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All articles by Jacob Neiiendam – Page 29
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JSA - Joint Security Area
Screened at Berlin (Competition). Dir: Park Chan-Wook. South Korea. 2000. 110mins. If nothing else, Korean director Park Chan-Wook's JSA - Joint Security Area can boast a highly unusual setting for its drama - the border between North and South Korea, the last flashpoint of the defunct Cold War. It is ...
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Zentropa: Bodils well at Danish awards
At the Bodil Awards on March 4 in Copenhagen, the Danish film-journalists and -critics' association gave out their prestigious prizes to last year's best films and acting talents.The award has been around since 1948, making it one of the oldest in Europe, but seldom, if ever, has it seen stronger ...
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Betelnut Beauty
Screened at Berlin (Competition) Dir: Lin Cheng-sheng. Taiwan-China-France. 2000. 106mins.Young people struggling to find a meaningful life in the urban sprawl of Asian megacities like Taipei and Beijing is not a new premisefor a film, but Lin Cheng-sheng's Betelnut Beauty is a standoutnonetheless. Fully deserving the best director award ...
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Ignorant Fairies
Screened at Berlin (Competition).Directed by Ferzan Ozpetek. Italy/France. 2000. 105mins.The clash between cultures has been the pivotal focus in Turkish-born - but who has lived in Rome since 1978 - director Ferzan Ozpetek's work. His first feature, Hamam - The Turkish Bath (Il Bagno Turco), about a Italian man's sexual ...
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Trust turns up sales heat at Berlin
Armed with hot competition title Italian For Beginners plus the next projects from Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg, Scandinavia's Trust Film Sales closed a host of deals in smaller markets this week to emerge as the most prolific sales agent at Berlin.Closing multi-title packages to Israel's Shani Films, Greece's ...
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Italian For Beginners
Screened at Berlin (Competition). Dir: Lone Scherfig. Denmark. 2000. 118mins.Judging by the applause and peels of laughter that greeted the press screenings this week for Lone Scherfig's Italian For Beginners at Berlin, a festival where such spontaneous outbursts are rare, it is clear that there is plenty of life yet ...
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Buyers get first taste of Von Trier's Dogville
Poland's Gutek Film and Switzerland's Monopol Pathe have already signed up for Lars von Trier's next project, Dogville, following the screening in Berlin of a five-minute film, shot last month to test the project's innovative concept.Only the international backers of von Trier's last film, Dancer In The Dark, were invited ...
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Miramax snaps up Italian For Beginners
Miramax has acquired Lone Scherfig's dogme title Italian For Beginners, one of the hottest titles in the main competition at the Berlin Film Festival since its screening on Friday, for release in the US, Mexico and English-speaking Canada. Miramax is understood to have paid $600,000 for the romantic comedy, beating ...
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Bavaria, Moviefan swoop on Angel projects
Two projects from Danish producer-distributor Angel Films have been picked up for worldwide sales in the market at Berlin - Laila The Pure, directed by Gabriel Axel (Babette's Feast), which has been bought by Moviefan, and Hella Joof's Shake It All About, which has gone to Bavaria Media. Laila, a ...
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Phoenix joins Danes in Vinterberg's Love
As expected, Gladiator star Joaquin Phoenix has signed to play the male lead in It's All About Love, a fantasy romance by white-hot Danish director Thomas Vinterberg (Festen). He joins Claire Danes who signed last month (ScreenDaily, Jan 3). The film, which is Vinterberg's English-language debut, begins production on April ...
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Andersson's Songs reigns at Swedish film awards
Roy Andersson's long-awaited return to feature films, Songs From The Second Floor (Sanger Fran Andra Vaningen), swept all the major awards at the Swedish film awards, the Guldbagga, which took place in Stockholm on Monday night. The critically-acclaimed film, which took a jury prize at Cannes last year, won in ...
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Danish Film Institute dips into the mainstream
Denmark's main public funding body, the Danish Film Institute (DFI), is moving towards commercially-driven fare in its latest funding round by awarding $1.89m (DKr15m) to three mainstream, family-oriented films.Danish national broadcaster TV2 is also co-financing the projects. "We need films which can draw a lot of people to create a ...
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Bench takes top honours at Danish film awards
Per Fly's intense and realistic drama The Bench won five awards including best film, best director and best actor (Jesper Christensen) at the Danish Film Academy's Robert awards on Sunday night.The Zentropa-produced title also won awards for best costume and best make-up. After an unprecedented number of nominations, Zentropa titles ...
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Feilberg takes post at Danish Film Institute
The board of the Danish Film Institute has appointed Lars Feilberg as area manager for production and development, replacing Thomas Stenderup, effective from April. Feilberg has previously held positions as managing director of Domino Film & TV Produktion, MTV Produktion and Endemol Entertainment. He was also a project manager and ...
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Cool And Crazy bags top award at Goteborg
Knut Erik Jensen's feature-length documentary Cool And Crazy (Heftig Og Begeistret) picked up the Nordic film award at Scandinavia's largest film event, the Goteborg Film Festival in Sweden, which wrapped on Saturday night.The film had its successful world premiere at the Tromso International Film Festival in Norway, but director Jensen, ...
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Sweden's NonStop takes on Flickering Lights
Swedish sales agent NonStop Sales, launched last year at Cannes, has picked up a raft of hot Nordic titles headed by Danish feature Flickering Lights which has racked up admissions of 380,000 at the local box office.Flickering Lights, produced by Tivi Magnusson and Kim Magnusson's M&M Productions, features an all-star ...
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Dancer, Bench, Italian split Danish Oscars
Lars von Trier's Cannes winner Dancer In The Dark, Per Fly's The Bench and Lone Scherfig's Italian For Beginners led the nominations for Denmark's Oscar equivalents, the Robert awards.The trio secured ten nominations each in a year when award nominations for Danish films proved as competitive as the fight for ...
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Scandinavian fears despite $500m admissions boom
Cinema-going in Scandinavia and the Baltic could explode by almost 40% by 2005 to hit $500m a year, according to the latest research from industry consultants Dodona Research. But, according to separate figues, local films may not benefit from the growth.Dodona calculates that total admissions in 2005 could reach 58 ...
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Claire Danes signs to Vinterberg's sci-fi romance
Claire Danes has been cast in Danish director Thomas Vinterberg's English-language fantastical romance, It's All About Love. Danes is to play the world famous ice skater Elena in the story about two lovers and their attempts to save their floundering relationship in a near-future world on the brink of spiritual ...
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Denmark's TV2 launches development fund
Danish broadcaster TV2/Denmark, which has become one of the biggest supporters of feature films in Denmark, is to provide the industry with an additional $0.72m (DKr6m) in development funding.The public service station is obliged by law to provide an annual minimum of $2.4m (DKr20m) for local feature production, and will ...