European art-house films face tough times
Another problem is the growing over-production that is also flooding cinemas. In 2012, there were more than 600 films released in Germany but the box office results for the films have been shrinking.
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Italian film critic Carlo Chatrian to be new festival director of Locarno
Italian film critic Carlo Chatrian will replace Frenchman Olivier Père as artistic director of the Locarno Film Festival.
Interview: Alberto Barbera, Director of 69th Venice International Film Festival
Controcampo had become much too similar to an Indian reservation. Italian films in Venice should be considered as foreign films. You will see that they are less than last year (30-40% less) but they are in no way underrepresented
French film director and writer Chris Marker dies
French film director and writer Chris Marker died on Monday, aged 91.
Spanish filmmaker to shoot road movie in India
Spanish documentary filmmaker Chema Rodríguez will shoot parts of his first feature film in India in October. The project is titled Night is Falling in India. It is a road movie about a journey from Spain to the river Ganges. The film is currently being shot in Romania and will then move to Turkey and [...]
Review: Rust & Bone by Jacques Audiard, Cannes 2012 competition
Diving as usual into the great depths of a society that he observes frankly, Jacques Audiard this time orchestrates an astounding love story with echos of the Beauty and the Beast
Will see all films with same attention and same respect: Nanni Moretti, Jury President, 65th Cannes Film Festival
What is important is to see all the films with the same attention and same respect. And to meet often so as not to forget films that we might have seen too many days before.
Béla Tarr to run academic film course in Croatia
Hungarian director Béla Tarr announced that the University of Split (Croatia) curriculum will be a three-year course, which will in the first year take 16 international students. The classes are meant as a combination of theoretical courses, workshops with filmmakers and practical work. “In my view, it is impossible to teach art, because every artist [...]
Italian cinema industry sides with Marco Müller for Rome Film Festival
Renowned Italian filmmakers Bertolucci, Olmi, Bellocchio, Salvatores, Crialese, as well as Toni Servillo, Stefania Sandrelli, the producers Riccardo Tozzi and Pietro Valsecchi, and singer-songwriter Franco Battiato feature amongst the 150 signatories of an appeal in favour of the new director of the Rome Film Festival, Marco Müller. In an open letter addressed to politicians and [...]
Venice 2011: A Dangerous Method
In 1904, Sabina Spielrein (Keira Knightley), a young woman suffering from hysteria, becomes the patient of psychoanalyst Carl Jung (Michael Fassbender).
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