All Venice articles – Page 101
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Apprentice takes Venice Critics Week jury prize
The winner at Venice Critics Week was French entry The Apprentice(L’apprenti) by Samuel Collardey. That jury is composed of three international critics, and the winning film gets a prize of nearly $5,000 (Euros 3,000). This year the Critics Week section also took the Lion of the Future award - as ...
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Venice FIPRESCI prizes go to Goodbye Solo, Inland (Gabba)
Ramin Bahrani's Goodbye Solo, which is screening at TIFF through September 11, took the FIPRESCI international critics prize in Venice, as best film in Horizons and International Critics' Week.The FIPRESCI prize for the international competition went Inland (Gabbla) by Tariq Teguia. Inland is about present-day Algeria, through the experiences of ...
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Match Factory closes Swiss, Italy deals on Venice winner Teza
The Match Factory has sold Venice award winner Teza to Switzerland (Trigon) and Italy (Ripley's Film). On Saturday, Haile Gerima's feature won Venice's Special Jury Prize and the Osella for Best Screenplay (also by Gerima). On Friday, it also won the SIGNIS Award special mention and Cinema for UNICEF commendation ...
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NewsAronofsky's The Wrestler takes Golden Lion in Venice
The Venice Film Festival wrapped on Saturday with a Golden Lion award to Darren Aronofsy’s The Wrestler, a film that provided a one-two punch finale for an edition that some considered lacklustre in respect to previous years. (Click here to see Screen review)At the awards ceremony, ...
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Venice Film Festival confirms permanent date change
The 65th Venice Film Festival artistic director Marco Muller has confirmed that next year's festival will open later, on September 2. More significantly, he said that the shift to the first Wednesday in September would be a permanent one. That means that, while the next two years will not see ...
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Uberto Pasolini's Machan takes Venice Europa Cinemas Label
Uberto Pasolini's Machan has won the Europa Cinemas Label as Best European film in the Venice Days section of the Venice Film Festival.Pasolini's directorial debut is also playing here in Contemporary World Cinema. It is about a group of poor Sri Lankan men who aspire to attend a handball tournament ...
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Memento adds sales on Goodbye Solo to Benelux, Switzerland
Memento Films International has generated strong buzz on Venice Horizons title Goodbye Solo with sales to Imagine in Benelux and Xenix in Switzerland. Following its premiere in Venice, the film is also being pursued with offers from France, Portugal, Greece and Italy among others.Ramin Bahrani's third feature will hit Toronto ...
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ReviewsIl Seme Della Discordia
Dir: Pappi Corsicato. Italy. 2008. 84mins.Neapolitan director Pappi Corsicato conjures up the spirit but little of the dramatic and thematic depth of his acknowledged master Pedro Almodovar in this bright but lightweight comedy-melodrama. But though its afterglow is short-lived, Corsicato’s amusing little film still came as ...
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Plastic City set for new edit after Venice, Toronto screenings
Celluloid Dreams has confirmed that the version of Yu Lik-wai's Plastic City screening here in Toronto Special Presentations is an 'unfinished' version.After the post-production was rushed for the world premiere in Venice, the sales company will work with the film-makers after Toronto to recut the film.Gordon Spragg, Celluloid Dreams' director ...
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ReviewsInland (Gabbla)
Dir: Tariq Teguia. Algeria-France. 2008. 145mins.For anyone with the strength to sit through the whole 145 minutes of this sadistically-paced cinematic reflection on the state of contemporary Algeria, there are a few small compensations: some moments of visual poetry, particularly in the final desert scenes, and ...
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As industry leaves Venice for Toronto, Italian titles still strong
As a week of screenings at the Venice Film Festival winds up and the industry moves to Toronto, Italian titles are likely to be a focal point of year’s traditional festival migration.That is because seven Italian films will be on this year’s Toronto roster compared to three last year, across ...
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New Wave takes UK rights to Denis' 35 Shot Of Rum
New UK distributor New Wave Films has acquired Claire Denis' 35 Shots Of Rum (35 Rhums).The deal was struck with sales company Elle Driver.The film is in competition in Venice and will also screen here in Toronto.Bruno Pesery produced for Soudaine Compagnie.Denis wrote the screenplay with Jean-Pol Fargeau.Alex Descas, Mati ...
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ReviewsThe Sky Crawlers
Dir: Mamoru Oshii. Japan. 2008. 122mins.Mamoru Oshii’s most meditative feature-length animation to date tells the story of a group of genetically modified eternally-young fighter aces in a world where war has become a company-sponsored reality game. Like the Peter-Pan ‘Kildren’ that it depicts, The Sky Crawlers ...
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ReviewsA Country Teacher
Dir: Bohdan Slama. Czech-Ger-Fr. 2008. 113mins.A bittersweet comedy about a gay teacher hiding out in a country school, Bohdan Slama’s follow-up to his award-winning Something Like Happiness feels slightly old-fashioned, going over ground that has already been dealt with in other films. The kind of gay ...
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ReviewsTeza
Dir-scr: Haile Gerima. Ethiopia-Germany-France. 2008. 140mins.Haile Gerima ambitiously attempts to put his native country’s tragic recent history into context in the sprawling Teza, which follows an Ethiopian intellectual through exile in Germany and return to his home village during the turbulent early years of the Marxist ...