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Frat Boy At the Movies: The Double Hour

The frat boy takes a look at the Italian movie, The Double Hour.

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54th Annual SF Int'l Film Festival begins with thethe "Beginners" starring Ewan McGregor and Christopher Plummer on Thursday, April 21, 2010

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Movie Review: Soul Kitchen (2009) peppered with good food and a great old school soundtrack

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It's Film Festival Season Around the SF Bay: 'Julia's Disappearance' a film about aging, be bemused

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Movie Review: Adrift aka Choi Voi (2009) the Mill Valley Film Festival presents a film about emergence of new passion in Hanoi

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Employee Pick: Audition

Does "The Last Exorcism" have you in the mood for creepy films? Ellen Fox... more

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YOUTH WITHOUT YOUTH

A love story wrapped in a mystery. Set in Europe before WWII, a timid professor is... more

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Academy unveils 65 foreign language Oscar submissions

The most notable coming from Germany (Haneke's The White Ribbon), Romania... more

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We're Watching: the Lebanon trailer

Lebanon, which I’ll be seeing on Wednesday afternoon at the New York Film... more

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Magnolia’s Big Moves for Foreign Film Lovers

Magnolia Pictures recently announced that they intend to bring Bong Joon-Hu’s... more

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Love Me If You Dare (Jeux d'enfants)

Before Marion Cotillard won the Oscar for her portrayal of Edith Piaf she lit up the... more

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LA DOLCE VITA

La Fontana di Trevi

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RUSSIAN DOLLS

Sequel to L'Auberge Espagnole

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Il divo - The Film Godfather 3 Should Have Been

“I recognize my limits but when I look around I realise I am not living exactly... more

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A Dangerous Shift in Iranian Cinema

A few weeks ago, some utterly clueless study was conducted showing that the Romanian... more

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Teaser Trailer for Jacques Audiard's Un Prophete

A young Arab man named Malik El Djebena is sent to a French prison where he becomes a... more

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Foreign Films Get a Hand From Hollywood

"There is a lot of Hollywood in “Keinohrhasen,” a German romantic comedy, and it isn’t limited to the opposites-attract theme. The film stars Til Schweiger, the German answer to Brad Pitt, and Mr. Schweiger co-produced it with Warner Brothers. They have raked in a respectable Hollywood-level box office take from the movie, too: more than €45 million, or $61 million, in ticket sales.

“Keinohrhasen” is one of a growing number of films produced or financed by Hollywood but aimed largely at audiences in other countries, with local stars, directors and business partners. U.S. movie studios have been building their local production arms over the past decade. After a slow start, executives say the investment of time and money is starting to reap rewards.

“The audiences in these countries, they love their football, they love their television, they love their music, they love their films,” said Richard Fox, executive vice president of Warner Brothers International.

Indeed, locally produced films are enjoying a rise in popularity across many countries in Europe, Asia and elsewhere. In Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Spain, local productions accounted for 28 percent of box office receipts last year, up from 17 percent a decade earlier, according to Screen Digest, a research company in London.

The Cannes Film Festival, which started Wednesday, reflects the rising fortunes of local filmmaking in myriad markets, with a relative dearth of American movies in the official selection this year.

Hollywood has certainly not given up on exporting its own, U.S.-made fare. Blockbusters are as popular as ever internationally, and now consistently generate more of their revenue outside the United States than they do at home. But many lower-profile Hollywood films struggle to connect with international audiences, and that is where local production comes in.

“For a studio to thrive they are going to have to keep delivering blockbusters, but will also have to operate with a tremendous amount of cultural expertise in markets around the world,” said James Schamus, chief executive of Focus Features, a Universal Pictures division that includes that studio’s international filmmaking business.""There is a lot of Hollywood in “Keinohrhasen,” a German romantic... more

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Let the Right One In - trailer

A Swedish Vampire movie ... with a heart.

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Fear(s) Of The Dark

What are you scared of?

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The Wave

With the atrocities of Nazi Germany less than a century old, how easy would it be for... more

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