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11 March 2009 12:00 AM, PDT | WENN | See recent WENN news »

Film producer Peter Shepherd has died at the age of 68.

The filmmaker and writer passed away of an aneurysm on 18 February, in Normandy, France.

British-born Shepherd began his career as an assistant director on Italian films, including Bernardo Bertolucci's 1900, before he moved on to write and produce the 1981 horror movie There Was A Little Girl.

He also served as producer on the film Desperate Moves, the TV series Tequila and Bonetti as well as the 1997 biopic Mother Teresa: In The Name Of God's Poor. »

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9 February 2009 | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »

- No Man's Land was a satire on how people had the ability to lose focus, Danis Tanovic's explores the same problem with his upcoming next project currently being pre-sold by The Match Factory in Berlin. An adaptation of the debut novel by Croatian journalist Ivica Djikic, Cirkus Columbia will look at the new rise of nationalism and facism in Bosnia. This would mark the first time the filmmaker shoots in his own backyard. Shooting will being in June. Tanovic recently finished shooting Triage with Colin Farrell (look for the film to make it into Cannes). Tanovic told Screen Daily that the novel "reminded him of Novecento (1900) by Bernardo Bertolucci--  "which is about the beginning of the (last) century whereas this book is talking about the end of the century in the Balkans. It almost seems that the book was written to be filmed because it is so visual. »

5 January 2009 2:26 AM, PST | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »

An Italian film director sets out to recreate an epic Chinese story as an independent film and entirely in English and goes on to win nine Oscars. Sound unlikely? Well, in most cases it probably would be, but Bernardo Bertolucci did just that with The Last Emperor in 1987 as he set out to tell the story of a 3-year-old boy who became Emperor of China with 400 million people as his subjects on an unlikely path to becoming a gardener in Peking. The success of the film is almost as unimaginable as the story behind it and Criterion has set out to ensure you know Everything there is to know about this movie and its place in history with a Blu-ray edition that takes three (of the four) DVDs worth of material and places it all on one disc. Speak ill of the high-definition format no more as the thought of »

- Brad Brevet

3 articles from 2009