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~~Q&A Chinese the director Wang Berlin Quan’an has come to a once- divided city with a story about separation. SEE PAGE 6~~

Thursday dailyFebruary 11, 2010 THR.com/berlin 1 Bizbettingspringhassprung Buzz-worthypremieres,fewerU.S.offeringsspuroptimism By Scott Roxborough Giger,COO of Swiss distributor they need product,”one U.S. Ascot Elite.“Ahead of this Berlin, agent said. “It’s not going to be a ilm buyers and sellers I’m not hearing any horrible free-for-all, but there will be a heading to the European rumors.So I’m optimistic.” small lot of projects people will Film Market will be One reason for that optimism fight for.” looking for the green is the decline of the big U.S.stu- Butdon’texpectthekindof shoots of an industry dio offerings.With studios cut- biddingwarsseenjusttwoyears Werner Eschbach Frecovery under the gray skies of ting back on output and with agowhenParamountVantagewas a wintry Berlin. some still getting over manage- fightingoffinternationaloffersat ofthecrisismaybebehindusbut “Two years ago,it was the ment changes,international buy- theEFMforMartinScorsese’s fatpre-crashpricesaren’tcoming apocalypse,you didn’t know who ers are seeing less in the pipeline. “ShutterIsland,”whichpremieres backanytimesoon. would survive,”said Stephan “People are starting to realize inBerlinonSaturday.Theworst continued on page 23

Polanski decided to adapt “Inhisabsence, Robert Harris’ political thriller in Quartetfindsto Ithinkthecrew 2007.Production on “Pompeii” — a big-budget feature based on becameeven an earlier Harris novel — had just closer,even shut down amid fears of a U.S. ‘Eyre’ishuman stronger.” actors’ strike. Harris had been —“GhostWriter” flying back and forth between By Borys Kit composer Paris — where he worked on the AlexandreDesplat “Pompeii” script with Polanski amie Bell, Judi Dench, Sally — and London, where he was Hawkins and Imogen Poots finishing “The Ghost Writer.” Jare in negotiations to join “When the ‘Pompeii’ project the cast of“Jane fell through, I sent a copy of the Eyre,”an adap- (unpublished) ‘Ghost Writer’ tation of the manuscript to Roman,”Harris classic Charlotte recalls. “I said ‘why don’t we do Bronte novel. this project? There’s no volca- Roman Polanski, left, and star Cary Fukunaga Ewan McGregor share a laugh on set. noes, but it’s good.’I meant it as is directing for a sort of joke. A few days later, BBC Films and he called and said, ‘OK, let’s Hawkins Focus Features, make it.’” which is handling sales at EFM. In the book, a ghostwriter, Mia Wasikowska and Michael ‘Ghost’stories brought in to write the memoirs Fassbender are at the center of of a former British prime minis- continued on page 24 TeamPolanskiliftspicoverBerlinalefinishline ter, discovers a global conspira- cy that puts his life in danger. WHAT’S INSIDE By Scott Roxborough While tabloid coverage is cer- “Roman called me and said, tain to focus on Polanski’s arrest ‘We’ve found our ‘Frantic,’” said Robert Benmussa, Polanski’s >Reviews PAGES 8, 12, 19 oman Polanski won’t be in Switzerland last September walking the red carpet at the and his ongoing extradition trial longtime producing partner, >Festival Screening Guide RBerlin Film Festival when on a decades-old sex charge, the referring to Polanski’s1988 PAGE 10 “The Ghost Writer”has its world story of how the director and his thriller starring Harrison Ford. premiere here Friday,but the team finished “The Ghost “After doing two big period films >Market Screening Guide director and his competition title Writer” is a tale almost as grip- with ‘Oliver Twist’ and ‘The PAGE 14, 16 are still the hottest ticket in town. ping, if less sensational. continued on page 24 day1_p2,23 n2d:002THRD1_n2 2/10/10 10:12 AM Page 1

~~THR.com/berlin news Thursday, February 11, 2010 Home cooking snapshot lifts German b.o. Localfaregrabs27.4%ofmarket~~

By Scott Roxborough mainstream fare as “Vicky the Viking” and Til Schweiger star- he German boxoffice rer “Rabbit Without Ears 2” to exploded in 2009, with Michael Haneke’s“The White homegrown Ribbon” and sim- Since 1951,when the Allied Forces decided to set up a film festival in West T Berlin, the Berlinale has been through as many transformations as the city itself. features grabbing ilar art house fare, From Hollywood showcase to a platform for radical and alternative filmmaking to nearly a third of accounted for one of the world’s biggest film markets, the Berlinale has grown older but, in 60 the receipts. 27.4% of tickets years, refused to settle down. To celebrate Berlin’s 60th birthday, The Hollywood Reporter is flipping back Boxoffice rev- sold, or 40 million through the Berlinale photo album to take a snapshot look at some of the key enue jumped admissions. events that shaped Germany’s premiere cinema event. 22.8% to €976 While Hollywood million ($1.34 bil- held its own — FEB. 7, 2008: Martin Scorsese and the Rolling Stones start it up with a rock and roll Berlinale lion) last year, Haneke Schweiger thanks in particu- according to offi- lar to 3D hits Berlin Film Festival director Dieter Kosslick had worked more than a year to get cial figures released Wednesday “Avatar,”“Ice Age 3” and “Up” Martin Scorsese to bring his Rolling Stones’ concert film “Shine a Light” to the by the German Federal Film — for the second year running, festival. It was a passion project for Kosslick, an unabashed rock-and-roller who used to play lead in a Kinks-and-Stones inspired band, the Meters. Board. Ticket sales were up fewer than 100 million tickets Kosslick pulled every string he had to get all four Stones — Mick Jagger, Keith 13.1% to 146.3 million. were sold for U.S. films. Richards, Ron Wood and Charlie Watts — together with Scorsese on the red carpet German movies, from such German films look set to con- for opening night. When the grandfathers of rock complained that construction tinue their winning streak. outside their hotel was keeping them up at night, Kosslick personally put in the call to the city to stop the jackhammers. Already this year,two German The tumult outside the Berlinale Palast was like nothing the festival had seen features — East-West comedy since its Hollywood glory days of the 1950s. A six-to-60 crowd of fans stood for “Friendship!” and Fatih Akin’s hours in the freezing cold to catch a glimpse of Jagger and the gang. “Soul Kitchen” — have passed And the Stones weren’t the only rock stars in Berlin that year. Madonna, Neil Seghatchiantolead Young and Patti Smith all made appearances, making the Berlinale look more like the 1 million admissions mark, the Monterey Pop Festival. It was a watershed moment. From now on, no celebrity the standard measure of a block- reporters worth their salt could afford to miss Berlin.

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LONDON — The U.K. GOLD STANDARD: “Station” has Film Council has appoint- earned Oscar noms for Helen Mirren, below, and Christopher Plummer. ed Tanya Seghatchian to All aboard‘Station’ head its new look £15 million ($24 million) produc- TerritoriespunchingticketforTolstoytale tion fund, the govern- ment-backed body said By Scott Roxborough U.K. rights and E1 Entertainment has Wednesday. picked up Benelux. Warner Bros. is Seghatchian takes up the The Little Film Co. has secured fur- handling the German release of the role after serving as the ther stops for double-Oscar nominee film, which has grossed some Council’s development “The Last Station” ahead of the Euro- $740,000 after two weeks in that head since 2007. pean Film Market, signing distribution territory alone. Her appointment to deals for multiple territories including Michael Hoffman’s German- head up the Council’s main Ster Kinekor in South Africa and Beck- Russian co-production focuses fund is part of a wide- er Film Group in Australia. on the final days of Russian ranging restructuring fol- Sony Pictures Classics has the film writer Leo Tolstoy.Last week, lowing budget cuts and in release in the U.S.,where it has “The Last Station” picked up strategic review,and fol- thus far grossed about $750,000 in a two Oscar nominations: a lows the merger of the limited bow. SPC also is handling best actress nom for Helen development, new cinema several international territories, Mirren and one for best continued on page 23 including Italy, Spain, Japan and supporting actor for Scandinavia. Optimum Releasing has Christopher Plummer. ∂

~~THR.com/berlin news Thursday, February 11, 2010 Uni usurps two-star ‘Crowne’ Hanks,Roberts re-team for Vardalos co-scripted comedy~~

By Borys Kit 2002 smash “My Big Fat Greek duction in April in Los Ange- and Gregg Kilday Wedding,”which Hanks and les, will be Hanks’ first feature Gary Goetzman’s company as director since 1996’s “That OS ANGELES — Universal Playtone produced. Thing You Do!” Pictures has scooped up Hanks and Goetzman also The domestic distribution domestic distribution rights will produce “Crowne” for deal was brokered by CAA, L Hanks Roberts to the comedy “Larry Crowne,” Playtone, with Philippe Rous- which reps Playtone. ∂ which will see Tom Hanks selet — whose Vendome Pic- reteam with Julia Roberts, with tures has provided financing — whom he shared the screen in serving as executive producer. 2007’s“Charlie Wilson’sWar.” Summit had been interested Hanks also is directing the in the domestic rights, but Mandate’scancercomedy tale of a man re-inventing his Summit International will life. He wrote the screenplay handle international sales at with Nia Vardalos; their work- the European Film Market. tospreadviaSummitEnt. ing relationship dates to her “Crowne,”set to begin pro- By Gregg Kilday writing-producing partner Evan LOS ANGELES —Betting Goldberg and Ben that laughs can be found in a Karlin are pro- cancer diagnosis, Summit ducing, with Entertainment has acquired Reiser exec pro- North American rights to Man- ducing with Man- date Pictures’ untitled Seth Rogen date president Rogen/James McAvoy project. Nathan Kahane. Formerly titled “I’m With Feig and Summit senior Cancer,”the project began with vp acquisitions and co- an autobiographical script by productions Michael Schaefer Will Reiser,who beat the disease. will oversee for the studio, and McAvoy will star as a man who Nicole Brown shepherds for learns he has cancer.Also head- Mandate. lining are Rogen, Anna Kendrick The film begins shooting this and Bryce Dallas Howard. month in Vancouver; Lionsgate Jonathan Levine, who most International will handle inter- recently helmed “The Wack- national sales at the European ness,”will direct. Rogen, his Film Market. ∂ LessredinkatLionsgate;filmsideadrag

By Etan Vlessing gate recorded higher TV production revenue and $29.3 mil- TORONTO — Lionsgate said lion in revenue from TV Guide Tuesday that it narrowed its fiscal Network and TVGuide.com. third-quarter loss to $65.3 million Steep theatrical distribution from $97.8 million a year ago. and marketing costs on movies On a per-share basis, the continue to take a toll. Vancouver-based company Revenue from Mandate Pic- posted a loss of 55 cents for the tures jumped 55% to $12.9 mil- three months ending Dec. 31, lion, with “Drag Me to Hell” and compared with 84 cents last year. “Whip” proving major drivers. Overall third-quarter revenue But overall motion picture rev- rose 15%, from $324 million last enue during the third quarter year to $371.8 million, as Lions- fell 2% to $251 million. ∂

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~~THR.com/berlin q&a Thursday, February 11, 2010~~

WangQuan’an cancertainlylayclaimtobeingaBerlineraswinnerofthe wanted to give it a try,to shoot a 2007GoldenBearfor“Tuya’sWedding,”hismovingtaleofafamilyripped vital stats bigger story there,something apartbypovertyandmisfortune.TheawardmadehimthethirdChinesedirec- historical.I always wanted to do a Wang Quan’an story that would involve charac- tortowininBerlin,followingZhangYimouandXieFei.Wangopensthisyear’s ters like (famous Shanghai gang- festivalwithhisnewfilm,“ApartTogether”(“TuanYuan”),whichheboth Nationality: Chinese Born: Oct. 3, 1965 ster) Du Yuesheng,and just see if wroteanddirected.SelectedforitsparticularresonanceinBerlin,“Apart”tells Festival Entry: “Apart Together” I could film there and get the best thestoryofLiuYuansheng(playedbyTaiwan’sLingFeng),whofledhisnative (In Competition) of it.That’show I chose Shang- hai as the setting. ShanghaitoTaiwanasNationalistforceswerebeingrouted.Decadeslater,he Selected filmography: “Weaving Girl” (2009), “Tuya’s returnstoreunitewithQiaoYu-e(LisaLing),alostlove,findingnotonlyher, Marriage” (2006), “The Story of Is making films in China getting butherhusband(XuCaigen)andthestoryofthefamilyQiaoestablishedinhis Ermei” (2004), “Lunar Eclipse” easier or becoming more difficult? absence.LiuasksQiao’sfamilypermissiontotakeherbacktoTaiwanwith (1999) Wang: It should be getting easi- Notable Awards: Berlin er.It used to be that everything him,butwillshego?THR’sStevenSchwankertsatdownwithWanginBeijing International Film Festival’s was about propaganda, now it’s Golden Bear and Chicago totalkaboutafilmforaformerlydividedcity,whyChinesedirectors“die”in all about which films make Shanghaiandwhatit’sliketobebornintheheartofrevolution. International Film Festival’s Silver Hugo for “Tuya’s Marriage”; money.Wehave only one chan- Moscow International Film nel for distribution, so that Tell us about “Apart Together.” think the influence of this kind Festival’s FIPRESCI Prize for means that only films that will Where does the story come from? of division on a people or on a “Lunar Eclipse” make money get distribution. Wang Quan’an: I basically make country lasts longer than we Making movies in China now is films about things with which would imagine. It takes many like real estate, or the stock mar- I’m fairly familiar.It’s hard for years to get past it. I’ve been to ket; it’sreally hot right now.If me to make a film about some- Berlin many times now so I think you look at it coldly,things thing I don’t really know.This is I have a little understanding of should be getting easier.When a story that should resonate to the place. In Germany,in you have the world’slargest common people and I make Berlin, even 20 years after population, then you’re going films about common people. It’s reunification, they are still to sell a lot of movie tickets. about how groups of people in discovering problems with The situation with “Avatar” Shanghai during the (Chinese it, and some social prob- in China is really interest- Civil) war dealt with being sep- lems are emerging. These ing. In a way,it’sthe Ameri- arated. Several hundred thou- are caused by differences cans showing us,“OK, sand families were divided in that came first from we’re still the boss.”It’san this way.This kind of story in being divided, and now advance in technology,and China is very clear,it’s some- being brought back the director spent about 10 thing that we’ve talked about a together.They will be years working on different lot, and has also been discussed hard to resolve simply. parts of it. Here, if a director in other countries where it has The film is shot against works on a film for 10 years, happened — in the U.S., in Ger- that kind of background. people will say,“Forget it, many,in other places. I think we I didn’t imagine when I that’sstupid.”There’sa dif- can overcome geographic sepa- shot it that I should take it ferent view about what ration, but can we overcome 60 to Berlin, but when I sub- should go into a film, but also years of history? Families mitted, they responded to what we should get back. should be reunited, but it isn’t it very quickly.Berlin is a always easy.Wethink that being more political festival; IsHollywoodputtingpressureon apart is hard, but being together they are willing to ponder China’sdomesticfilmindustry? sometimes is even harder. bigger issues. Wang: China’s film industry can learn a lot from Holly- People in Germany, and especial- What were some of the wood. Look, Hollywood puts ly in Berlin, have had a similar challenges in making the pressure on everyone all over experience, being divided, and film? the world, that’s natural. Our then reunified. How do you think Wang: I’m a northerner, system is rather specialized in they will relate to the film? but I went to Shanghai to the way it works, whereas Wang: I think that people would shoot a movie.Actually, Hollywood has a well- agree that families should be it’squite risky! All of developed, comprehen- united or reunited, but that China’sfamous directors, sive system. We have a doesn’t mean that those like Zhang Yimou, lot to learn and a lot reunions are not without some Chen Kaige,they’ve we can learn from pain. This doesn’t mean they made movies in Hollywood. It’s a shouldn’t be together,that they Shanghai.They’re chance for us For more Q&A should stay apart, but some peo- not from there,and to learn what with Wang ple are very surprised when they they“died”there. works for us, Quan’an go to encounter these kinds of prob- Their films were not and to catch up THR.com/berlin lems and can’t solve them. I so successful.So I a little bit. ∂ ILLUSTRATION BY CHRIS MORRIS

~~THR.com/berlin reviews Thursday, February 11, 2010~~

>MARKET SCREENING ‘Bodyguards and Assassins’ BOTTOM LINE An ambitious blockbuster that successfully yokes together two entities — By Maggie Lee assassination plot are fictional, filial relationships — an opera patriotic drama and a dynamic the film conveys the danger and performer (Li Yuchun) wants to martial arts spree. mulating the group excitement of a historical milieu avenge her father’s death, a PRODUCTION: Beijing PolybonaFilm dynamics of Kurosawa’s when Manchurian monarchists gambler (Donnie Yen) protects DistributionCo.Ltd.and CinemaPopular “Hidden Fortress” and and Chinese revolutionaries Li for his daughter’s sake, a Ltd.present aWePictures production. patriotic heroic ethos of cross swords, while Confucian rickshaw boy (Nicolas Tse) CAST: WangXueqi,Tony Ka-faiLeung, King Hu’s“The Valiant family values wrestle with treats Li as a father-figure (for WangPo-Chieh,DonnieYen,Nicolas Tse, Ones,”Teddy Chen’s“Body- Western democratic ideals. arranging his marriage) and the HuJun,Fan Bing-Bing,Li Yuchun,Leon E Lai.DIRECTOR: Teddy Chen. guards and Assassins” concocts In October, 1906, the Qing beggar (Leon Lai) is ruined by smashing action and a com- court gets wind of exiled revo- desire for his stepmother. Even pelling dramatic arc from a lutionary leader Dr. Sun Yat- Yan pays lip service to Chen for unfold three days before Sun’s kamikaze mission to protect sen’s plan to meet allies in being his teacher, hence arrival are related at urgent China’s first president during Hong Kong to formulate strate- “equivalent to a father.” pace. Conversely,the few hours his visit to Hong Kong in 1906. gies to overthrow the monar- The film’s strongest emo- of Sun’s rickshaw ride past 13 With stirring nationalist sen- chy. General Yan (Hu Jun) is tional pull comes from Li’s blocks is directed to feel like an timents,a select cast and possi- dispatched to mastermind his dilemma of patronizing the eternity for the protagonists as bly the most authentic set and assassination. China’s republi- cause yet fearing his son’s they ward off hundreds of CGI replicas of turn-of-20th can future rests on scholar involvement. Ninja-like assassins. century Hong Kong,“Body- Chen Shaobai (Tony Leung Ka- Wang trumps the whole cast Versatile action choreogra- guards”lived up to its block- fai) and a local tycoon Li Yu- with a performance that tem- phy designed to foreground buster ambitions with combined tang’s (Wang Xueqi) efforts to pers integrity with human period architecture as well as Asian boxoffice gains of more recruit a team of ‘bodyguards’ frailty.Tse also stands out for recreated landmark locations than $47 million.Produced by to protect Sun. Unbeknownst playing the humble laborer does justice to the monumental Peter Chan (“Warlords”) and to Li, his son Chongguang without any trace of star aura. scale Shanghai studio set. And China’sHuang Jianxin through (Wang Po-Chieh) has volun- However, Chen’s direction Donnie Yen excels in one seven- their new venture Cinema Popu- teered to play a pivotal role. tends to be heavy-handed, minute continuous combat lar,its marketability beyond Asia In shaping a motley crew especially the over-use of reac- where he tops his ferocious rests on the last 50 minutes of with individual agendas for tion shots and sentimental boxing with a wild dash propulsive,undiluted action to defending a man whose signifi- dying visions when his experi- through a shopping alley,leap- offset its long running time and cance they can’t comprehend, enced cast can evoke pathos ing over things with the occasional emotional excess. the script gives them a common more naturally. thrilling agility that rivals Tony Though the mission and the bond by defining them through The intricate maneuvers that Jaa in “Ong Bak.” ∂

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mins, German Cinema, Expanded @ Auto Kino!, 17:45 One Life Maybe Two, >TODAY CinemaxX 1 (E) Temporäre Kunsthalle; Flight Italy, 88 mins, Panorama, through the Night, Federal CineStar 3 (E) 16:00 The Dream of Norma, 13:00 The Tales of Rep. Germany, 90 mins, Germany, 7 mins, Forum Hoffman, U.K., 120 mins, Forum Expanded @ Auto 18:00 Soy mi madre, Forum Expanded @ Auto Kino!, Retrospective PLAY IT AGAIN Kino!, Temporäre Kunsthalle; Expanded Show, daadgalerie; Temporäre Kunsthalle; Flight ...!, CinemaxX 8 Howl, U.S., 90 mins, The Film Effect, Forum Through the Night, Forum Competition, Berlinale Expanded Show, Kanadische Expanded @ Auto Kino!, 13:30 My Words, My Lies - Palast (D); Gangs of New Botschaft - Marshall Temporäre Kunsthalle My Love, Germany, York, U.S., 168 mins, McLuhan Salon; The Switzerland, 107 mins, Retrospective PLAY IT AGAIN Meaning of Everything. 17:00 The Formative Years, German Cinema, CinemaxX 1 ...!, Zeughauskino; Aramaki, One Step Forward Two free entrance, Hamburger (E) Japan, 26 mins, Berlinale Steps Back, Forum Bahnhof - Museum für Shorts Competition, Expanded Show, Tanya 14:30 Beautiful Darling: CinemaxX 6 (E); The Song of Leighton Gallery; Ubehebe, Gegenwart The Life and Times of Red Forest, Japan, 6 mins, Forum Expanded Show, Candy Darling, Andy Warhol Berlinale Shorts, CinemaxX 6 Galerie Barbara Weiss; Rio 19:30 Tuan Yuan (Apart Superstar, U.S., 85 mins, (E); Yellow Moon, Croatia, 17 das Mortes, Federal Rep. Together), China, 93 min- Panorama Dokumente, mins, Berlinale Shorts Germany, 84 mins, Homage, utes, Competition - Opening CineStar 7 Competition, CinemaxX 6 (E); CinemaxX 8 (E); Talk with Night Film, Berlinale Palast In the Air, U.S., 22 mins, curator David Thomson, (D) 15:00 Cinema City, Forum Berlinale Shorts Competition, Retrospective Events, Expanded Show, Filmhaus CinemaxX 6 (E); Garden of Deutsche Kinemathek 20:00 The River, India, USA, Basement; Two Friends and Light, Italy, 12 mins, Berlinale 99 mins, Retrospective PLAY More Than Four Walls - A Shorts Competition, 18:30 Tuan Yuan (Apart IT AGAIN ...!, CinemaxX 8 Lecture, Germany, 120 mins, CinemaxX 6 (E) Together), China, 93 mins, Forum Expanded, Kino Competition, Berlinale Goes 21:00 Tuan Yuan (Apart Arsenal 1 16:30 The Oath, U.S., 96 Kiez, Odeon (D) Together), China, 93 mins, mins, Forum, CineStar 8 (E) Competition, Zoo Palast 1 15:30 Ai no corrida/In the 19:00 The Counting of the (D, E); Jolly Fellows, Realm of the Senses, Japan, 17:00 David Wants To Fly, Damages, Argentina, 80 Russian Federation, 96 mins, France, 101 mins, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, mins, Forum, Kino Arsenal 1 Panorama, CinemaxX 7 (E) Retrospective PLAY IT AGAIN 96 mins, Panorama (E); Kawasaki’s Rose, Czech ...!, CinemaxX 8 (E); Soul Dokumente, CineStar 7 (E) Republic, 100 mins, Panorama > Kitchen, Germany, France, 99 Special, Zoo Palast 1 (E) FRIDAY mins, German Cinema, 17:30 Die Päpstin | Pope CinemaxX 1 (E); Alamar, Joan, Germany, 148 mins, 19:15 The Ghost Writer, 11:00 The Legend of the Mexico, 73 mins, Generation German Cinema, CinemaxX 1; France, Germany, U.K., 128 Suram Fortress, UDSSR, 87 Kplus, Zoo Palast 1 (E) Konyaku sanbagarasu | The mins, Competition, mins, Retrospective PLAY IT Trio's Engagement, Japan, Berlinale Palast (D); AGAIN ...!, CinemaxX 8 (E) 16:00 The Dream of Norma, 66 mins, Forum, Kino Arsenal Kanikosen, Japan, 109 mins, 11:30 Gravity, Germany, 95 Germany, 7 mins, Forum 1 (E) Forum, CineStar 8 (E)

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> confidence, so that when Banksy IN COMPETITION asks Guetta to finally deliver his (OUT OF COMPETITION) ‘ExitThroughtheGiftShop’ promised documentary,the BOTTOM LINE Hugely Frenchman is obliged to comply. By Justin Lowe artist cousin, aka Invader,on entertaining doc challenges Culling random images and nighttime excursions. After conventional concepts of art footage from hundreds of video- onfiction cinema or experiencing the rush of docu- and the creative process. tapes, many undated or undocu- provocation? Art or menting Invader illegally post- PRODUCTION: A Banksy film. mented, Guetta produces “Life prank? Questions of ing his guerilla artwork, Guetta EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Holly Remote Control” a 90-minute N Cushing,JamesGay-Rees. authorship, authenticity and is hooked and begins seeking documentary so unwatchable credibility cleave through “Exit out other artists to film. that Banksy questions whether Through the Gift Shop,”a near- Guetta rapidly gets drawn into Guetta may just be “someone ly unclassifiable hybrid docu- the shadowy world of street art with mental problems and a mentary film by international and begins traveling around the camera.”So he sends his protege “street artist” phenom Banksy. country and Europe assisting on a new mission that entirely Touching on contemporary artists over an eight-year flips the arc of the film, inserting cultural trends, the popu- period on the pretext of Banksy in the role of filmmaker lar/high art divide and celebrity making a documentary, and casting Guetta as the street obsession, “Exit,”which pre- despite his lack of any artist Mr.Brainwash. miered at Sundance, offers filmmaking experience. The outcome is a nested broad audience appeal, particu- The only one he can’t film structure, with Guet- larly for urban and internation- manage to connect with is ta’s rough, run-and-gun al viewers captivated by under- the pseudonymously footage of artists at ground art. named British graffiti sten- work serving as the French expat Thierry “Terry” cil artist Banksy,who departure point for Guetta, a Los Angeles retailer obsessively conceals his Banksy’s more pol- and compulsive home videogra- identity from all but his clos- ished perspective on pher,gets caught up in the est associates. But in 2006, the intricacies of the movement — an outgrowth of when Banksy arrives in Los artistic process, the the graffiti art that originated Angeles, Guetta jumps at a commodification of with ‘70s B-Boy culture — chance to assist him, gradually art and the nature of while accompanying his street working his way into the artist’s celebrity. ∂

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BOTTOM LINE Doc about ‘TheOath’ brothers-in-law linked to Osama bin Laden doesn’t By John DeFore answer all its questions but does afford new perspectives. n effort to dig behind shal- PRODUCTION: Praxis Films. DIRECTOR: Laura Poitras. low characterizations of Al No MPAA rating, 96 minutes. AQaeda and explore Ameri- ca’spost-9/11 approach to the group,“The Oath” centers on AK-47, and meets with earnest two brothers-in-law: one a for- young men eager to talk about mer right-hand man for Osama Osama bin Laden. bin Laden, the other a much imprisonment led to the land- bin Laden’s bodyguard for four At one point, Abu Jandal lower-level employee who sat for mark Hamdan v.Rumsfeld years or so and feels responsible hints at a philosophy that years at Guantanamo Bay before Supreme Court case, never for Hamdan’s imprisonment, incorporates both terrorism and being acquitted of major charges. appears on camera. We hear him having given his name to inter- conventional warfare, only to Though it raises questions it through letters written during rogators after 9/11. ask the filmmakers to delete his doesn’t answer and introduces his captivity,which are read Jandal’s charisma and his remarks. That sense of things themes it can’t really explore in aloud over moody shots of the complicated understanding of not said and avenues not an hour and a half, the scope Guantanamo Bay landscape. jihad are ample subject for a explored will frustrate some provided by its family-tied sub- (Camerawork by Kirsten John- doc. Having served prison time viewers, but the extent to which jects gives the film enough son and director Laura Poitras in the past for participating in Poitras observes the daily life sense of coherence to satisfy on was awarded a deserved prize at violent campaigns, he now and the human motivations of the documentary circuit, Sundance, where the film insists his role in the struggle the man (while simultaneously although perceived sympathies debuted.) against the West is a nonmili- tracking the more familiar story toward America’s enemies The film spends much more tary one and denounces the tak- of Hamdan’s journey through probably limit its theatrical time getting into the head of ing of innocent life. At the same the military tribunal system) possibilities. Hamdan’s in-law Abu Jandal, a time, he photographs his son on makes “The Oath” fascinating, Salim Hamdan, whose taxi-driver in Yemen who was a blanket with grenades and an however uneasy,viewing. ∂

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Kong director Pang Ho-che- work with the United States, Market ung’s “Dream Home.” you only need the film to work Fortissimo chairman for two territories: China and continued from page 1 Michael J. Werner said he also the United States.” Berlin Daily Edition “The market back then was has high hopes for Takashi The pre-sale market, which The Hollywood Reporter overheated, now it’s healthier. Shimizu’s “The Shock many had given up for dead, That might sound cynical, but Labyrinth: Extreme, 3D,” could see a rebirth in Berlin. A Eric Mika it’s true,”said Bavaria Film which will have its world pre- test case could be Summit Publisher International head Thorsten miere at the EFM.“Shock Entertainment’s performance in Elizabeth Guider Ritter, who will be screening Labyrinth” has already sold to selling the Tom Hanks/Julia Editor “Henry of Navarre” for EFM Artificial Eye for the U.K. and Roberts comedy “Larry David Morgan buyers. “I have the feeling that, Senator Films in Germany. Crowne.”Summit closed a U.S. Deputy Editor over the past few years, a lot of Katherine Lee, executive vp deal with Universal for the film, distributors were going through We Distribution of Hong Kong, making it one of the very few EDITORIAL Stuart Kemp (U.K. Bureau Chief), their libraries, using the films is coming to Berlin with Teddy pre-sale titles heading to Berlin Scott Roxborough (Germany Bureau Chief), they’d stored up. Now,they Chan’s“Bodyguards and Assas- with domestic already attached. Chad Williams (Deputy Editor, Berlin Daily), Borys Kit (Reporter), Kevin Cassidy need product but they don’t sins” and said she hopes to close Other projects coming to the (International Features Editor) want mass; they want competi- German, French and possibly EFM hoping to sell on a script tive, quality,marketable films.” U.S. sales at the EFM. and a prayer include Terrence REVIEWS Kirk Honeycutt (Chief Film Critic), One positive sign is an “Europe is a tough sell Malick’s untitled romantic com- Ray Bennett (UK Critic), Peter Farber, uptick in the number of market because, over the last few years, edy,which FilmNation Enter- Maggie Lee, Deborah Young, Peter Burnett, Neil Young (Film Critics) premieres at this year’s EFM. there have been no successful tainment is hawking in Berlin; Buyers will get their first look examples of films that have Hyde Park’s thriller “The Dou- CORRESPONDENTS worked in Europe coming out of ble”; and Inferno’s“The Kids Pip Bulbeck (Australia), Leo Cendrowicz at such buzz-worthy titles as (Belgium), Rebecca Leffler (France), Olivier Assayas’ “Carlos the China,”Lee said. Are All Right,”which arrives Nyay Bhushan (India), Eric J. Lyman (Italy), Jackal,”which StudioCanal is In co-productions and on the with strong Sundance buzz. Gavin Blair (Japan), John Hecht (Mexico), Ab Zagt (Netherlands), Pamela Rolfe (Spain), selling; Focus Features’ martial buyer side of the growing China “At AFM,we started to see the Joel Gershon (Thailand) arts epic “True Legend”; and film market, Zhang Zhao, presi- U.S.companies coming out with ART IM Global’s downsizing drama dent of producer/distributor pre-sales a lot more aggressively,” Jackie Rubi (Senior Designer) “The Company Men.” Enlight Pictures in Beijing said said Alexander von Dulmen of A Euro-Asian operation For- that his company prefers doing Company,which buys for Russia ADVERTISING Tommaso Campione (International tissimo will be showing new business with U.S. firms. and Eastern European. “I think Executive Director), Alison Smith footage from “Norwegian “With all my respect to the it will be a bit more subdued in (International Sales Director), Wood,”French Vietnamese European film community,co- Berlin but the pre-sales business Ivy Lam (Hong Kong sales) director Ang Hung Tran’s productions with Europe are is slowing coming back.” OPERATIONS + IT adaptation of Haruki Muraka- not easy to do,”Zhang said. “The market is going to be Gregg Edwards (Senior Production Manager), Armen Sarkisian (Network Administrator) mi’s bestseller of the same “They make films and try to sell quite old-fashioned I think,”one name, and footage of Hong to every territory.But if you U.K. buyer said.“People will be THR.COM looking to collaborate on proj- Andrew Wallenstein(Editor-Online), ects and see what they can bring Karen Nicoletti (Senior News Editor) to the table for the script before Das Druckteam Berlin deals are struck. The days of the Gustav-Holzmann-Straße 6 U.K.FilmCouncil out-and-out aggressive acquisi- 10317 Berlin, Germany Tel.+49 (0)30.67 80 68 90 continued from page 2 tion have faded.” Fax +49 (0)30.61 87 045 Nicolas Eschbach of TF1 and premiere funds. confident that Tanya’s experi- International has “Silence of The fund will be topped up by ence and passion will ensure Love,”the new project from any recoupment made by the that they have a supportive, Philippe Claudel, which has e5 Global Media LLC Council from its film invest- energetic and understanding “Romanzo Criminale” star Ste- JAMES A. FINKELSTEIN ments and will focus on first- champion.” fano Accorsi attached. Chairman and second-time filmmakers as Seghatchian will report “Pre-sales are a lot harder well as the support of innova- directly to Council CEO John than before, but actually this is HOWARD APPELBAUM Chief Operating Officer tive and digital filmmaking. Woodward. one I expect to do a few deals Seghatchian shot to promi- “Our filmmakers are current- on,”Eschbach said. “ ‘I Loved MARSHALL MORRIS Chief Financial Officer nence as the development ly amongst the very best in the You So Long’ did well in the executive at Heyday Films who world, but the challenging U.S., in Benelux and in Aus- HOWARD APPELBAUM brought the first Harry Potter financial climate and the speed tralia, so I’m hopeful.” Chief Operating Officer book to David Heyman’s of technological change mean But Eschbach admits that any MARSHALL MORRIS attention. She also co-found- that now more than ever they one predicting a boom in Berlin Chief Financial Officer ed Apocalypso Pictures with need a supportive and reliable is getting ahead of themselves. ANNE DOYLE Pavel Pawlikowski, where she home which invests in creative “Tobe honest, I really don’t Vice President, Human Resources produced “My Summer Of excellence and encourages know what the market will be ANDREW MIN Love.” boldness,”Seghatchian said. like,”he said.“Buyers are more Vice President, Licensing LISA SULLIVAN-CROSS “(Seghatchian) will be “I’m really looking forward to selective now than they used to Vice President, Online responsible for establishing the working closely with the film be. They are taking fewer proj- MADELINE KRAKOWSKY brand new £15 million Film industry to establish an accessi- ects, often just one buy in a mar- Vice President, Circulation Fund with creative excellence at ble and ambitious new fund ket. So, honestly,I’ll only know The Hollywood Reporter founded in 1930 by William R. Wilkerson. its heart,”U.K. Film Council which will protect investment how things look after Berlin.” Tichi Wilkerson Kassel, Publisher Emerita chairman Tim Bevan said. “At a in British talent and champion Borys Kit, Stuart Kemp and time of real turbulence for the importance of a dynamic Jonathan Landreth contributed independent filmmakers, I am film culture.” ∂ to this report.

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Polanski shooting stars continued from page 1 $$$$$ Pianist,’he wanted to do a real thriller,return to his origins.” Producers Benmussa, Alain Sarde and Polanski quickly set up the project, deciding to shoot at Studio Babelsberg, where they had made “The Pianist,”and have the northern German island of Sylt double for Martha’sVine- yard, where the bulk of the film’s action takes place. “Financing the production was not so easy because we got Michele Riondino the whole budget, €32 million Early industry screening buzz pegs “The Ghost Writer” as a return to form for Polanski. Nationality: Italian ($45 million), out of Europe,” Benmussa said. “It was tight the information and was able to “Of course it is a very unfore- What do you consider your but we succeeded.” give instructions.” seen and distressing situation to breakthrough role? Despitesomeannoyingly Alexandre Desplat, who offer a film to the public without Without doubt, I would say pleasantwinterinSyltthatdidn’t wrote the soundtrack for the its director,”said Robert Harris, that my breakthrough role has matchthescript’soppressiveset- film, had to record his music commenting on the Berlinale been Franceso, a gambler for ting,theshootwentlikeclock- while Polanski was in jail. premiere of “The Ghost Writer.” the movie “The Past Is a For- work.StartinginFebruary2009, “I couldn’t speak with him “This is a Polanski film, and eign Land.” It gave me the theproductionhadwrappedby but he always works with the showing it without him is a bit chance of acting for the big Mayandwentintopost—mainly same team — the same produc- like having Hamlet without the screen after years of having inParisandPolanski’schaletin er, same music editor, the same Prince of Denmark. But in a way, performed on the stage. Switzerland.Hedeliveredthefirst mixer,”Desplat said. “They have it is the best riposte to just show What part do you wish you roughcutbytheendofAugust. been so close to him for so many his work. That cannot be con- could have played (past or Then, in late September, years, they know what he wants. fined or silenced. I hope people present)? Polanski was arrested in Zurich. ... In his absence, I think the will see beyond the controversy I have always admired and “When I heard, I wasn’t wor- crew became even closer, even to the film itself.” ∂ wish I could have played Blake ried about my movie, I was stronger. We really wanted to in “Last Days” by Gus Van Sant. worried about my friend,”Ben- show him and the world that we It is a truly inspiring character, mussa said. “I knew the film could deliver a fantastic film.” drawing from the real life of would be delivered.” When Polanski was released Kurt Cobain. I felt particularly Despite his incarceration, on house arrest to his Swiss Recreationgrabs jealous when Michael Pitt Polanski continued to work on chalet, he continued working, played one of Kurt’s songs on “The Ghost Writer.”Benmussa putting the last touches on film stage ... That would have kept him informed of the and approving the final cut. meant one of my teenage details of the postproduction While “The Ghost Writer’s” Menemshaslate dreams come true. through courier packages sent official world premiere is in via Polanski’s lawyer, to the Berlin on Friday,word on the film By Scott Roxborough Which director would you director’s jail cell. has already begun leaking out most like to work with? “He is a director who is following pre-release screenings Neil Friedman’s Menemsha I would like to work with Tim involved in everything on a in London and L.A. Industry Films has signed a deal with Burton for his attention to the film,”Benmussa said. “He execs who have seen it are calling Recreation Media that will see body and to the physical part of the acting, which I find very the- received DVDs of the film as it it a slick, well-paced thriller and Recreation take over sales atrical and powerful. I also like was being finished. He had all a return to form for Polanski. duties on Menemsha’s slate his weird sense for the starting at the European Film grotesque and the surreal, the Market in Berlin. imaginative and the fantastic. I The deal, announced by would also love to work with Friedman and Recreation’s Inarritu, especially for his ability ‘Eyre’ Ariel Veneziano, includes to tell everyday life stories with continued from page 1 “Kawasaki’s Rose” from Czech a special attention to the minor director Jan Hrebejk (“Divided details of human struggles. the Gothic tale, which We Fall”) which will open the follows young governess Berlin Festival’s Panorama Describe your next project. Jane Eyre (Wasikowska), Dench Bell Poots Special section on Friday.Also I’m going to start a new project who falls in love with her on Menemsha’s slate is Luki in March, a movie by a director I employer,Edward Rochester Hawkins is Mrs. Reed, Eyre’s Boeken’s “Saviors in the really admire. His name is (Fassbender), but discovers he aunt,who adopts her but abus- Night,”which premiered in Renato de Maria. In addition, harbors a dark secret. es and neglects her until death. Locarno; Michael Verhoeven’s once back, we are going to Bell will play St.John,a cler- Alison Owen and Paul Tri- documentary “Human Fail- keep on rehearsing for our play. gyman who turns out to be jbits of Ruby Films are produc- ure”; and another Hrbejk title, It is part of our company’s new Eyre’s cousin. Dench will play ing with BBC Films and Focus. the comedy “Shameless.” project, a novel approach to script writing, where the text is Mrs. Fairfax, the housekeeper Bell next stars in the Roman Menemsha’s next U.S. reinvented and re-adapted of Thornfield Manor, who dis- epic adventure “The Eagle of the release is the Israeli comedy “A every night, on the base of an approves of Eyre’s engagement Ninth,”which Focus financed Matter of Size,”which bows initial platform we created. with Rochester. and is releasing in the U.S. ∂ March 12 in Boston.∂