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| Cursed for Gold goes to Cannes: interview with the director |
"After I travelled to the Amazon, I was struck by this peculiar world of gold. The men who live around the gold mines in the forest live in extremely difficult conditions. While very few live by, some become very rich overnight. A war opposes the two—no holds barred. The surrounding brutishness is massive. And yet, they are so well organized! In the depths of the Amazon, the lungs of our planet, the gold mines are surrounded by generators, clandestine villages, small shops—pirogue days away from the first town. "
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| Encounters With British Cinema At Tribeca FF |
One of the great pleasures of attending a film festival is the serendipity that often occurs when one sees one film after another, finding thematic connections or differences between them that delight the soul and stimulate the mind. I had just such an occurrence the other day, seeing two British films back to back. It just happened that the films were screening after one another, but it made me realize how much I love and appreciate both the high and the low in British cinema.
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| Cinema Francais At The Tribeca Film Festival |
New York City has had a love affair with French film for more than 75 years. From the silent film era to today’s Gallic gems, French films are consistently the highest audience attractions and the non-English cinema most represented in the Big Apple. The Tribeca Film Festival, which began its first day of screenings today, adds to this “Francophile” tendency with the premiere of several films "à la francaise".
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| EFP draws positive conclusion for PICTURE EUROPE! 2008 |
"Compared to the previous year, we could post considerable increases of 59 per cent altogether. We reached a total of almost 4000 admissions in the three cities," Renate Rose, EFP managing director, concludes after the second round. "The project seems now to be becoming established. Our additional offer to distributors and exhibitors to see the films with an audience and meet up at a networking lunch was also very well accepted." After this year's success, all of the three cinema-managers have already expressed great interest in a continuation of the project in the coming year.
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