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– Andre Delvaux’s De Man die zijn haar kort liet knippen (The Man Who Had His Hair Cut Short), the first film to receive financial aid from the government, is released. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| – Albert Bert takes over the Majestiek cinema in Harlebeke and turns it into the country’s first Duplex cinema. [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
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Rendez-vous à Bray (André Delvaux) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Belle (André Delvaux) [MORE] [ADD} |
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Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce 1080 Bruxelles (Chantal Akerman) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Babel Opera, ou la repetition de Don Juan (Andre Delvaux) [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 1988 | ||||
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– The Kinepolis, the world’s largest multiplex, is opened in Brussels by the Bert and Claeys families. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Le Maître de musique (The Music Teacher) (Gerard Corbiau) [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 1991 | ||||
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– The ADTCB is renamed Fédération des Cinémas de Belgique (FCB) [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 1993 | ||||
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The Kinepolis Group opens the Metropolis in Antwerp, the largest multiplex in the world with 24 screens. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 1994 | ||||
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Farinelli (Gerard Corbiau) [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 2008 | ||||
| 27/10 - | Erik Van Looy’s thriller Loft creates a box office record in its first weekend on release, attracting more than half the nation’s total audience. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
| 2009 | ||||
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Erik Van Looy’s psychological thriller Loft replaces the 1990 comedy Koko Flanel as Belgium’s most successful local film with audience figures close to 1.1 million after 17 weeks on release. The film had grossed 7.3 million Euros (approx. £6.4 million) by 20th February 2009. [MORE] |
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| 2011 | ||||
| 17/1 - | Actress Cécile de France announces she will boycott the Magritte Film Awards in protest at its failure to combine Francophone and Dutch-speaking Belgian films. [ADD] | |||
| 14/12 - | Frank van Mechelen's Groenten uit Balen (Germaine), the story of a labourer family set against the backdrop of a strike in the 1970s, is released. Evelien Bosmans plays the family matriarch. [ADD] | |||
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| 15/2 - | Director Miel Van Hoogenbemt's third film, Fils unique (Only Son) is released. Patrick Chesnais and Laurent Capelluto star as a conflicting father and son who are forced to live together when the son's mother is hospitalised. [ADD] | |||