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OLIVER STONE, ADAM SANDLER, KATE BECKINSALE AND LLUIS LLACH
PLAY THE LEADING PARTS IN THE 20th ANNIVERSARY OF THE VELODROME
SCREENINGS
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The giant film theatre installed at the Anoeta Velodrome, with
seating for 3,000 people, will house three special screenings
at the 54th San Sebastian International Film Festival. Three important
productions will be presented by their stars on the 20th anniversary
of the creation of this unique venue in which to enjoy movies
the big way.
Lluís Llach will act as the master of ceremonies at the
showing on 22nd September, with the premiere
of the documentary Llach: la revolta permanent, looking at the
career of this Catalan singer-songwriter and the concert he gave
last March at the commemoration of the 30th anniversary of the
Vitoria-Gazteiz events which ended with the murder of five workmen.
Llach will sing several songs at the piano prior to screening
of the film.
The comedian Adam Sandler, the actress of the Underworld saga,
Kate Beckinsale, and the legendery star of Knight Rider and Baywatch,
David Hasselhoff, will be present at the Velodrome on the
26th for the presentation of the comedy Click, one of
the biggest US box-office hits this summer.
And the director Oliver Stone will be back at the Velodrome on
the 28th to present his latest movie, World Trade
Center, an impressive and moving return to the inside of the Twin
Towers on 11-S, and another of the year’s biggest hits on
US theatre bills.
Oliver Stone returns to the Velodrome twenty years after having
opened the specially prepared theatre in 1986 with the screening
of his film Salvador, astonishing the audience of 3,000 people
who packed the venue. He didn’t think twice about returning
eight years later with Natural Born Killers (1994), presenting
it to an equally enthusiastic and committed audience.
Since then, the Anoeta Velodrome has become a theatre in which
to experience cinema at its most popular and spectacular, where
audiences have applauded, among many others, Julien Temple with
Absolute Beginners; Pedro Almodóvar, with La flor de mi
secreto; Mel Gibson with Braveheart; Stanley Donen with Singin’
in the Rain; Danny Boyle and Robert Carlyle with Trainspotting;
Alex de la Iglesia and Javier Bardem with Perdita Durango; Antonio
Banderas and Catherine Zeta-Jones with The Mask of Zorro; Eva
Marie Saint with the marathon Hitchcock’s Blondes; Bernardo
Bertolucci with Novecento; John Waters with Cecil B. Demented;
Alfonso Cuarón, Gael García Bernal, Diego Luna and
Maribel Verdú with Y tú mamá también;
Ewan McGregor with Moulin Rouge; Jacques Perrin with Le peuple
migrateur; Charlize Theron and Mark Whalberg with The Italian
Job; M. Night Shyamalan and Bryce Dallas Howard with The Village;
Nick Park and Steve Box with Wallace & Gromit in The Curse
of the Were-Rabbit… and the occasional special concert related
to the screenings given by the musicians Caetano Veloso and David
Byrne, Carlinhos Brown with Bebo Valdés, Tomatito, and
the Basque Nationaly Symphony Orchestra directed by Lalo Schifrin. |
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WORLD TRADE CENTER
USA
Director: Oliver Stone
Actors: Nicola Cage, Michael Peña, Maggie Gyllenhaal, María
Bello
New York City, 11th September 2001, the day is just beginning
for two Manhattan policemen: Officer Will Jimeno and Sergeanto
John McLoughlin. A day starting like any other and ending anything
but. Both are inside the World Trade Center when the terrible
attack occurs, finding themselves trapped alive beneath the rubble
for over 12 hours. Oliver Stone is back at the Velodrome after
having presented Salvador (1986) and Natural Born Killers (1994)
at the San Sebastian venue that impressed him so much to commemorate
the 20th anniversary of the enormous and extremely popular movie
theatre with this impressive, moving return to the Twin Tower
tragedy. |
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CLICK
USA
Director: Frank Coraci
Actors: Adam Sandler, Kate Beckinsale, Cristopher Walken, David
Hasselhoff, Sean Astin
Michael Newman is an architect so snowed under by his job that
he hardly has time for his family. One day, unable to work out
which of his several remote controls activates the television,
he decides to look for one that does the lot, finding an eccentric
inventor who gives him one with magic powers. Each click permits
Michael to control his personal life and career, fast-forwarding
and rewinding as often as he wants. One of the most popular
and versatile comedians of today’s cinema, Adam Sandler,
who has worked in family films and with fine authors like Paul
Thomas Anderson (Punch Drunk Love), collaborates yet again on
Click with the director of The Wedding Singer (1998) and The
Waterboy (1998). |
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LLACH: LA REVOLTA PERMANENT
SPAIN
Director: Lluís Danés
Lluís Llach had the bells pealing in Vitoria-Gazteiz 30
years after composing Campanades a mort, a work dedicated to the
five local workers killed by the police, in one of the most emotional
concerts given by the singer-songwriter in his entire career.
This concert, and the testimonies of the relatives of the victims
of the tragedy, are the backdrop for a documentary showing us
the life of a man with a splendid career who uses his music to
make us reflect on the recent past. |
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San Sebastian, 31st August 2006 |
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