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Well, get ready for more of Sly Stallone‘s brilliant mob boss in the much anticipated Season 2 of Tulsa King. Created by Taylor Sheridan, the Paramount+ crime action comedy series Tulsa King reminds us of iconic shows like The Sopranos because it has complex characters with witty humor and an extremely brutal side. So, if you are ready for more humor, thrilling criminal conspiracies, and bloody action in Season 2 of Tulsa King, you can find out what Season 2 is about, who is in it, and when will the episodes come out below.

In Season 2 of Tulsa King, we see Dwight and his crew continuing to build and defend their semi-criminal empire in Tulsa but they soon discover that they are not the only ones who want to stake their claim. With a large threat from the Kansas City...

Considering we are no longer getting a James Bond film this spring, those seeking slick espionage thrills will get a healthy dose (and much more of the unexpected) with The Whistlers, the latest work from Romanian director Corneliu Porumboiu, which is now in theaters. Clearly inspired by a number of noir films, today we’re taking a more general look at his favorite movies of all-time.

As voted on in the latest Sight & Sound poll, as well as a recent feature from our friends at Le Cinéma Club, his picks range include a healthy range of world cinema, from Apichatpong Weerasethakul to Michelangelo Antonioni to Éric Rohmer to Yasujirô Ozu. “All of them influenced my way of making movies and also my way of seeing world,” he said of the majority of the selections. Speaking about La Dolce Vita, he added, “I watched it by chance when I was 18 years old.

Now in their 32nd year, the European Film Awards unfold Saturday in Berlin, and here’s where you can live-stream the ceremony. With some titles controversial (Roman Polanski’s “An Officer and a Spy”) and others at least a year old for those of us stateside (“The Favourite”), this year’s ceremony is sure to be a fun romp.

Leading the pack is director “An Officer and a Spy,” the Dreyfus affair drama that picked up a top prize at Venice back in September, tied for four nominations alongside Pedro Almodóvar’s self-reflective “Pain and Glory,” Marco Bellocchio’s “The Traitor,” and Yorgos Lanthimos’ “Favourite.” While released in the fall of 2018 in the United States, the latter film’s international release window made it eligible for the European Film Awards this year. “The Favourite” won star Olivia Colman, who plays a gout-stricken Queen Anne, a Best Actress Academy Award earlier...

The American Society of Cinematographers said today that Robert Richardson will receive its Asc Lifetime Achievement Award and Jeff Jur is set for the Career Achievement in Television Award. They will pick up their prizes February 9 during the 33rd Asc Awards at the Ray Dolby Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland.

Asc also noted that it also will marks the guild’s 100 anniversary during the 2019 trophy show.

In a career spanning nearly four decades and counting. Richardson has won three Cinematography Oscars — for Hugo (2012), The Aviator (2005), and JFK (1992) — and been nominated six other times for The Hateful Eight, Django Unchained, Inglourious Basterds, Snow Falling on Cedars, Born on the Fourth of July and Platoon. His most recent film is A Private War, in is in theaters, and his latest of several Quentin Tarantino films, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, is slated for release next year.

Jur has a pair of Emmy...

PBS has ordered a trio of documentaries: “Woodstock,” “Reconstruction: America After the Civil War” and Ken Burns’ “The Gene: An Intimate History,” the public broadcaster announced Monday at the Television Critics Association press tour.

“Woodstock” is a two-hour Barak Goodman doc tied to the 50th anniversary of the legendary 1969 concert held in upstate New York.

The four-hour “Reconstruction: America After the Civil War” is executive produced and hosted by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and chronicles the confusing years immediately after the Union Army defeated the Confederacy in a divided America. Like “Woodstock,” “Reconstruction” is set to air next year.

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“Ken Burns Presents The Gene: An Intimate History” is a three-hour adaptation of Siddhartha Mukherjee, M.D.’s book “The Gene: An Intimate History.” That one, in which Burns (pictured above) explores the breakthroughs in understanding the impact genes play on heredity,...

Romanian film and theater director Lucian Pintilie died Wednesday at Elias Hospital in Bucharest, three days after being admitted in "critical condition," according to Romanian news reports. He was 84.

Dubbed "the Godfather of the Romanian New Wave," Pintilie — whose early films ran foul of communist authorities forcing him into exile in the early 1970s — was an inspiration to a new generation of Romanian filmmakers who have won international acclaim, including Cristi Puiu, Corneliu Porumboiu and Andrei Serban.

Known as a controversial filmmaker from the start, Pintilie's 1968 film Reconstruction — in which a ...

Romanian film and theater director Lucian Pintilie died Wednesday at Elias Hospital in Bucharest, three days after being admitted in "critical condition," according to Romanian news reports. He was 84.

Dubbed "the Godfather of the Romanian New Wave," Pintilie — whose early films ran foul of communist authorities forcing him into exile in the early 1970s — was an inspiration to a new generation of Romanian filmmakers who have won international acclaim, including Cristi Puiu, Corneliu Porumboiu and Andrei Serban.

Known as a controversial filmmaker from the start, Pintilie's 1968 film Reconstruction — in which a ...

Pintilie was known for films including ‘Reconstruction’ and ‘Next Stop Paradise’.

Lucian Pintilie, the Romanian director of film, television, theatre and opera, has died on May 16 in Bucharest at the age of 84, according to local news reports.

Known for films including 1968 drama Reconstruction, Pintilie had a long career in filmmaking, directing his first film Sunday At Six in 1966 and continuing to work throughout his life – he was most recently a co-producer on fellow Romanian Cristi Puiu’s 2016 Palme d’Or nominated Sieranevada.

A graduate of the I.L. Caragiale National University of Theatre and Film in Bucharest, Pintilie twice appeared in Competition at Cannes,...

Lille, France — Produced by Denmark’s Miso Film and commercial channel TV2, sold by FremantleMedia Intl., “Warrior” marks the first TV work in years from one if the leading lights of the post Dogme 95 Danish cinema, Christoffer Boe, who burst onto the scene with his 2003 feature debut “Reconstruction.”

It shows. Following Cc (Dar Salim). a Danish army war veteran who returns to Copenhagen and, at the request of police officer, Louise, infiltrates a bikers’ gang to attempt to nail its boss, Copenhagen’s biggest crime lord, its beautifully toned title credit sequence unfolds to the sound of a drum beat. They picture modern industrial scenes. but are lit by unfocused burnished gold lights reminiscent of fire in a forge or on a battlefield at night as bombs fall. “Warrior” asks what can come of the ideals of a soldier – service to a community, loyalty, bravery – in fallen modern world. Such...

Other projects backed by June round of Nordisk Film & TV Fond include Liberty created by Asger Leth.

Danish director Christoffer Boe is lining up a hot cast for his new Danish crime TV series Warrior.

Dar Salim (A War, Game of Thrones, pictured) will play a former soldier and Danica Curcic plays the policewoman he loves, with the ensemble also including Lars Ranthe, Nicolas Bro, Søren Malling, Jacob Oftebro and Natalie Madueño.

Peter Bose and Jonas Allen of Miso Film produce the 6x48’ series, which Boe co-wrote with Simon Paternak. The project just received $356,000 (Nok 3m) in funding in the latest round from the Nordisk Film & TV Fond.

It is produced for Denmark’s TV2 with further funding from the Danish Film Institute. Shooting now, it will be delivered in autumn 2018 with FremantleMedia International handles sales.

It is described as “a modern-day character-driven crime drama about strong human bonds, loyalty and treachery among army veterans, gang members...

Film i Vast launches title at Cannes slate presentation.

Christoffer Boe, who won the Cannes’ Camera d’Or in 2003 with Reconstruction, will direct Zentropa’s fourth and final instalment in the Jussi Adler-Olsen’s Department Q thriller series.

The Purity Of Vengeance starts shooting in December and will again star Nikolai Lie Kass and Fares Fares as the mismatched detectives.

Nikolai Arcel, Bo Hr. Hansen and Mikkel Norgaard wrote the script. Nordisk will release theatrically in autumn 2018 and TrustNordisk handles sales.

The previous three films in the series – starting with The Keeper Of Lost Causes [pictured] – have been record-setting hits in Denmark. Producer Louise Vesth of Zentropa said, “there have been 2.2m million tickets sold for these films in Denmark, I hope the fourth one will be an ever greater success.”

The story centres on the discovery of a series of corpses connected to an old women’s institution that carried out medical experiments.

Boe, speaking...

Award-winning Danish director Christoffer Boe (Reconstruction) has come on board to helm The Purity of Vengeance, the fourth and final film in the hit Department Q Scandi crime franchise.

Nicolaj Lie Kaas and Fares Fares will return to co-star in the film, based on the best-selling novel of the same name by Jussi Adler-Olsen. The pair will reprise their roles as Detective Carl Morck and his assistant Assad, as they did in the first three Department Q films: The Keeper of Lost Causes (2013), The Absent One (2014) and A Conspiracy of Faith (2015), all of which were box office...

Birdman, Fury and Leviathan among main competition titles; Roland Joffé to preside over main jury.

Alejandro G Ińárritu, Yimou Zhang, Mike Leigh and Jean-Marc Vallée are among the directors with films screening in competition at the 22nd Camerimage (Nov 15-22), the International Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography.

The main competition at the festival, held in the Polish city of Bydgoszcz, comprises:

Alejandro G Ińárritu’s Birdman (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance); USA, 2014; Cinematographer: Emmanuel Lubezki

Yimou Zhang’s Coming Home (Gui lai); China, 2014; Cinematographer: Zhao Xiaoding

Richard Raymond’s Desert Dancer; UK, 2014; Cinematographer: Carlos Catalán Alucha

Lech J. Majewski’s Field of Dogs - Onirica (Onirica - Psie pole); Poland, 2014; Cinematographers: Paweł Tybora and Lech J. Majewski

Krzysztof Zanussi’s Foreign Body (Obce cialo); Poland, Italy, Russia, 2014; Cinematographer: Piotr Niemyjski

David Ayer’s Fury; USA, 2014; Cinematographer: Roman Vasyanov

Tate Taylor’s Get on Up; USA, 2014; Cinematographer: Stephen Goldblatt

Łukasz Palkowski’s Gods (Bogowie); Poland, 2014; Cinematographer:...

Polish film festival sets competition juries; Roland Joffe to preside over main competition.

Camerimage (Nov 15-22), the International Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography, has set an impressive roster of jurors for its various competition categories.

The Killing Fields director Roland Joffe will preside over the main competition jury, which incldues cinematographers Christian Berger and Manuel Alberto Claro.

Caleb Deschanel has been appointed president of the Polish Films Competition.

The full list of jurors is below.

Main Competition

Roland Joffé – Jury President (director, producer; The Killing Fields, The Mission, Vatel)

Christian Berger (cinematographer; The Piano Teacher, Hidden, The White Ribbon)

Ryszard Bugajski (director, screenwriter; Interrogation, General Nil, The Closed Circuit)

Ryszard Horowitz (photographer)

David Gropman (cinematographer; The Cider House Rules, Chocolat, Life of Pi)

Arthur Reinhart (cinematographer, producer; Crows, Tristan + Isolde, Venice)

Oliver Stapleton (cinematographer; The Cider House Rules, Pay It Forward, Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark)

Manuel Alberto Claro (cinematographer; Reconstruction, Melancholia, Nymphomaniac...

Maria Bonnevie, Nikolaj Lie Kaas and Ulrich Thomsen have been added to the cast of Susanne Bier’s upcoming film A Second Chance.

The trio is joining Danish actor and Game of Thrones star Nikolaj Coster-Waldau who will play the leading role in Bier’s upcoming film.

According to the producers, the feature “focuses on how far decent human beings are willing to go, when tragedy blurs the line between just and unjust and how easily we lose our grasp on justice, when we face the unthinkable and life as we know it hangs by a thread.”

The film has just started shooting on location in Denmark.

Danish actor Nikolaj Lie Kaas recently played the role of Detective Carl Mørck in the local box office hit The Keeper of Lost Causes. He will next to be seen in the upcoming Child 44 playing opposite Tom Hardy and Joel Kinnaman.

Lie Kaas will be joined by his fellow...

Christoffer Boe – Sex Drugs & Taxation

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Dates: Saturday 7th, Sunday 8th, Friday 13th

Buzz: Originally titled Spies & Gilstrup, Danish filmmaker Christoffer Boe has been steadily making films since his successful Cannes premiered 2003 debut, Reconstruction, which still stands as his best known work and starred Maria Bonnevie and Nikolaj Lee Kaas. While Boe seems to recycle many of his cast members (including Kaas and Nicolas Bro), his projects are often offbeat, intriguingly styled, and notably acted. Sadly, Boe’s last feature, 2011’s Beast, which was described as a cross between Alien and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? on the fest circuit, never saw a theatrical release here, though it’s yet another subdued examination of the literal manifestations of grotesque happenings brought about by the excess of human emotion. His latest, which stars Bro and Jesper Christiensen is a sort of period piece biopic, so we’re certain this...

A man exposing himself to a gorilla is not what I would typically expect to see in the trailer for a new film by Christoffer Boe but evidently this is what happens when the director of Reconstruction, Beast, and Offscreen tackles the real life story of Mogens Glistrup and Simon Spies - a politician and travel magnate whose friendship would eventually lead to scandal.The true story about the spectacular friendship between two notorious and provocative Danes: the eccentric lawyer-turned-politician Mogens Glistrup, and the "travel king", millionaire, womanizer and public provocateur, Simon Spies. Despite their different ways of life Glistrup and Spies become best friends, and together they turn Spies Travels into one of most profitable travel agencies in Scandinavia in the 1960s and 1970s. They...

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After recently watching Christoffer Boe's latest film Beast I had the chance to ask the director a couple of questions. We talked about horror, film music and how thinking Bond is gay wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing. To get all the juicy details, read on ...Twitch: I noticed that your films used to have it easier finding international distribution. Offscreen was only just released here in Belgium, where Reconstruction and Allegro had more timely releases. No word about Everything Will Be Fine so far and I'm not sure we'll ever see Spies & Glistrup in stores here. Are services like iTunes helping smaller films to reach bigger audiences once again or is it still difficult to get your films out there?Christoffer Boe: I think...

When Christoffer Boe made Allegro, he was faced with the almost impossible task to follow up Reconstruction with a film that would meet, preferably even exceed people's expectations. Allegro doesn't quite cut it, but man does it come close. It's a different film altogether and it's difficult to compare it directly to Reconstruction, but Boe's signature is clearly present, making it into another cinematic spectacle.For whatever reason, Allegro (much like the rest of Boe's oeuvre) never made the same splash as Reconstruction did. By now you have to look far and hard to even catch a glimpse of a possible English-friendly DVD release, which is a real shame because Boe is one of Europe's biggest talents. That said, Allegro is quite hard on its audience,...

When I went to watch Reconstruction for the first time in theaters it were the numerous Lynch references that had drawn me to this film. And while the link between both is absolutely justifiable I'd be doing this film (and Christoffer Boe) a great injustice to just leave it at that. Over the years Reconstruction easily surpassed the work of Lynch and turned out to be one of my all-time favorite films. Reconstruction is equal parts mystery and romance. Not only is this is rare combination of genres to be found in one film, the fact that Boe seems to have mastered both of them to staggering perfection and knows how to balance these two elements without losing their individual strength makes this film a...

Here is a new international trailer for Lars von Trier’s Melancholia, and an older trailer from a few months ago I just found as well. In the sci-fi/psychological drama another planet that is going to collide with the Earth, but at the same time it also revolves around a wedding and the lives and relationships of certain people. It stars Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Kiefer Sutherland, Alexander Skarsgard, Charlotte Rampling, John Hurt, Stellan Skarsgard and Udo Kier.

If anything, a Lars von Trier movie will surprise you (Dancer in the Dark, Dogville, Antichrist), so I do look forward to seeing Melancholia even if it does seem more mainstream than his previous works. The film premiered in May 2011 at the 64th Cannes Film Festival where Kirsten Dunst received the Cannes Film Festival’s Best Actress Award for her performance.

Here’s the press release, which includes a synopsis and...

Hot off an Oscar win in February for In a Better World, Denmark has announced their follow up contender ...or at least their intention to announce it. The land of my ancestors has narrowed down the past year in Dansk film to three tre: SuperClásico, Martin Zandvliet's Dirch (A Funny Man) and Pernille Fischer Christensen's En familie (A Family).

En Familie, which my Danish informant Thomas (tak!) predicts will be the selection is a drama about a wealthy family with a dying patriarch. Jesper Christensen stars. You might recognize him from the Daniel Craig Bond films (he plays Mr White) or from the popular Swedish flick Everlasting Moments. He's also in Melancholia this year though I don't know how large his role is there.

SuperClásico is a divorce comedy which actually takes place in Buenos Aires. No word yet on whether that naked bum on the poster is...

Earlier today, a new poster for Lars Von Trier‘s Melancholia was released, and later an official website for the film was launched. With the website came some strikingly beautiful photos for what might be the director’s best looking film, and that is saying a lot given how gorgeous some of his previous work is. The cinematography was done by Manuel Alberto Claro, born in Santiago, Chile but later moved to Denmark and eventually graduated as a stills photographer from Milan’s Istituto Europeo di Design in 1994. He worked as an assistant photographer in Milan, New York and Copenhagen before enrolling at the National Film School of Denmark in 1997, and since 2001 he has shot a number of features among them Reconstruction, which won the Camera d’Or in Cannes 2003 and the Bronze Frog at Camerimage 2004.

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Source: FilmShaft - New International Poster For Lars von Trier’s Melancholia Plus Stills

A brand new international poster for Lars von Trier's eagerly anticipated drama, Melancholia, has been put online. The Danish auteur has attracted a great cast including Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Charlotte Rampling, John Hurt, Udo Kier and Stellan Skarsgård for what has been often described as a "psychological disaster film".

The poster looks to have taken its inspiration from a book jacket and is a classy affair. The stills themselves are gorgeous and very Scandinavian looking. This should be a treat after the horror of AntiChrist.

Synopsis:

Kirsten Dunst and Charlotte Gainsbourg and Kiefer Sutherland star together with Alexander Skarsgård, Charlotte Rampling, John Hurt, Stellan Skarsgård, Udo Kier and Jesper Christensen. The behind-the-scenes team includes award-winning cinematographer Manuel Alberto Claro Dff (Reconstruction), production designer Jette Lehmann (Flame and Citron), and costume designer Manon Rasmussen (Dancer in the Dark...

The trailer made its debut last week (see it Melancholia Trailer) and now Lars von Trier's next magnum opus will open in the UK from 30th September. Melancholia will be receiving its world premiere at the 64th Cannes Film Festival next month, which means Lars will be making the trip to the fest in his camper van. He's scared of flying, apparently.

So will Melancholia cause outrage on the Croisette like Antichrist did? Who knows. Von Trier announced at the pre-shoot press conference there would be "no more happy endings!" He's such a joker. Expect this to polarise opinion just like all his other films.

Press release:

Artificial Eye will release Lars von Trier's Melancholia on 30 September. A beautiful movie about the end of the world, Melancholia is written and directed by von Trier and produced by Meta Louise Foldager and Louise Vesth for Zentropa Entertainments27. Melancholia will...

"No more happy endings!" Lars von Trier announced at the pre-production press conference for Melancholia. Of course such statements are part and parcel of the Danish director's schtick, which only serves to make us all laugh and await the next film.

The debut trailer for his latest work should be called a disasterpiece given that it's a story centred on the destruction of our planet. It was launched today via the official website. Melancholia will be having its world premiere at the 64th Cannes Film Festival next month.

Along with the trailer we've got the UK press release with info on the plot, its UK release date and distribution details. Can't wait for this one.

London, 8 April 2011 - The trailer for Lars von Trier's Melancholia is launched online today and available to view at http://www.melancholiathemovie.com. A beautiful movie about the end of the world. Melancholia is...

It seems safe to say that Nicolas Bro is director Christoffer Boe's muse. The versatile character actor has appeared in each of Boe's four existing feature films in some capacity and in 2006 took the lead in what was Boe's most punishing, shocking work.

A film arguably ahead of its time, 2006's Offscreen was a virtuoso spin on first person perspective story telling. Ostensibly shot and assembled by Bro himself the film chronicled one man's descent into obsession and madness following the collapse of his marriage, all of it spiraling down into a wildly bloody finale. Given the current first person craze I'd wager that the film would receive far more notice if released now - where it would be recognized as one of the best films of the type ever made - as opposed to being released then, when it was seen as a minor oddity.

And though the...

63 countries have now announced their Oscar submissions. Last year we had 65 films and the most ever, if my data is correct, was 2008 in which 67 countries competed for the coveted 5 slots. (If 10 is the number for Best Picture, shouldn't the corresponding prize for subtitled features, also be 10? ) In other words, numbers-wise, we're just about finished. The deadline has already passed but some countries are quiet about their submissions. The "official" official list will arrive any minute now... or next week depending on the speed with which AMPAS does their paperwork. Soon is the point.

A naked blue moment from Puerto Rico's Miente a.k.a. Lie. Spanish is the

language to know in this category. 11 of the 63 entries are in Spanish!

I've updated all the pages so you can see the info. The major contending countries, those frequently in the hunt, have all announced their representative films.

Afghanistan to France

(23 films.

7 films in the three sections of Cannes were financed by Backup Films. Entirely dedicated to film financing, Backup Films has, in 2009 alone worked with over 60 ambitious international projects in their search of financing, whether in their development, production, or distribution phase. Backup Films is currently managing film investments funds of over €33.6M, and has brokered, last year, €4.5M in coproduction, distribution and equity deals. Over the past 8 years, the films financed through the Backup Films Agency or Backup Films’ funds have gathered 40 A-class festival selections and have won 15 major prizes.

Official Selection

Tournée (Le Pacte) de Mathieu Amalric is in Compétition. Tournée is produced by Les Films du Poisson in association with Sofica Coficup – with funds from Backup Films.

L’autre monde, aka Black Heaven (Memento) the second feature of Gilles Marchand, and his second time in Special Screenings. It is produced by Haut et Court in association avec Sofica...

Lineup for the Cannes film festival sidebar, which will this year open and close with French movies, includes 11 features from first-time directors

French movies will bookend the Directors' Fortnight section of the Cannes film festival, which this year sees 22 features from as far afield as Malaysia and Kyrgyzstan. In contrast to 2009, when Francis Ford Coppola opened proceedings at the sidebar with his self-financed picture Tetro, half of this year's lineup will be from first-time directors.

Renaud Barret and Florent de la Tullaye's documentary Benda Bilili!, about an orchestra made up entirely of disabled people, will open the sidebar, while the closing night film will be Fabienne Berthaud's Lily Sometimes, starring Diane Kruger and Ludivine Sagnier as sisters dealing with the sudden death of their mother.

Flying the flag for Britain are Alicia Duffy's feature debut All Good Children, a psychological drama about two Irish kids coping with their mother's suicide in France,...

Somehow when Denmark's Christoffer Boe assures me that everything will be fine I take this as an indication that the exact opposite is true.  This may have something to do with having witnessed Nicolas Bro's on screen meltdown in Boe's Offscreen or perhaps from the bizarre Kafka-esque warping of reality in both Reconstruction and Allegro.  And so, no, despite a title assuring me so, I do not believe that everything in Boe's upcoming fourth film will be fine.  I do expect it to be pretty damn brilliant, though.

A film director flees from a car accident in which he was at fault -- out of fear of the consequences for his coming film and the adoption of his future son. The day after the accident, he discovers that the man he ran over is in fact hiding a dangerous secret capable of toppling the government. He decides to risk...

Danish auteur Christoffer Boe is a great favorite in these parts, a film maker who we have been following since his debut feature Reconstruction through to his most recent effort - the first person descent into madness Offscreen - and we have been anxiously been waiting for whatever Boe may do next. And what he’s doing next is a thriller titled Everything Will Be Fine.

A film director flees from a car accident in which he was at fault — out of fear of the consequences for his coming film and the adoption of his future son. The day after the accident, he discovers that the man he ran over is in fact hiding a dangerous secret capable of toppling the government. He decides to risk everything in an attempt to expose the man’s story to the public — but as it turns out, nothing is actually what it seems.

• Offscreen is the third feature film from award-winning Denmark-native filmmaker Christoffer Boe (Reconstruction, Allegro) that screened as part of the New Frontier program last week at Sundance. It stars Nicholas Bro, an stage and screen actor, as himself. As his relationship with his girlfriend Lene dissolves, Bro borrows a camera from director Boe with the intention of filming a love story starring Lene and himself as their loves grows together again. What he ends up capturing on camera is his own mental and emotional breakdown as Lene flees to Berlin, and he develops a serious psychological dependency on the camera and falls into a downward spiral of obsession, alienation, and self-destruction. The audience immediately knows something bad has happened as the film opens. In a shot reminiscent of Gasper Noe’s Irreversible, Bro keeps the camera aimed at his face as he moves through a crowded bar, the patrons moving out of his way,

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MILAN -- Hong Kong licenser Celestial Pictures has sold Spanish television, home video and DVD rights for its Shaw Brothers collection of classic martial arts films to Spain's Manga Film, the two companies said Tuesday at MIFED. The deal follows a similar agreement inked Monday with South Korea distributor Spectrum DVD at the Milan market (HR 11/10). "Thanks to the huge success of films such as 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, ' 'The Matrix' and most recently 'Kill Bill-Vol. 1, ' the world has developed an increasing interest and appetite for Hong Kong cinema," Manga Films vp Xavier Catafal said. ... Australian distributor Dendy has picked up hot indie documentary The Story of the Weeping Camel from Neil Friedman's Menemsha Entertainment, Menemsha said Tuesday at MIFED. The German-Mongolian co-production, directed by Byambasuren Davaa and Luigi Falorni, was a surprise hit in Toronto and has been picked up by THINKFilm for the United States and Canada, ARP for France, UGC for the United Kingdom and ProKino for Germany. Set in southern Mongolia, Camel is an emotional tale of a baby camel whose mother refuses to nurse her. The local herdsmen enlist a violinist to coax the mother to care for her offspring. Mongolia's official Academy Award entry, the picture has also been nominated for best documentary at the European Film Awards. ... Danish sales group Nordisk Film has signed multiple territory deals for Christoffer Boe's Reconstruction and Mikael Hafstrom's Evil, the official foreign-language Oscar entries from Denmark and Sweden, respectively, on Tuesday at MIFED. Reconstruction sold in all-rights deals to A. Film Distribution for the Benelux territories, the Korea Film Arts Center for South Korea, Alfa Film for Argentina and Chile and Cineplex for Mexico and Central America. Cineplex also picked up all Spanish-speaking rights in Latin America for Evil. New Age Entertainment nabbed the dark comedy for Portugal as well as taking all rights in the territory for Nordisk's The Green Butchers, from director Anders Thomas Jensen.

LONDON -- This year's shortlist for the Sutherland Trophy, the British Film Institute's award for new talent in world cinema, comprises Alain Guiraudie's No Rest for the Brave, Siddiq Barmak's Osama and Christoffer Boe's Reconstruction. The entries, announced Tuesday, are chosen by a jury from 12 movies by first-time directors showing during this year's London Film Festival, with a winner to be unveiled at Thursday's closing-night gala. No Rest for the Brave is billed as a dreamlike coming-of-age odyssey, Osama marks a first feature set against the backdrop of post-Taliban Afghanistan, and Reconstruction is an exploration of time, place and point of view. This year's 11-person jury includes director Ben Hopkins, actor Lennie James and London Film Festival artistic director Sandra Hebron. The Sutherland Trophy dates back to the 1950s, when it was first presented on behalf of the BFI by the Duke of Sutherland. Recent recipients include Kenneth Lonergan (You Can Count on Me), Asif Kapadia (The Warrior) and Delphine Gleize (Carnages).

NEW YORK -- Chris Blackwell's indie distribution shingle Palm Pictures has picked up two films that screened earlier this year at the Festival de Cannes: writer-helmer Michael Haneke's Time of the Wolf, starring Isabelle Huppert, and helmer Lou Ye's Chinese import Purple Butterfly, starring Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon's Zhang Ziyi. This year's Cannes slate has proved a cinematic trove for Palm, which also acquired Christoffer Boe's Reconstruction from the fest. That film won the Cannes Camera d'Or, for best first feature, and became Denmark's foreign-language entry for the Oscars. The Wolf deal encompasses domestic and Caribbean rights. The project by Haneke (The Piano Teacher) is set in a postapocalyptic world where citizens have headed to the country in their bid for survival.

A record-breaking 55 countries -- one more than last year -- have submitted films to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for consideration in the foreign language film category for the 76th annual Academy Awards. A number of the films that have been entered into the Oscar race have already begun to earn a profile on the festival circuit. The Danish entry, Reconstruction, directed by Christoffer Boe, was awarded the Camera d'Or as best first film at this year's Festival de Cannes. Palm Pictures is distributing it domestically. Good Bye, Lenin!, from Germany and director Wolfgang Becker, recently picked up eight awards at the German Film Awards. Several of the entries screened at Cannes this year -- among them Hector Babenco's prison drama, Carandiru, from Brazil and Sony Pictures Classics; the Canadian entry, Denys Arcand's The Barbarian Invasions, which Miramax plans to distribute domestically; and the Afghanistan entry, Osama, directed by Siddiq Barmak, whose distribution rights were picked up by United Artists.

COLOGNE -- Denmark has chosen Reconstruction from first-time director Christoffer Boe to be its official entry for next year's foreign language Oscar competition, co-producer Nordsk Film said Thursday. The film, a postmodern take on the classic boy-meets-girl love story, debuted at this year's Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Camera d'Or for best debut film. It also picked up the Fipresci Grand Prize of international film critics at San Sebastian. A co-production between the director's Boe & Co company, Nordisk Film, and broadcaster TV2 Denmark, Reconstruction has been picked up by Palm Pictures for U.S. distribution.