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INCENDIES: A LEGACY OF WAR
04/09/2010
Canadian director Denis Villeneuve’s latest film, Scorched, is jolting from the onset. After their mother dies, brother and sister Simon and Jeanne (Maxim Gaudette and Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin) are read the mother Nawal’ ...
JAFAR PANAHI AND LISETTA CARMI: THE COURAGE OF FREEDOM
04/09/2010
Jafar Panahi and Lisetta Carmi have never met. Yet as of today they made contact, as can happen at a festival, where stories and destinies cross paths in the imaginations of filmgoers and panel participants. The connection came between ...
DEBUTTING IN EUROPE
03/09/2010
A discussion between young European producers and filmmakers on directing first and second films in various European countries, and their personal experiences. AGPC (Association of Young Producers) and 100Autori, which together organiz ...
CAPUANO’S DARK LOVE A BRIGHT LIGHT IN ITALIAN CINEMA
03/09/2010
Antonio Capuano’s Dark Love (Italy) screened to a packed house on the second day of Venice Days, and was followed by a hugely enthusiastic response from the visibly moved audience. It took nearly ten minutes before the ap ...
THE HAPPY POET MAKES A HAPPY INTERNATIONAL DEBUT
02/09/2010
American writer-actor-director (not to mention editor and musician) Paul Gordon mixes health food, grass roots economics and an endearing underdog hero in what is essentially his feature debut, The Happy Poet. (Gordon previously ...