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London Film Festival Announces Line-Up
20 September 2001
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An impressive list of potential U.S. blockbusters has been announced for the 45th London Film Festival, scheduled for Nov. 7-22. They include Disney/Pixar's Monsters, Inc., Novocaine, starring Steve Martin, and the John Woo-directed Windtalkers, starring Nicolas Cage and Christian Slater. The festival's opener will be Robert Altman's Gosford Park, the first film the director has ever shot in Britain, whose cast includes Kristin Scott Thomas, Ryan Phillippe, Alan Bates and Stephen Fry. Among other offerings, the festival will feature gala screenings of the British film Last Orders with Michael Caine, Bob Hoskins, Helen Mirren, Tom Courtenay, David Hemmings and Ray Winstone; and Jean-Luc Godard's Eloge de l'amour.
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French Director Godard Chastises Hollywood
16 May 2001
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Legendary French film director Jean-Luc Godard lashed out at Hollywood Tuesday, charging that movie studios there had reduced the art of cinema to "a commodity." Speaking to reporters at the Cannes Film Festival, where his latest film, Éloge de l'amour, is entered in the competition, Godard was particularly critical of Steven Spielberg, arguably Hollywood's most successful director. "I don't think his films are very good," he said, then offered to dissect one of them if a screening could be arranged. He appeared to have no illusions about the commercial potential of Éloge. When asked what he thought Americans would make of it, he replied, "I think they will have little chance of seeing it, apart from maybe in a few little cinemas."
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