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Kore-eda, Larrain, Dunham: When the Future of Film Looks Like TV
"None of us realized the potency yet of this medium -- how many homes it was going to, what kind of affect it was having on people and so forth. I think everybody who works in the visual medium would love to have that kind of innocence again." &nbs...
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Agnieszka Holland's Moving New HBO Miniseries 'Burning Bush' Depicts a World Aflame
Before HBO Europe came along and turned "Burning Bush" into its highest profile production, the idea for the miniseries, which received its international premiere at the 42nd Rotterdam Film Festival, was turned down by Czech television. Written by neophyte screenwriter Štěpán...
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Critic's Notebook: Why This Year's Rotterdam Gems Were Outside the Competition
Among the 30-plus features I saw in Rotterdam, Johnnie To’s "Drug War" is the one that has the concrete feel of a masterpiece. The reviews I’ve seen out of this festival as well as from its world premiere last fall in Rome suggest a solid, unexceptional potboiler by a reliable genre craftsman. To ha...
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Dispatch From Rotterdam: Neo-Nazis, Dog Killers, Yorgos Lanthimos' Crazy New Movie and More
An overview of Rotterdam's competition and CineMart, where the director of "Dogtooth" unveiled plans for a new film.
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Body Counts and Best of Show in the Rotterdam Film Festival Tiger Awards Competition
The Hivos Tiger Awards Competition takes center stage at Rotterdam, a high-stakes showcase of sixteen breakout filmmakers, many of whose projects are funded by the festival’s Hubert Bals Fund.
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'Prófugos,' 'No' Director Pablo Larrain's HBO Series About Would-Be Drug Smugglers on the Run
That Pablo Larraín's upcoming feature film "No" is about advertising should not mislead you into thinking that the Chilean director is game for easy entertainment. His 2011 project, drug trafficking drama "Prófugos" (Spanish for “fugitives”),&nb...
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The Buzziest Thing at Film Festivals? It Might Just Be TV
On Sunday, January 20th, "The Piano" director Jane Campion returns to the Sundance Film Festival, where her first feature "Sweetie" screened 23 years ago. This time, however, it's with a miniseries, not a movie -- "Top of the Lake," which is co-directed by Garth Dav...
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Guido van Driel's 'The Resurrection of a Bastard' to Open the International Film Festival Rotterdam
Guido van Driel’s dramatic feature-film debut “The Resurrection of a Bastard” will open the 42nd International Film Festival Rotterdam Jan. 23. The film also will compete for the festival’s Hivos Tiger Awards.
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Rotterdam Announces First Competition Selections For 2013 Festival
The International Film Festival Rotterdam announced the first seven films selected for its Hivos Tiger Awards Competition. The complete line up of the fifteen first or second feature length films will be presented by January 8. The festival runs January 23-February 3, 2013. “The films in ...
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From Sao Paulo to Iran, A Final Look at Rotterdam 2012
Unknown ObjectExceptional "nevenprogrammas" distinguish the International Film Festival Rotterdam, and elevate it to the upper tiers of the festival circuit. These are the multiple sidebars, which span low and high culture, old and new films and beyond; they almost always have some political bent. U...
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