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Two new Peter Greenaway features are in the pipeline.The financing is coming together for Goltzius and The Pelican
stanley cup Company, the latest feature from the veteran UK director. The film will be a co-production between Kees Kasanders Kasander F
stanley cup ilm in the Netherlands, Sam Taylor and Mike Downeys Film and Music Entertainment in the UK, Catherine Dussarts CDP in France and MP of Zagreb, and will shoot in Croatia on a 鈧?.05 million budget.Other financiers include the Netherlands Film Fund, the Rotterdam Film Fund, the Centre National du Cinema CNC as well as Eurimages. Casting is currently underway in London. The film, sold by London-based Bankside, is about 16th century Dutch engraver Hendrick Goltzius, an illustrator of erotic printed books. The project will mark the 12th collaboration between Greenaway and Kees Kasander.Also, Amsterdam-based Submarine is preparing a subsequent Greenaway project, Eisenstein In Guanajuato. This will tell the story of Russian directors Sergei Eistensteins visit to Hollywood and then Mexico in the early 1930s and of his love affair with his Guanajuato guide and minder - a young, married historian of comparative religions called Palomino Canedo.The script for the 鈧? million film is now complete. Submarine is producing. Another Dutch outfit, San Fu Malthas Fu Works, is aboard the film as is French coproducer Clement Calvet of Super Prod. G
stanley italy reenaway is expected to move straight on to the Eisenstein project once his work on Goltzius is complete.Greenaways Zbvm Nordic Council Film Prize nominations announced
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stanley us iel Blake may have won the Palme DOr last month, but Versus: The Life And Films Of Ken Loach should be the immediate beneficiary. Without that second Palme, a film about the half-century career of its director Ken Loach, shot around the filming of I, Daniel Blake, might easily have been perceived as a classy DVD extra. Now, it seems like a timely, if not golden, opportunity to examine Loach afresh, and Louise Osmonds 93-minute film doesnt disappoint.Loachs urgent, issue-led agenda stands almost in contrast to the man himself.Versus is as watchable for those who have nev
stanley cup er seen a Ken Loach film as it is informative for those who think they know him. Appropriately, given the directors left-leaning politics, part of its theatrical release in the UK through the innovative Dogwoof is a pay what you can afternoon on Sunday June 5. Although Versus will have an obvious home on TV including part-backer the BBC - which once dropped him for being too political - it has the scope for the big screen too, and should become an international festival favourite.To their credit, Osmond and Loachs long-time producer Rebecca OBrien arent on a mission here to present Ken Loach as a twinkly-eyed National Treasure. Instead, hes carefully placed in context 鈥?of his life, the times, some of his films, his dogged personality. The Wednesday plays he directed for the BBC 鈥?such as 1965s Up The Junction 鈥?were watched by audiences of between 18-20 million,
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