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86 articles available in total starting from 10/02/2006. Last article published on 11/09/2006.

Midlife stasis

Jesper Ganslandt’s Falkenberg Farewell, a Swedish production by Memfis Film also selected for Toronto, which one of the actors says has a veracity rate of about 42%, remarkably matches form and...  

02/09/2006 | Venice 2006 | Venice Days

Verhoeven tones down effects, ups questions of morality

Black Book, the new film from Dutch director Paul Verhoeven, is the much-anticipated return to his native Netherlands after 20 years in Hollywood, where he was known for his effects-laden...  

02/09/2006 | Venice 2006 | Competition

Khadak: Everything is illuminated

Selected for the Toronto Film Festival as well, Khadak, by Jessica Woodworth and Peter Brosens has just had its world premiere in Venice Days. The Belgian film is competing for the festival's...  

02/09/2006 | Venice 2006 | Venice Days

Premonition premieres to applause for Darroussin

Critics Week kicked off in style this year on Lido. The same grand style behind the directorial debut of actor Jean Pierre Darroussin, one of the most familiar faces, even abroad, of French...  

01/09/2006 | Venice 2006 | Critics Week

Banca Italease finances cinema

Italy’s largest leasing agency, Banca Italease , has unveiled a new initiative at the 63rd Venice Film Festival (of which the bank is a co-sponsor): leasing to producers, distributors and theatres...  

01/09/2006 | Venice 2006 | Industry

Daratt: A barren hatred

What is more necessary, in an African country, than bread? Or those who knead it artfully, cook it and sell it every day? But what if behind that generous and somewhat gruff man, who gives away...  

01/09/2006 | Venice 2006 | Competition

Turturro, Binoche & spies on the eve of 9/11

Almost five years after the tragedy, Venice remembers 9/11 today. Besides Oliver Stone’s large-scale World Trade Center, the festival is also presenting out-of-competition title A Few Days in...  

01/09/2006 | Venice 2006 | Out of competition

Rutelli: Time for cinema reforms

The cultural industry is not an oxymoron. With this resourceful joke, Vice President and Minister of Culture Francesco Rutelli assured film professionals of the government’s "constant, transparent...  

31/08/2006 | Venice 2006 | Events

"100+1": Cinema preserved in Venice Days

One hundred films that make up the history of Italian cinema, to transform into monuments of "cultural heritage" and, as such, accessible as many as possible. One hundred titles, such as the first...  

31/08/2006 | Venice 2006 | ­ Italy

Memories from Thailand via Mozart

Apichatpong Weerasethakul came to prominence two years ago at Cannes, when he won the Grand Jury Prize for Tropical Malady. Now the 36 year-old former architect from Bangkok is in Venice, where he...  

31/08/2006 | Venice 2006 | Competition

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