Emir Kusturica builds homage to Ivo Andric novel, triggering controversy in Visegrad, scene of atrocities in Bosnian war
Turning his back on the 19th-century Spanish cafe, Emir Kusturica loped into the street where a Byzantine tower is to be built, over the way from the Ottoman houses with their screened balconies. A breeze ruffled the long, tangled strands of his uncombed hair.
"If you had said there could be a multiplex in Visegrad," he said, waving a hand towards the half-built cinema where workmen were coming and going, "they would have said you were fucking crazy."
Confused? A lot of people who come here will be.
In one of the most beautiful spots in the Balkans, the former Yugoslavia's most celebrated film director was showing the Guardian around his most ambitious and controversial project to date – a town within a town that will echo in wood and stone the region's greatest work of fiction.
Turning his back on the 19th-century Spanish cafe, Emir Kusturica loped into the street where a Byzantine tower is to be built, over the way from the Ottoman houses with their screened balconies. A breeze ruffled the long, tangled strands of his uncombed hair.
"If you had said there could be a multiplex in Visegrad," he said, waving a hand towards the half-built cinema where workmen were coming and going, "they would have said you were fucking crazy."
Confused? A lot of people who come here will be.
In one of the most beautiful spots in the Balkans, the former Yugoslavia's most celebrated film director was showing the Guardian around his most ambitious and controversial project to date – a town within a town that will echo in wood and stone the region's greatest work of fiction.
- 10/11/2012
- by John Hooper
- The Guardian - Film News
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London, Jan 7: Jrr Tolkien, whose 'Lord of the Rings' trilogy was published in 1954 and 1955, was passed over for the 1961 Nobel literature prize after his books were described as second rate.
Newly released documents, declassified after 50 years, show that the late writer was nominated by fellow author Cs Lewis.
"The result has not in any way measured up to storytelling of the highest quality," the BBC quoted the Nobel prize jury as saying.
Ivo Andric, Yugoslav writer, won for the "epic force with which he has traced themes and depicted human destinies."
Andreas Ekstrom, a journalist who studied the documents.
Newly released documents, declassified after 50 years, show that the late writer was nominated by fellow author Cs Lewis.
"The result has not in any way measured up to storytelling of the highest quality," the BBC quoted the Nobel prize jury as saying.
Ivo Andric, Yugoslav writer, won for the "epic force with which he has traced themes and depicted human destinies."
Andreas Ekstrom, a journalist who studied the documents.
- 1/7/2012
- by Meeta Kabra
- RealBollywood.com
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Here are a few interesting and/or noteworthy projects that were recently added to IMDbPro's database of development titles.
Mr. Hughes – Christopher Nolan is moving on from billionaire Batman Bruce Wayne to billionaire bat-crazy Howard Hughes with his next film - a pet project based on Michael Drosnin's biography "Citizen Hughes: The Power, the Money and the Madness," which recounts the wealthy aviator's extensive handwritten memoir.
The Look of Love – Diane Keaton and Ed Harris star in the romancer from Arie Posin about a widow who finds herself overcome with emotions when she meets a guy who bears a striking resemblance to her late husband.
The Boom Boom Room – Christopher Walken, Shirely MacLaine, Adam Beach and Ashley Greene star in Aussie filmmaker Lian Lunson's fairy tale drama about a pair of desert-dwelling former Vaudeville stars whose lives become intertwined with a young, beautiful girl. Bono and director Wim Wenders serve as the film's executive producers.
Free Ride – Aberration Films' Susan Dynner (Punk's Not Dead) produces this indie project written and directed by Shana Sosin that was recently selected to participate in Film Independent's 10th annual Director's Lab. The film centers on a single mom caught up in the Florida drug trade during the late 1970s as she struggles to make a better life for her two daughters.
The Bridge on the Drina – Serbian filmmaker Emir Kusturica's latest opus takes place in a Bosnian town and chronicles three centuries of the war-torn region's transformations. Kusturica will adapt the screenplay based on Nobel Prize-winning author Ivo Andric's 1945 novel of the same name.
If you know of something in the works, you can submit it via our online submission form.
Mr. Hughes – Christopher Nolan is moving on from billionaire Batman Bruce Wayne to billionaire bat-crazy Howard Hughes with his next film - a pet project based on Michael Drosnin's biography "Citizen Hughes: The Power, the Money and the Madness," which recounts the wealthy aviator's extensive handwritten memoir.
The Look of Love – Diane Keaton and Ed Harris star in the romancer from Arie Posin about a widow who finds herself overcome with emotions when she meets a guy who bears a striking resemblance to her late husband.
The Boom Boom Room – Christopher Walken, Shirely MacLaine, Adam Beach and Ashley Greene star in Aussie filmmaker Lian Lunson's fairy tale drama about a pair of desert-dwelling former Vaudeville stars whose lives become intertwined with a young, beautiful girl. Bono and director Wim Wenders serve as the film's executive producers.
Free Ride – Aberration Films' Susan Dynner (Punk's Not Dead) produces this indie project written and directed by Shana Sosin that was recently selected to participate in Film Independent's 10th annual Director's Lab. The film centers on a single mom caught up in the Florida drug trade during the late 1970s as she struggles to make a better life for her two daughters.
The Bridge on the Drina – Serbian filmmaker Emir Kusturica's latest opus takes place in a Bosnian town and chronicles three centuries of the war-torn region's transformations. Kusturica will adapt the screenplay based on Nobel Prize-winning author Ivo Andric's 1945 novel of the same name.
If you know of something in the works, you can submit it via our online submission form.
- 2/19/2011
- by Eric Greene
- IMDbPro News
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