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2281 articles available in total starting from 16/05/2002. Last article published on 04/07/2025.

Lacuesta sees Double in San Sebastian

Catalan director Isaki Lacuesta brought not one but two films to the 59th edition of the San Sebastian Film Festival, which continues through Saturday in the Basque beach resort town on the...  

23/09/2011 | San Sebastián 2011 | Competition

Seeking a Happy End

Swedish director Björn Runge, who won the Silver Bear at Berlin in 2004 with Daybreak, is for the first time vying in competition at the San Sebastian Film Festival with Happy End, a film that...  

22/09/2011 | San Sebastián 2011 | Competition

'No Rest...' at San Sebastian

Spanish genre director Enrique Urbizu (Todo por la pasta, Box 507) presented his latest offering, No Rest for the Wicked at the San Sebastian Film Festival, as part of the Official Selection....  

20/09/2011 | San Sebastián 2011 | Competition

True love in Davies’ The Deep Blue Sea

After presenting his film a few days ago at Toronto and three years after the San Sebastian Film Festival’s full retrospective of his films, Terence Davies returns to the Basque city to vie in...  

19/09/2011 | San Sebastián 2011 | Competition

L'ultimo terrestre, an alien film on the Italian scene

Directing debut for Gian Alfonso Pacinotti, better known by comic book and graphic novel lovers as ‘Gipi’. Pacinotti has brought L'ultimo terrestre to the Venice Film Festival, a small film which...  

08/09/2011 | Venice 2011 | Competition

Quando la notte: Family drama in the Alps

There was a cold reaction from industry insiders, sometimes accompanied by laughter, to the more dramatic scenes in the second Italian film in Competition at the Venice Film Festival, Quando la...  

07/09/2011 | Venice 2011 | Competition

Arnold presents highly personal version of Brontë classic Wuthering Heights

British director Andrea Arnold first gained international recognition back in 2004 when she won the Best Live-Action Short Film Oscar for Wasp. Two years later, her debut feature, Red Road, won...  

06/09/2011 | Venice 2011 | Competition

Crialese in search of Terraferma

Emanuele Crialese, a director of Sicilian origin who emigrated to the US in 1991 to study at New York University, has a filmography linked with the poetry of borders - with his debut Once We Were...  

05/09/2011 | Venice 2011 | Competition

Oldman shines in Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

The first English-language film of Swedish director Tomas Alfredson, after his international breakout with the vampire drama Let the Right One In, is the John le Carré adaptation Tinker, Tailor,...  

05/09/2011 | Venice 2011 | Competition

Satrapi and Paronnaud delve into live-action with Chicken with Plums

Although animation is always present in Chicken with Plums, the second feature from Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud, who are famous for their Cannes-awarded animation Persepolis is mainly...  

04/09/2011 | Venice 2011 | Competition

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