The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 06/12/2008
Belgrade - One of the former Yugoslavia's best-known musicians, Goran Bregovic, severely injured his spine in a fall from a tree Thursday, B92 reported. Bregovic fell four metres from a cherry tree in a posh quarter of Belgrade. His neck injuries wer...
FilmoFilia (Free subscription) | 05/27/2008
We previously wrote about Kusturica’s ‘Maradona‘ movie and short interview with Diego Maradona at Cannes Film Festival. YouTube has a bunch of clips and trailers for this documentary. I thought you might enjoy this. Cannes Film Festival 2008, Diego Maradona, Emir Kusturica, Maradona
France24 (Free subscription) | 05/23/2008
In our daily Cannes report: "Delta," by Hungarian director Kornel Mundruczo, Emir Kusturica's "Maradona," Marina Zenovich's "Roman Polanski, Wanted and Desired" and Hollywood star Sharon Stone's charity event.
The Offside (Free subscription) | 05/22/2008
If you're expecting Diego Maradona to fade quietly into obscurity any time soon, don't hold your breath. A documentary about his life, “Maradona,” directed by Serbian Emir Kusturica, premiered at Cannes this week, and it's guaranteed to be controversial.
Turkish daily news (Free subscription) | 05/22/2008
Argentine football legend Diego Maradona arrived at the Cannes Film Festival Tuesday, promoting a film that celebrates his career as one of the most brilliant and rebellious players in football history in
aidan maconachy blog (Free subscription) | 05/22/2008
Diego Maradona is in Cannes to promote a documentary, Maradona , by the Serbian director Emir Kusturica . The film offers a glimpse into the cult of personality that surrounds Maradona. Footage is included of fans who belong to the "Maradonian Church" , where the praises of Maradona are sung to the tune of Ave Maria. The film also explores Maradona's cocaine use and his political views. He is an outspoken...
LA Times (Free subscription) | 05/21/2008
Cannes 2008 is turning into a bad-boys convention. First was the collaboration between Mike Tyson and James Toback and, now, "Maradona by Kusturica," a fan's-notes film about the great Argentine soccer star Diego Maradona by the two-time Palme d'Or-winning Serbian director Emir Kusturica.Soccer is the link between these two men, a fact they emphasized by kicking a ball around for the international...
Aaronovitch Watch (Free subscription) | 05/21/2008
Nick has discovered YouTube. (The rather odd bit of text before the video seems to be because his publishing system - which looks like WordPress - has converted all the plain quotation marks into curly ones. Having said that, I looked at the html. I thought he'd been hacked at first; there are thousands of invisible links. I don't know if they are a bizarre spambot trap or the result of some kind
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 05/21/2008
Film Reviews: The idea of Serbian-Bosnian helmer Emir Kusturica making a docu about the legendary Argentine soccer ace Diego Maradona might seem like an odd match.
VivirLatino (Free subscription) | 05/21/2008
For who? For Julia Roberts. That's what Maradona said yesterday at the Cannes Film Festival, where he was helping promote a new documentary about his life, by director Emir Kusturica. "Me cortaría la mano de Dios por Julia Roberts". He...
GreenCine Daily (Free subscription) | 05/21/2008
"As a twice-over Palme d'Or winner, Emir Kusturica might justifiably feel that he too, like Diego Maradona, has been touched by the hand of God," suggests Jonathan Romney in Screen Daily. "But his loosely-structured documentary portrait of the beleaguered...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 05/21/2008
The England versus Argentina ‘hand of God’ match dominates this engaging documentary about Diego Armando Maradona the man rather than the footballer.
Thaindian News (Free subscription) | 05/21/2008
London, May 21 (ANI): Fans of legendary Argentinean footballer Diego Maradona can now get a view of his life in a new documentary by award winning Serbian director Emir Kusturica. Kusturica, who has twice won the Palme dOr prize at Cannes, has made a 90-minute documentary about the footie ace that tells the story of Maradonas [...]
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 05/20/2008
Soccer great Diego Maradona says biographers and filmmakers have made up stories about him, painted him as a force of evil and even dared to brand him mediocre. At last, he says, someone has his story right.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 05/20/2008
PARIS -- Soccer great Diego Maradona says biographers and filmmakers have made up stories about him, painted him as a force of evil and even dared to brand him mediocre. At last, he says, someone has his story right.
