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    Norway names O'Horten as Foreign-Language Oscar submission

    2008-09-19T15:38:00Z

    Norwegian director Bent Hamer's O'Horten will fly the Norwegian colours for the Oscar nominations as Best Foreign-Language feature, it was announced today (Sept 18) by the Norwegian Film Institute.The film was also scripted and produced by Hamer, for his own BulBul Film and was co-produced with Scanboxfilm, Pandora Film, and ...

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    The Match Factory to handle new Hamer feature

    2007-02-12T04:00:00Z

    Michael Weber's The Match Factory has picked up worldwide rights, excluding Scandinavia and German-speaking territories, to Bent Hamer's latest project O'Horten which began shooting in Norway on January 29. The film, which follows locomotive driver Odd Horten on a fatefully absurd odyssey on his first days of retirement, has actor ...

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    Hamer selected for Un Certain Regard as Norway targets the Croisette

    2008-04-24T17:43:00Z

    Norwegian director Bent Hamer's O'Horten - his return to local film-making after his US feature, Factotum (2005), from Charles Bukowski's novel - will unspool in Un Certain Regard at Cannes, as Hamer's fourth official entry in the festival. The selection coincides with Norway's largest promotional effort on the Côte d'Azur, ...

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    67 countries submit titles for foreign language film Oscar

    2008-10-18T11:50:00Z

    A record 67 countries, including first-time entrant Jordan have submitted films for consideration in the foreign language film category for the 81st Academy Awards.Nominations will be announced on January 22, 2009 and the Oscar will be presented on February 22, 2009, at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Centre.Click ...

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    Toronto reviews

    2008-09-04T14:37:00Z

    Gala PresentationsBurn After Reading (Joel and Ethan Coen)Dean Spanley (Toa Fraser)The Duchess (Saul Dibb)Fifty Dead Men Walking (Kari Skogland)La Fille De Monaco (Anne Fontaine)The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond (Jodie Markell)Nothing But The Truth (Rod Lurie)One Week (Michael McGowan)The Other Man (Richard Eyre)Passchendaele (Paul Gross)Pride And Glory (Gavin O'Connor)Rachel Getting ...

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    SPC confirms double acquisition from Match Factory

    2008-05-28T00:23:00Z

    Sony Pictures Classics has picked up US and Latin American rights to Ari Folman's Cannes competition entry Waltz With Bashir and North American rights to Bent Hamer's Un Certain Regard screener O'Horten.For more Cannes sales click hereSPC negotiated both deals with The Match Factory.In Waltz With Bashir, Folman, a former ...

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    Screen International Critics' Choice 2008

    2008-11-20T12:08:00Z

    Screen International Critics' Choice 2008The Chaser (dir. Na Hong-jin)The Class (dir. Laurent Cantet) Gomorrah(dir. Matteo Garrone) Hunger (dir. Steve McQueen) Il Divo (dir. Paolo Sorrentino) O'Horten (dir. Bent Hamer) Of Time And The City (dir. Terence Davies) Three Monkeys (dir. Nuri Bilge Ceylan) Tokyo Sonata (dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa) Vinyan (dir. ...

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    Austria, Norway enter Oscar race

    2014-09-04T07:00:00Z

    Austrian entry The Dark Valley stars British actor Sam Riley; Estonia and Venezuela also make their submissions for the Best Foreign-Language Film category.

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    Cannes quartet taken on by The Match Factory

    2008-04-25T09:58:00Z

    Martin Blaney in Berlin The Match Factory will be handling international sales for four films selected to the official programme of next month's Cannes Film Festival.After last year's The Edge Of Heaven, Michael Weber's Cologne-based company has another film in this year's Competition: Ari Folman's animated documentary Waltz With Bashir, ...

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    Artificial Eye takes The Class, Il Divo and two other Cannes titles

    2008-05-27T11:28:00Z

    UK distributor Curzon Artificial Eye has picked up four films from Cannes, including Palme d'Or winner The Class (Entre Les Murs).The other acquisitions are Il Divo, O'Horten and Ashes Of Time Redux. Laurent Cantet's The Class, starring Francois Begaudeau, was sold by Memento. The French production is about a teacher's ...