'Johnny Mad Dog' Movie to Be Screened At UN
All Africa (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008
The award-winning film on child soldiers, "Johnny Mad Dog" filmed in Liberia is expected to be screened today at the United Nations headquarters in New York.
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Cannes 2008 Winners
FilmoFilia (Free subscription) | 05/26/2008
As we already wrote “Entre les Murs” (”The Class“) directed by Laurent Cantet won the Golden Palm (Palme d'Or) at 2008 Cannes Film festival.Other winners included Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, two-time Palme d'Or recipients, who took the screenplay award for “The Silence of Lorna.” Sandra Corveloni, who played a working-class mother in São Paulo in Walter [...]
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Cannes Film Festival begins rolling awards - Summary
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 05/24/2008
Cannes, France - The Cannes Film Festival began rolling out its awards Saturday with Kazakh director Sergey Dvortsevoy's film Tulcan about a young man's dreams for a new life in a harsh landscape winning the prize for one of the 12-day movie marathon...
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Powerful film shows the world of child soldiers
Turkish daily news (Free subscription) | 05/22/2008
A powerful new film, shot on the streets of Monrovia with a cast of former child soldiers from Liberia, depicts the brutal chaos of the civil wars that have consumed generations of African
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Un Certain Regard: 'Johnny Mad Dog' and 'Delta'
International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 05/22/2008
"Johnny Mad Dog," by Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire, is a brutal and assaultive fiction about Liberian child soldiers that's presented without context or explanation. "Delta," by the Hungarian director Kornel Mundruczo, is a beautiful if somewhat cliché art film of life in a Hungarian river settlement.
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THE CANNES REPORTS: Today's show: Soderbergh's 'Che'
France24 (Free subscription) | 05/22/2008
Watch our daily show about the Cannes Film Festival, today featuring Steven Soderbergh's eagerly awaited "Che", "Johnny Mad Dog" from Liberia, and a Brazilian beach party.
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Watch It! - Cannes: Oustanding discovery of the festival
IndyBlogs (Free subscription) | 05/21/2008
By Jonathan Romney What's been wrong about this year’s competition? Some very good films, and a consistent level, but nothing that made critics want to have a good argument, or to throttle the director or each other. One real kick...
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Un Certain Regard
Fin de Cinema (Free subscription) | 04/23/2008
The line-up for the Un Certain Regard category was also announced today with a few familiar faces. The line-up is as follows: - Versailles - dir. Pierre Schöller (screenwriter of Hotel Harabati ) - with Guillaume Depardieu - Johnny Mad Dog - dir. Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire - Sol Cowboy - dir. Thomas Clay - Wolke 9 - dir. Andreas Dresen ( Summer in Berlin ) - O' Horten - dir. Bent Hamer ( Factotum ) - Tokyo!...
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Boys of Mass Destruction
All Africa (Free subscription) | yesterday
In a twist of realism, a new feature film, "Johnny Mad Dog", uses a cast of actual ex-child soldiers from Liberia to portray the violent lives of youth forced to participate in armed conflict.
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