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July 16, 2007
From Europudding to organic films auds want to see?
In Variety, Ali Jaafar considers the Euro-auteurs who are finding followings: "The term "Euro pudding" referred to a flood of films from the 1960s and '70s like The Cassandra Crossing... and The Fifth Musketeer, combining a melange of international talents such as a German actress, French actor and Italian director in hopes of luring coin (and audiences) from each country. The result was, more often than not, a mish-mash of competing accents and confused artistic vision." Jafaar says the latest generation is making a more organic kind of pudding. "Filmmakers like the Teuton-Turkish Fatih Akin and French-Algerian Rachid Bouchareb are making films that tackle the growing interconnectivity of European society.Their transborder films are much more personal -- and the result is that the films are both artistically and financially more successsful... These new Europeans are in many ways the future of the European film industry, says Hengameh Panahi, co-topper of Dreamachine, the new international sales company combining Panahi's Celluloid Dreams and Jeremy Thomas' Hanway Films. "Distributors don't care about masterpieces anymore. They want to make a living," says Paneh. "These second-generation and exiled directors, who may have belonged to a different culture but have grown up in Europe, are not elitist. They're telling real stories that appeal to everyone."
Posted by Ray Pride at July 16, 2007 02:12 PM
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