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Venice Chief Alberto Barbera Defends Selection of Russian Director Ilya Khrzhanovsky’s ‘DAU’ After Backlash: It’s ‘Not Pro-Putin Propaganda’ (opens the original)
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Venice Film Festival artistic director Alberto Barbera took to social media on Wednesday to fight back against criticism of the inclusion of Russian filmmaker Ilya Khrzhanovsky’s “DAU” in this year’s edition. Acknowledging the “bloody and cruel war” in Ukraine, Barbera wrote in an Instagram post that “to build a web of accusations based on false premises and the manipulation of reality in order to attack the Biennale and a film invited to compete is a petty and unacceptable act. ‘DAU’ is not a R
‘Pacifiction’ Director Albert Serra on His New Film ‘Sixteen Moments of My Life’ and Why He’d Love to Have Directed Elvis Presley (opens the original)
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‘I want to do a ‘Brigadoon’-style musical comedy,’ Serra tells Variety at Locarno, where ’16 Moments of My Life’ world premieres Don’t call Albert Serra’s new film, “Seize moments de ma vie” (“Sixteen Moments of My Life”), a concert film. Premiering out of competition at the Locarno Film Festival, the film documents a one-off performance by screen legend Ingrid Caven at the Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord in Paris. “I will never shoot a concert unless I’m involved in the music,” Serra told Variety.
Heritage Monday at the Locarno Film Festival Sees a Future in the Past (opens the original)
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Young people are discovering black and white classics and 'feel the need to go back' to better understand how films were made, according to panelists Heritage Monday has become a popular fixture at the industry section of the Locarno Film Festival, reflecting the growing interest in film restoration and retrospective programming. This year’s edition was specifically devoted to the challenge of gaining new young audiences for older films. The panel, moderated by Sung Moon of the Jeonju Internatio
Zoe Saldaña on Seeing ‘Terminator’ Aged 7, Having the Wrong-Shaped Feet and Wanting to Direct: ‘Give Me That Camera!’ (opens the original)
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Zoe Saldaña has starred in blockbuster franchises “Star Trek,” “Guardians of the Galaxy” and “Avatar,” has won an Oscar for “Emilia Perez” and holds the crown as the actor whose films have earned the most money ever. So what comes next? “I have a feeling that I can only watch other people’s direction for so long until I kind of say: ‘Give me that camera!’” Saldaña told an audience at Locarno Film Festival in Switzerland. “Because women, we all think that we’re right because we are half the time.
Protest at the Locarno Film Festival Remembers 60,000 Names of the Dead of Gaza (opens the original)
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Locarno became the latest film festival to see protests at the continuing situation in Gaza and Palestine‘s Occupied Territories. While music from the Campari Lounge boomed into the evening, approximately 100 demonstrators unwound a shroud bearing the names of 60,000 people who have been killed in Gaza since the beginning of the war two and a half years ago. One of the organizers, Dr. Michele Ghielmini from Swiss Healthcare Workers Against Genocide, told Variety that the protestors were not alig
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