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MOVIE WEEKEND Whistler film, TV fest proposed Leak of Eyes Wide Shut plot angers studio execs The idea for the festival, Gabriel says, "first enterted my mind more than a year ago after reading a Maclean's article on the Toronto film festival. They got Brad Pitt, Robert Duvall and a lot of other big stars. "I was wondering why that couldn't happen in Vancouver, being so close to Los Angeles, and with all the production going on here it all made sense to me. It went off like a lightbulb that Whistler would attract that calibre of people." Vancouver Sun mation and computerdigital technology. The festival plans to offer the premiere screenings, celebrity appearances, gala parties and other fare of regular festivals such as the Vancouver International Film Festival and Banff Television Festival.

It also intends to include a market and trade show, and a conference to explore the future of entertainment's new technologies. Dosot will serve as the festival's executive director, while Gabriel will be artistic director. A new film and television festival with the theme of "convcr-uenee" is planned for Whister irom Nov. 16 to 10, 2000. The first annual Whistler teinational Film and Television Festival, which describes itself as "a new kind of festival for a new millennium," was conceived by Vancouver-based businesswomen Leagh Gabriel and Susan Dosot.

Budgeted at $2.1 million, the festival purports to provide a forum for the blurring boundaries between television, ani THE VANCOUVER 'ancouver un mm oncert er'es Prcsents di nnesi musicians on me troni nm 3iaqe as we Lit Catch all the fun FREE July 1: to Warner Bros, executives are fuming because a British film critic and longtime associate of late director Stanley Kubrick has published a detailed review that discloses the plot of Eyes Wide Shut, the erotic thriller starring Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise, which the studio has been shrouding in secrecy. And the folks at Warner are also upset that the rave review written by Kubrick confidant Alexander Walker, film critic of London's Evening Standard, states that Cruise kisses a dead woman in a morgue and discov-ers "the taboo pleasure of necrophilia." The movie opens in North America on July 16. "He broke their confidence," Warner spokesman Nancy Kirkpatrick said. "I'm angry for professional reasons, but they feel betrayed." She said Walker was wrong in writing that Cruise kisses a dead woman. In the review, which has been reprinted in newspapers worldwide and on the Internet, Walker said the movie "is an astonishing work made with masterly control and at the same time a humanity that this director's detractors have insisted he did not possess." Walker is updating his book Stanley Kubrick Directs for publication in August.

Newsday CRUISE, KIDMAN TO ATTEND VENICE PREMIERE Eyes Wide Shut will open the Venice Film Festival on Sept. 1 in its first European screening. Its stars, Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, and director Stanley Kubrick's widow will attend the event, the festival said. Kubrick died in March after finishing the movie. The European premiere will serve as "a graceful tribute to one of the great masters in the history of cinema," said festival director Alberto Barbera.

Associated Press NORTHAM JOINS CAST OF THE GOLDEN BOWL Jeremy Northam, a fixture in art houses this summer with The Winslow Boy and this week's new release An Ideal Husband, DAN CHUNGReuters SECRECY: Nicole Kidman stars in Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut. Also appearing Yaletown Buskers TheEuphorics Ache Brasil The Neurotics ReveAcadien Thomas and White Cloud Blue Mountain), Johanna Mercer (Wedding Knives) and Claudia Morgado-Escanilla (Unbound). This marks the highest number of B.C. film-makers ever accepted into the program, which begins July 28. A total of 28 directors, producers, writers and editors were selected from across the country.

Vancouver Sun Shanqo Ashe Sumalao Kenny "Blues Boss" Wayne has joined the cast of Merchant Ivory's The Golden Bowl. The actor will star with Nick Nolte, Uma Thurman, Anjelica Huston and Kate Beckinsale in the adaptation of Henry James' 1904 novel about wealthy expatriate Americans trying to maintain a surface of propriety despite romantic betrayals. Director James Ivory is slated to begin shooting in August from a script by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. The Hollywood Reporter LOCAL PRODUCERS JOIN D1RETORS AT FILM CENTRE Three Vancouver producers will join three local directors in the Canadian Film Centre's Film Resident Programme. The producers are Leah Mallen, whose short Shoes Off! is currently playing at the Fifth Avenue Cinema, Tracey Boul-ton and Seanna McPherson.

The directors are Keith Behrman, whose films include Shooting Schedule Some of the movies and TV shows slated for or now in production In B.C. Beautiful Joe Feature film starring Sharon Stone and Billy Connelly. Shooting June 28 to Aug. 17. CANADA PLACE CORPORATION For more information visit www.canadaplace.ca orcal! 666-877.

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