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5766 articles available in total starting from 17/05/2002. Last article published on 27/08/2025.

Interview: Rebecca O’Brien • Producer

A labour of love

Ken Loach’s long time production partner Rebecca O’Brien has built a wide network of European financial partners on which she can count, year after year  

21/06/2006

Interview: Ken Loach • Director

Remember the past to understand the present

Speaking in Cannes at the British Pavilion to an audience of film professionals and fans of his work spanning over 3 decades...  

21/06/2006

Independent producers: "Sure market rules"

"The Italian film market is becoming increasingly more closed. We are looking for sure rules to open it up towards high quality films". This is the cry of alarm launched by a group of independent...  

21/06/2006 | Legislation | Italy

The Wind That Shakes the Barley

Ken Loach who just turned 70 on June 17, has much to celebrate. Winner last May in Cannes of a Palme d’or for The Wind That Shakes the Barley...  

21/06/2006 | Films | Reviews

Monicelli in the desert of war

The great master of Italian cinema, Mario Monicelli, is back at work, on a film entitled Le rose del deserto (lit. "The Roses of the Desert"), produced by Mauro Bernardi (Luna Rossa...  

20/06/2006 | Production | Italy

The "best of youth" at Pesaro

After Japan, Spain, France, Mexico and Korea, this year’s international focus of the Pesaro Film Festival will be Argentina, which has been experiencing a "new wave" for at least a decade. At the...  

19/06/2006 | Festivals | Italy

Bellocchio, Moretti and Sorrentino on display

There will be three Italian films on the "Horizons" of the Karlovy Vary Film Festival (June 30-July 8), in this sections that offers a panorama of auteur films acclaimed by critics and audiences...  

16/06/2006 | Karlovy Vary IFF | Italy

Taormina to kick off without a sponsor

The €500,000-sponsoring Banca Nazionale del Lavoro is abandoning the Taormina Film Fest for another event, and Taormina Director Felice Laudadio feel betrayed. At the press conference for the 52nd...  

14/06/2006 | Festivals | Italy

Catherine Deneuve president of International Jury

Catherine Deneuve, the female symbol of French cinema, will preside over the International Jury of the 63rd Venice Film Festival (August 30-September 9). One of critics’ and audiences’ most...  

14/06/2006 | Venice 2006 | Italy

Exhibitors: "No chance for the summer season"

Summer arrives and the old controversy explodes. "We will no longer program films that come out during the summer in Europe but not in Italy", is the provocative answer by the president of...  

12/06/2006 | Distribution | Italy

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