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2007 Selection announced
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NOIR AMONG THE BEATLES, DARIO ARGENTO, SCOTT TUROW AND… NUMBER 17
Edition number 17 (considered an unlucky number in Italy) of the COURMAYEUR NOIR IN FESTIVAL will take place at the foot of Mont Blanc from December 4-10. “We challenge superstition in the name of Hitchcock, who rose to fame with the masterpiece thriller Number 17,” say festival directors Emanuela Cascia, Marina Fabbri and Giorgio Gosetti, “with a program full of surprises, fun, social commitment and great premieres of books, films and personalities that aims to live up to the compliment we received from Variety, which included us among the world’s 50 un-missable festivals, and unique in our field, in excellent company with just three other Italian festivals.”
For our 17th edition, we are holding three competitions from which this year’s winners will be chosen: of feature films, a selection of 13 Italian premieres and films from which a jury presided over by Dario Argento will award the three official prizes; documentaries, with six “films on the real” that offer powerfully emotional stories full of twists; and the best Italian noir novel of the year (the Giorgio Scerbanenco – La Stampa Award), which on this occasion will be chosen by a jury made up of the best Italian writers of the genre.
The festival will also present two career awards: the “Super Scerbanenco,” in honor of the prize’s 15th edition, and the Raymond Chandler Award, which this year goes to Scott Turow, creator of the modern legal thriller.
The highly anticipated program teeming with first films, popular actors, great stories and numerous international premieres includes Hitman by Xavier Gens, featuring rising star Timothy Olyphant (the bad guy from Live Free or Die Hard), which will open the official selection on December 4; David Slade’s 30 Days of Night, the US box office hit that pits Josh Hartnett against a band of murderous vampires in the blinding white of the Great North; and Diary of the Dead by George A. Romero, who returns with the fifth installment of the zombie saga (and the zeal of a debut filmmaker).
Also of note are Italian competition title La velocità della luce (The Speed of Light) by Andrea Papini, the spectacular MINI Noir premieres (Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium and animation Bee Movie) and documentaries such as Terror’s Advocate by Barbet Schroeder.
The many literary personalities that will leave their indelible mark on this edition include Jason Goodwin, The Janissary Tree's sophisticated author, as well as Michael Gregorio, Rebecca Stott and John Harvey or, also member of the film Jury, the American writer Jeff Lindsay. The highly popular author of Dearly Devoted Dexter, on whose work is based the TV series Dexter, which airs on Fox Crime and whose entire first season will be presented at Courmayeur in a marathon theatrical screening.
Download on the right the full press release of Noir 2007.
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