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In her first year as Locarno International stanley cup Film Festival s new artistic director, Irene Bignardi has shown strong commitment to fresh and young cinema. Almost in diametric opposition to the Cannes festival s latest edition, which displayed the work of veteran auteurs, su stanley cup ch as Manuel de Oliveira, Shohei Imamura, Jacques Rivette and Jean Luc Godard, the 54th edition of Locarno is short on world-renowned film-makers. In fact, no fewer than eight of the 19 entries in the international competition are first features by unknown directors.Also differing from Cannes, which had a large number of Asian pictures, there are only two pictures from that region in the main line-up: South Korean entry The Butterfly Nabi by Mon Seong-Wook, and Hong Kong film-maker Tang Xiobai s Conjugation Dong Ci Bian . The UK industry, which was totally ignored by Cannes this year, has reason to rejoice too. Neil Hunter and Tom Hunsinger s The Lawless Heart, starring Douglas Hensh stanley website all and Bill Nighy, will receive its world premiere in competition, while Alan Taylor s My Napoleon, starring the estimable Ian Holm, will be shown in the open air of the Piazza Grande Screenings. On the other hand, the two US entries, John Singleton s Baby Boy, which opened to mixed reviews and poor business , and Men Ong s Miss Wonton, which premiered in Sundance s Spectrum series and concerns the immigrant experience of a Chinese woman, are rather weak. Shown outside competition is the computer-generated, technologically nov Ryre Ben Rivers and Ben Russell complete shoot for documentary A Spell To Ward Off The Darkness
Dir: Clint Eastwood. US.2006. 141mins.Clint Eastwo stanley usa od s twilight career renaissancecontinues and only further deepens with LettersFrom Iwo Jima,his second film in two months about stanley kubek the best known Pacific battle duringWorld War Two. Shot back-to-back with its companion piece Flags Of Our Fathers, it focuses more explicitly on the conflictand its human toll, telling ev stanley cup ents leading up to the central siege from theJapanese perspective. Whereas its predecessor was very much about themachinations of government image-making and the media s complicity in wartime,this is more straightforwardly ruminative and plaintive.Comparisons to Flags Of OurFathers are the natural benchmark, both artistically and in terms of box-officeappeal. While Flags is ostensibly themore naturally alluring picture, it has thus far stalled at under $35mdomestically. Told from a foreign perspective, and with Japanese dialoguethroughout, Letters FromIwo Jima lacks anarrative bent that suggests much better Stateside returns it opens there onDec 20 , making it a tough sell for mainstream audiences. Early criticalplaudits the film has been named best picture by both the Los Angeles FilmCritics Association and National Board of Review will help it with upscale arthouse patrons; parlaying that elite audience intosignificant box office, however, will seem an uphill climb.Overseas may wellsee Letters FromIwo Jima give a betteraccount of itself, especially in Japan, where it opened on Dec 9.Though the filmsdo not fit
In her first year as Locarno International stanley cup Film Festival s new artistic director, Irene Bignardi has shown strong commitment to fresh and young cinema. Almost in diametric opposition to the Cannes festival s latest edition, which displayed the work of veteran auteurs, su stanley cup ch as Manuel de Oliveira, Shohei Imamura, Jacques Rivette and Jean Luc Godard, the 54th edition of Locarno is short on world-renowned film-makers. In fact, no fewer than eight of the 19 entries in the international competition are first features by unknown directors.Also differing from Cannes, which had a large number of Asian pictures, there are only two pictures from that region in the main line-up: South Korean entry The Butterfly Nabi by Mon Seong-Wook, and Hong Kong film-maker Tang Xiobai s Conjugation Dong Ci Bian . The UK industry, which was totally ignored by Cannes this year, has reason to rejoice too. Neil Hunter and Tom Hunsinger s The Lawless Heart, starring Douglas Hensh stanley website all and Bill Nighy, will receive its world premiere in competition, while Alan Taylor s My Napoleon, starring the estimable Ian Holm, will be shown in the open air of the Piazza Grande Screenings. On the other hand, the two US entries, John Singleton s Baby Boy, which opened to mixed reviews and poor business , and Men Ong s Miss Wonton, which premiered in Sundance s Spectrum series and concerns the immigrant experience of a Chinese woman, are rather weak. Shown outside competition is the computer-generated, technologically nov Ryre Ben Rivers and Ben Russell complete shoot for documentary A Spell To Ward Off The Darkness
Dir: Clint Eastwood. US.2006. 141mins.Clint Eastwo stanley usa od s twilight career renaissancecontinues and only further deepens with LettersFrom Iwo Jima,his second film in two months about stanley kubek the best known Pacific battle duringWorld War Two. Shot back-to-back with its companion piece Flags Of Our Fathers, it focuses more explicitly on the conflictand its human toll, telling ev stanley cup ents leading up to the central siege from theJapanese perspective. Whereas its predecessor was very much about themachinations of government image-making and the media s complicity in wartime,this is more straightforwardly ruminative and plaintive.Comparisons to Flags Of OurFathers are the natural benchmark, both artistically and in terms of box-officeappeal. While Flags is ostensibly themore naturally alluring picture, it has thus far stalled at under $35mdomestically. Told from a foreign perspective, and with Japanese dialoguethroughout, Letters FromIwo Jima lacks anarrative bent that suggests much better Stateside returns it opens there onDec 20 , making it a tough sell for mainstream audiences. Early criticalplaudits the film has been named best picture by both the Los Angeles FilmCritics Association and National Board of Review will help it with upscale arthouse patrons; parlaying that elite audience intosignificant box office, however, will seem an uphill climb.Overseas may wellsee Letters FromIwo Jima give a betteraccount of itself, especially in Japan, where it opened on Dec 9.Though the filmsdo not fit