Naderi’s Cut to open Venice’s Orizzonti
Venice also announces Orizzonti jury, as well as changes to Controcampo Italiano
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John Malkovich to star in Salvatores' Siberian Education
The actor will head up the cast of Gabriele Salvatores’ upcoming English language project about the Siberian criminal underworld.
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Italian distributor Medusa's 2011 market share hits 29% so far in 2011
Hoping the hunger for local films won’t wane any time soon, Medusa film on Tuesday announced their current annual film investment would reach €130m, of which $142m (€100m) will go into local product.
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Procacci-produced Blood to start shooting next week
Italian producer Domenico Procacci on Thursday announced the long-gestating police brutality project, Diaz — Don’t Clean Up This Blood, will go into production next week for a 10-week shoot between Romania and the Italian city of Genoa.
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Venice confirms Clooney's Ides Of March as opening film
George Clooney’s writer/director/producer project The Ides Of March will open the upcoming 68th edition of the Venice Film Festival, the Biennale confirmed today after news of the title as opening film had been leaked.
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RAI slate includes new Ozpetek film
Rai Cinema’s CEO Paolo Del Brocco on Monday unveiled the state-run film company’s 2011-2012 line up, budget and new projects in the production pipeline.
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Mario Gianani
Italian producer Mario Gianani talks to Screen about getting his lucky break and working with Bernardo Bertolucci on his upcoming project Io E Te.
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Taormina festival to honour Oliver Stone, Monica Bellucci, Tarak Ben Ammar
Maghreb cinema to be guest territory and basis for roundtable.
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Italian distributors close a raft of hot deals in Cannes
Eagle takes on films including Inbetweeners and Cloud Atlas; Moviemax gets I Don’t Know How She Does It; Videa gets End of Watch, along with many other titles.