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02-09-There is an article about It's All About love (Thanks Trinity for the translation) in the frensh Premiere, I will scan the photo's in when I got the magazine. And in Empire an article about Buffalo Soldiers, Joaquin isn't in it much
ABF article An officer and a Hooligan and an older intervieuw with Joaquin and Liv
31/08-I looked through 2 magazines with the movies in it for later this year, Buffalo Soldiers wasn't among them, I hope it will be really early next year
AI also found River in a magazine, it was for true Stories on E, you can vote for that story on eonline
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story will be on tv September 26, 8 p.m.
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news from Buffalo Soldiers on the Toronto Filmfestival
FILM TITLE:
Buffalo Soldiers
Programme: Special Presentation
Director: Gregor Jordan
Country: USA/United Kingdom
Year: 2001
Time: 94 minutes
Film Types: Colour/35mm
SCREENING TIMES:
Saturday, September 08 07:00 PM VISA SCREENING ROOM
(ELGIN)
Tuesday, September 11 10:00 AM UPTOWN 2
Production Company: Gorilla Entertainment/Odeon Pictures
Executive Producer: Paul Webster, Reinhard Klooss, James Schamus
Producer: Rainer Grupe, Ariane Moody
Screenplay: Gregor Jordan, Eric Axel Weiss, Nora MacCoby, based on the novel by
Robert O'Connor
Cinematography: Oliver Stapleton
Editor: Lee Smith
Production Designer: Steven Jones-Evans
Sound: Martin Müller
Music: David Holmes
Principal Cast: Joaquin Phoenix, Anna Paquin, Ed Harris, Scott Glenn, Elizabeth
McGovern
Few antecedents to Gregor Jordan’s film about American soldiers based in
Germany in 1989 are to be found. Traces of Apocalypse Now and perhaps even Dr.
Strangelove are evident, but Buffalo Soldiers is a true original, a devastating
drama about a group of soldiers who find themselves in a situation where history
is about to make their role redundant even as they play out their selfish acts.
The film places Special Fourth Class soldier Elwood at the centre of the
narrative. Cocky, brash and darkly handsome, he is more black marketeer than
soldier. Behind his camouflage fatigues, this savvy young man runs an efficient
little business that rips off the military system and steers the profits into
his pocket. He leads a gang of fellow soldiers who distill drugs which they sell
to other GIs, steal army supplies which are then dealt to German middlemen, and
generally operate below the radar of the authorities as they conduct their
illegal activities. One day they accidentally stumble across a real find: two
truckloads of highly sophisticated weaponry worth millions. Payday! All they
have to do is unload the stuff as quietly and efficiently as possible. The only
fly in the ointment comes with the arrival of a new Top Sergeant, the
square-jawed, mean-looking Robert K. Lee. Lee takes one look at the expensive
Rolex sported by one of Elwood’s men and begins to kick butt. Elwood takes one
look at Lee’s foxy daughter and fights back.
Moving with ease between high drama and scarcely-veiled farce, Buffalo Soldiers
paints a disturbing picture of American soldiery, ostensibly on the front lines
defending the free world from the Soviet threat. It is a brilliant piece of
subversion, undermining any illusions we might have about the military. As
Elwood’s commanding officer plots his promotion, unaware of the corrosive
activities taking place under his eyes, other battles are fought, battles we
identify more with Harlem than Mannheim. Helped by a cast – Joaquin Phoenix,
Ed Harris, Scott Glenn and Anna Paquin – who are never less than superb,
Jordan takes us on a roller-coaster ride that feels as hallucinatory as
Willard’s trip up the Congo to find Kurtz.
– Piers Handling
Gregor Jordan was born in Australia in 1968. He has directed series for
television and several short films including Swinger (95), which won a Jury
Prize at the Cannes film festival. Features include: Two Hands (99) and Buffalo
Soldiers (01).
Associated with European Film Promotion,
an initiative supported by the
European Union’s MEDIA Programme.
The PETA GALA is on 8 september, so I don't think he will be in Toronto 8
september.
I think hs mother is also going to the PETA GALA, because she is in the comitie
there.
28/08-Article Tjeck translated by our lovely Marissa, big thank you for that
27/08-Again a voting site for Joaquin, Joaquin is number one on this voting list, so keep him there. Start voting, you only can vote ones a week though