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                <language>en</language><item><title>Cinema | ...! | Cartoon (L'Hebdo, Lausanne)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/cartoon/1436841-</link><description><![CDATA[ (Cartoon) (Cartoon)]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:49:44 +0100</pubDate><guid>1436841</guid></item>
<item><title>Cinema | The secret of Denmark's success (Público, Lisbon)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1421171-secret-denmark-s-success</link><description><![CDATA[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. (Article)]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:47:49 +0100</pubDate><guid>1421171</guid></item>
<item><title>Cinema | "Play" - a film that upends racist clichés (Aftonbladet, Stockholm)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1379721-play-film-upends-racist-cliches</link><description><![CDATA[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. (Article)]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 15:35:06 +0100</pubDate><guid>1379721</guid></item>
<item><title>Greece | Shattered films from a shattered country (The Guardian, London)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/907051-shattered-films-shattered-country</link><description><![CDATA[Are the brilliantly strange films of Yorgos Lanthimos and Athina Rachel Tsangari a product of Greece&#039;s economic turmoil? And will they continue to make films in this troubled country? (Article)]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 02 Sep 2011 15:05:15 +0100</pubDate><guid>907051</guid></item>
<item><title>Poland | Hollywood beckons for Polish producers</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief/875421-hollywood-beckons-polish-producers</link><description><![CDATA[<p>&ldquo;Polish miracle in Hollywood&rdquo; <a target="_self" href="http://www.rp.pl/artykul/9146,704902-Filmy-z-Hollywood-tez-za-polskie-pieniadze.html ">headlines <em>Rzeczpospolita</em></a>, enthusing about the growing number of foreign film productions co-financed by Polish companies. Over the next two years, the Warsaw daily notes, &ldquo;we can expect at least 10 film premieres co-produced by Polish businessmen&rdquo;.</p>
<p>Coming projects include a project by the American director Gus van Sant and a film that will feature one of the Australian stars: Russell Crowe, Eric Bana or Geoffrey Rush. <a target="_self" href="http://www.rp.pl/artykul/9146,704898-Polski-producent-woli-Hollywood-.html">According to <em>Rzeczpospolita</em></a>, this development is a side-effect of the global economic crisis, as &ldquo;many smaller studios are looking for business partners in order to survive.&rdquo;&nbsp;</p>
<p>On the other hand, &ldquo;Polish investors have discovered that success in Hollywood has a unique taste that can&rsquo;t be compared to any premiere in Poland.&rdquo; Budding film moguls questioned by the paper showed little interest in investing in domestic film productions. &ldquo;I have a simple principle: I can&rsquo;t lose money on films,&rdquo; one of them revealed.</p> (News in brief)]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Aug 2011 15:19:01 +0100</pubDate><guid>875421</guid></item>
<item><title>Cinéma | Ingmar Bergman switched at birth</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief/676851-ingmar-bergman-switched-birth</link><description><![CDATA[<p>Under the sober headline of &quot;new light cast on Bergman&rsquo;s origins,&quot;<em> <a href="http://www.dn.se/kultur-noje/film-tv/ingmar-bergman-var-inte-biologisk-son-till-sin-mor" target="_self">Dagens Nyheter</a></em><a href="http://www.dn.se/kultur-noje/film-tv/ingmar-bergman-var-inte-biologisk-son-till-sin-mor" target="_self"> reveals</a> a piece of news that will send a shockwave through the world of Swedish culture. According to DNA analysis, &quot;in all likelihood Ingmar Bergman was not the biological son of his mother, Karin Bergman,&quot; reports the daily, which reports that &quot;the news adds support to a hypothesis that Bergman, who was the child of another woman, was switched at birth.&quot;</p>
<p>In response to the book which announced the theory about the film director who died in 2007, his niece, Veronica Ralston, ordered the DNA tests whose results have now been disclosed. The book claimed that Karin Bergman, was ill when she had a child who may not have survived. Bergman&rsquo;s father allegedly switched this child with a baby that he had with another woman. &quot;If this information is true, it will cast a new light on Bergman&rsquo;s filmography,&quot; in which his mother plays a central role, <a href="http://www.dn.se/kultur-noje/helena-lindblad-om-uppgifterna-om-bergman-stammer-ar-det-en-varldssensation" target="_self">points out a </a><em><a href="http://www.dn.se/kultur-noje/helena-lindblad-om-uppgifterna-om-bergman-stammer-ar-det-en-varldssensation" target="_self">Dagens Nyheter</a>&nbsp;</em><a href="http://www.dn.se/kultur-noje/helena-lindblad-om-uppgifterna-om-bergman-stammer-ar-det-en-varldssensation" target="_self">columnist</a>, who also wonders &quot;how writer Henning Mankell will treat the disclosure in the TV series he is writing about Bergman&rsquo;s life.&quot;</p> (News in brief)]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2011 12:48:26 +0100</pubDate><guid>676851</guid></item>
<item><title>Cannes film festival | Lars von Trier steps over the line</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief/665231-lars-von-trier-steps-over-line</link><description><![CDATA[<p>&ldquo;The villain,&rdquo; reads the caption of a photograph of&nbsp;film-maker Lars von Trier <a href="http://www.b.dk/berlingske-mener/triers-exit" target="_self">in the Danish daily <em>Berlingske</em></a>. Reacting to comments made by the <em>enfant terrible</em>  of Danish cinema at the Cannes Film Festival that he &ldquo;understands  Hitler a little&rdquo;, the paper writes that von Triers &ldquo;is probably not a  Nazi [but] this type of statement is so offensive, stupid and tasteless  that it cannot just be ignored&rdquo;. Yet the Danish press didn&rsquo;t react to  von Trier&rsquo;s comments until he was excluded from the festival. Festival  management has &ldquo;drawn a welcome red line which signals &ndash; even for  so-called geniuses &ndash; that there is a limit to the nonsense and insults one  can proffer,&rdquo; <a href="http://jp.dk/opinion/leder/article2437293.ece" target="_self">writes the daily <em>Jyllands-Posten</em></a>, which, in 2005 defended freedom of speech after it published some controversial caricatures of the prophet Mohammed.</p> (News in brief)]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 20 May 2011 13:52:33 +0100</pubDate><guid>665231</guid></item>
<item><title>Greece | Debtocracy - exploring the roots of the crisis (To Vima, Athens)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/618261-debtocracy-exploring-roots-crisis</link><description><![CDATA[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. (Article)]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2011 16:50:33 +0100</pubDate><guid>618261</guid></item>
<item><title>Culture | Scenario darkens for European cinema (El País, Madrid)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/534971-scenario-darkens-european-cinema</link><description><![CDATA[Seven Oscars and eight Palmes d&#039;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. (Article)]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2011 14:58:38 +0100</pubDate><guid>534971</guid></item>
<item><title>Cinema | Russian intrigue at the Berlinale (Süddeutsche Zeitung, Munich)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/497941-russian-intrigue-berlinale</link><description><![CDATA[A film by a German director about the Kremlin critic Mikhail Khodorkovsky was to premiere at the Berlinale. But it’s been stolen – and the director is afraid. (Article)]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 10 Feb 2011 14:48:58 +0100</pubDate><guid>497941</guid></item>
<item><title>United Kingdom | The King's Speech - a national fairy tale (The Guardian, London)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/471041-king-s-speech-national-fairy-tale</link><description><![CDATA[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. (Article)]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 21 Jan 2011 11:49:32 +0100</pubDate><guid>471041</guid></item>
<item><title>Italy | Monicelli&#039;s dramatic last scene</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief/409741-monicellis-dramatic-last-scene</link><description><![CDATA[<p>&quot;Farewell to the master of Italian comedy&quot;, <a href="http://www3.lastampa.it/spettacoli/sezioni/articolo/lstp/378015/" target="_blank">headlines <em>La Stampa</em></a>. <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0598102/" target="_blank">Mario Monicelli</a>, director of La Grande Guerra (The Great War &ndash; 1958) and I Soliti Ignoti (Big Deal on Madonna Street &ndash; 1959), killed himself by jumping from the 5th floor of a hospital in Rome. He was 95 and suffering from a terminal cancer. &quot;In his final months, he embraced the protests against cuts to culture, encouraged young people to rebel for a better future, complained that the cinema of today could not talk about Italy as it is, but he couldn&rsquo;t see a future for himself,&rdquo; writes La Stampa. In a country where euthanasia is still taboo, his death was a final proclamation of freedom in an anarchic life. &quot;He wanted to decide everything all by himself right to the end, as in his movies&quot;, <a href="http://video.corriere.it/maestro-che-non-si-prendeva-mai-serio/41e45f2a-fc04-11df-bfbe-00144f02aabc" target="_blank">commented critic Paolo Mereghetti to <em>Corriere della Sera</em></a>.</p> (News in brief)]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 30 Nov 2010 12:15:21 +0100</pubDate><guid>409741</guid></item>
<item><title>Cinema | Europe sweet-talks Hollywood (Süddeutsche Zeitung, Munich)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/311371-europe-sweet-talks-hollywood</link><description><![CDATA[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. (Article)]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Aug 2010 15:57:57 +0100</pubDate><guid>311371</guid></item>
<item><title>Cinema | A Prophet, language is power (The Guardian, London)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/200701-prophet-language-power</link><description><![CDATA[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. (Article)]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:25:56 +0100</pubDate><guid>200701</guid></item>
<item><title>Cinema | Bread and circuses at the Berlinale</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief/189061-bread-and-circuses-berlinale</link><description><![CDATA[<p>Dieter Kosslick, director of the <a href="http://www.berlinale.de/en/HomePage.html" id="o-ol" title="Berlinale">Berlinale</a> for the past decade, has come out with yet another witticism in the punning slogan &quot;Happy B&auml;rsday&quot; (i.e. Happy Bear&rsquo;s Day, the bear being the official symbol of both the film festival and the city of Berlin). But as the <a href="http://www.sueddeutsche.de/kultur/457/502688/bilder/" id="df6y" title="60th edition">60th edition</a> of the Berlin filmfest gets underway, the <a title="Tagesspiegel has lashed out" href="http://www.tagesspiegel.de/kultur/kino/berlinale/Berlinale;art16892,3026905" id="p0t4">Tagesspiegel has lashed out</a> against &quot;German cinema&rsquo;s leading lobbyist&quot;. Between &quot;mass and class&rdquo;, Kosslick clearly opts for the former, bewails the Berlin daily. The Berlinale has grown, to be sure, and its director is as &ldquo;funny&rdquo; as ever. But he has failed to &ldquo;cosmopolitanise&rdquo; the event. &quot;In his profoundly Social Democratic efforts to come across as the people&rsquo;s cinematic benefactor, Kosslick has over-compartmentalised the Berlinale.&rdquo; Worse still, &ldquo;By rolling out the red carpet for [untried] German filmmakers he is provincialising the International Film Festival.&rdquo; Instead, opines Der Tagesspiegel, the director ought to try to attract more masterpieces to compete with Cannes and stop giving the official competition short shrift. </p>
<p>&nbsp;</p> (News in brief)]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 15:39:50 +0100</pubDate><guid>189061</guid></item>
<item><title>Belgium | Turkish cinema bigger than Hollywood (De Standaard, Brussels)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/187171-turkish-cinema-bigger-hollywood</link><description><![CDATA[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. (Article)]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:09:28 +0100</pubDate><guid>187171</guid></item>
<item><title>Cinema | Prague to boost European films</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief/120421-prague-boost-european-films</link><description><![CDATA[<p>The Czech government is launching a subsidy program for &quot;quality European films&quot;, that should help to revive a long cinematic tradition. Under this scheme, <a title="says Lidové Noviny" href="http://www.lidovky.cz/vlada-schvalila-podporu-filmarum-dqm-/ln_noviny.asp?c=A091020_000064_ln_noviny_sko&amp;klic=233838&amp;mes=091020_0" id="pyrj">says <em>Lidov&eacute; Noviny</em></a>, local and foreign producers of films made in the Czech Republic could get back up to 20% of their investment. &quot;This isn't a grant for big, rich producers&quot;, <a title="states the Prague-based newspaper" href="http://www.lidovky.cz/rynda-nechte-nas-pracovat-0yq-/ln_nazory.asp?c=A091020_082102_ln_nazory_pks" id="xhyg">states the Prague-based newspaper</a>, quoting the country's culture minister. The daily goes on to explain that films, documentaries and television series will have to undergo a &quot;cultural test&quot; following which, a soon to be established commission, will ascertain whether the work in question has &quot;a certain quality relating to European culture&quot;.</p> (News in brief)]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:46:19 +0100</pubDate><guid>120421</guid></item>
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