Göteborg E-Show Daily Number Four

TOP STORIES: A French-Flavored Nordic Film Market; Magnusson Preps English-Language Thriller 'Vo...

Göteborg eSHOW DAILY NUMBER FOUR 02.02.14

TOP STORIES A French-Flavored Nordic Film Market By Elsa Keslassy Scandinavian cinema has made a big comeback on the world map and it hasn't gone unnoticed by French sellers. Indeed, most of the buzzed-about titles pitched at the work-in-progress presentation of Goteborg's Nordic Film Market were being sol... Read Full Story at Variety.com → Magnusson Preps English-Language Thriller 'Vostok' By Elsa Keslassy GOTEBORG-- Kim Magnusson's leading Danish shingle M&M Prods. is developing "Vostok," a big-scale sci-fi thriller penned by Christian Gamst Miller-Harris, whose fantasy short film "Helium" (which he co-wrote) is nominated for an Oscar. Di... Read Full Story at Variety.com → Hisham Zaman's 'Letter To The King' Tops Goteborg By Jon Asp For the second year in a row, Norwegian helmer Hisham Zaman has won the Dragon Award for Best Nordic Film at Goteborg Film Festival, worth 1 million Swedish krona($180,000). The Film Farms-sold "Letter to the King" is his sophomore pic, a dr... Read Full Story at Variety.com → Critic's Notebook: Goteborg By Alissa Simon To sample a smorgasbord of new Scandinavian cinema, there is no better place than the annual Goteborg Film Festival. In addition to hosting well-endowed competitions for best Nordic film and best Nordic docu, enduring fest sidebars such as N... Read Full Story at Variety.com → Rikke Ennis, CEO of TrustNordisk: 'We Want To Keep A Very Strong Nordic Profile By Elsa Keslassy While in Goteborg, Variety caught up with the Nordics' Wonder Woman, the spunky and forward-thinking Rikke Ennis, who is the CEO of TrustNordisk, the Denmark-based European powerhouse attached to Lars Von Trier's Zentropa. Among the... Read Full Story at Variety.com → Love Story 'Itsi Bitsi' and Coming of Age Tale 'Beatles' Unveiled at Goteborg's Nordic Film Market By Jon Asp "One of the biggest love stories in Denmark, or in the whole Scandinavia," said Ole Christian Madsen on his colorful drama "Itsi Bitsi" (pictured). Like Peter Flinth's Norwegian project "Beatles," Madsen's pic recalls the 1960s Scandinavian ... Read Full Story at Variety.com → Tarik Saleh: 'Film Saved My Life When I Was a Kid' By Andrea Seikaly Swedish director, producer and journalist Tarik Saleh got his start in the early 1990s as one of his country's most prominent graffiti artists. Since then, Saleh has gone on to co-direct documentaries including 2001's "Sacrificio – Who Betra... Read Full Story at Variety.com → REVIEWS Film Review: 'Filth' By Guy Lodge Jon S. Baird's needfully messy adaptation of "Trainspotting" author Irvine Welsh's 1998 bestseller is a bracingly abrasive trip that will leave audiences craving a hot shower afterward. Read Full Story at Variety.com → Film Review: 'Le Week-End' By Dennis Harvey Jim Broadbent and Lindsay Duncan play a couple celebrating their 30th wedding anniversary in this bittersweet, charming yet often very thorny comedy-drama. Read Full Story at Variety.com → Film Review: 'Inside Llewyn Davis' By Scott Foundas The Coens have again taken a real time and place and freely made it their own in this boldly original, highly emotional journey. Read Full Story at Variety.com → Tweet this Forward this

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