08/12/2005

During the feast of Saint Nicolas (6th December), the new film for young people by Pieter Kuijpers, De Griezelbus, is the big event this week in Holland. Released with 114 prints by Warner Bros, this third feature from the maker of Van God Los [+see also:
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film profile] (2001) and of Off Screen (2005) could be another local box office success, thanks to the notoriety of its director and the origin of the film, adaptation of a popular children’s book by Paul van Loon, "Griezelbus" ("The bus of creeps"). This super production by Bos Bros Film & TV Productions interpreted by star Angela Schijf, came out yesterday.

Another European film, the Estonian Lepatriinude jõulud, by Janno Poldma (emblematic figure in animation) distributed by Twin Film and A Good Woman by Englishman Mike Barker, a very European co-production (Meltemi Entertainment - UK, Thema Production - LU, KanZaman – ES, Buskin Film – IT). Barker takes on the piece by Oscar Wilde Lady Windermere's Fan, with Scartlett Johanson who plays the title role originally played by Jeanne Crain in the version by Otto Preminger in 1949 The Fan, with Georges Sanders replaced by Stephen Campbell Moore.

Finally, note the release of Grizzly Man, the last documentary by German Werner Herzog, a North American production, distributed by A-Film.

(Translated from French)