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Corinth Films Hopes For Knockout With ‘Klitschko’
The Tribeca Film Festival in the Big Apple is currently in full swing, and many filmmakers are hoping to strike a distribution deal following the premiere of their labor of love. Another film picked up this week was Klitschko, a German documentary, by Sebastian Dehnhardt, about Vitaly and Vladimir Klitschko, a pair of World Champion boxing brothers.
Belmondo, Rampling, Kubrick, Kurosawa and Corman: Cannes 2011 Includes 5 Film History Docs in Classics Program
The 2011 Cannes Classics program was unveiled, and five new documentaries centered around film history are to be screened as part of the bill, which includes newly restored 35 mm or HD prints of A Clockwork Orange by Stanley Kubrick, The Conformist (Il Conformista) by Bernardo Bertolucci, and Despair by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, among eleven other classics. The documentaries scheduled to run are as follows.
Cannes 2011: ‘Bollywood’ To Shake Its Hips Out Of Competition
Last year at Cannes, director, and then jury member, Shekhar Kapur had a conversation about the importance of Bollywood, and its binding cultural impact on India itself as well as its portrayal of India to the rest of the world. The conversation sparked what became Bollywood – The Greatest Love Story Ever Told.
Billy Corben’s New Doc ‘Limelight’ Picked Up By Magnolia
Just days after Magnolia Pictures inked a deal to release Jiro Dreams Of Sushi, which is also making its world premier at the Tribeca Film Fest this week, they have also picked up Limelight, a new documentary by Billy Corben that tells the story of the former New York City club kingpin, Peter Gatien.
