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Anthony Hopkins says bigger festivals are like 'circuses'
Speaking at the Locarno Film Festival this weekend, Anthony Hopkins revealed that he bypassed several other European festivals, including Rome and Venice, to bring his directorial debut Slipstream to Locarno.'We lost the Rome Festival but we thought it would be better to come here,' Hopkins said. 'It is much more ...
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Locarno gets 10% funding increase from Swiss government
Switzerland's Federal Office of Culture (BAK) will increase its annual support for the Locarno Film Festival by more than 10% from the current $1m (CHF 1.2m) to $1.13m (CHF 1.35m) for the next three years (2008-2010). Speaking exclusively to ScreenDaily.com after the BAK announcement, Locarno's artistic director Frederic Maire commented ...
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HanWay and Celluloid Dreams brands revived as Dreamachine concentrates on library
Just three months after the splashy merger of HanWay Films and Celluloid Dreams, their joint venture company Dreamachine has now announced that the Celluloid and HanWay brands will be run as separate first-run sales and acquisition businesses in London and Paris, as they traditionally had been. The companies had sold ...
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Carlos Saura among Spanish directors invited to San Sebastian
Iciar Bollain, Gracia Querejeta and Carlos Saura are among the Spanish directors invited to screen films this year at the upcoming 55th annual edition of Spain's Donostia-San Sebastian International Film Festival (Sept 20-29).Bollain will screen her new feature Mataharis in the official competition four years after her domestic abuse drama ...
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Sarajevo to host tribute to Ulrich Seidl
Austrian director Ulrich Seidl will be honoured with the Sarajevo Film Festival's Tribute this year. The Tribute programme includes features and documentaries Animal Love, Dog Days (Hundstage), Fun Without Limits, Jesus, You Know, Losses To Be Expected, and three Seidl segments from State Of The Nation : Austria In Six ...
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Mueller looks at Venice's future tied to new palazzo
Just after Venice's 64th official line up has been announced, Marco Mueller, in his fourth year as artistic director, says his programme is 'a balanced edition where you can find the seeds of what is coming next in world cinema.' Mueller can be proud that 90 percent of films in ...
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Sarajevo documentary compeition to include nine world premieres
The Sarajevo Film Festival has announced its documentary competition programme, including nine world premieres. The world premieres from Bosnia and Herzegovina include Nedzad Begovic's A Burdensome Job, about a mortician and a gravedigger; Semsudin Gegic's Ambassadors Learning Languages, about local children evacuated from an orphanage in 1992; Alen Drljevic's Esma, ...
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Ridley Scott to bring new version of Blade Runner to Venice
The Venice Film Festival has announced the surprise Midnight film will be Ridley Scott's Blade Runner: The Final Cut. Shown as a world premiere in the out of competition Midnight section, the screening will also be in celebration of the 25th anniversary of the classic sci-fi, cyber punk noir's original ...
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Financial challenges for future of Locarno festival
On the eve of the 60th edition of the Locarno International Film Festival, the future of the event's financial standing is in the headlines. Speaking to the Swiss daily newspaper Tagblatt, Locarno's artistic director Frederic Maire explained: 'We must increase the budget to around $9.1m (11m CHF). We hope that ...
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Goteborg to host posthumous 50-film Bergman retrospective
As the film world remembers Ingmar Bergman, the Goteborg International Film Festival has reiterated its plans to host a Bergman retrospective during its 31st event, Jan 25-Feb 4, 2008.About 50 of the director's features will be screened during the fifth Bergman week Jan 24-29. Goteborg has a long history with ...
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Italian master Michelangelo Antonioni dies at 94
Iconic Italian director Michelangelo Antonioni died at his Rome residence Monday evening, news reports from Rome said today. He was 94 years old. Born on September 29, 1912 in the town of Ferrara in the Eastern Emilia Romagna region, Antonioni was one of Italy's most influential directors. The director of ...
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Potosi documentary takes top prize at Era New Horizons
Four-hour documentary Potosi: The Journey took the top prize at the seventh Era New Horizons Film Festival in Wroclaw, Poland. Ron Havilio's documentary is about a couple who journey to a mining town in Bolivia in 1970 and return in 1999 with their children. The 11-day festival wrapped July 29 ...
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Maire, Staka recruited for Sarajevo competition jury
Locarno artistic director Frederic Maire won't get much of a rest after his own festival, as he will be heading to the Sarajevo Film Festival Aug 17-25 as a member of the competition jury. As previously reported, Sarajevo's jury will be headed by UK actor Jeremy Irons. Other jurors include ...
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Ingmar Bergman dies at 89
Influential director Ingmar Bergman has died.The film-maker behind such works as The Seventh Seal, Cries & Whispers and Wild Strawberries passed away at his home on the island of Faro, Sweden, aged 89, his daughter Eve said.One of the most revered of film-makers, Bergman enjoyed a 60-year career, which ...
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Carice Van Houten joins Damast's Vivaldi
Black Book star Carice Van Houten has joined the cast of Boris Damast's Vivaldi opposite Joseph Fiennes and Gerard Depardieu.Fiennes will star as the composer. The cast also includes Jaqueline Bisset, Lena Headey, Malcolm McDowell and Elle Fanning. The project will shoot later this year. Future Films is backing the ...
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Motovun gives top prize to Shaul's Sweet Mud
At the ninth Motovun Film Festival (Jul 23-27) in Istria, Croatia, the jury led by Istvan Szabo gave the main prize to Israeli-German-Japanese feature Sweet Mud (Adama Meshuga'at) by Dror Shaul.Each of the jury members had their own special mentions, so the Serbian director Misa Radivojevic chose Naomi Kawase's Cannes ...
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Boll World Sales picks up English-language horror film Fear
Boll World Sales has picked up international distribution rights for Munich-based filmmaker Gerhard Hross' English-language horror film Fear which wraps principal photography in Berlin on July 30.Producer-director Uwe Boll is also serving as a co-financier for the low-budget production by Udo Bomnueter and Helmar Baum's Berlin-based Valerian Fear. Co-producers are ...
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Stephen Daldry's The Reader gears up for Berlin shoot
Nicole Kidman is set to be the latest of the Hollywood A-listers coming to work in Berlin later this summer, following a long line of colleagues such as ex-husband Tom Cruise, Susan Sarandon, John Goodman, Richard Roundtree shooting in the German capital, according to German press reports.It has been revealed ...
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Media Luna and Wide pick up Locarno competition films
Cologne-based sales company Media Luna Entertainment has picked up the world sales for Lugano-born Fulvio Bernasconi's feature debut Off The Ropes (Fuori Dalle Corde), which will have its world premiere in official competition at the Locarno International Film Festival next week.The story of a young Italian boxer from Trieste with ...
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Venice lines up strong English-language programme
Hollywood will be jetting to the Lido for the 64th edition of the Venice Film Festival where a cluster of top shelf US directors are unveiling their current projects in a festival that underscores the force of English-language cinema.While six American pictures have made the competition cut, they are flanked ...