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Goodfellas (1990)

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   

 

Armenia

 

 

21/7 -

Russian director Sergei Paradjanov dies of cancer at the age of 66. [MORE] [ADD]

 

 

 

 

 

West Germany

   

15/2 -

Screenwriter and director Michael Verhoeven’s Das schreckliche Mädchen (The Nasty Girl) is released.   Lena Stoltze plays the nasty girl who rattles a few cages when she carries out research for her school essay entitled ‘My Hometown during the Third Reich.’ [MORE] [ADD]

 

 

 

UCI opens a 2,899 seat, 14-screen multiplex – the country’s first – in a shopping centre near Cologne.  [MORE] [ADD]

 

 

 

 

 

India

   
  Rajaram Vankudre Shantaram

 

 

30/10 -

Director Rajaram Vankudre Shantaram dies in Bombay at the age of 88. [MORE] [ADD]

 

 

 

Satyajit Ray is awarded the Legion d’honneur by French President Francois Mitterand.  [MORE] [ADD]

 

 

 

 

 

Italy

 

 

21/12 -

A recent poll suggests that art-house attendances account for 10% of all Italy’s cinemagoers.   200 of the country’s 1,300 screens are believed to be art-house. [MORE] [ADD]

 

 

 

 

 

Luxembourg

 

 

 

– The Film Fund of the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg is established to promote and encourage the country’s film production.  [MORE] [ADD]

 

 

 

 

 

New Zealand

   
  An Angel at my Table (1990)

 

 

10/7 -

Jane Campion agrees to allow a worldwide cinematic release of her three-part TV mini-series, An Angel at My Table.  [MORE] [ADD] 

 

 

 

– The government sells the NFU to Television New Zealand (TVNZ) [MORE] [ADD]

 

 

 

 

 

Nicaragua

 

 

 

Martha Clarissa Hernandez and Maria Jose Alvarez establish the production company Luna Films. [MORE] [ADD]

 

 

 

 

 

Poland

 

 

6/5 -

Andrzej Wajda’s Korczak, based on the true story of a director of an orphanage for Jewish children during the Nazi regime, is released. [MORE] [ADD]

 

 

 

 

 

Russia

 

 

6/6 -

L’Aveu, Costa-Gavras’ anti-Stalin feature film made in 1970 is finally shown in Moscow following the fall of communism. [MORE] [ADD]

 

 

3/12 -

The renovated 1,200 seat Mir Cinema in Moscow reopens under the direction of Paris-Moscow-Media, a Franco-Russian company, with the intention of specialising in the screening of French films. [MORE] [ADD]

 

 

 

 

 

Sweden

 

 

14/6 -

Parliament passes the Examination and Control of Films and Videograms Act. [MORE] [ADD]

 

 

14/8 -

The Swedish Code of Statutes SFS 1990:886 is published, establishing the rules for film and video censorship under the Examination and Control of Films and Videograms Act Film classification schemes  [MORE] [ADD]

 

 

 

 

 

Switzerland

   
  Paulette Goddard

 

 

23/4 -

40s Hollywood actress Paulette Goddard dies of heart failure at the age of 79. [MORE] [ADD]

 

 

 

– The Swiss Association of Cinema Theatres (SLV / Schweizerischer Lichtspieltheater-Verband) and the Association Cinématographique Suisse Romande (ACSR) merge to become the Swiss Cinema Association. [MORE] [ADD]

 

 

 

 

 

Turkey

 

 

 

– Turkey becomes a founder member of the European Support Fund (EURIMAGES)  [MORE] [ADD]

 

 

 

– The Turkish Cinema and Audiovisual Culture Foundation is established.  [MORE] [ADD]

 

 

 

 

 

Vietnam

 

 

 

– The Feature Film Studio 01 is established.  [MORE] [ADD]

 

 

 

 

 

Zimbabwe

 

 

 

Michael Raeburn’s JIT, Zimbabwe’s first feature film, is released.  [MORE] [ADD]

 

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