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All Cannes articles – Page 328
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Endgame to produce A Chorus Line documentary
Jim Stern's Endgame Entertainment will produce and finance the documentary Every Little Step: The Journey Of A Chorus Line about the making and revival of the Broadway hit.Stern and Adam Del Deo will co-direct and produce and WMi is handling worldwide rights here on A Chorus Line's famously tumultuous career. ...
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XXY
Dir: Lucia Puenzo. Arg/Sp/Fr. 2007. 91 mins The familiar agonies of adolescence are given a fresh slant and a perceptive treatment in XXY, a quietly impressive first feature from novelist and documentary maker Lucia Puenzo, daughter of The Official Story (1985) director Luis Puenzo. Refusing to sensationalise the subject of ...
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UK's Jowell kicks off South African treaty with news of Skin production
UK Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, Tessa Jowell was in Cannes to declare the new UK/South Africa film co-production treaty operational.The first film under the new treaty will Skin, produced by Anthony Fabian and Margaret Matheson, which will shortly go into production. Jowell also talked about plans ...
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Myriad previews Dario Argento's long awaited The Third Mother
Journalists got the first glimpse of the graphic trailer of Italian horror master Dario Argento's long-awaited film The Third Mother, the final chapter of The Mother of Tears trilogy, in Cannes. The film has its market debut for international sales handled by Myriad Pictures.Italy's Medusa produced Mother (in post), and ...
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Rebel State lines up rapper Kano for Black Market
UK producers Rebel State Films, headed by Anthony Alleyne and Rachel McClelland, are in Cannes to discuss their slate of four films with potential co-producers.The first project set to shoot is Black Market, written and to be directed by Alleyne, with 28 Weeks Later star Idris Elba and rapper Kano ...
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The Works works Buscemi's Interview
The Works UK Distribution has taken all UK rights to Steve Buscemi's Interview, which stars Buscemi and Sienna Miller. Cinemavault is handling sales. The project is Buscemi's fourth as a director and it played in Sundance and Berlin.The drama follows a fading political journalist who has to interview a popular ...
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Taviani Brothers' Lark Farm flies to RAI Trade
Italian sales company RAI Trade has added the Taviani's latest film, The Lark Farm, to its Cannes slate.The film, which played in Berlin, is the latest effort from Paolo and Vittorio Taviana, who won the Palme d'Or in 1977 for My Father, My Master and a special jury prize in ...
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Garage
Dir: Lenny Abrahamson. Ir. 2007. 85 mins.Calling Garage a 'small' film would be true enough, but the Hope diamond, all things considered, is awfully small as well. Both, in any case, are gems. The second feature of director Lenny Abrahamson, following his well-received debut film Adam & Paul, which won ...
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Storm rises for Santiago Parra's Guadalupe
Storm Entertainment has acquired worldwide sales on Guadalupe, Santiago Parra's tale of two scientists who investigate the apparition of the Virgin Mary of Guadalupe in Mexico.Pedro Armendariz stars alongside Ivana Mino and Aleix Albaredo. The Versatile Group of Hollywood is also representing the feature, which shot in Spain and Mexico.
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Shane Meadows gets shorts in shape with EM Media, Warp and Film4
EM Media, the UK's East Midlands regional screen agency behind Anton Corbijn's Directors Fortnight hit Control, has joined forces with Warp Films and Film4 to create a new website that will offer downloads of Shane Meadows' large back catalogue of shorts.Meadows, who most recently made the award-winning This Is England ...
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Wide racks up Cannes sales for titles including Counterparts
Wide Management has started strong at the Cannes Market. Wide has already completed sales on Fortnight title Counterparts by director Jan Bonny, A Casa De Alice by Chico Teixeira, Philippe Aractingi's Bosta, Ballerina from Bertrand Normand and two new Edith Piaf documentaries: Le Concert Ideal and Sans Amour On 'est ...
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Import Export
Dir: Ulrich Seidl. Aust. 2007. 135 mins.Very much in the vein of his best-known film, Dog Days (2001), Austrian auteur and documentarian Ulrich Seidl continues in this, his first fiction film in 6 years, to explore the darker aspects of human existence. His unremittingly depressing view of the human condition ...
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All Is Forgiven (Tout est pardonnee)
Dir/scr: Mia Hansen-Love. France 2007. 105 mins.Debut director Mia Hansen-Love turns seemingly random slices from the life of a disintegrating family unit into a remarkably graceful, natural film about what it is to be human. Perhaps the most persuasive aspect of this hopeful parable of failure is the way casting, ...
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Blind Mountain (Mang Shan)
Dir/scr/prod: Li Yang. Ch. 2007. 103 mins. Li Yang demonstrates once again that he is a master of cinematic tension with his second feature, Blind Mountain . Based on the widespread practice of bride trafficking in rural China, this harrowing but limpidly shot story of the abduction and sale of ...
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To Each His Own Cinema (Chacun Son Cinema)
Dir: 35 leading directors. Fr. 2007. 120minsConceived as a homage to the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, this improbable congeries and potentially incoherent work of cinema (35 different directors making three-minute shorts about the movie-going experience and their own introduction to the world of film) is surprisingly successful. ...
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A Lost Man (Un Homme Perdu)
Dir: Danielle Arbid. Fr. 2007. 97 mins. Somewhere, buried deep down this pseudo-road movie that moves round in circles, there is a burning issue begging to be explored. All the more pity that Danielle Arbid never actually comes to grips with it, though it is pretty obvious the relations between ...
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Bleiberg closes key sales on Kollrin title
Bleiberg Entertainment has closed key sales here on Eran Kolirin's Un Certain Regard entry Band's Visit following a rapturous screening on Saturday night.The film's co-producer Sophie Dulac has taken French rights and plans to release on a minimum of 80 prints.Deals also closed in Italy (Mikado), Spain (Manga), Latin America ...
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Companies sign up for London Finance Market
Film London's new Production Finance Market (October 22-23), held in association with the Times BFI London Film Festival, has announced some major players who have confirmed their attendance, including Working Title, Focus Features, Paramount, Pathe, The Weinstein Company and StudioCanal.The market will address private film finance and new distribution avenues. ...
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Fernandes makes Anxious follow-up to Magnus
UK-based producer Donal Fernandes whose first production Magnus is playing in Un Certain Regard is currently in advanced stages of post-production on black comedy Anxious Dave.Fernandes who wrote and directed the $190,000 UK-production, describes Anxious Dave as 'a scary film about loneliness that evolves into a comedy'. The film, which ...
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Lupovitz lines up Podeswa, Evans, Palmer projects
LA-based producer Dan Lupovitz, executive producer on Death Defying Acts starring Catherine Zeta Jones and Guy Pearce and one of the producers on the currently-shooting Good with Viggo Mortenson, has lined out a slate of international projects here from film-makers including Jeremy Podeswa, Marc Evans and hot UK commercials directors ...