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Venice 2006


86 articles available in total starting from 10/02/2006. Last article published on 11/09/2006.

"The People, Yes"

After the Venice Days screening of L'étoile du soldat (The Soldier’s Star), a room full of spectators – most of whom still had tears in their eyes – greeted this work of a lifetime (which...  

07/09/2006 | Venice 2006 | Venice Days

Edgar Reitz goes to pieces

Edgar Reitz seems unable to separate himself from that which the German press joking calls the "Mammutwerk" when referring to the epic proportions of his work Heimat, on which he has been working...  

07/09/2006 | Venice 2006 | Horizons

David Lynch’s cursed star

A Hollywood star shooting the remake of a "cursed" film is the main character of the latest film by David Lynch, INLAND EMPIRE, which had its in world premiere at the Venice Film Festival, where...  

06/09/2006 | Venice 2006 | Career Golden Lion

Evil spreads

Jorge Sanchez-Cabezudo's debut feature is one of the biggest surprise of this year's Venice Days. In structure and content, La noche de los girasoles is as close as cinema gets to literature. Its...  

06/09/2006 | Venice 2006 | Venice Days

Any space for European cinema in the US?

With the exception of a few surprising instances, such as The Bear or the recent The March of the Penguins, in the past few years, the US has been an almost impenetrable territory. For what...  

06/09/2006 | Venice 2006 | Conferences

The Good, The Bad and The Polish

The Horizons section at the Venice Film Festival is the place for eclectic discoveries, and the first Polish western is certainly an ambitious and eclectic project that is right at home on the...  

06/09/2006 | Venice 2006 | Horizons

Amelio’s Chinese syndrome

There is a large river in China called the Yangzi (or Chang Jiang), renamed the Blue River by Westerners, which will become a 600-kilometre lake at the base of an immense dam. Shanghai and other...  

05/09/2006 | Venice 2006 | Competition

The Untouchable: All about Jeanne's father?

Screening today in competition, The Untouchable sees the return to Venice one of the festival’s regular filmmakers, Benoît Jacquot, in his third collaboration with French actress Isild Le Besco....  

05/09/2006 | Venice 2006 | Competition

Opera Jawa: Indonesian homage to Mozart

Opera Jawa, presented in the Horizons section of the Venice Film Festival, is an Indonesian homage to Mozart through dance, music, choreography and installations. The ninth film by director Garin...  

05/09/2006 | Venice 2006 | Horizons

New laws: Filmmakers’ priority

New forms of film financing, a new role for the National Film Centre (CNC), an efficient anti-trust law, and a restabilising of the relationship between film and television: these are the...  

05/09/2006 | Venice 2006 | Legislation

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