Chinese film cleared for Berlin festival
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Authorities have approved a Chinese film about a massage parlor boss and one of his workers to compete at the Berlin International Film Festival after five revisions, the movie's producer said.
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BEIJING  - "Nanking," a documentary about the Japanese army's 1937 massacre of civilians in China's pre-war capital, will roll out in more than 100 Chinese theaters starting Saturday.
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A newly reconstructed version of the 1925 Soviet silent classic "Battleship Potemkin," featuring shots cut from the original, will premiere at the Berlin Film Festival in February.
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Serb film festival officials on Thursday reinstated a film withdrawn at the request of the Chinese embassy, after critics accused them of caving into pressure and imposing self-censorship.
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BERLIN, Feb 15 (IPS) - With a fascinating range of films, and an abundance  of glitz and glamour, the 58th International Berlin Movie  jamboree has excited audiences this year, even if the main  competition films have largely been overshadowed by the work of  younger, experimental film-makers in the festival's numerous  other sections.
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Roland Emmerich, the director of "Independence Day" and "The Day After Tomorrow," will head the jury at the Berlin Film Festival in February.
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China has banned acclaimed  director Lou Ye from making movies for five years as punishment  for sending his latest film "Summer Palace," an erotic love  story set against the backdrop of the bloody crackdown in  Tiananmen Square, to the Cannes Film Festival without  government approval, official media reported Monday.
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<img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20080109/i/r2546220832.jpg?x=89&y=130&q=85&sig=lk6uoAVD9wgAlP6oTuWVsQ--" align="left" height="130" width="89" alt="Italian director Luigi Falorni smiles as he poses at Berlin's Zoo January 25, 2005. Falorni's "Heart of Fire" has been added to the Berlin film festival's main competition, the festival announced on Wednesday. \
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A documentary which takes a look at George Michael's life and career will be shown at this year's Berlin Film Festival.
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China has pulled a movie already censored for its sexually explicit scenes from theaters and banned its producer for two years, a move the filmmaker said Friday was motivated by the spread of uncut, pirated copies of the film.
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China has chosen Zhang Yimou's "Curse of the Golden Flower" to represent the country in the Academy Awards best foreign film race, while Hong Kong has picked Feng Xiaogang's "The Banquet."
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Reflecting revitalized box offices in  home markets and a newfound confidence to stand up to  Hollywood, European films will command the spotlight at  Germany's Berlinale film festival for the first time in years.
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Pressures come with the top prize at the Berlin International Film Festival. Faith Akin, director of âThe Edge of Heaven,â knows these pressures firsthand.
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"Lust, Caution", a sexually explicit spy thriller which won the best picture award at the Venice Film Festival, has been cut by 30 minutes to allow Chinese children to watch it, the official Xinhua news agency said.
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China relaxes rules for foreign journalists ahead of the 2008 Beijing Olympics, allowing them more reporting freedom.
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An uncensored version of a Chinese film was screened at the Berlin film festival on Friday, its producer said, and the director told reporters she hoped she did not live to regret making the controversial picture.
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A biting documentary about the twilight years of Yves Saint Laurent's haute couture fashion house screened at the Berlin Film Festival after a court blocked its release in France.