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14 Events
on Saturday the 16th of February, 2008
The riots that confronted the World Trade Organization’s 1999 meeting in Seattle forced politically minded citizens into some tough intellectual deliberation. First there were the horrible images of smashed windows and police brutality on the ...
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Well-known to film industry insiders but virtually unknown to the public at large, Pierre Rissient is one of the most intriguing of the figures who work behind the film production process. His close friend Todd McCarthy, chief film critic of the ...
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With the beguiling Ewan McGregor and Colin Farrell in the lead roles, Woody Allen’s powerful new work commands us fully from its opening shot. Terry (Farrell) works in an auto-body shop and is recovering from struggles with liquor and ...
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A group of friends meet up for dinner. The hosts of these regular gatherings are the dynamic Lorenzo and his life partner, the successful writer Davide. The somewhat uptight Angelica is helping to prepare the food, while her Antonio has yet to ...
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Iska’s Journey tells the harrowing story of a twelve-year-old girl who shows courage in the face of harsh poverty, only to succumb eventually to its ravages. Csaba Bollók’s third feature film is surely one of the most stunning entries of ...
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From the same sun drenched beaches and narrow concrete alleyways that spawned City of God and the spin-off TV series City Of Men comes, what director Paulo Morelli describes, as the concluding chapter in the Brazilian drama. Ace (Douglas Silva) ...
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Philippe Aractingi’s Under The Bombs was made in Lebanon in the immediate aftermath of the war last year. Aractingi was living in Beirut during the Israeli attacks on the city and filmed some footage at the height of the conflict. This may ...
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While we would normally herald the Balkan epic California Dreamin’ (Endless) as further proof of the glorious rise of new Romanian cinema, a tragedy must first be noted. Director Cristian Nemescu was killed in a car accident along with his ...
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Showing as part of the festival’s Music on Film season, the World Premiere of Dambe,The Mali Project is a fascinating musical journey through modern day Africa. Described by Bono as is “the best white soul singer in the world”, Liam ...
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This seriocomic second feature by Polish helmer Andrzej Jakimowski won the Europa Cinemas Label prize for best European film in the independently programmed Venice Days sidebar, assuring his realistic yet poetic gem extended theatrical exposure ...
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A family‘s crises come to the surface in this drama, the first feature from filmmaker Matthias Luthardt. Stefan (Rockstroh) and Anna (Mitterhammer) are a petit bourgeois couple who live a bland existence in the suburbs with their nebbishy son ...
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There Will Be Blood, Paul Thomas Anderson’s epic American nightmare, arrives belching fire and brimstone and damnation to Hell. Set against the backdrop of the Southern California oil boom of the late-19th and early-20th centuries, it tells a ...
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This is a deeply considered and unexpectedly gripping film from a director making a giant leap into the first rank of world cinema. On finally fading to black, it leaves behind on the blank screen, as if on the inside of a closed eyelid, a ...
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Dusk is falling in Sao Paulo when Heitor and Julia – who have been dating for a long time – have a violent quarrel over the phone. Anguished, Heitor gets in his car and sets off in the direction of Julia`s house, to kiss and make up. ...
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