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| Sundance
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Sundance
Film Festival
January 18 - 28, 2001 (Park City)
Filmmakers around the world looked eagerly to a small ski town in
Utah this week, to see which films had been chosen for screening
at the 2001 Sundance Festival. Although the fest is known for spotlighting
(not to mention launching the careers of) American directors, the
event does feature a World Cinema section, which offers European
directors the chance to screen at the top festival in North America.
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| Rotterdam
Rolls out the Taboo |
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Rotterdam
International Film Festival
January 24 - February 4, 2001 (Netherlands)
Rotterdam features a competition for first and second features from
new filmmakers and awards the prestigious Tiger Awards. The 2001
festival will feature a special section called On the Waterfront,
to complement the city's distinction as the Cultural Capital of
Europe. This year's theme is Taboo, and films shown in this category
will include: Un chien andalou (1929) by Salvador Dali &
Luis Buñuel of France; Nuit et brouillard (1955) by Alain
Resnais also of France; and Window Water Baby Moving (1959)
by Stan Brakhage of the United States.
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| Berlin
Prepares to Honor Kirk
Douglas and Fritz
Lang |
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Berlin
International Film Festival
February 7 - 18, 2001 (Germany)
Already on the lineup for this year's festival is a homage to Kirk
Douglas, who will receive a Golden Bear for Lifetime Achievement.
He will receive his award on February 16th at the Berlinale-Palast
Theatre in Potsdamer Platz. A special Festival showing of Paths
of Glory (1957) will also take place that evening. This year's featured
retrospective will be dedicated to Fritz Lang.
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