25/05/2005

Metrodome Distribution has bought Lars von Trier’s Cannes competition film Manderlay [+see also:
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Indeed Metrodome is probably the most active collector of Scandinavian films today in the UK. The company has released all Lukas Moodysson films in the UK and just released a special DVD collector on May 16 with Moodysson’s four films: Show me Love, Together, Lilya 4 Ever and A Hole In My Heart.
Nicolas Winding Refn’s Bleeder and Pusher are also on the company’s DVD catalogue, and other recent Scandinavian acquisitions include Anders Thomas Jensen’s The Green Butchers [+see also:
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film profile] and Björn Runge’s Daybreak.
Annette K Olesen’s 10th Dogma film , In Your Hands [+see also:
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