Cinema
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24 January 2012L'Hebdo Lausanne
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20 January 20121Público Lisbon
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10 January 20121Aftonbladet Stockholm
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2 September 20111The Guardian London
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22 August 2011PresseuropRzeczpospolita
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Germany
Death of a media tycoon
15 July 2011PresseuropDie Welt -
26 May 2011PresseuropDagens Nyheter
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Cannes film festival
Lars von Trier steps over the line
20 May 20113PresseuropBerlingske Tidende -
26 April 20111To Vima Athens
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8 March 2011El País Madrid
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10 February 2011Süddeutsche Zeitung Munich
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United Kingdom
The King’s Speech – a national fairy tale
21 January 2011The Guardian London -
30 November 2010PresseuropLa Stampa
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Cinema
Europe sweet-talks Hollywood
9 August 2010Süddeutsche Zeitung Munich -
Cinema
A Prophet, language is power
1 March 20102The Guardian London -
11 February 2010PresseuropDer Tagesspiegel
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10 February 2010De Standaard Brussels
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20 October 2009PresseuropLidové noviny
At a time when the drive for austerity has led most countries to cut back on cultural budgets, the Danish film industry remains one of the most successful in Europe thanks to a pro-active policy of grants and support for young film makers.
Is this a racist movie? Ruben Östlund’s latest film — a story of poor black and middle class white children which deliberate plays on the audience’s prejudices — has sparked controversy in Sweden.
Are the brilliantly strange films of Yorgos Lanthimos and Athina Rachel Tsangari a product of Greece's economic turmoil? And will they continue to make films in this troubled country?
Produced by activists and distributed on the Internet, a documentary retracing the history of the Greek debt crisis, which highlights the responsibility of the country’s political elite, has prompted a lively debate.
Seven Oscars and eight Palmes d'Or in 10 years: the results of the MEDIA programme that has subsidised film production in Europe are largely positive. But now the funding is on the chopping block – to the dismay of filmmakers, who have started a petition.
Hotly tipped for the Oscars, the newly released film confirms that World War 2 is now creation myth number one for Britons – and the Queen their only living connection to it.
For years, European film boards have been competing with offers of tax breaks and subsidies to lure major US film producers to their studios. France is the latest country to adopt such a strategy, but it still lacks the appropriate infrastructure.
Jacques Audiard’s A Prophet has swept the board at France’s Césars, and looks set to win the Oscar for best foreign language film. One of its lessons is that in a fast-paced globalised world, the future belongs to those who can master two, or even three, languages.
While too unrefined and exotic for the Flemish, and sometimes shown without subtitles, Turkish movies often draw bigger crowds in Belgium than even American or homegrown productions, thanks to a limited but avid audience. A report from De Standaard.