LONDON: American director Paul Thomas Anderson took home the runner-up Silver Lion Prix of the Venice Film Festival for The Master amid a storm of controversy after The Hollywood Reporter published a story about plans to give the film the main prize.
VENICE: Japanese director and actor Takeshi Kitano returns to Venice with his sequel to his gory but beautifully choreographed 2010 hit Outrage. Beyond Outrage takes up where Outrage left off with yakuza killer Otomo played by Beat Takeshi, the name the director uses for his acting roles, still in prison and the Sanno crime family in ascendancy.
VENICE: Austrian director Ulrich Seidl launched his three part trilogy Paradise in Cannes with Paradise: Love and he now arrives in Venice with part two, Paradise: Faith.
VENICE: Oldies beware Harmony Korine’s Spring Breakers might seem slight but the buzz from younger Euro-critics after its first screening in Venice was decidedly positive.
FNE at Red Square Screenings 2012: Gulfstream success spawns new Russian Latvian coproduction
Region 18-10-2012MOSCOW: Horosho Productions is developing another Latvian production after its successful work on Gulfstream Under the Iceberg.
MOSCOW: The Red Square Screenings (15-19 October 2012) brought many central European producers to Moscow for the first time as the event teams up with CentEast Moscow (www.centeast.eu).
MOSCOW: The fourth annual CentEast Moscow Market (www.centeast.eu) has found a slot in the new Red Square Screenings, (15-19 October 2012) a new initiative backed by the Russian Cinema Fund.
FNE exclusive: Court decision gives Hungarian Film Fund control of film studios: FNE asks Andy Vajna what’s next
Hungary 06-09-2012BUDAPEST: A Hungarian court decision has transferred the property of the former Hungarian Motion Picture Foundation (MMKA) to the Hungarian National Film Fund (www.filmalap.hu).
FNE at Venice IFF 2012: Czech coproduction starring Gerard Depardieu gets Venice slot
Czech Republic 21-08-2012PRAGUE: The Man Who Laughs which was shot entirely in the Czech Republic has nabbed a Venice IFF Out of Competition slot. Directed by Jena-Pierre Ameris and starring Gerard Depardieu and Emmanuelle Seigner the film is produced by In Incognita Films (France) and Okko Production (www.okko.cz).
CANNES: Director Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom opened the Cannes Film Festival with a strange genre of film that can only be described as a "Wes Anderson" film. It is a mark of the director's distinctive style that he creates his own universe which might seem slight on first encounter but upon experience leaves us with the impression of a serious work of cinema art.
