All articles by Jacob Neiiendam – Page 17
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Copenhagen festival gets off to turbulent start
The first Copenhagen International Film Festival (Aug 13-20) has had a turbulent few weeks in the lead up to its launch on Wednesday night. Festival programmer Michael Soeby has resigned and will not be returning next year, despite lining up a decent first programme with a strong focus on European ...
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Bier's Brothers to follow in Open Hearts vein
Danish writer-director Susanne Bier is gearing up to shoot her new film, Brothers (working title), based on a script co-written with the prolific Anders Thomas Jensen. Set to shoot in the autumn, the contemporary drama centres on two brothers and follows in the vein of last year's collaboration with Jensen, ...
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Moodysson cranks up Swedish family focused film
Acclaimed Swedish director Lukas Moodysson is to start shooting his new as yet untitled film later this month at the Trollhattan studio, where he shot his previous hits Fucking Amal, Together and Lilja 4-ever.The Swedish-language contemporary drama will again focus on a family, but as usual the writer-director is being ...
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Insomnia director readies Ibsen adaptation
Erik Skjoldbjaerg, who made his international breakthrough with his debut feature Insomnia (1997), will return to his native Norway to direct an updated screen version of Henrik Ibsen's 1882 play An Enemy Of The People. To be produced by the recently restructured Norwegian arm of Nordic major Nordisk Film, producers ...
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Copenhagen fest completes jury
The first edition of the Copenhagen International Film Festival (Aug 13-20) has filled the remaining two seats of its five man jury, who will be presided over by Theo Angelopoulos. Joining Denmark's Bille August and Sweden's Jan Troell are German writer-director Jutta Brückner and Belgian actress-turned filmmaker Marion Hänsel. Together ...
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Ullmann woos Blanchett for star-studded Ibsen adaptation
Norway's great film diva, the 64 year-oldactress-turned-filmmaker Liv Ullmann, is in talks with a bevy of top Hollywoodacting talents, including Cate Blanchett, Kevin Spacey and John Cusack, with aview to casting them in yet another big screen version of A Doll's House, her countryman Henrik Ibsen's classic dissection ofmarriage.Dinamo Story, ...
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Estonia pins hopes on Names In Marble follow up
Kristian Taska, the young writer-producer who broke the Estonia box-office record with his feature debut Names In Marble, is in the final weeks of shooting his highly anticipated second film, We Won't Sleep Tonight. It is the first of its kind to be shot in both Estonian and English language ...
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Danish Film Institute makes key appointments
The Danish Film Institute has made a string of appointments to some of its key positions. Influential managing director Henning Camre has had his six-year contract prolonged another two years until 2006. He has been the key to the restructuring and development of the new film policy at the institute ...
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Buddy chosen as closing local film at Haugesund
Buddy, the runaway hit of the Karlovy Vary Film Festival, has been selected as the closing local film of this year's Norwegian International Film Festival (Aug 17-24) in Haugesund It will screen on Aug 21 and will at the same time be the opening film of the New Nordic Films ...
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Kidman parts company with Von Trier's USA trilogy
Despite collaborating to great acclaim on Dogville, Nicole Kidman and Lars Von Trier will no longer work together on the next two instalments of the director's planned USA trilogy.Because of Kidman's busy schedule, Lars von Trier feels he cannot wait for the Hollywood star and will shoot the films with ...
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Northfork
Dir: Michael Polish. USA. 2003. 103mins.Despite its all-star cast, Northfork, actor-writer-director Michael Polish's dreamlike fable about the flooding of a small community will be a hard sell for Paramount Classics when it opens in the US on July 11. Nevertheless, it should prove a welcome guest at festivals looking for ...
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Local titles to compete for Norway's Amanda awards
When the Norwegian film and TV awards, the Amandas, are handed out for the 19th time on August 22, festival titles like Jens Lien's black comedy Jonny Vang and Bent Hamer's crowd-pleaser Kitchen Stories will face off against Paal Oie's low-budget thriller Dark Woods in the best film category. Produced ...
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Norwegian Film Fund greenlights seven new features
Seven new local features have been greenlit with backing from the Norwegian Film Fund (NFF). The films come from all over the country and a number of them are feature debuts - aswith Tore Rygh's romantic musical melodrama Alt For Egil (Everything For Egil), which is set in and around ...
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Local films get high presence at first Copenhagen festival
The first edition of the Copenhagen International Film Festival, August 13-20, has announced its main competition line-up, which includes three local productions and two Danish co-productions. The three local titles are Jesper W. Nielsen's The Bouncer (Manden Bag Doeren), Torben Skjoedt Jensen's The Tenth Muse (Afgrunden) and Swedish-born newcomer Anders ...
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Wiedemann to head new Danish talent development fund
Editor turned scriptwriter turned film commissioner, Vinca Wiedemann, has been appointed artistic director of the new $3.9m Talent Development Fund at the Danish Film Institute (DFI). The new fund has been established by public broadcasters DR, TV2/Danmark and the Film Institute as part of the four-year media agreement. Its starts ...
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Lost Swedish classic is found and restored
The Avenger (Hamnaren 1916), a long-believed lost silent classic from the Swedish director Mauritz Stiller has been rediscovered and restored by the Swedish Film Institute and will screen as part of this summer's Cinema Ritrovato Festival in Bologna. The film was recently rediscovered in Germany in an edited German version, ...
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Theo Angelopoulos to lead first Copenhagen film fest
Theo Angelopoulos is to preside over the first Copenhagen International Film Festival's five-strong jury, which so far also includes Sweden's Jan Troell and Denmark's Bille August.The festival's awards, The Golden Swans, will be given to the best film, director, actress, actor, script and cinematography. In addition to the jury prizes, ...
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NonStop signs up with SF Anytime VOD service
Stockholm-based distributor NonStop Entertainment AB has signed a deal with Video on Demand (VOD) service SF Anytime. The long-term agreement will see a number of NonStop-titles become available by streaming over broadband. SF Anytime earlier this year launched a VOD service allowing for the viewing of films at home through ...
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Danes launch FilmFyn regional fund
New Danish regional fund FilmFyn launches this week with a budget of US$2.7m (DKR17m), which will be divided among three to four feature films annually at least until 2006. The first regional fund of its kind in Denmark, FilmFyn is modelled on the hugely successful Swedish regional fund, Film I ...
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United scores Haugesund opening
First-time director Magnus Martens has had his romantic football comedy United chosen as the opening film for the 31st edition of the Norwegian International Film Festival in Haugesund. The film will kick off the event on Aug 17, three days before its domestic release through Columbia Tristar. Even if it ...