Fw: Croatian Film Screenings 2007/2008 in New York and Boston
Miroslav Visic
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>Subject: Croatian Film Screenings 2007/2008 in New York and Boston
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>We wish you a Merry Christmas an
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>Croatian Film Screenings 2007/2008
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>The Doors Art Foundation presents upcoming film screenings 2007/2008 at the Two Boots Pioneer Theater, New York, every first Thursday of the month and at the Coolidge Corner Theater, Boston, every last Saturday of the month.
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>This unique project is a result of a creative collaboration between The Doors Art Foundation, the Croatian film critic Jurica Pavicic, The New England Friends of Croatia, the featured distribution companies and Croatian filmmakers. For more information please visit our website.
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>New York
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>Two Boots Pioneer Theatre
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>Thursday, December 27, 2007 at 7pm
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>Tressette: A Story of an Island (Treseta) by Drazen Zarkovic
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>Sunday, January 6, 2008 at 3pm
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>The Ghost in the Swamp (Duh u mocvari) by Branko Istvancic
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>Full length feature for children.
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>Boston
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>Coolidge Corner Theatre
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>Saturday, December 30, 2007 at 12pm
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>A Wonderful Night in Split (Ta divna splitska noc) by Arsen A. Ostojic
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>TBA
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>The Ghost in the Swamp by Branko Istvancic
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> Full length feature for children.
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>New York
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>Tressette: A Story of an Island
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>Thursday, December 27, 7 pm
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>Two Boots Pioneer Theater
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>155 East 3rd Street (at Avenue A) | NYC| 212.591.0434|
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>Tickets: $10.00 adults, $6.50 members
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>To purchase tickets, please click HERE
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>Original Language Title: Treseta
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>Drama, 80 min., 2006
>Director: Drazen Zarkovic
>In Croatian with English subtitles.
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>Production Company: HRT
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>Producer: Vesna Mort
>Screenplay: Pavo Marinkovic
>Director of Photography: Vedran Samanovic
>Editor: Slaven Zecevic
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>Music: Hrvoje Crnic Boxer
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>Cast: Josip Genda, Zarko Potocnjak, Sinisa Brajcic, Trpimir Jurkic, Bruna Bebic-Tudor, Marinko Prga, Cedo Martinic, Milan Strljic, Ivica Vidovic
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>Tressette: A Story of an Island is a charming drama about life on a small Dalmatian island and the very small community there, living an obscure and boring life in the off season. When one member of the community dies, it sparks a desperate search for a replacement player for the card game Treseta. The search for a player reveals hidden secrets of the small community. The individual characters are realistic and superbly acted. This is a brilliant and painful look at a small disappearing community.
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>Director's biography:
>Drazen Zarkovic
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>Drazen Zarkovic was born 02.11.1970 in Zagreb, Croatia. He graduated from Film and TV Directing at the ADU (Academy of Drama Arts). Working as a freelance artist since 1993, he has created numerous feature and documentary projects as writer and director, and assistant director in features. He has won four Oktavijan Awards from the Croatian Film Critics’ Society, for his short subjects Cekaj me (1993), Hunt for Oneself (1994) and Salter (2001), and for his medium-length feature Novogodisnja pljacka (1998). Salter has won the Golden Olive Award at the Bar TV Festival, while his feature-length debut, Go, Yellow!, won the Silver Olive at the same festival in 2002. He won the Jury Prize at the Days of Croatian Film as editor of the documentary short Od jutra do mraka in 2005.
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>The Ghost in the Swamp
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>January 6 2008 at 3pm
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>Two Boots Pioneer Theater
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>155 East 3rd Street (at Avenue A) | NYC| 212.591.0434|
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>Tickets: $10.00 adults, $6.50 members and children
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>Full length feature for children.
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>Original Language Title: Duh u mocvari
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>Director: Branko Istvancic
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>Croatia, 90 min. 2006
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>In Croatian with English subtitles.
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>Production companies: Interfilm, HRT
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>Produced by: Mirko Galic
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>Producer: Ivan Maloca
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>Screenplay: Anto Gardas, Edi Muzina and Silvio Mirosnicenko
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>Cinematography: Silvio Jesenkovic
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>Music: Dalibor Grubacevic
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>Editor: Goran Guberovic
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>Cast: Marko Pavlov, Robert Vass, Ena Ikica, Luka Buljan, Buga Marija Simic, Ivo Gregurevic, Dejan Acimovic, Mladen Vulic, Vlatko Dulic
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>Synopsis: A brother and sister, Miron and Melita, go to visit their friend Zoltan (Liptus) in Kopacevo (Hungarian minority village) for winter vacation. The local residents and hunting lodge members there are involved in a big campaign to help the wild animals from the reserve to survive the winter. The same night Miron and Melita arrive, a boy named Halasz is found half-frozen at the edge of the swamp where, he raves, that he was attacked by a white ghost on one of the islands of the swamp. From then on, he can no longer talk. The old woman Etelka reveals the secret that the ghost had been first seen long ago and that you cannot go to the island because the ghost wreaks vengeance on anyone stepping onto the island. Fear takes hold in the place. The hunters, with Vucevic, Kovacevic and Levay taking the lead, begin an investigation however neither they nor the doctors can help Halasz. Therefore Miron, Liptus and Melita decide to find the ghost and offer to carry it off the island to the shore in exchange making their friend well again. However, the ghost shoots and wounds the hunter Levay proving that the ghost is much more dangerous than was previously thought...
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>Director's biography:
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>Branko Istvancic
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>Branko Istvancic was born in 1967 in Subotica. At Academy of Dramatic Arts in Zagreb graduated Film and TV direction in 1999. Making his first, documentary films at 15, he has continuously been involved with documentary films and has received Croatian as well as international rewards for his work the Grand Prix at Croatian Film Festival, "Oktavijan" and "Zlatna Uljanica" being among them. Deeply enrooted in the Croatian documentary tradition, he pays special attention to the humane, but also humoristic, treatment of his subjects. His last successfully documentary film, Wellman (Bunarman) in 2003, continues this tradition, and elevates the simple story about a well digger to a level of the universal metaphor, but without the pretentious nature of many Croatian documentaries. The critics consider his documentary The Cormorant Scarecrow (Plasitelj kormorana) in 1998, to be one of the best Croatian documentaries of the nineties. His debut The Ghost in the Swamp (Duh u mocvari), with a large number of spectators in national cinemas in 2006, has been chosen to mark the comeback of feature-length films for children, which have not been made by the Croatian film industry for the last twenty years. He is member of Croatian Film Director's Guild.
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>Directions:
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>Two Boots Pioneer Theater
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>- F or V train to Lower East Side / Second Avenue. Exit toward 1st Avenue. Walk north (away from Houston) to 3rd street, then east just past Avenue A to 155 East 3rd.
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>- 9 or 21 bus to Houston Street and Avenue A. Walk north to 3rd Street. Turn east and go a few doors down to 155 East 3rd.
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>- 14A bus to 3rd street and Avenue A. The 8 and 15 buses also come relatively close, as do these trains: 6 (Bleecker Street station), B and D (Grand Street), JMZ (Delancey / Essex), and L (1st Ave).
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>Boston
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>A Wonderful Night in Split
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>Saturday, December 30, 2007 at 12pm
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>Coolidge Corner Theatre
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> 290 Harvard St | Brookline MA 02446 | Recording: 617.734.2500 | Office: 617.734.2501
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>Tickets: $9.75 adults, $6.75 members
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>Original Language Title: Ta divna splitska noc
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>Drama, 100 min., 2004
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>Director: Arsen A. Ostojic
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>Production Company: Alka Film d.o.o.
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>Producer: Jozo Patljak
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>Screenplay: Arsen A. Ostojic
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>Director of Photography: Mirko Pivicevic
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>Editor: Dubravko Slunjski
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>Music: Mate Matisic
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>Cast: Coolio, Dara Vukic, Dino Dvornik, Ivana Roscic, Marija Skaricic, Marinko Prga, Mladen Vulic, Nives Ivankovic, Vicko Bilandzic
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>In the dark and deserted streets of the Croatian city of Split's medieval Ghetto, during the final two hours of New Year's Eve, three separate love stories - not directly involved in the festivities - intertwine with each other. Three couples find themselves near the main Roman Square: a smalltime drug dealer Nick and a widow Maria with her son; a young junkie in a crisis Maja, and a depressed American sailor Franky and a pair of naive teenagers, Luke and Angela. They all unsuccessfully try to escape their individual extreme situations only to find their lives permanently and irreversibly changed. As we see their stories develop a major concert performed by a lively singer unfolds before an emotional crowd gathered to usher in the New Year, along with a traditional fireworks display at the stroke of midnight. A smart screenplay ties all three stories to an expertly made film noir. Received the Special Award for Mirko Pivcevic's camerawork in Cottbus.
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>Director's biography:
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>Arsen Anton Ostojic
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>Arsen Anton Ostojic received his BA degree in film directing from the Academy of Dramatic Arts in Zagreb, Croatia in 1991 with honors, and his MFA degree in filmmaking from New York University in 1994, with honors as well. During the eighties and nineties he made several award winning documentaries and short films, and worked on about twenty feature films in Europe and in the United States as an assistant director or a production manager. His first feature film "A Wonderful Night in Split" was nominated for the European Film Academy Award in 2004; it was the Croatian entry for the Academy Awards, Best Foreign film category; it received more than twenty national and international awards and accolades, making it one of the most awarded Croatian films in decades. He is currently in postproduction of his second feature film "No One's Son" and is preparing his third film. He now also teaches film production at the Academy of Dramatic Arts in Zagreb, following several teaching assignments in New York City and in Salzburg, Austria. He is a member of the European Film Academy.
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>Coolidge Corner Theatre
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>Subways
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> - take the Green Line (C branch to Cleveland Circle) trolley from downtown to Coolidge Corner via Beacon Street. The Coolidge Corner stop is at Harvard Street, 5-10 minutes from Kenmore Square.
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