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Ere Gowda is a Kannada film director known for his award winning Kannada Movie Balekempa. He was also the screenwriter of the award winning Kannada film Thithi directed by Raam Reddy. His film Balekempa was listed under ten most notable films at IFFR.
Hunter Ganslandt.
A war situation that urges people to escape their home country, seen through the eys of a 4 year old boy.
Thalia
Since: 07-07-1955
Address: Kruiskade 55, Rotterdam
Film on Marquee: DOCTOR AT LARGE (1957)
CinemaContext.nl ID: B000953
Lumière
Since: 27-01-1955
Address: Lijnbaan 45, Rotterdam
Film on Poster: DE MAN IN DE REGENJAS (L’HOMME À L’IMPERMÉABLE) (1957)
CinemaContext.nl ID: B000922
The Thalia is on the right, the Lumière behind it on the right.
To Abraham Tuschinski, Thalia was also the godess of Cinema theaters and thus decided to name the first theater he built 'Thalia', on the Coovest in Rotterdam. It was later moved to the Hoogstraat, were he put up a true picture palace.
This was demolished during the bombing in May 1940 when the Second World War had started. After the war, Tuschinski and two other owners of the bombed Scala and Lumière were allowed to erect a temporal combined theater, named the Lutusca, which was situated on the Kruisplein, behind the Lumière on this postcard. Both Tuschinski and Lumière decided to build new theaters in 1955, and one just opened a couple of months after the other.
Thalia had 802 seats when it opened, and had no balcony, but 'stadium seating'. Although there was a lot of art in and around the auditorium and lobby, it wasn't decorated as much as the former theater or as the Tuschniski theater in Amsterdam.
Thalia was shut in 1997 when owner Pathé was succesfully running it's 7-screen Pathé Schouwburgplein plex around the corner. In it's later years it was one of the locations that housed the International Film Festival Rotterdam.
Pathé also shut down the Lumière the four screen (it had 1120 seats when it opened with a single screen with balcony, and 641 in 2000) only recently, on September 9th, 2003. It has now been revamped, housing shops and a gym.
As published in Skrien Magazine.
"Ms. Moon Playing With the Cat"
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Logo of the "International Film Festival Rotterdam" on the festival's office building. And yes, the moon in the background is real.
Korean director Kim Dong-Hyun and his translator during the Q&A after the second screening "Hello, Stranger". It had its international premiere at IFFR 2008 a day before.
His movie Hello, Stranger (Chereum mannan saramdeul) (set in South Korea) features a North Korean refugee and a Vietnamese who struggle to communicate, not knowing each other's language.
More of my film festival photos in the IFFR 2008-set JeromesPOF and the IFFR 2008-set JeromesPOV
The past two weeks Dutch-American actor Rutger Hauer had his DAF3300 truck parked on the banks of the Nieuwe Maas in Rotterdam. He is in town attending the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR 23 January - 3 February 2008) Under Hauer's supervision thirty film makers from all over the world gathered for ten days to make twelve short films.
Performing a song they wrote for a movie which will be shown at the IFFR (International Film Festival Rotterdam) Filmed by the Dutch broadcasting network VPRO.
Mohamad Mohd Khalid, director of the stylish, funny and crazy film noir parody When The Full Moon Rises.