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Jan Pieter Ekker blogs from Cannes Filmkrant employee Jan Pieter Ekker blogs for jpekker.nl and filmkrant.nl about the 68th Cannes Film Festival. "If I had been Minister of Defense instead of a film journalist and in North Korea instead of Cannes, I would have been executed now.

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De Filmkrant about the start of Cannes Last year the Cannes Festival opened with Grace, a princess fairy tale that collapsed like a pudding before the official opening. That did no good to the already fragile reputation of festival openers here. This year it had to be different.

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Interview with the film composers of REC Sound The Amsterdam composer trio REC Sound once consisted of Melcher Meirmans, Merlijn Snitker and Chrisnanne Wiegel. Merlijn Snitker left the group in 2013 and Joris Oonk joined the company. The film music magazine Score found time for a conversation.

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Latest Orson Welles completed via crowdfunding Orson Welles' last film "The Other Side of the Wind" was shot between 1970 and 1976. When the shoot was completed the film ran into difficulties. Much of the film's financing came from Iran, where the Shah had just been deposed.

ravage-webzine • 9 j

Flemish Film Festival 2015 descends on Amsterdam The second edition of the Flemish Film Festival aims to show the broadest possible spectrum of current Flemish cinema, both new productions and recent highlights. There is also a lot of attention for short films and there are talk shows with filmmakers.

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Men's activists want us to boycott 'Mad Max' 'Mad Max: Feminist Road' is what American men's rights activists (MRAs) are calling the reboot that is currently showing in cinemas.

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Maruschka Detmers: Femme fatale by accident The profession has chosen her, says actress Maruschka Detmers, born in a village in Drenthe, but a Parisian for thirty years.

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Mega Mindy and Rox together in superhero film Studio 100 will start the shoot of the new cinema film Mega Mindy versus Rox at the end of this month. The film with the superheroes can be seen this fall

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World premiere Cafard closes Ostend Film Festival Cafard, the long animated film by Jan Bultheel, is the closing film of the Ostend Film Festival this year and will have its world premiere on Friday, September 18.

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Flemish television company falls into American hands CEO Timo Koch and BNP Paribas Private Equity sell Outside Broadcast to NEP, the American TV services provider that is the market leader in the US and Australia. Our country has three TV service providers that broadcast major sporting and other events worldwide.

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Dutch documentary wins prize in Berlin The Dutch documentary If Mama Ain't Happy, Nobody's Happy won the main prize at the Sehsuechte Festival in Berlin last Sunday. The film is Mea Dols de Jong's graduation film.

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Flemish Film Festival on May 15 and 16 in Amsterdam On Thursday evening, May 7, the second edition of the Flemish Film Festival (VFF) opens in Utrecht with the Dutch premiere of Image. On May 15 & 16, the festival will go on tour to the Kriterion film theater in Amsterdam. Ticket sales have now started.

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