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The Oldenburg Film Festival’s Quest to Save Indie Cinema
When Torsten Neumann launched the Oldenburg Film Festival back in 1994, setting up the event as Germany’s answer to Sundance, it was near the peak of the ’90s indie film boom, when the likes of Quentin Tarantino, Steven Soderbergh, Kevin Smith and Robert Rodriguez were starting to hit the mainstream. 31 years later and indie […]
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Oscars: Hungary Submits ‘Semmelweis’ for International Feature Race
Hungary has picked Lajos Koltai’s biopic Semmelweis as its contender for the 2025 Oscars in the best international feature category. The feature traces the life of Hungarian doctor Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis, an early pioneer of antiseptic procedures who became known as “the savior of mothers” for his efforts in fighting deadly infections following childbirth. Set […]
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Erotic Infidelity and Berlin S&M Feature in Trailer for Oldenburg Opener ‘Traumnovelle’ (Exclusive)
This is not your father’s Traumnovelle. Florian Frerichs’ new adaptation of Arthur Schnitzler’s famed erotic novella — the work that inspired Stanley Kubrick‘s Eyes Wide Shut — promises to be a much more explicit version of the story. The trailer for the film, which opens this year’s Oldenburg Film Festival on Sept. 11, is heavy on the hot and […]
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Rising Star Drew Starkey on ‘Queer’ and How U.S. Audiences “Can Be Very Uptight” About Sex Scenes
Drew Starkey was a day into rehearsals for Luca Guadagnino’s Queer when he found himself rolling around the floor in a sweaty clinch with Daniel Craig. “We jumped into it, just grabbing and throwing our bodies on top of one another, rolling around, getting intermingled,” Starkey recalls, “I think it unlocked something subconsciously, gave us […]
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A24 Buys Brady Corbet’s ‘The Brutalist’ for U.S.
A24 has won the bidding war to acquire U.S. rights to Brady Corbet’s buzzy Venice Film Festival winner The Brutalist. A24 announced the deal, brokered with CAA Media Finance, on Sunday, ahead of the film’s North American premiere at the Toronto Film Festival on Sept. 10. Adrien Brody stars in the historical epic as László […]
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Tilda Swinton on Translating Pedro Almodóvar Into English for Venice Winner ‘The Room Next Door’
Has Tilda Swinton ever given a bad performance? Through an astounding career that has ranged from avant-garde theater and experimental cinema to Marvel movies, the Scottish actress never fails to dazzle, delight and dumbfound. So it is again with her turn in The Room Next Door, her second collaboration with Pedro Almodóvar (after the 2020 […]
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Toronto Fest Embraces Mike Leigh’s ‘Hard Truths’
It’s no secret that Toronto loves Mike Leigh and it would be a lie to say Hard Truths, the latest from the legendary British director, didn’t get a warm welcome at its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival Friday night. Hard Truths bowed at TIFF’s Royal Alexandra Theatre with Leigh and star Marianne Jean-Baptiste in […]
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Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche on Reuniting 28 Years After ‘The English Patient’
It’s been nearly 30 years since Juliette Binoche peeled a plum and slipped it into Ralph Fiennes’ mouth. That’s the first scene between the actors in The English Patient (1996), with Binoche playing Hana, the nurse to Fiennes’ titular character, a severely burned and bedridden patient with a mysterious past. The rest, of course, is […]
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Claes Bang and Nick Hamm on Making ‘William Tell’ a Bloody European Epic
British director Nick Hamm (Driven, White Lines) went epic for his latest feature, William Tell, a retelling of the story of the 14-century Swiss crossbowman who, legend has it, united the canons of Switzerland to drive out the tyrannical Austrian army and liberate his nation. These days, Tell is mainly remembered for a single scene: […]
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Tomas Alfredson on Remaking Ingmar Bergman’s Steamy Infidelity Drama ‘Faithless’ as a TV Series
The story of Faithless, the new six-part TV series from director Tomas Alfredson (Let the Right One In, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy) is familiar to European arthouse fans. Renowned director David Howard, 73, is reunited with the great love of his life, the actress Marianne Vogler, 75, and forced to reflect on the painful consequences […]
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Toronto Kicks Off Battle of the Fall Film Markets
With the start of the 2024 Toronto Film Festival, the first shot has been fired in a battle for supremacy in the fall film markets. Toronto will officially launch its new market in 2026, with the help of an eight-figure sum from the Canadian government, and the ground is being laid to make TIFF a […]
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Vicky Krieps Sings ‘Went Up the Hill’ Closing Song Live at TIFF Premiere
TIFF audiences got a surprise musical performance at the world premiere of When Up the Hill on Thursday night when the film’s star, Vicky Krieps, performed the closing theme live. Krieps wrote the song, Jill, inspired by her character in the psychological ghost story from New Zealand director Samuel Van Grinsven. Krieps plays a grieving […]
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