Tuesday, September 4th, 2007
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Tuesday, September 4th, 2007
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Hollywood Reporter, United States - As the Venice Film Festival starts its second week it begins its transition into a more Italian fest as high-profile execs make the leap from the Lido to the Toronto International Film Festival, which gets under way Thursday.
But even as that shift starts, much of the buzz in Venice remained centered on the high-quality lineup Venice artistic director Marco Mueller and his team assembled for this year’s edition, with most attendees united in the opinion that the in- and out-of-competition selection this year delivered a slew of films likely to be on next year’s Academy Awards nomination list.
The weekend on the Lido was highlighted by three well-received films, all from the heavy English-language selection in the program: Andrew Dominik’s “The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford,” Wes Anderson’s “The Darjeeling Limited” — both in competition — and Woody Allen’s “Cassandra’s Dream,” which screened in the Venice Masters sidebar… [Full Story]
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Monday, September 3rd, 2007
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GreenCine Daily - ”[S]urprisingly, the hottest buzz of the fest seems to be all about Juno,” reports Kim Voynar, whose own rave appeared just yesterday at Cinematical. Extra screenings are evidently planned. “Other films I’m hearing good buzz about include The Counterfeiters” - and here’s her take on this “film about courage and morality” - “and Into the Wild, directed by Sean Penn, who is here in Telluride and participated in two panels. The filmmaker, who has a reputation for being a bit surly, must really love the mountain air (or perhaps his mood is up because his film is getting raves), because at both panels he was warm, inviting, funny and penetratingly intelligent.”… [Full Story]
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Monday, September 3rd, 2007
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Globe and Mail, Canada - If the Venetian audiences are any kind of bellwether, things are looking good for Canadian director Paul Haggis and the debut of his new film at the Toronto International Film Festival. The Canadian director was treated to a 10-minute standing ovation on Saturday night when his In the Valley of Elah screened at the Venice Film Festival.
In the Valley of Elah, which stars Tommy Lee Jones and Charlize Theron, focuses on the psychological scars that haunt returning soldiers and provides a powerful commentary on how society is treating veterans and their families.
The Iraq war is turning out to be a hot theme in films this fall. Hollywood director Brian de Palma’s film Redacted, which will also screen at the Toronto International Film Festival, which begins on Thursday,also got a standing ovation in Venice. Both films are considered contenders for the festival’s coveted Golden Lion.
“My film is not essentially about war in Iraq,” said Haggis, 54, before the film screened at Venice. “It is more of a social study of so-called ‘post-combat’ stress.”… [Full Story]
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Sunday, September 2nd, 2007
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GreenCine Daily - ”Dr Plonk is the story of a zealous inventor, his wife - played by [Magda] Szubanski - his deaf mute assistant and his dog,” writes Philippa Hawker in the Age. “It is a tale of time travel, improvisation and the end of the world. It begins in 1907, leaps forward a century, takes a brief wrong turn into the distant past, then hurtles to and fro between centuries. It might be silent but it is undeniably eloquent - expressive and funny, bursting with ideas, visual gags, comic moments, physical energy and absurdity.” And she talks with director Rolf de Heer… [Full Story]
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Sunday, September 2nd, 2007
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GreenCine Daily - Is everyone at Telluride going to have a Werner Herzog story? Let’s hope so. At As Little as Possible, JJ’s got one, plus a first impression of Encounters at the End of the World, “a gorgeous hodgepodge…. This is like every Herzog film rolled into one. It is about the universe perceiving itself through our inquisitive eyes and minds. It is about man’s absurd quests, about our small and tenuous existence in the expanse of time, about the intense and forbidding and intoxicating beauty of the surroundings we are systematically studying and/or destroying. It is also a more convincing account of the seriousness of climate change than anything Al Gore or Leonardo DiCaprio has conjured.”
More from Mike Jones at Variety’s Circuit: “Ken Burns introduced Werner Herzog as the only filmmaker in the Guinness Book of World Records who has shot a film on every continent, Antarctica being the last.”… [Full Story]
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Saturday, September 1st, 2007
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GreenCine Daily - ”Few countries have a handle on matters of immigration, but a combination of free market profit-seeking and nanny-state regulations has resulted in a singular mess in Great Britain, as Ken Loach illustrates in his tough-minded slice of life picture It’s a Free World…,” writes Ray Bennett for the Hollywood Reporter. “Loach is in excellent form making the most of a shrewd screenplay by Paul Laverty and drawing a winning performance from newcomer Kierston Wareing as a brassy but misguided entrepreneur.”
“Strong, pacily told London-set tale unfolds from the POV of a would-be exploiter rather than a victim, illuminating a chain of connections most people would rather ignore,” writes Alissa Simon for Variety. “Human drama remains front and center, with discussion of issues more naturally incorporated than in some of [Loach and Laverty’s] past work…. Long known for obtaining terrific perfs from newcomers, Loach introduces some exciting new talent. As driven, energetic Angie, Wareing is dynamite in her first film role. Appearing in nearly every scene, she burns up the screen.”… [Full Story]
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Saturday, September 1st, 2007
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GreenCine Daily - ”If Rembrandt were alive today, he would be like a cross between Mick Jagger and Bill Gates.” The Independent listens to Peter Greenaway as he talks about Nightwatching, screening in Venice on Thursday. “At 23, he was well-known, extremely rich and he followed the trends of his time. His paintings were exhibited throughout Europe. But, as soon as he painted his masterpiece, The Night Watch, his career suddenly fell apart; he began to lose everything: his fortune, his reputation, his status. He went completely bankrupt…. The painting is a political satire, but it also conceals a great criminal mystery. There are at least 50 secret questions. I am even arrogant enough to say that we have solved all of them.” Via Movie City News… [Full Story]
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Saturday, September 1st, 2007
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GreenCine Daily - ”It’s late out here at Telluride, and no real time for a full considered review of what is sure to be one of the year’s most remarkable movies,” blogs Reverse Shot’s clarencecarter. “Not to be all David Poland about things, but what [Todd] Haynes has accomplished [with I’m Not There] is so ingenious, intelligent, unique, and wholly entertaining that it’s unfair to other filmmakers. I left the theatre shaking and stammering, wanting to make out with everyone involved (sans Harvey).” I don’t often do much commenting in these roundups, but as a dedicated admirer of both Haynes and Dylan, color me relieved. For now… [Full Story]
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Saturday, September 1st, 2007
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INQ7.net, Philippines - Seeing that the screening of Lav Diaz’s “Kagadanan sa Nanwaan Ning mga Engkanto (Death in the Land of Encantos)” will be followed by an event honoring director Bernardo Bertolucci with a Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival made my Pinoy heart swell with pride.
As we write this, the red carpet at the Palazzo del Cinema is being prepared in time for the opening of the world’s oldest film festival. Like some actresses, this festival hides its true age well. The festival’s 65th edition is actually its 75th anniversary, but World War II—and student protests in 1968—forced some skips.
Lav is not yet here because, as he explained in his e-mail, “We’re still rushing the film’s dub-outs, and there are problems with the computer. ‘Di pa kami nakakatulog, and it’s crunch time!”… [Full Story]
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