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All articles by Lee Marshall – Page 60
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Travelling Birds (Le Peuple Migrateur)
Dir: Jacques Perrin. Fr/Ger/Sp. 2001. 97mins.Travelling Birds offers audiences a rare chance to fly like a bird without recourse to mind-expanding drugs. This is the third in a trilogy of big-screen nature films produced - and in this case directed - by former French matinee idol Jacques Perrin. Microcosmos, the ...
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Heaven
Dir: Tom Tykwer. 2001. Germany/US. 97mins.If Run Lola Run was Tom Tykwer's breakthrough film, then the Miramax-backed Heaven is his first big commercial test. The message that we are in very different territory from his smart and stylish 1999 indie hit is made clear in the posters plastering Tykwer's hometown ...
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Beneath Clouds
Dir: Ivan Sen. Australia, 2001. 87 mins.Billed as the first feature film by an indigenous Australian director, Beneath Clouds is a promising debut, although its tight-lipped sense of cool tips over into pretension on more than one occasion. It deals with race relations in modern Australia without stridency and without ...
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The Last Kiss (L'Ultimo Bacio)
Dir: Gabriele Muccino. Italy. 2001. 117 mins.Thirty-five-year-old Roman director Gabriele Muccino is the only player on the contemporary Italian scene who has the potential to be as big as Roberto Benigni. His third film, L'Ultimo Bacio (The Last Kiss) was the top grossing Italian film of 2001, grossing Euros 13.1 ...
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Burning In The Wind (Brucio Nel Vento)
Dir: Silvio Soldini. It-Switz. 2001. 118 mins.An Italian director makes a film set in Switzerland with mainly Czech actors and dialogue, based on a novel by a Hungarian refugee who writes in French. Sounds like a recipe for an indigestible Europudding. In reality, however, Brucio Nel Vento is Silvio ...
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Vajont
Dir: Renzo Martinelli. Italy/France. 2001. 116 mins.Vajont is an all-European disaster movie. Although it's tempting to shuffle the word-order, producer-director Renzo Martinelli's $8.2 million production is not an all-European movie disaster: it's just a mediocre example of the genre. Although it boasts a couple of French co-stars (Daniel Auteil and ...
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Luna Rossa (Red Moon)
Dir: Antonio Capuano. Italy. 2001. 117mins. "The only way you can control people", says the Mafia boss, "is if they know you can kill them anytime you want". This upbeat moral epigram could provide the poster tag for Antonio Capuano's new film, which screened in the main competition at Venice. ...
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Asoka
Dir: Santosh Sivan. India. 2001. 150 mins.Could this be the Indian Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' Probably not; but Santosh Sivan's loose historical biopic of Mauryan emperor Asoka is a hugely enjoyable swords-and-saris romp which should have no trouble crossing over from speciality Asian circuits to general release. Juhi Chawla ...
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One Man Up (L'Uomo In Piu)
Dir: Paolo Sorrentino. Italy. 2001. 100mins.Paolo Sorrentino's first full-length feature, which screened in the Cinema del Presente competition at Venice, shows promise. Its tight budget is betrayed by the flat, TV-style camerawork and one or two amateurish moments; and it is quite a conventional work to come out of ...
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Light Of My Eyes (Luce Dei Miei Occhi)
Dir: Giuseppe Piccioni. Italy. 2001. 108mins.In the run-up to Venice there were hopes that Giuseppe Piccioni might pull off the big one-two for Italian cinema, after Nanni Moretti's Cannes success. But the optimism soon evaporated. Not that Light Of My Eyes is a bad film; it's just that it fails ...
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Tosca
Dir: Benoit Jacquot. France-Italy-Germany-UK. 2001. 120mins.The latest director to accept the challenge of filming opera - a notoriously difficult genre - is French director Benoit Jacquot (Sade, Pas de Scandale). Jacquot has taken on Puccini's Tosca - a smart choice, as it is not only a crowd-pleaser, but also one ...
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Monsoon Wedding
Dir: Mira Nair. India. 2001. 115mins.Since the late 1980s, Mira Nair has acted as the official face of Indian cinema in the West. Most high-frequency cinemagoers in Europe and the US will have seen at least one of Nair's trio of exportable Indian features: Salaam Bombay! (1988), Mississippi Masala (1991) ...
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L'amore Probabilmente ( Probably Love )
Dir: Giuseppe Bertolucci. Italy, 2001. 112 mins.Towards the end of Giuseppe Bertolucci's new film, the director's voice can be heard off-camera, pondering one of those fundamental questions: "Do I really want to make this film, or do I just want to dream it'" One can't help feeling that the latter ...
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Il Mestiere Delle Armi (The Profession of Arms)
Dir: Ermanno Olmi. Italy/France/Germany, 2001. 104 mins.Veteran Italian auteur Ermanno Olmi has come up with a hermetically-sealed historical epic that some will find ravishingly poetic, others merely boring. Not a few viewers will shuttle between these two states: something of an Italian Tarkowsky, Olmi has the rare talent of transfixing ...
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La Stanza Del Figlio
La Stanza Del FiglioDir: Nanni Moretti. Italy/France. 2001. 98minsIf Nanni Moretti is the Italian Woody Allen, then La Stanza Del Figlio is his Interiors. The Moretti faithful expect at least three or four memorable gags per film, but although it has a few moments of comic relief, La Stanza Del ...
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Memento
Screening at Sundance (Dramatic Competition). Dir: Christopher Nolan. US. 2000. 113mins.Not content with the challenges raised by making a film about a memory-deficient character who has to work out where he is every time he wakes up, Nolan has complicated life further by telling the story of Memento backwards, cut ...
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Almost Blue
Dir: Alex Infascelli. Italy. 2000. 90 mins.Prod co: Cecchi Gori Group. Int'l sales: Cecchi Gori (+39 06 3247 2244). Prod: Vittorio Cecchi Gori. Scr: Sergio Donati, Alex Infascelli, based on the book by Carlo Lucarelli. DoP: Arnaldo Catinari. Prod des: Eugenia di Napoli. Editor: Valentina Girodo. Music: Massimo Volume. Main ...
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My Generation
Dir: Barbara Kopple. US. 2000. 113 mins.Prod co: Cabin Creek Films. Prod: Barbara Kopple. DoP: Tom Hurwitz. Co-director/editor: Tom Haneke.Barbara Kopple has built a successful career around cinematic-release documentaries - most recently her warts-and-all portrait of Woody Allen's jazz band, Wild Man Blues. My Generation is the culmination of a ...
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Holy Tongue (La Lingua Del Santo)
Dir: Carlo Mazzacurati. Italy. 2000. 110 mins.Prod co: Rodeo Drive. Co-prod: Medusa Film. Int'l sales: Adriana Chiesa (+39 06 807 0400). Prods: Marco Poccioni, Marco Valzania. Scr: Franco Bernini, Umberto Contarello, Carlo Mazzacurati, Marco Pettenello. DoP: Alessandro Pesci. Prod des: Leonardo Scarpa. Editor: Paolo Cottignola. Main cast: Antonio Albanese, Fabrizio ...