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Oeri to step down as FC Basel chairwoman

This content was published on Aug 12, 2011 FC Basel chairwoman Gisela Oeri, popularly known as “Gigi,” is a philanthropist who has invested millions of Swiss francs in the club since joining the board of directors in 1999. Oeri, 55, married into the family which part owns the Basel-based Roche Holding AG pharmaceuticals giant. She has been Basel chairwoman for five years, during…

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Tourist magnet

This content was published on Aug 12, 2011 The Locarno region is also home to the Moon and Stars and Jazz Ascona festivals, but the film festival is a “very, very important” event for the region, according to Jeanne Gerber of the Lake Maggiore tourist office. “It gives us publicity and carries the name of Locarno to the whole world.” The first weekend…

Festival buzz

This content was published on Aug 12, 2011 Scoring all four Hollywood stars was quite a coup for Locarno. They were in town to promote the genre-bending action film Cowboys & Aliens, which had its European premiere on a sold-out Piazza Grande on August 6. It was a big night for the film’s actors too, prompting twitter comments by the director @jonfavreau who thanked the audience for showing…

Locarno Film Festival: The live blog

This content was published on Aug 12, 2011

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Countdown to the awards

This content was published on Aug 12, 2011 It’s day ten and already in the 9am slot there are five films to choose from. In one, Barbara Streisand stars in a Vincente Minnelli work from 1970, part of this year’s retrospective into the Oscar-winning director. Or there are Swiss-Kazakh and Swiss-Tibetan productions from the filmmakers of today category, an Arabic-Hebrew piece figuring in the…

Breaking the Bollywood mould

This content was published on Aug 12, 2011

Federer falls to Tsonga in Montreal

This content was published on Aug 12, 2011 The Frenchman beat Federer 7-6 4-6 6-1 on Thursday to book his place in an unlikely quarter-final line-up. Federer came into the third-round encounter seeking revenge on Tsonga who had dashed his bid for a seventh Wimbledon crown five weeks ago by storming back from two sets down to steal a shock last-eight win. But…

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How the Street Parade shook up Zurich

This content was published on Aug 12, 2011 Since then it has survived an attempt to have it banned, bad weather, criticism over drugs – and the changing times. Up to 900,000 people are expected in the Limmat city for this year’s parade, which is taking place under the motto: “20 years Love, Freedom, Tolerance and Respect”. There will be 29 “love mobiles” as…

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New Mr Cinema praises rich diversity

This content was published on Aug 11, 2011 With three Swiss films in the running for the Golden Leopard, there is currently a real vitality in Swiss film-making, which is present in every section of the film festival with 32 entries – 45 if you include the 13 nominated for the selection Appellations Suisse 2011. It is in this heady atmosphere that Ivo…

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Bruno Ganz honoured in Locarno

This content was published on Aug 11, 2011 Ganz, 70, got his breakthrough in a major part in the 1976 film Sommergäste (Summer guests), launching a widely acclaimed career in both Europe and the United States. The Zurich-born actor has worked with directors Werner Herzog, Éric Rohmer and Francis Ford Coppola among others, but he is probably best known for his role in…

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