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Boyd van Hoeij


596 articles available in total starting from 11/04/2005. Last article published on 06/10/2014.

Interview: José Luis Guerín • Director

"The only continent I understand is the continent of cinema"

14/09/2007

Õunpuu’s Estonian wasteland

After the selection of Magnus in Cannes and Klass in Karlovy Vary, a third Estonian film makes its debut at a prestigious festival this year with the Venice premiere of Autumn Ball, which was...  

08/09/2007 | Venice 2007 | Horizons

Portabella’s variations on Bach

Catalan filmmaker Pere Portabella presented his Die Stille vor Bach (li. "The Silence before Bach") in Venice in the Horizons section as the festival is drawing to a close. Unlike what the title...  

07/09/2007 | Venice 2007 | Horizons

Marra’s contemporary gold rush

The last Italian competition title to premiere at the Venice Film Festival is Vincenzo Marra’s L’ora di punta ("Rush Hour"), a corruption drama set in Rome. The film stars newcomers Michele...  

06/09/2007 | Venice 2007 | Competition

The Big City Life of Guerín

En la ciudad de Sylvia by director José Luis Guerín (En construcción) is the first of several Spanish titles screening at the Venice Film Festival, with upcoming titles including Die Stille vor...  

05/09/2007 | Venice 2007 | Competition

Binoche in the turmoil of Disengagement

A last-minute addition to the Venice Film Festival was Israeli director Amos Gitai’s Disengagement, a European-Israeli co-production that completes the director’s Borders Trilogy. It is part of...  

04/09/2007 | Venice 2007 | Venezia Maestri

Porporati’s bittersweet Mafia

Seven years after his feature film debut as a Mafia victim in Giordana’s I cento passi, Italian actor Luigi Lo Cascio returns to the world of organized crime in his native Sicily with Andrea...  

04/09/2007 | Venice 2007 | Competition

Kechiche’s Grain of Life

Tunis-born French director Abdellatif Kechiche presented his long-awaited new feature La Graine et le mulet on the Venetian Lido as part of the Official Competition. His previous film, L’esquive...  

03/09/2007 | Venice 2007 | Competition

Loach’s Land of Freedom

After wining the Palme d’Or in Cannes for his historical war drama The Wind that Shakes the Barley, UK filmmaker Ken Loach returns to the present and his social filmmaking roots for his Venice...  

02/09/2007 | Venice 2007 | Competition

Fallen Heroes: A noir as black as night

Fallen Heroes: A noir as black as night

The first Italian title screened in Competition at the ongoing Venice Film Festival is Paolo Franchi’s Fallen Heroes, a follow-up to his acclaimed debut La spettatrice from 2004. Whereas the...  

01/09/2007 | Venice 2007 | Competition

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