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Golden Age via Andrucha Waddington’s ‘Lope’
The filmmaker behind Me You Them (2000) and the lush The House of Sand (loved the creative use of thesps Fernanda Montenegro and Fernanda Torres) directed a shot-in-Spain pic titled Lope, about the early Golden Age of theater which housed spirited romantic comedies.
Peter Liechti’s ‘The Sound of Insects’ Wins EFA Award
A Hot Docs, Silverdocs, Rotterdam and Karlovy Vary selected doc that has been mentioned in some programs as an Into the Wild-like in nature has won European Documentary Film Award's 2009 Prix ARTE prize (for Best Doc).
Ioana Uricaru and Oliver Hermanus off to Cannes’ Residence
A half-dozen filmmakers will be setting up shop at The Résidence de la Cinéfondation...and of the six, we have South African filmmaker Oliver Hermanus who showed up at TIFF with Shirley Adams and Ioana Uricaru, one of the filmmakers who participated on Cristian Mungiu's Tales From the Golden Age.
Dystopian Outlook Continues…with Lars von Trier’s ‘Planet Melancholia’
Lars von Trier is taking on the disaster film genre on a micro-budgeted English-language project which will include a (no surprises here) a pessimistic ending. Planet Melancholia is due to shoot in Germany and Sweden next summer.
Sony Has Fatal Attraction for Egoyan’s ‘Chloe’
I would have bet the farm on the film finding a distributor fairly soon after the fest and was thinking SPC was going to grab the title for a certain art-house theater segment of the population.
