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Watch: Trailer For Susanne Bier’s Return To Danish Cinema, ‘Haevnen’/’In A Better World’

Oliver Lyttelton — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 13:17:00 +0000

We’ve made no secret of the fact that we’re big fans of Danish director Susanne Bier. The likes of “Open Hearts,” “Brothers” (remade last year, to diminishing returns, by Jim Sheridan) and “After The Wedding” are some of the strongest pictures in European cinema in the last decade, and her English-language debut “Things We Lost In The Fire” is terminally underrated. She’s been M.I.A. since that film, however — the romantic comedy “Lost For Words” collapsed after star Hugh Grant pulled out days before shooting.

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Tribeca ’09 Review Recap: ‘Tell Tale,’ ‘Paintball,’ ‘Entre Nos,’ ‘Fear Me Not,’

Rodrigo Perez — Wed, 06 May 2009 16:39:00 +0000

Keeping up with Film Festivals is tough, especially when they’re overcrowded and difficult to navigate, but we did our best with the Tribeca Film Festival ’09, which wasn’t their best line-up, but still a decent program despite being a mostly indie-festival that arrives after Sundance and SXSW. We did see bigger names like Steven Soderbergh’s “The Girlfriend Experience,” and the Diego Luna/Gael Garcia Bernal comedy, “Rudo Y Cursi,” but we also made the effort to see smaller pictures you may have not heard about… and were awarded with mixed results for doing so.

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