We don`t know too much about our good EE movies. Let`s share some informations here:

California Dreamin' (Endless)- trailer

This is Cristian Nemescu's latest film. He finished filming in July 2006 and was in post-production at the time of his death. The movie was awarded the Un Certain Regard prize at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival.

Nemescu was killed in a car crash in Bucharest (he was only 27 years old!) that also claimed the life of Romanian-born sound engineer Andrei Toncu. Nemescu and Toncu were riding in a taxi that was struck on Eroilor Bridge by a Porsche Cayenne SUV driven by a British citizen (Ali Imran) who ran a red light. Technical expertise established that the Porsche was going 113 km/h (63 km/h above the speed limit), while the taxi had a speed of 42 km/h.

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Is this some CSI like film? Or an artistic one?

Good thread jose23 ! :okay:

One of the descent productions coming from Bulgaria lately is :

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Georgi and the Butterflies (2004) (http://www.georgiandthebutterflies.com/)

Director: Andrey Paounov
Camera: Boris Missirkov, Georgi Bogdanov

This is the story of a man and his dream. Or, to be more exact, of his dreams, as Dr. Georgi Lulchev is an idealist with the productivity of a tireless factory of ideas, and enthusiast in the unbridled format of Don Quixote, who ironically calls himself a “hyper-active psychopath”. In addition he is a psychiatrist, neurologist, Chinese medicine specialist, hobby chef, employer and director of an institution for mentally ill men all in one. Dr. Georgi Luchev runs his clinic in an old monastery close to Sofia, where the money suffices for bread and medicine, but where there are no means for therapists or possibilities for activities, which is why the patients stay alone with their fears and psychoses. The things which the brilliant doctor has already thought of in a decade and a half, to solve the problem and make his institution profitable, partially reach into the surreal. He wanted to initiate the breeding of pheasants, construct a canning factory for snails, breed silk worms or have soy products made. Everything failed. Sometimes the authorities didn’t play along, sometimes the patients got bored of the snail hunt. But the jack of all trades Georgi Lulchev is not at the end of his rope yet. Maybe an ostrich farm will work out.

This very entertaining and grandly amusing documentary by Andrey Paounov portrays an architect of castles in the air of a world format and his allies. The inhabitants of the run-down clinic and their director, whose credo “Einstein was a genius and therefore insane” isn’t an accident, naturally find their way into ones heart.

This is a story full of optimism, snails, ostriches, silk, charity, the Eastern Orthodox Church, soybean food, schizophrenics, oligophrenics, psychopaths, Korean investors, Western hunters, misery, acupuncture and compassion. Compassion, business, butterflies.

This fall will be the premiere of the new movie by Andrei Paunov - The Mosquito problem and other stories (http://www.themosquitoproblem.com/)

The movie already won special awards from teh Cannes, Sarajevo and Carlovi vari festivals ... and i can't wait to see it.

Watch its trailer here (http://www.themosquitoproblem.com/)

Nice topic. If I may say so, BiH has a splendid cinematographic record:D

My top three movies from Bosnia and Herzegovina

Gori Vatra

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Director: Pjer Zalica

In the Bosnian town of Tesanj, not long after the Balkan war, land mines claim victims, corruption is rampant, women are trafficked into Serbia, but there's a sort of peace. Zaim, the retired police chief, has alcoholic visions of his dead son Adnan, whose body's missing. Adnan's siblings, Faruk and Azra, watch their father's decline. It's announced that President Clinton will pay Tesanj a visit to see the new harmony. Whores are hidden from sight, Serbs are trucked in to integrate the neighborhood; the children's choir learns "House of the Rising Sun." Meanwhile, Faruk wants to sort out his brother's death to bring some peace to his house. Can it work out? Irony is everywhere.

Awards: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0347105/awards

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Grbavica

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Director: Jasmila Zbanic

Single mother Esma lives with her 12-year-old daughter, Sara, in post-war Sarajevo. Sara wants to go on a school trip and Esma starts working as a waitress in a nightclub in order to earn the money. Sara makes friends with Samir, who, like Sara, has no father. Both of their fathers allegedly died as war heroes. Samir is surprised that Sara doesn’t know the circumstances of her father’s death. Samir’s own father was massacred by Chetniks near Žuč when he refused to leave the trench he was defending. And yet, whenever mother and daughter discuss this delicate topic, Esma’s responses are always vague. The situation becomes more complicated when the school offers to take pupils on the trip free of charge, provided they can furnish a certificate proving that they are the offspring of a war hero. Esma explains to Sara that her father’s corpse was never found and that she does not possess such a certificate. She promises to try to obtain the document. In reality she attempts to borrow the money Sara needs – from her friend, Sabina, from her aunt and from her boss. Sara can’t get rid of the nagging feeling that something’s not right. Shocked and bewildered when she discovers she is not mentioned as the child of a war hero on the list of pupils on the school trip, she lashes out at a classmate, explaining that her father was massacred on the front near Žuč when he refused to desert his trench. At home, however, she confronts her mother, demanding to know the truth. Esma breaks down and brutally reveals the painful facts: Esma was raped in a prisoner-of-war camp and forced to have the child that resulted from this violation. All at once, Sara realises that she is the child of a Chetnik. And yet, the knowledge also brings them a step closer to overcoming the trauma. In the end Sara leaves for a school trip, weaving to Esma at the last moment. In the bus children are singing a popular song about Sarajevo ("Land of My Dreams"), and in the end Sara joins as well, and thus ends the film on a bright and optimistic note.

Awards

Golden Bear - Best Film - Berlin Film Festival 2006
Peace Film Award - Berlin Film Festival 2006
Prize of the Ecumenical Jury - Berlin Film Festival 2006
KOSMORAMA award - Best Film
Reykjavik Film Festival - Best Film
AFI Film Festival - Narrative grand jury prize
Brussels European Film Festival - Prize TV Canvas for Best Film and Award Best Actress (to Mirjana Karanović)
Ourence Film Festival - Award Best Actress (to Mirjana Karanović)
Portland International Film Festival - Audience Award
Thessaloniki Film Festival - Woman & Equality Award
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No Man's Land

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Director: Danis Tanovic

Synopsis
Two wounded soldiers, a Bosniak (Čiki, portrayed by Branko Đurić) and a Serb (Nino, portrayed by Rene Bitorajac) are caught between their lines in the no man's land, in a struggle for survival. The two soldiers confront each other in a trench, where they wait for dark. They trade insults and even find some common ground. Confounding the situation is another wounded Bosniak soldier (Cera, portrayed by Filip Šovagović) who wakes from unconsciousness. A landmine had been buried beneath him by the Bosnian Serbs; should he make any move, it would be fatal.

A French sergeant, of the United Nations Protection Force (UNPROFOR), gets involved in effort to help the three trapped soldiers, despite initial orders to the contrary by high command. UNPROFOR's mission in Bosnia was to guard the humanitarian aid convoys, to remain neutral and act as a mere bystander. Luckily, an English reporter arrives on scene, bringing media pressure to bear that moves the United Nations high command to swing in to action to try to save the soldiers.

Unfortunately, a small row between the stressed out and fatigued Čiki and Nino gradually escalates and finally results in both being killed, even after being rescued. And when it is found that the mine cannot be defused, the UNPROFOR high command plays a wicked game to save face and Cera is left desolate, awaiting his end.

Awards

No Man's Land won Prix du scénario at the Cannes Film Festival, followed by numerous awards, including the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in 2001, while in competition with French Amélie. Tanović was presented the Oscar by John Travolta and Sharon Stone. Briefly after, Tanović thanked everyone who worked with him on the film and supported its creation. He ended his acceptance speech by saying, "This is for my country".

In total, No Man's Land won 42 awards, including the Oscar for Best Foreign Film, the European Film Academy Award for Best Screenplay, the César Award for Best Debut in 2002 and the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 2002.
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Back in '98 ... in my hostel – T7 room 314 (10π;) ). The only one with TV (colour):nuts: :lol: ... my friends - " :nuts: from architecture monser" - knocking loudly on my door ... knock nock knock Open uppppppppppp ... its Underground time ...


Underground ... Emir Kusturica … great movie
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Nice topic. If I may say so, BiH has a splendid cinematographic record:D

My top three movies from Bosnia and Herzegovina


The only three movies from Bosnia and Herzegovina;)
I've seen Gori Vatra and really loved No Man's Land.

The train station master in California Dreamin' (film based on a real life story) should be given a fycking medal by Serbia for delaying that weapons-carrying train:yes:

"Clinton himself can come down here":lol:

The only three movies from Bosnia and Herzegovina
My my, the only three movies out of BiH raked in an Oscar, a win at Cannes and a Berlin Bear. Damnnnn, I wonder how much ass we're gonna kick once we really get the cinema scene running.

Tanović was presented the Oscar by John Travolta and Sharon Stone. Briefly after, Tanović thanked everyone who worked with him on the film and supported its creation. He ended his acceptance speech by saying, "This is for my country".

:cheers:

My dream is to see a production of 50-60 good movies in the Serbo-Croatian language area (20-22 million people) .... basically, one decent domestic movie coming out every week in theaters throughout Bosnia, Croatia, Serbia & Montenegro.

Serbia today produces about 30-40 movies annually, of which, about 5-10 could be called "good".

I don't know what is Montenegro's annual output, but they could pull of one or two decent movies annually.
The last film from Montenegro that I watched was "Pogled sa Ajfelovog Tornja "(View from the Eiffel tower) - very good romantic movie:yes:

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Ukraine doesn't make good movies, they're either very bad or just boring.

In terms of special effects and quality, it's gotten quite good lately, because the commercial filming industry is booming, but the plot and actors are urgghh

First ukrainian thriller
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And Grbavica is a political provocation, such as many holywood films latelly. How much money gave to Mirjana Karanovic for such ashame of its nation and its country!??

^^ Stay on topic, cedo. Noone's out to get you:)

I really loved the macedonian "Balcancan" (http://www.partysans.com.mk/movies/Bal-can-can/story.htm) ... really nice black balkan comedy :cheers:

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There are several WW2 movies of OK quality and budget, but I'm not going to post here because they might be offensive to our neighbors.

btw ... BiH-x ... wasn't Kosturica a bosnian too ? From Sarajevo ? ;)

wasn't Kosturica a bosnian too ? From Sarajevo ?

Yep, but ethnically a Serb as I suspect one of our residents will soon rush to tell you.

I didnt post his movies here because they were in reality Yugoslav produced, not Bosnian. But I hear they're really good.

White cat, black cat!!!

Cult movie!!! Nice OST too :)

Those are nice,friendly looking guys,whom I want for neighbours:lol: :lol:
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California Dreamin' is an overrated borefest.

No Man's Land, Underground & Black Cat, White Cat - now we're talking.

Those are nice,friendly looking guys,whom I want for neighbours:lol: :lol:
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They are about to say "Viva Unione Europea! " :lol: :lol: :lol:

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Pianista - The Pianist
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Oh man, "The Pianist" was amazing (I actually liked it a bit better than "Schindler's List"). Roman Polanski rocks as usual ("Ninth Gate", the "Dance of the Vampires", etc.)! From our area, again, Kusturica is the top-notch movie-maker: "Time of the gypsies" (Dom za vjesanje), "Otac na sluzbenom putu", "Arizona Dream", "Underground", "Black Cat - White Cat". I have not seen "Life is a Miracle" (sounds kinda repetitive), but I would love to see his newest movie: "Promise me this" (Zavet). Srdjan Dragojevic's "Wounds" (Rane) and "Pretty Village Pretty Flame" (Lepa Sela Lepo Gore) are also very good movies, esp. the first one. Also, Predrag Antonijevic's "Savior" with Dennis Quaid & Stellan Skarsgard is surprisingly good movie (those idiots who made "Behind the enemy lines" actually stole some footage from this movie :lol: ). And because RS is officially a part of Bosnia, I have to comment that No Man's Land is quite pathetic in its "subtle" explanation as to "who really started the war", but I guess nothing else could have been expected (for impartiality in the movies look at "Underground", "Rane", "Lepa Sela Lepo Gore", "Savior"), I have not seen Gori Vatra though I'd love to, and I have no intentions watching Grbavica. After at least one Bosniak and/or Croat director gets some guts to make a movie on Jasenovac or NDH I'll gladly pay a full ticket to see "Grbavica". Cheers, Okrojsha. :cheers:

Another Bosnian movie I like is Kod amidze Idriza. The director hasnt been quite as succesful as these two though:

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Pride of BiH:)

...and I have no intentions watching Grbavica. After at least one Bosniak and/or Croat director gets some guts to make a movie on Jasenovac or NDH I'll gladly pay a full ticket to see "Grbavica". Cheers, Okrojsha. :cheers:

There is one film made by the book, which explanes the best the war in Bosnia and Croatia, the reasons, the motives, and all the rest. It starts from a second war, with stories about family tree of muslim and serbian families, their connection, action is mostly during the happy time of Yugoslavia (70ies), and its finished with the last bosnian war. The name of the film is "NIFE" (Noz) made by the book of Vuk Draskovic, ex minister of foreign busineses of serbia, personally, i dont like him like a politician, but as a writer, he should be honored. In that book he precisely explain that Muslims became from Islamized Serbs. It is the film about honor, and pride, and it shows how the both "nations" can be evil and good in the same moment... I surgest it! :nuts:

^^ I have watched "KNIFE" - Noz.... pretty good ... and pretty bad the book was written years before the actual events really started to accur and nobody didn't had enough piece of mind to prevent them...

i liked macedonian before the rain, great film
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Is that Boris "the Bullet Dodger"?

There is one film made by the book, which explanes the best the war in Bosnia and Croatia, the reasons, the motives, and all the rest. It starts from a second war, with stories about family tree of muslim and serbian families, their connection, action is mostly during the happy time of Yugoslavia (70ies), and its finished with the last bosnian war. The name of the film is "NIFE" (Noz) made by the book of Vuk Draskovic, ex minister of foreign busineses of serbia, personally, i dont like him like a politician, but as a writer, he should be honored. In that book he precisely explain that Muslims became from Islamized Serbs. It is the film about honor, and pride, and it shows how the both "nations" can be evil and good in the same moment... I surgest it! :nuts:

I didnt know bilion muslims were Serbs :eek2: :eek2: :eek2:

^^Bog je Srbin:)

Kod Amidze Idriza

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Info: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0406910/

I'll agree with Mimar on this one....it is a very poor explanation (billion Muslims).
I also don't believe that Draskovic wanted to point out that Bosniaks are all islamized Serbs, but to the stupidity of war as well pointlessness of nationalistic/ethnic divisions. Yes, it happened to be about WW2 and the last one, but that's just my 2 cents. Furthermore I don't like Draskovic as a public figure either (years of gatherings of drunken half-wits on Ravna Gora for the sake of gaining cheap political points), but I do agree that the book and the movie were good. I've heard before the rain is very good, I haven't seen it yet (and yes, that's Boris the Bulletdodger - AKA Rade Serbedzija :lol: ).
Does anyone know of a good Croatian movie (made after the ex-YU collapse) -
I have seen Marshal, Kako je poceo rat na mom otoku and some others, but these were really quite bad in my opinion....

"I didnt know bilion muslims were Serbs "

Watch a film and educate yourself :-)

Vuk Draskovic :lol:

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Grbavica Bosnia and Herzegovina winner of the golden bear in Berlin 2006!
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DEAR ENEMY (I DASHUR ARMIK) 2004

Director:
Gjergj Xhuvani

Writers:
Dhimitër Xhuvani
Gjergj Xhuvani

Release Date:
28 March 2006 (Germany)

Genre:
Drama

Plot Summary:
Albania 1943: After the Italian surrender, the Germans occupy the country, so the peoples' situation becomes more and more chaotic. Harun Bonata, a clever trader with a big heart, hides three fugitives in his cellar: the partisan Quazim, the Jewish watchmaker Hoakin and the Italian soldier Giulio. Nevertheless, he makes a good deal with the German officer Franz...

Cast Marko Bitraku ... Sami
Helidon Fino ... Qasim
Birce Hasko ... Hoakin
Niko Kanxheri ... The Priest
Peter Lohmeyer ... Franz
Nina Petri ... Gerta
Agim Qirjaqi ... Ethem
Rinaldo Rocco ... Giulio
Lefter Simoni ... Vasjan
Anila Varfi ... Ije
Margarita Xhepa ... Grand Mother
Ndriçim Xhepa ... Harun
Luiza Xhuvani ... Vefi

Country:
Albania / France / Germany

Language:
Albanian / German

Filming Locations:
Shkoder, Albania

Production Companies
Akkord Film Produktion GmbH
Albanian General Vision
Les Films de Cinéma

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DEAR ENEMY BY GJERGJ XHUVANI

couldn't find trailer for night watch. here is the one of day watch for american release
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Awesome trailer, I've absolutely loved the Nightwatch and can't wait to see this one as well (after checking some facts on IMDB the movie made lot more sense and made the story even more appealing). As far as I understand, books 2 and 3 are combined in the Daywatch, so that means that this is it? No third part?

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Treci deo se vec snima:yes:

By the way, I just now came back from the Toronto premiere of the Russian film "Volkodav", translated as "Wolfhound" here and announced as "Russia's answer to Lord of the Rings trilogy"

I can't call it a great movie as some things could have been done a little better but all in all, its a good good "blockbuster"/Hollywood-type movie from Russian cinema. The film uses a lot of old Slavic/pagan motives and traditions:yes:

http://cinema.perm.ru/images/base/CINEMA_PERM_RU_OBOI_VOLKODAV_5815.jpg

they've got really good effects there, but story line was fucked up and people were not talking at all. script writer should kill himself.
As far as I understand, books 2 and 3 are combined in the Daywatch, so that means that this is it? No third part?
actually there will b 3rd part. "dusk watch"

BTW, there was some Russian movie, "особенности национальной рыбалки" (is it right?), I almost died of laughter years ago when I watched it. There are some other movies featuring the same guys (the hunting movies, etc), they are very funny too :)

Dunno who is the director of that movies but he's a great guy IMO :)

Crazy Serb and Soloveich, thank you for the clarification. I'd like to see that "Russian answer to the Lord of the Rings" as well. It's really good to see some fresh ideas (and Slavic/pagan mythology :)) as Holywood-based industry is truly getting worse year after year.

BTW, there was some Russian movie, "особенности национальной рыбалки" (is it right?), I almost died of laughter years ago when I watched it. There are some other movies featuring the same guys (the hunting movies, etc), they are very funny too :)

Dunno who is the director of that movies but he's a great guy IMO :)

yeah. it's hilarious :) one of my favorite comedys :)

Crazy Serb and Soloveich, thank you for the clarification. I'd like to see that "Russian answer to the Lord of the Rings" as well. It's really good to see some fresh ideas (and Slavic/pagan mythology :)) as Holywood-based industry is truly getting worse year after year.
I can imagine it already.

Germans as Mordorland, Ukraine as Isengorod, Poles as savage east tribes, Russians as Gondorya, Cossacks as Rohimiya, Kazakhstan as elves, Borat as Legoslav, Stalin as keeper of the throne, Putin as Aragorn, and all because Frodoslav, Semislav, Pipislav i Merislav have to destroy all Fabergé's eggs in order to prevent evil Sauron Hitler to cast it's shadow over Mitteleuropa... Who will be the dwarfs? Mongolians or Chinese?

Shumway, seems you have a hell of a plot going on there, I think I'd prefer this version over the original :lol:

Hehe, while we're on the subject...
Next project of Russian cinema....screen adaptation of popular children's books:

http://www.fictionbook.ru/author/emec_dmitriyi/tanya_grotter_1_tanya_grotter_i_magicheskiyi_kontrabas/grotter01.jpg

Look this :lol:


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new Bosnian movie TESKO JE BITI FIN now in the cinema!

filming the movie
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Great movie I saw last year during our EE film festival on campus.

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Its called KONTROL and is indeed one of the best films to come out of our region in recent times:yes:

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masterpiece of polish cinematography

Croatian cinema at its best...something out of the Bore Lee classic collection:D

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The Russian Ark

Watch the whole movie on youtube:
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2000 Actors. 300 years of Russian History. 33 Rooms at the Hermitage Museum. 3 Live Orchestras. 1 Single Continuous Shot.

"I'm a subscriber to the notion that the language of cinema finds its origins in the way the human mind dreams, specifically that montage replicates the structure of dreams. After all, surrealist cinema has primarily been predicated on montage.

For me, 'Russian Ark,' by Alexander Sokurov, might be the most cinematically groundbreaking work in the last couple of decades simply because it completely challenges that notion by being the most dream-like movie I've seen, while not featuring a single edit. Sure, this type of thing has been done before -- filming in feature-length, in a single, unbroken take -- but it was always a gimmick. Sokurov, that most transcendent of working filmmakers, transcends the gimmick, and 'Russian Ark' is flawless, breathtaking, and visually plausible -- a legitimate accomplishment. Many Russian films are esoterically Russian, and some of the content in 'Russian Ark' certainly is, exploring Russian history, art, tensions and rivalries with European art and European nations, and national identity crisis, but cinematically, the movie is universal. It's universally astonishing.

The narrative and narrator (a narrator in a physical sense only, more of a guide) drift through time and space as time and space become one, indistinguishable. The movie, in its unrelenting continuity and unblinking gaze, not only feels like a dream, but it sort of becomes one. In the sense that most movies are like dreams, they are really only remembered dreams, fragmented in a way that reflects the mechanics of both dream as well as memory. Because there is no editing in 'Russian Ark,' the movie has no language; cinematically, it's the equivalent of unspoken communication. Without the grammar inflicted by montage, using pure mise-en-scène, the movie becomes a pure experience and is like a dream not remembered, but a dream dreamt."

by BornJaded (BornJaded@aol.com) from United States

Duhovi Sarajeva
soon in the cinema

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Look this :lol:


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is it possible to find this movie on some torrents?

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Duhovi Sarajeva: http://www.duhovisarajeva.co.ba/

Ljeto u zlatnoj dolini

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Im looking forward to watching this film, should be cool

New York Cinema Fest Awards Bulgarian Film



The documentary film ‘One cinema goer in the beginning of the century' received the award for best foreign movie at the New York's festival for Independent cinema.

The fest is also known as the ‘voice of independent cinema' and it is one of the biggest cinema forums in the world.

The event take place in the US's film capitals - New York and L.A., showing movies from all around the world.

The Bulgarian production was elected among serious competitiveness of 230 headlines from 60 countries. The ceremony took place last Friday, November 2in Manhattan, New York.

This is the first Bulgarian movie awarded with this degree. Film's director Peter Odadjiev is invited to show his next project to American Film Market, which takes place in Santa Monica, CA in October 31 until November 7.

New Bosnian movie Ritam zivota

www.ritamzivota.ba
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is it possible to find this movie on some torrents?

I think not yet, but it will be.

"Fourth Man" - just released thriller from Serbia.

http://www.cetvrticovek.com/trejler.html

4 MONTHS, 3 WEEKS, 2 DAYS

"4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days" is a 2007 Romanian film written and directed by Cristian Mungiu. It won the Palme d'Or and the FIPRESCI Award at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival.

The film is set in Communist Romania in the final years of the Nicolae Ceauşescu era. It tells the tragic story of two students, room mates in the university dormitory, who try to arrange an illegal abortion for one of them, during the communist regime of the late 1980s.

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Bosnian movie No mans land
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Awards
Best Foreign Language Film, 2003 74th Annual Academy Awards
Best Foreign Language Film, 2002 Golden Globe Award
Best Screenplay, 2001 Cannes Film Festival
No Man's Land won Prix du scénario at the Cannes Film Festival, followed by numerous awards, including the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in 2001, while in competition with French Amélie. Tanović was presented the Oscar by John Travolta and Sharon Stone. Briefly after, Tanović thanked everyone who worked with him on the film and supported its creation. He ended his acceptance speech by saying, "This is for my country".

In total, No Man's Land won 42 awards, including the Oscar for Best Foreign Film, the European Film Academy Award for Best Screenplay, the César Award for Best Debut in 2002 and the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 2002.

4 MONTHS, 3 WEEKS, 2 DAYS

"4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days" is a 2007 Romanian film written and directed by Cristian Mungiu. It won the Palme d'Or and the FIPRESCI Award at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival.

The film is set in Communist Romania in the final years of the Nicolae Ceauşescu era. It tells the tragic story of two students, room mates in the university dormitory, who try to arrange an illegal abortion for one of them, during the communist regime of the late 1980s.

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19 November - Record number of countries bid for best foreign film Oscar

LOS ANGELES (AFP) — A record 63 countries have entered the race for Oscars glory in next year's Best Foreign Language Film category, officials said Wednesday.

Academy Awards organizers announced the list of entries for the coveted prize roughly three months ahead of the formal announcement of nominations for other main categories at next year's 80th Oscars.

The 63 entries will eventually be whittled down to five nominees who will all jostle for the most famous statuette in show business at the 2008 Academy Awards, which take place in Hollywood on February 24.

The two debutants in the competition are entries from Azerbaijan and Ireland, the Academy said in a statement.

Romania's entry, "4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days," is likely to be one of the early front-runners in the Oscar race.

Filmmaker Cristian Mungiu scooped the prestigious Palme D'Or at this year's Cannes Film Festival for his film, a wrenching story about a girl's back-alley abortion in communist-era Romania.

Other notable entries included Portugal's "Belle Toujours," the latest offering from Manoel de Oliveira, who at age 98 is believed to be the world's oldest working director.

Another veteran, Poland's Andrzej Wajda, has been entered for "Katyn," a harrowing film about the massacre of civilians by Soviet troops in 1940. Wajda, 81, received an honorary Oscar in 2000.

Several directors who have already scored Oscar wins in the category are amongst the contenders.

They include Italy's Giuseppe Tornatore, whose beloved "Cinema Paradiso" triumphed in 1990. Tornatore is entered for "The Unknown."

Another former winner is Canada's Denys Arcand, whose "The Barbarian Invasions" won the 2004 Oscar. This time, Arcand is entered for "Days of Darkness."

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Film: 1612

Over $12 million was spent on making this film, which is a record for modern Russian cinematography.


p.s. I am currently downloading it :D

^^ I would love to see this movie, any idea about DVD release or something like that?

^^ I would love to see this movie, any idea about DVD release or something like that?
It will certainly be available on DVD, I am not totally sure about Polish or English subtitles/translation tho

I can recommend another Russian movie(four parts, 1 hour each). This one is called "Грозовые ворота" ("Storm Gate" or "Thunde Gate") and is a great film about a single battle during the second Chechen campaign. Lots of fantastic combat scenes

Here is what I could find on youtube:
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The Russian Ark

Watch the whole movie on youtube:
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2000 Actors. 300 years of Russian History. 33 Rooms at the Hermitage Museum. 3 Live Orchestras. 1 Single Continuous Shot.

"I'm a subscriber to the notion that the language of cinema finds its origins in the way the human mind dreams, specifically that montage replicates the structure of dreams. After all, surrealist cinema has primarily been predicated on montage.

For me, 'Russian Ark,' by Alexander Sokurov, might be the most cinematically groundbreaking work in the last couple of decades simply because it completely challenges that notion by being the most dream-like movie I've seen, while not featuring a single edit. Sure, this type of thing has been done before -- filming in feature-length, in a single, unbroken take -- but it was always a gimmick. Sokurov, that most transcendent of working filmmakers, transcends the gimmick, and 'Russian Ark' is flawless, breathtaking, and visually plausible -- a legitimate accomplishment. Many Russian films are esoterically Russian, and some of the content in 'Russian Ark' certainly is, exploring Russian history, art, tensions and rivalries with European art and European nations, and national identity crisis, but cinematically, the movie is universal. It's universally astonishing.

The narrative and narrator (a narrator in a physical sense only, more of a guide) drift through time and space as time and space become one, indistinguishable. The movie, in its unrelenting continuity and unblinking gaze, not only feels like a dream, but it sort of becomes one. In the sense that most movies are like dreams, they are really only remembered dreams, fragmented in a way that reflects the mechanics of both dream as well as memory. Because there is no editing in 'Russian Ark,' the movie has no language; cinematically, it's the equivalent of unspoken communication. Without the grammar inflicted by montage, using pure mise-en-scène, the movie becomes a pure experience and is like a dream not remembered, but a dream dreamt."

by BornJaded (BornJaded@aol.com) from United States

This was real bomb for me . Must be see for every cultural modern peopels

Knyaz' Vladimir. Even though it's a cartoon, it might be interesting for everybody...
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Film: 1612

Over $12 million was spent on making this film, which is a record for modern Russian cinematography.


p.s. I am currently downloading it :D

So, how is it then? I might watch it, but is it as good as the trailer tries to make you believe?

Probably one of the most anticipated Serbian films for 2008...."Charleston And Vendetta".
It was supposed to be released this year, but post-production process is taking longer than expected. Budget was about three million dollars, making it one of the more expensive recent serbian films.

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Duhovi Sarajeva Official trailer

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Eastern European countries compete for lucrative Hollywood movie productions
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VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP): Ducking beneath a shower of bullets, three unshaven men in filthy overcoats jump out of a concealed forest dugout, dragging a heavy machine gun and shouting commands to fellow rebels.

A brutal battle ensues between Nazi soldiers and resistance fighters under the leaden sky, and in the din -- replete with explosions -- the cattle in a neighboring village trample away in fright.

But it's all an illusion on the site of "Defiance,'' a World War II action flick recounting the story of a Jewish resistance movement in the Polish-Belarussian forests.

The $50 million (euro33 million) production, set for 2008 release, was a major victory for Lithuania, a country of 3.4 million, which beat out bigger Poland and Romania as potential shooting sites. Eastern European movie sites are fighting for Hollywood cash with nearly as much ferocity as the fake battles in the movies.

As producers Ed Zwick and Pieter Jan Brugge explained, while searching for ideal sites, they looked for a setting that had thick forests and an urban landscape nearby.

"We actually explored the location on the 'Google Earth' to see how the forest was accessible to the city center,'' said Zwick, producer of blockbusters like "The Last Samurai'' and "Blood Diamond.''

The two found that no adequate settings around the Polish capital, Warsaw, and Romania's forests are high in the mountains and too far away from Bucharest. So they chose Vilnius, Lithuania's capital.

For the post-communist economies of Eastern Europe, international movie production is a bonanza.

Foreign movie productions brought some US$76 million (euro52 million) to the Czech Republic in 2006, according to Dusana Chrenekova, spokeswoman for Barrandov Studios.

Bogdan Moncea, marketing director of Castel Film in Romania, said foreign film studios over the past five years have injected over US$183 million (euro124 million) into the economy. This year Castel Film produced "Adam Resurrected,'' a Holocaust-related movie directed by Paul Schrader and starring Willem Dafoe and Jeff Goldblum, as well as "Mirrors,'' a thriller starring Kiefer Sutherland.

But times have changed. In the early 1990s, Eastern European cities could entice Hollywood producers with a simple combination of Old World charm and significant cost savings. Now they must dangle technology, experience and even tax reductions in order to lure the multimillion dollar productions.

In Hungary, the government has approved a huge tax break for movie productions, and the Romanians may follow suit.

The incentives are paying off. Next year a slew of grade-A films shot in Eastern Europe -- including "Transsiberian'' with Woody Harrelson and Ben Kingsley -- will be released.

Competition among premier East European locations is stiff, and each studio does what it can to entice foreign productions _ particularly now that the region has become considerably more expensive.

MediaPro, a Romanian studio that recently produced Joel Schumacher's horror flick "Town Creek,'' estimates that filming costs are 20 percent lower in Romania than in the Czech Republic.

But Chrenekova of Barrandov Studios, which last year opened what it claims is Europe's largest soundproof stage, measuring 44,800 square feet, cautions that you get what you pay for.

"As far as Romania and Bulgaria, which are the cheapest places for moviemaking, they don't have the proper infrastructure and lack the specialists we have,'' she said.

Ramunas Skikas, director of the Lithuanian film studios LKS, agrees that the final decision often boils down to funds.

"Most of us (East European countries) offer similar scenery and quality of services, but the one thing that makes up filmmakers' minds is the production cost,'' Skikas said, adding that costs in Lithuania were 20 percent lower than in competing East European countries.

The Lithuanian countryside was used for the sweeping battle scenes in the TV-miniseries "War and Peace'' based on Leo Tolstoy's legendary novel. The four-part series, produced by several European countries, was first shown in October in Belgium.

But as countries like Hungary and the Czech Republic catch up with Western Europe in terms of prices, government support can mean the difference -- which is why Hungary now offers filmmakers a 20 percent tax rebate.

Incentives like these show to what extent countries are willing to go to keep producers returning and why film-making is here to stay.

"In the digital age, production traveling is a given, and films will be made where they can best be served,'' said Iain Smith, producer of "Cold Mountain,'' a movie that was impugned by Hollywood filmmaker unions for being filmed entirely in Romania even though the subject matter was the U.S. Civil War.

"In this, Eastern Europe has taught the western nations a huge lesson,'' he added. At one point the producers of "Defiance'' had considered filming in Canada, but the cost factor canceled that option.

"The reality of the labor market is such that it was less expensive (to film in Lithuania) than going to Canada,'' Brugge said.

In "Defiance,'' a true story based on a book by Nechama Tec, four brothers by the name of Bielski escape from the clutches of the Nazis and begin rescuing other prisoners.

Soon they establish an armed rebellion headquartered in underground forest dugouts. "This story probably for the first time depicts the Jewish people not ... as passive beings who are marched into ghettos and deported into concentration camps,'' said Zwick.

The movie will allow viewers "to see the drama of someone who has been stripped of everything, is being hunted and becomes defiant,'' he said.

Both Zwick and Brugge said filming in Lithuania, which ended in October, had been an emotional experience, and that they would recommend the Baltic state to other producers.

"In Hollywood everything is more about the logistics -- how to get the coolest plane or the coolest car for a film, whereas here often you have to make things and the physical skills (of) people are extraordinary in some cases,'' Brugge said. "Being here has restored my faith in film-making.''

I've watched that:

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About some heroin junkies in Sofia in the beginning of 00's....blah...a brutal documentary.

Those guys are really invisible nowadays cause everyone uses...different kinds of drugs today, more socially acceptable, anyway...that was very touching.

I feel happy I never touched opiates, though I've tried lots of drugs in my young days, I was kinda moron, ugh.

Those people...ugh, heroin is a disgusting drug. Can't even imagine that. I've never really been dependant on any drug besides nicotine...and nicotine is nothing compared to that!

Another Russian movie "Paragraph 78"
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I can recommend another Russian movie(four parts, 1 hour each). This one is called "Грозовые ворота" ("Storm Gate" or "Thunde Gate") and is a great film about a single battle during the second Chechen campaign. Lots of fantastic combat scenes

I watched Grozovye vorota, but I didn't like it all that much. I did get the feeling there was too much propaganda in it. Also, those memories coming back to different characters were really annoying!:ohno:

I liked '9 rota'(The 9th Company) better, if we're talking about Russian films (the trailer looks gay, but the film is ok)
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Better still, I liked the Israeli film 'Beaufort'(2007) (I know it's not EE)
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This one looks even gayer, but it's not really! I liked it because it doesn't make the enemies look like some evil aliens here to kill us all and take over our land.

I don't think this has been mentioned:

Romanian drama wins European Film Award

Cristian Mungiu's "4 months, 3 weeks and 2 days" about illegal abortion in 1980s communist Romania, won the top prize at the European Film Awards in Berlin, having also won the Palme d'Or at Cannes.

The film "4 months, 3 weeks and 2 days", a drama about a woman who assists her friend to arrange an illegal abortion in 1980's communist-era Romania, won the top prize at the European Film Awards in Berlin on Saturday.

The film by Romanian director Cristian Mungiu also won the Palme d'Or at this year's Cannes Film Festival.

Mungiu also took the award for top director, and his film will compete in the 2008 Oscars.

Helen Mirren won the European Actress award for her portrayal of Queen Elizabeth II in "The Queen".

Israeli actor Sasson Gabai won the European Actor award for his performance in "The Band's Visit", the unlikely story of an Egyptian police band lost in an Israeli city, directed by Eran Kolirin.

Link (http://www.france24.com/france24Public/en/news/culture/20071202-film-european-award-berlin-romanian-mungiu-4-months-3-weeks-2-days.html)

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This is an article that appeared in the Washington Post about the new generation of Romanian film makers.

Romanian Film's Crystalline Lens
AFI and National Gallery Will Screen Worldbeating Movies

By Philip Kennicott
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, November 7, 2007; C01



Every once in a while, an art form will blaze so brilliantly in one particular place that you sense the presence of a grand conversation underneath it. Each artist seems in dialogue with his peers, each new work takes on coherence and depth in communion with the others. In the past decade, an interconnected group of young Romanian actors and directors have been astonishingly productive at this very high level, a burst of creativity that may someday be compared to the great age of the novel in 19th-century London, or with the efflorescence of abstract expressionism in New York a half century ago. What is happening today in Romanian moviemaking is that good.

Romanian actors and directors have been winning awards at film festivals for years now, and their works have been creeping onto American critics' top 10 lists. This year, it was a Romanian film, "4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days," that won the Palme d'Or, the brass ring at Cannes. With that award comes new prominence not just for the film's director, Cristian Mungiu, but for his peers in the new Romanian cinema. The film will be screened tonight -- demand was so strong it sold out, but it has now been moved to a larger theater -- as part of the AFI Silver's European Union Film Showcase.

That is just the beginning of an extraordinary display of Romanian films in the coming weeks. Along with Mungiu's film, perhaps the best film ever made about abortion, AFI will also show "The Way I Spent the End of the World." And from Nov. 16 through the end of the year, the National Gallery of Art is presenting "Bucharest Stories," a survey of the past 10 years of Romanian film that amounts to an essential primer for anyone interested in contemporary cinema -- and a chastening indictment of triviality in our own American film culture.

The scope of these works is wide, the ambition deep. But many of them share a common sensibility, a passionately dispassionate view of reality. The magic and the illusion of life has been stripped away. The world is never background, never a stage set, but an intrusive, frustrating, chaotic thing, filled with accidents and mishap. Cigarette lighters don't work. Things fall out of cupboards. Cellphones drop calls. Paint peels, pipes burst, windows break, and clothes don't fit.

In 2004, the director Catalin Mitulescu won the top award at Cannes (for a short) with a 15-minute vignette called "Traffic," in which a man on a cellphone tries to balance work and family while surrounded by a blazing, blaring, bewildering cacophony of cars. You never quite know who he's talking to, the meeting he's late for or why an angry woman accosts him. But you've never sensed the frustration and stress of a traffic jam quite so powerfully, either.

"Traffic" condenses into a powerful statement a view of cinema that might be called Disenchanted Realism. The camera is naturally a liar, a seeker of beauty, a reducer of life, a glamorizer that infuses cinematic reality with an enchanted glow. "Traffic" disenchants reality, and the result is thrilling.

"There is really a belief in the long take, that hyper-realism can be effective filmically," says Todd Hitchcock, a programmer at AFI.

In the same category with "Traffic" are films such as Cristi Puiu's "The Death of Mr. Lazarescu," a brilliant, slow-paced, hyper-vigilant account of one man's tour through the Bucharest hospital system that astonished critics last year. So too "4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days," a heroically observed story of a woman's abortion during the final years of the Ceausescu regime, when the practice was illegal and the legal consequences brutal. And "The Paper Will Be Blue," about a young man's effort to desert his militia unit and join the revolution against Ceausescu on a night of street battles.

A small scene in "The Paper Will Be Blue" is breathtaking. In the midst of political bedlam, with guns blazing, rumors rampant, loyalties shifting and everyone suspect, a young man takes a moment to use the bathroom. Of course people still need to use the bathroom in war zones. But then the director, Radu Muntean, takes reality one step further. In the bathroom, the soldier opens the medicine chest and checks out the contents. Why? Perhaps it's a moment of looking behind the mirror, or searching out private reality while in the midst of a very public revolution. Perhaps it's a momentary retreat into simple curiosity, but it humanizes the man and makes his death all the more powerful when it comes, stupidly, accidentally and without meaning.

Shabbiness is essential to the truth of these films -- it is a way for the world to impinge on our senses -- but it isn't exploited. There's no sentimentality about poverty or suffering. Nationalism, which one might expect to crop up in an emergent national cinema, is virtually absent. In film after film, these young directors (most are in their 30s or early 40s) parse the trauma of their country in the rawest terms (and not without humor) yet never lapse into self-pity.

Romania is a poor country, one of the poorest in Europe. The 1989 revolution that ended with the flight, capture and execution of brutal dictator Nicolai Ceausescu did little to improve things at first, at least economically. A country that once contributed great artists and intellectuals to the mainstream of European cultural life was becoming exceptional, a broken place, a problem child of Europe.

To flourish, Romania would need to do some trenchant self-analysis. These films are part of that.

Foremost among their concerns is the nature of the 1989 revolution. In "The Paper Will Be Blue," we learn how it went down, what it felt like to be there. In "12:08 East of Bucharest," we see the country years later, as people process the existential question: Was there, in fact, any real revolution, or change, in Romania? To that question, the film "California Dreamin' (Endless)" offers a partial answer: no. Thugs and corruption remain. Revolution is a process, not an event.

In "Traffic" and another short "Cigarettes and Coffee" (by Puiu), we see post-revolutionary Romania, and the social critique is severe. The latter, which took the Golden Bear for best short at the Berlin Film Festival in 2004, shows a father beseeching his son for help getting a job -- a series of long and excruciating shots of two men in a cafe, almost strangers to each other.

The revolution turned the country on its head, and now fathers solicit indifferent sons for help. In several of these films, the generational difference between parents who lived their lives under communism and younger people for whom it is an increasingly remote chapter, is examined unflinchingly. Without exception, these directors find the humanity in their parents.

Even in "California Dreamin'," in which a middle-aged railway officer uses red tape to stall an American train en route to Kosovo during the 1999 war, the villain is painfully sympathetic. He is a thief and a thug, hated by the town and perhaps his daughter as well. But carefully plotted flashbacks reveal that he has harbored a shattered romance for America since he was a boy -- and the illusions and disappointment of romance operate at every level in this masterpiece (made by Cristian Nemescu, who was killed at the age of 27 in a car accident). It is also one of the best films about how America is perceived abroad ever made.

The two films that represent Romania in the AFI European festival show the huge power of Romanian film, and the danger stalking it. "4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days" puts an abortion on screen -- not just the extortionate brutality of the back-alley abortionist and the emotional exposure of young women with nowhere to turn, but the process, the tubes, the spread legs, the waiting, the aftermath. Watching it will leave you furious not with the characters for their moral choices, but with the poverty of American artistic life. This is a film we could never make, because we refuse to look at reality. Mungiu has courage, and the results are a film expansive enough to contain the emotional and intellectual confusion that haunts the issue.

But then there's "The Way I Spent the End of the World," which also deals with the latter days of the Ceausescu regime, through the affairs and traumas of teenagers. Made by Mitulescu, the same director who made "Traffic," the film's credits list Martin Scorsese and Wim Wenders as executive producers. Mitulescu won an award from Sundance and NHK, the Japanese television giant, which makes it likely his film will be broadcast there.

Alas, it's a huge step backward for the director. The film is smooth and accomplished, occasionally touching and expertly paced. The actors are beautiful, the music appealing. There are touches of light humor and gentle pathos. And it's generic, standard art house fare tailored to a wider audience.

Success breeds temptation, and it seems Mitulescu was tempted to do the one thing that American directors do better than Romanian ones: make money. One hopes it's an exception, and that reality isn't becoming enchanted once again.

Killer of Romanian director Cristian Nemescu gets 7 years in prison

Finally, some justice done :cheers:

HotNews.ro
Marţi, 18 decembrie 2007

British citizen Ali Imran, who caused the car crash in which famous Romanian film director Cristi Nemescu, sound engineer Andrei Toncu and cab driver Radu Arustei died in Bucharest last year, has been sentenced to seven years in prison.

Ali Imran was found guilty of killing the three in a car crash. After completing his sentence, he is expected to be expelled from Romania.

Judges ruled that he should pay some 28,000 Romanian Ron as compensation to the civil parties involved in the case and half of million Romanian Ron to the victims' families.

In August 2006, the car driven by the British citizen crashed into a taxi carrying Nemescu and Toncu.

The decision taken today can be appealed.

Poland's "Vinci" to be China's 1st imported film of 2008
www.chinaview.cn 2008-01-08 21:53:29

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Poster of Polish movie "Vinci." "Vinci" will start its screening in cinemas on the Chinese mainland on Thursday, making it the first imported movie of 2008. (File Photo)

BEIJING, Jan. 9 (Xinhuanet) -- Polish movie "Vinci" will start its screening in cinemas on the Chinese mainland on Thursday, making it the first imported movie of 2008, according to an official with the Shanghai United Circuit.

The light-hearted movie, directed by Polish director Juliusz Machulski, revolves around stealing "Lady with an Ermine," a famous painting by Da Vinci.

It has secured the No.1 spot at Poland's box-office for two weeks and made strong box-office performance in other European countries.

The official believed "Vinci" will be the first major money-making film on China's movie market in 2008, adding that the light comedy is suitable for the lucrative holiday movie season in January.

The China Film Group Corporation said it plans to import 20 foreign movies this year, according to earlier reports.

(Agencies)

Editor: Wang Yan
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-01/08/content_7390370.htm

Polish cinema seems to be finally regaining some of the lost ground since the fall of communism. :cheers:

Well, when the Chinese place a Polish movie character on their beer, let us know;)

Yugoslavia's partisan "Valter", played by Velimir Bata Zivojinovic:
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Mood and music carry offbeat romance
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See trailer "Transylvania" by Tony Gatlif
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The French-Algerian director Tony Gatlif is fascinated with the mysteries of points east - with the music and culture of the Roma, more commonly known as gypsies. From his breakthrough documentary, 1993's "Latcho Drom" to 2004's "Exiles," Gatlif has built a filmography that celebrates the intensely pleasurable music and brooding defiance of a misunderstood subculture.

In "Transylvania," he plonks down bad-girl actress Asia Argento in the midst of his usual obsessions, remaking his Roma-centric cinema into a fairly wonderful romantic tantrum. Like other Gatlif movies, this one gets drunk on mood and rhythm and ravaged faces while letting plot fend for itself. You probably won't mind.

Argento plays Zingarina, an Italian woman who arrives in the title region of Romania seeking Milan, the musician father of her unborn child. (He's played by Marco Castoldi, a Euro-rock star who's the father of Argento's daughter in real life.) Zingarina is accompanied by a gal pal (Amira Casar) and a translator (Alexandra Beaujard), the latter crooning Balkan melodies while playing the accordion in the back seat. "We're all one family in Romania," someone tells Zingarina, and musically speaking he has a point: the entire country seems to be singing.

Argento's a sight with her low-cut black blouses, tattoos, and angry mane of hair, and after Zingarina finds Milan and is brutally dumped by him, she comes apart with self-destructive fervor. If you've seen the actress before, you know she's capable of anything, and a scene in which the heroine dances to a band in a late-night bar, smashing plates and stripping off her shirt, isn't easily forgotten.

Gatlif's crew appears to have arrived in Transylvania during a national folk festival, and the movie's early scenes place this spoiled, passionate woman against a riotous backdrop of ethnic finery and harmonies. The music is transporting, the actual sense of time fluid. Past, present, and future exist side by side.

Eventually Zingarina hooks up with an itinerant scrap dealer named Tchangalo - she's another piece of junk he picks up - and the two embark on an argumentative road romance into the deep countryside. He's played by the great, scrofulous German-Turkish actor Birol Ünel, and if you saw 2004's "Head-On," you know his unwashed boho charisma (and if not, think Marcello Mastroianni crossed with early Tom Waits).

Zingarina's a high maintenance pain in the rear, and the frustrated Tchangalo takes her to a local church for an exorcism, after which she dons local garb and tries to lose herself in the Roma culture. No one's fooled. "I'm 75 years old and I've never seen a woman fight like a man," says an astonished elderly villager the couple briefly travels with.

"Transylvania" frequently treads the edges of the ridiculous, especially when Zingarina and Tchangalo converse floridly in English, their sole common language. But it also has the courage to be ridiculous, as when the couple spontaneously make love on the hood of his car only to be scared off by a roving bear. Gatlif and his cinematographer, Celine Bozon, succeed at creating an otherworldly culture that moves into a timeless and purifying winter landscape.

Some real Romanian audiences have apparently taken deep offense at this movie and want you to know their country is nothing like the backward folk-nation Gatlif imagines. Fine, duly noted - the Transylvania of "Transylvania" is a Transylvania of the mind. In Gatlif's hands, it still has the power to root Western Europe and sway it to a forgotten beat.

I saw this movies on IFC a few months back....weak.

Well, when the Chinese place a Polish movie character on their beer, let us know;)

Yugoslavia's partisan "Valter", played by Velimir Bata Zivojinovic:
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:rofl::hahaha::applause:

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Were Jeunet Et Caro To Move To Belgrade, CHARLESTON AND VENDETTA Would Be The Result. (http://twitchfilm.net/site/view/were-jeunet-et-caro-to-move-to-belgrade-charlston-and-vendetta-would-be-the/#comments)
Posted by Todd Brown at 11:10am.
Posted in Trailer Alerts , Comedy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Continental Europe & Russia.

Many, many thanks to Twitch reader Milos for pointing me in the director of Charleston and Vendetta, the long in production and hotly anticipated film debut by young Serbian director Uroš Stojanović. The film has slowly been wending its way through a complicated post production process and is finally due for release in its native land in early 2008. Here’s the synopsis:

Serbia in the 1920s, after The First World War - a beautiful, brutal land, suspended between East and West, between ancient magic and the forces of civilization. High in the mountains of this mysterious, battle-scarred country lays the village of Pokrp, whose men folk have been eradicated by generations of war. A village of lovelorn women, starving for men. When sisters Little Boginja and Ognjenka inadvertently kill Pokrp’s sole surviving male, a death sentence at the hands of the womenfolk seems certain. But they are granted a reprieve, on the condition that they find a living, virile man and bring him back to the village. Under the watchful eye of their grandmother’s soul, the feisty but innocent pair set out into the big, wide world. Lust, love, a hot-headed strongman and Belgrade’s lecherous dance hall king await them…

Our own Goran adds some interesting technical notes:

The film cost over 4 million euros to produce (about US$6 million) and is scheduled to premiere on January 30 at Sava Centar in Belgrade. Katarina Radivojević ("Zona Zamfirova") and Sonja Kolačarić are in the leads, but what’s of note is the return to the big screen of Olivera Katarina ("I Even Met Happy Gypsies,” 1967) - a veteran Serbian actress who hasn’t starred in a movie in over three decades. She’s playing a ghost in this one. The score for “Charleston and Vendetta” was composed by none other than Shigeru Umebayashi ("In the Mood for Love”, “2046”, “My Blueberry Nights"). He also wrote a song for Olivera Katarina, which she performed in the movie.

The trailers for this are positively astounding, the film playing like an absurdly dark fairy tale in a world charged with the miraculous while also explicitly based in Serbia’s very bloody history. To create a world that balances wonder against a backdrop of constant war is a difficult task but Stojanović looks to have pulled it off flawlessly, the man is obviously a hugely talented technical director with a stunning visual style. This just looks really, really good. There are two trailer for the film - the original one posted on the official website more than a year ago while the film was still early in post, and a new one that shows off more of the technical whiz-bang. You’ll find both embedded below the break.

Polish horror movie "Pora Mroku". Premiere in 28 March.

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Some screen:

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Bulgarian "Corridor #8" with a World Premiere at Berlinale

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For the first time after a 6 year break a Bulgarian movie again breaks through in the official selection of Berlinale.

In February, “Corridor #8” directed by Boris Despodov will be presented at one of the biggest world film festivals.

“This is a big success for our cinema since a Bulgarian movie has long time not participated at the prestigious festival” comments the producer Martichka Bojilova.

The film is about the everyday life of the people who live along a non-existing road in the Balkans.

The road crosses Bulgaria, Macedonia, Albania and coincides with a large infrastructure project, financed by the EU and aiming to connect the Black and the Adriatic seas, which for already 10 years is in its initial stage.

Following the line of the road, the “non-road” movie “Corridor #8” catches the mood, the prejudices and the hopes of the people from three Balkan states, which in a paradoxic way are “so far, so close” to each other.

The film will be in the “Berlinale 2008 forum” section and will have 5 shows between February 7 and 12 in the most prestigious cinemas in Berlin.

The “New cinema international forum” - or Forum – is the most audacious section in the festival's program.

It presents vanguard and experimental works – from cinema essays to politically engaged movies. The documentaries and the feature movies are equal and all formats are allowed.

The forum pays special attention to finding new talents and movies, which try to overpass the boundaries of the genres and the known movie expression methods.



^^ btw, this movie is produced by Agitprop (http://www.agitprop.bg/) - the Bulgarian movie house which co-owner is Boris Missirkov (http://www.missirkovbogdanov.com/), the only grandson of the choosen for "Macedonian of 20th century" - Krste Misirkov . Boris is also the director of photography of that movie ...

Agitprop is the new wave in the Bulgarian cinematography. Their movies "Georgi and the butterflies (http://www.georgiandthebutterflies.com/)" and "The mosquito problem (http://www.themosquitoproblem.com/)" won several awards on the Cannes, London, Amsterdam, Sarajevo, Krakow and Karvlovi Vari film festivals ....

Berlinale - International Short Film ... And the Golden Bear goes to ... O zi buna de plaja (Good Day For A Swim) :cheers:
by Bogdan Mustata (Romania)

The film raises questions about its issues rather than bring resolution to them. It does so in a very precise and unpredictable way. We feel that it is one of the most precious things when a film stays with you and keeps unravelling long after the final credits have ended.

^^ btw, this movie is produced by Agitprop (http://www.agitprop.bg/) - the Bulgarian movie house which co-owner is Boris Missirkov (http://www.missirkovbogdanov.com/), the only grandson of the choosen for "Macedonian of 20th century" - Krste Misirkov . Boris is also the director of photography of that movie ...

Agitprop is the new wave in the Bulgarian cinematography. Their movies "Georgi and the butterflies (http://www.georgiandthebutterflies.com/)" and "The mosquito problem (http://www.themosquitoproblem.com/)" won several awards on the Cannes, London, Amsterdam, Sarajevo, Krakow and Karvlovi Vari film festivals ....

^^ Corridor #8 won last night the Human Values award of the independent jury of Berlinare 2008 ! :banana::banana::banana:

New russian films:

Officers. Save the Emperor!

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Viy

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Taras Bulba

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Alexander. Battle of Neva

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Admiral Kolchak

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Don't take this the wrong way, but I would have loved these movies when I was about 12 or so.

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Don't take this the wrong way, but I would have loved these movies when I was about 12 or so.
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What? They look like good movies, but like all movies, they have a target audience; in this case, pre-adolescent boys (for the most part).

What? They look like good movies, but like all movies, they have a target audience; in this case, pre-adolescent boys (for the most part).

Hystorical movies have a target audience of pre-adolescent boys?
Fuck, i won't even argue with that.
A combination of romanian(why is all shit on this forum comes either from poles or romanians?) and a lover of pseudo philosophical shit movies is too much for me.

Hystorical movies have a target audience of pre-adolescent boys?
Fuck, i won't even argue with that.
A combination of romanian(why is all shit on this forum comes either from poles or romanians?) and a lover of pseudo philosophical shit movies is too much for me.

I guess we're on different wave lengths. I don't know what you mean by historical (set in the past???). These look like action/adventure movies....epic battles, blood, gore, etc.; the kind of stuff that boys like (including me when I was of the age). I don't think these movies are going to be too hot among intellectual circles (including Russian)...might do well with US frat boys though.

I don't think these movies are going to be too hot among intellectual circles (including Russian.
Go back to the intellectual circles you crawled from.
What kind of shit you will say next? That anyone older than 12 should not play computer games?

Go back to the intellectual circles you crawled from.
What kind of shit you will say next? That anyone older than 12 should not play computer games?

You are making this way too personal...did you happen to make one of these movies?

If you can't handle opinion, then don't post.

You are making this way to personal...did you happen to make one of these movies?
I happen to like this kind of movies. And computer games. And tabletop games.
And i happen to hate people who make your's kind of arguments.

I happen to like this kind of movies. And computer games. And tabletop games.
And i happen to hate people who make your's kind of arguments.



I'm sure there is a psychological explanation for that. :)

If you thought I was dissing Russian cinema, I wasn't. Russian filmmakers have made many great movies over the years...I just don't think these happen to be among those.

I didn't mean to offend with my comment; I just didn't realise there was a "The fast and the furious" fan here.

If you thought I was dissing Russian cinema,
I thought that you have just insulted people who enjoy action movies worldwide.

I'm sure there is a psychological explanation for that.
Yeah, there is, some romanian gastorbaiter tries to ease his inferiority complex by taking shit at normal people who like normal modern ways of entertainment.

I thought that you have just insulted people who enjoy action movies worldwide.

I hope this global community will get over my insult. Happy viewing.

Never judge a book by its cover tomi3 ;)

I am totally pleased about the reviving Russian film industry! Many of these films will be very interesting for me to watch because they either show famous historical events (although unfortunately, some distortion is unavoidable in films) or are based on famous classical literature (such as Taras Bulba or Viy)

Never judge a book by its cover tomi3 ;)

I am totally pleased about the reviving Russian film industry! Many of these films will be very interesting for me to watch because they either show famous historical events (although unfortunately, some distortion is unavoidable in films) or are based on famous classical literature (such as Taras Bulba or Viy)

When it comes to historical events or literature, always go for the book(s). I don't think movies are good substitute.

When it comes to historical events or literature, always go for the book(s). I don't think movies are good substitute.
Or even better - first read the book and then watch the film. I am sure that most Russians have read the classical novels by Gogol that I was talking about. I think that when watching historical events on film, it often gives you an experience that you cannot always get from textbooks or encyclopedias

Or even better - first read the book and then watch the film. I am sure that most Russians have read the classical novels by Gogol that I was talking about. I think that when watching historical events on film, it often gives you an experience that you cannot always get from textbooks or encyclopedias

I don't know about that...every time I've seen a movie based on a book that I had read, I always left disappointed and thinking the director an idiot.

My latest such experience was with Ian McEwen’s "Atonement". I read the book soon after it was published and I was overwhelmed McEwen’s style and story. Then, my wife insisted, against my better judgment, that we go see the movie. We ended leaving up leaving after 30 minutes...I just couldn’t bear watching such an exquisite novel get fucked so badly. I also lost some respect for McEwen for prostituting himself and his work this way.

New russian films:



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I didn't mean to offend with my comment; I just didn't realise there was a "The fast and the furious" fan here.
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You sure as hell give some weird examples then. I'd love to see those movies posted by Gamma-Hamster as they seem to be "historical/adventure" genre and I absolutely see no connection with that car-chasing stupidity you listed above. Unless, there's some kind of "speed-connection", fast horses, fast cars? :lol:

Demi Moore, Woody Harrelson and Josh Hartnett will be filming in Romania starting April ZA 21st

http://www.romanialibera.ro/a122634/demi-moore-vine-la-bucuresti.html


also ...


Demi Moore Joins Josh Hartnett in 'Bunraku'

Upon first hearing Josh Hartnett mention his starring role in the fantasy action flick Bunraku, I had a hard time believing the film was ever going to happen. It's not every day a movie has paper mache puppets, origami, comic books, video games AND German expressionism. Plus, Hartnett was comparing the look of the film to everything from Hitchcock to Michel Gondry. To be honest, the whole thing sounded like a mess. But, I guess it was all sorted out because The Hollywood Reporter announced that Demi Moore has just signed to star in the role of a captive courtesan to an evil warlord.

Guy Moshe (who also wrote the script) will direct the story of a lone drifter (Hartnett) who blows into town with revenge on his mind, but is soon faced with even bigger problems than he started with. Woody Harrelson also signed to play 'The Bartender' (in a bar where everyone knows your name?) and Japanese actor Shun Sugata (Kill Bill) has been cast in the role of 'Uncle'.

Moore will start work on Bunraku as soon as shooting wraps on her indie drama, Happy Tears. In Tears, she stars alongside Parker Posey in the story of a father and daughter suffering from dementia, and the older sister fed up with being their caretaker. Production on Bunraku is set to begin later this spring, and rather than rely on sound stages to take the place of the 'alternate universe', Moshe will be shooting on location in Europe:). Bunraku is expected to arrive in theaters in 2009.
http://www.cinematical.com/2008/04/15/demi-moore-joins-josh-hartnett-in-bunraku/

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Bulgarian film wins at Hot Docs fest
By THE CANADIAN PRESS

TORONTO - A Bulgarian filmmaker has won the HBO emerging artist award at the Hot Docs film festival for his movie "Corridor #8." (http://www.corridor8.info/)

Boris Despodov picked up the first annual HBO Documentary Films Emerging Artist award on Friday. It's given to a first-time director of a feature-length documentary.

"Corridor 8," about a massive infrastructure project joining Bulgaria, Macedonia and Albania, had its North American premiere at Hot Docs.

In their decision, the judging panel said: "Our jury must have set a new record for consensus - it was pretty much immediate. We agreed right away. This film is gorgeous, hilarious, enlightening and irresistible."

Despodov started his career as a painter and also directed the short documentary "Schindler's Lift."