http://www.filmlynx.net In my youth, Dutch-ness was sort of a prickly virtue to us and an occasion for dull mockery to others. _______Gore Vidal: 1876 Mon, 27 Jul 2009 18:35:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Since Cannes, I've been caught up in a whirlwind of activities, all which proved to be very pleasurable. I went to Rotterdam to do the publicity for the Rutger Hauer Filmfactory, and then I was in LA for Doris Yeung's impressive feature debut Motherland. Now I'm back in Brooklyn, gearing ... http://www.filmlynx.net/?p=208 Silversalt PR is very excited to be going to Cannes with ALTIPLANO, a Belgian film by Peter Brosens & Jessica Woodworth. The film, a lyrical tragedy about three souls intersecting on Peru's high plains, stars the Peruvian actress Magaly Solier whose previous film La teta asustada won a Golden Bear ... http://www.filmlynx.net/?p=207 With the Tribeca Film Festival around the corner, Silversalt PR is working at full speed on the publicity of Newsmakers, a Russian/Swedish remake of the Johnnie To film Breaking News. It's an action thriller about media manipulation by the Moscow police. It's fun to work on a genre film, which ... http://www.filmlynx.net/?p=206 I'm very sad about our friend Duane Jarvis, who died of colon cancer last Wednesday. We have fond memories of him staying at our place in Brooklyn, and the shows he played in New York and Europe. Click here for more info on donations. The LA Times and The Tennessean ... http://www.filmlynx.net/?p=205 I was none too happy to discover that I needed to get fingerprinted and photographed upon arrival in the US from the Rotterdam and Berlin film festivals. I was singled out from the US Citizens queue by a harpy with a booming voice and sent to a special line for ... http://www.filmlynx.net/?p=202