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SIFF 2008:
Alexander
Nevsky
The final weekend of the Seattle International Film Festival
brought us the Soviet classic, Alexander Nevsky.
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Yung Chang – Up the Yangtze
Exploring the seldom
told human toll caused by the Three Gorges Dam, Chinese-Canadian
filmmaker Yung Chang embarks on one of the cruise ships offering
farewell tours of the
Yangtze River.
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SIFF 2008: Bliss
(Turkish title: Mutluluk)
Ignorance is not always blissful. Desolation, sadness and
psychedelic dream sequences riddle this film.
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SIFF 2008: Time to Die
The title
makes it sound like an action thriller starring Arnold
Schwartzenegger saving people from evil villains.
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SIFF 2008: Fighter
Danish born and raised, Ayse Erman, has come
to a fork in the road: continue with high school and move onto
medical school or become a kung fu fighter. The latter being the
root of her wildest dreams.
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SIFF 2008: We Want Roses, Too
We Want Roses, Too is a black and white, sometimes in color docu-spoof and
real-life look into the lives of Italian women in the 1960s and
70s on the verge of sexual revolution.
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SIFF 2008: The Edge of Heaven
The German born and Turkish raised director Fatih Akin, best
known abroad for his work in Head-On (Duvari Karsi/Gegen Die
Wand), is a master storyteller; particularly when it comes
to the lives of lost souls immersed in longing and cultural
confusion.
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The Singing Revolution's
Filmmaker Jim Tusty in an interview with European Weekly
The Singing
Revolution is a remarkable documentary about a small country
called Estonia that gained its independence from the Soviet
Union in 1991.
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The Counterfeiters
Winner of the 2008 Academy Awards for best foreign film, Stefan
Ruzowitzky’s époque movie recalls the true story of the
largest counterfeiting enterprise to have ever taken place in
history during the Second World War.
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4 months, 3 weeks, 3 days
Last year’s Golden Palm at
Cannes will haunt you long after the curtain is drawn and the
credits have ended.
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Persepolis
– Marjane Satrapi adapts her graphic novel for the big screen
Think animation movies are only for kids? Marjane Satrapi’s
elegant and pure pen strokes narrate the story of her youth, and
of a young Iranian girl.
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Interview: Marjane Satrapi
Vous avez aimé sa bande dessinée, Persepolis; vous
apprécierez d’autant plus son film d’animation, qui relate
l’histoire de sa vie, portée à l’écran par les voix de Chiara
Mastroianni, Catherine Deneuve et Danielle Darrieux.
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Interview with
Adam Goldberg
Meet Adam Goldberg,
Julie Delpy’s co-star in her latest movie, Two days in Paris.
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Molière
Based on a true event
that was never explained (Molière’s disappearance for a few
months in 1644),
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Interview:
Paul Ahmarani
Six ans après avoir présenté son premier long métrage La
Moitié Gauche du Frigo au Seattle International Film
Festival, le réalisateur Québécois Philippe Falardeau était à
nouveau en compétition en 2007 pour son second long métrage
Congorama, ...
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L'Iceberg
A modest and refreshing story about a woman’s aspirations and
dreams away from her daily life, husband, and kids.
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La Vie en Rose
Edith Piaf’s life epitomizes the myth of a French
artist: a life started in utmost poverty, which
would give everything only to later take it back.
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Olivier Dahan
Le réalisateur de La Vie en Rose était de
passage à Seattle lors du 33ème festival
du film international. Il a répondu à nos questions.
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Golden
Door
Going west takes on a
new meaning in Emanuele Ciralese’s latest feature,
Golden Door.
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SIFF 2007
Read what two European Weekly's contributors have to
say about this year's Seattle International Film
Festival.
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The Page Turner
Revenge is a dish better eaten cold. Add to that a few Chabrolesque
elements:
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Another great year of
Polish film
The Seattle Polish Film Festival recently wrapped up
an amazing 15th year showcasing the best
feature films and documentaries to grace the
European country.
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After the wedding
Danish cinema is full of surprises. It is so simple
in its form, yet so rich and complicated in its
multiple layers of psychology and social commentary.
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The Wind that Shakes
the Barley
The Wind that Shakes the Barley
exposes the involvement and commitment of young
Irishmen and women.
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Into Great Silence
Are we in search of spirituality? Or, maybe, are we
in need of spirituality?
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Our Daily
Bread
In this minimalist
and striking documentary, Austrian filmmaker Niklaus
Geyrhalter opens our eyes to how alienated we have
become from the food we consume on a daily basis.
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Le Petit Lieutenant
Forget the super cop movies. Xavier Beauvois’ latest police
flick shows it as real as it gets.
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The Bridesmaid by
Claude Chabrol
Set in a small provincial town in the
Loire Atlantique region, near the city of Nantes,
Claude Chabrol’s latest thriller spins the lives of
an unlikely couple into an unexpected drama.
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Dans la tête de Michel Gondry
Quelques semaines après sa diffusion sur les écrans
français, La Science des Rêves (The
Science of Sleep), dernier long métrage de
l’hyper-créatif Michel Gondry, débarque sur les
écrans américains.
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Darshan, the
embrace
In
this documentary about the power of altruistic love, French
director Jan sets to India where he follows the footsteps
of Amma for one year.
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Army of Shadows
Jean-Pierre Melville is better known for his
masterpiece Le Cercle Rouge and his unique
depiction of the French underworld, gangsters,
murderers, bank robbers, and the police trailing
them.
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Lemming -
almost as good as Harry
Lemming
is not a perfect psychological thriller. Whereas
French director Dominik Moll really hit the mark in
2000 With A Friend Like Harry, a
suspenseful, self-contained little gem of a
thriller, he changes recipes for this new movie,
with somewhat less success.
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Go for Zucker
Go for Zucker, a rousing comedy from the
producers of GOODBYE, LENIN! Mixing slapstick humor with a
jaundiced eye for sharply drawn social
satire, not to mention a disarming dose of
political incorrectness, ...
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The Death of Mr.
Lazarescu
In the 1990s,
a new genre of eastern European cinema conquered
western movie theaters in the form of Krzysztof
Kieslowski’s darkly realistic movies, first the
Decalogue series, then the Bleu, Blanc, Rouge
trilogy.
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A look at suicide
killings
Terrorism is a hot topic in America and Europe today.
Everyone is asking the same questions: How should
we respond to it? Should we be afraid of it? What
does it mean for our future? Pierre Rehov, a French
filmmaker, by no means purports to answer all of
these questions.
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The
Wild Dogs
In Thom Fitzgerald’s The Wild Dogs, Bucharest
as a character may be flawed —this is not Rick
Steve's Romania— but cinematographer Tom Harding’s
nostalgic shots of the city's dilapidated grandeur,
create a wonderful backdrop, for this intriguing film
about moral, clashing cultures and good intentions.
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"Five Canadians
went to Bucharest"
Interview with
director of The Wild
Dogs Thom Fitzgerald
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A Summer Day: growing up in rural France
Not all teenagers spend their lives on their cell
phone or surfing the net. In Franck Guérin’s
film, they kill their boredom by roaming the nearby
woods and fields until the accidental death of one
of them forces everyone...
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The
Seattle International Film Festival gets Danish in
2006
If you are familiar to the fact that Seattleites see
more movies per capita than any other city in the
nation, it will not surprise you that one of our city’s
biggest events, the Seattle International Film Festival
(SIFF), is considered to be the largest and most highly
attended festivals in the US and...
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De père
en fils
Dans son deuxième long-métrage, Sébastien Rose poursuit
son exploration de la thématique familiale. Comédie
tragique ou tragédie comique, La Vie avec Mon
Père réunit un père et ses deux fils et distille
de façon douce amère l’évolution de leurs relations
transformées par la mort annoncée du patriarche.
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OSS117,
l’agent secret made in France
Alors qu’il continue
à faire un tabac en France depuis sa sortie en salle
le 19 avril dernier, Hubert Bonnisseur de la Bath,
alias OSS117, a traversé l’Atlantique
à l’occasion du 32ème Seattle International
Film Festival, où s’est déroulée la première
projection nord-américaine du film sous les regards...
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For city lovers only
Remember the Auberge
Espagnole? Aah… the good
old days of being twenty some,
abroad and confused, when
carelessness, idealism and
disappointment were our daily
bread. Well, the good old days
are not over, as Cédric
Klapisch seems to tell us in
his sequel Russian Dolls.
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Better, faster, crazier!
District B13 is an
unsophisticated movie
all right. No script
(nothing that you
could not write
yourself anyway), no
real acting - well, in
fact, no real actor:
only crazy martial
artists, incredible
athletes, and
awe-inspiring
stuntmen. Why would
you pay to see yet
another action-packed
stunt movie?
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Dénoncer
l’aliénation sociale
Comment en arrive-t-on
à accepter
l’inacceptable ?
Quels sont les
mécanismes de cette
violence invisible et
pernicieuse qui mène
parfois certains à
commettre
l’irréparable sur leur
lieu de travail : se
suicider ? Avec
quelles conséquences
pour ceux qui
restent ?
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